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by bpigs team, 14 Jul 2022You know what? I am not even going to with the news. THIS WEEK We loved Yuki Kihara's participation at this year’s 59th Venice Biennale, Paradise Camp at the New Zealand pavilion -- now we have the chance to see her work in Berlin too!! TOMORROW THURSDAY JULY 7TH, 6:30PM – 9:00PM at the James Simon Gallery (... -
by bpigs team, 13 Jul 2022People's Justice by Taring Padi documenta 15 opened last week with all the journalists going on Antisemitismus hunt. First reports were of a lively, uplifting, relaxing experience that "succesfully rejects the western art market" (whatever we define this to be) and "builds a different economy... -
by bpigs team, 12 Jun 2022How did I not know the documenta founders were members of Nazi organizations? I mean, the German Pavillion in Venice (rebuilt by Ernst Haiger's design in 1938) has been deconstructed and reconstructed and poked and probed over the years through various artistic interventions ( all very civilized, of course).... -
by bpigs team, 12 Jun 2022As I said, never dull in 2022. So what the f*** is happening with documenta? I have been staring at this text for over a minute now and still can't figure out what it says. Crisis PR mode is even more impenetrable than regular art PRs. Documenta had to cancel the We need to Talk! pannel because no one wanted to touch... -
by bpigs team, 12 Jun 2022Never a dull day in 2022; if it is not a worldwide pandemic, it will be the threat of nuclear apocalypse, gas prices, or, you know, the good old abuse of power in the workplace. That is not new; we are new at talking about it. Do you remember Susane Pfeffer? Hers is admittedly the name I have often used to get into... -
by bpigs team, 12 Jun 2022After Gallery Weekend Berlin is Before the Gallery Weekend Berlin. There are a lot of labor issues we gloss over in the art world, in the name of … well, admit it, the minute I said “labor,” you felt your art world pizzaz deflate. It is like Amazon and the word Union. We all aspire to an IN, the exclusive parties,... -
by bpigs team, 26 Apr 2022Let's start from the end, shall we? No better way to end your Gallery Weekend ahm week than Miss Read Book Festival 2022 LIVE. IN. BERLIN. AGAIN. 300+ publishers, art periodicals and artists/authors on show and, in conjunction, the Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Apr 2022Among cultural bans, Covid, and a very prominent national pavilion standing empty, the Venice Biennale is opening this week! Conceived by the first Italian (!) curator Cecilia Alemani who made sure, comme il faut, an overwhelming majority of the 213 artists exhibiting are female or gender non-conforming. “The... -
by bpigs team, 15 Mar 2022What can art do in times of war you say? Build street barricades! Also, I think I found a use for Schmerlings-Venet's rusty nudels. Victoria Pidust @victoriapidust and Volo Bevza @volobevza found themselves stuck in Ukraine after they went for a show in Kyiv on Feb 20th. Volo ( as all Ukrainian men between 18 and 65)... -
by bpigs team, 15 Mar 2022BERLIN! THIS IS THE TIME TO STEP UP. The more unofficial help Ukraine can get, the better, so this doesn't end up into a governments pissing war and we all go down in flames. Three ways to help. 1. Drive supplies to the Polish borders: If you have a car the best way to help is pack it with supplies,... -
by bpigs team, 1 Mar 2022So… after two years of Covid; isolation, fear, loss and collective trauma we moved right to Putin is a bad bad boy but hey Ukrainians are white let's not kill them all, world war three vibes? Good Good. Berlin you are beautiful protesting for peace. While Putin is an obvious (almost cartoon like) villain here, let's... -
by bpigs team, 8 Feb 2022I don't know how I missed making fun of this title earlier, (embarrassing even if you set the whole Kunsthalle public funds fiasco aside) I am losing my edge. “Diversity United” is both a tautology and an antithesis. The kind of cringy nonsense Germans with no grasp of English can think of as a good idea. Also,... -
by bpigs team, 1 Feb 2022OPENING WED FEB 2ND, 18H GALERIE IM TURM: LERATO SHADI, MAROPENG with DJ-set by Robert Machiri The title Maropeng comes from the Setswana saying »Maropeng go a boelwa go sa boelweng ke teng«. In Setswana, Maropeng means »returning to the place of origin« or »returning home«. At the end of the two-year exhibition... -
by bpigs team, 1 Feb 2022Be kind to yourself every day and twice in January or is this not the saying?! Would you rather find storage space for your works or would you rather give them off to an oblique art foundation based in the Cayman islands? Hm. For me, it is a toss up. The Artist Pension Trust Fund was based on the idea of unite and... -
by bpigs team, 11 Jan 2022January usually feels like the longest month of the year. With a holiday hangover, another round of questionable family memories under our belly, presents we wanted but do not quite need, and the inherent uncertainty of new beginnings ( even if they are constructed ones) you stumble into the new year like … is it over... -
by bpigs team, 8 Dec 2021SHOP SHOP SHOP A newsletter with Gift Suggestions, you say? Yes please! Do not Panic, test frequently and support your local artists. Every gallery who respects themselves has a web shop by now and a lot of artists sell from their Instas too ( ahem.. half price). Let's have a look! We love almost everything Martin... -
by bpigs team, 8 Dec 2021Are Mother shows the new Women shows?! Can't believe I missed this trend. I saw this work yesterday ( thanks to Camille Henrot and her Milkyway series) and it has stayed with me. It's called my dog is cuter than your ugly Baby" from Elina Brotherus @elinabrotherus. Her work addresses a topic that is still very much a... -
by bpigs team, 16 Nov 2021Here is a short version of a long story on reducing an artworks carbon footprint while still making (most) of the deadlines. From Andreas Greiner: " In July 2021 I decided to re-produce the AI-Video-Work 'Abschied' (Harz) for an exhibition in Cologne (Ursprung @odyssey_aspace). The work consists of 64 LED...