Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 12, 2014.
Kunsthaus Bethanien will host a night of culminating work for artist Amir Fattal on Wednesday, April 16th. Shadow of Smoke Rings on the Wall, a book of his art accompanied by essays, will be presented and celebrated with a performance. The performance, titled…[read on…]
Art Spin Berlin is an art crawl style bicycle tour of creative venues, art performances, and site-specific installations throughout various Berlin neighbourhoods. The tour will happen on July 31, 2014 and consist of 6 curated stops (where one of the 6 selected projects will take place) and last roughly 4 hours from start to…[read on…]
Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 10, 2014.
I was waiting outside of Volksbühne in Mitte, before the Jan Soldat screening, in an adjacent dirt lot that had a series of corrugated wood benches. Earlier in the afternoon, I purchased Kierkegaard’sThe Sickness unto Death…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2014.
Berlin Film Society will present its first screening of the month at Prince Charles on Friday, April 11th, this time showing a film about “trickery, fraud — about lies.” This is Orson Welles‘ last major motion picture, F for Fake (1973), which he co-wrote, starred in, and directed…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2014.
Prince Charles continues to make its name as a center for film-lovers as well as party-lovers, playing host to the Exberliner International Film Award Party on Thursday, April 10th. Sponsored by Achtung Berlin, Raindance Berlin, Berlin Film Society, and Exberliner Magazine, the event offers…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 07, 2014.
Sonja Hornung‘s Emptying Flags exhibition project last year displayed “meaningless” flags in public locations such as Haus am Köllnischen Park. Described as “interventions,” Hornung hoisted her flags at international and state institutions, as well as dull, forgotten spaces. For this week only, reactions to her project, such as letters and…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 04, 2014.
Psychedelia is one of the alluring buzz-words of Autocenter‘s newest exhibition, the first of its Re-Discovery series that will run through 2015. The exhibition claims to host a dialectic between two artists: one of a younger generation and one from an older generation. So, naturally, the overlap between all generations is a fascination with psychedelia…[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2014.On Friday, March 21, I was in Berghain/ Panorama Bar and had to use the restroom. As I was using a stall, a man wearing a leather gladiator skirt and sunglasses — he appeared to have recently emerged from The Matrix…
Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 31, 2014.
Fashion films are becoming the future of fashion marketing as they blur the line between the product as designed art and as commodity. Berlin Fashion Film Festival (BfFF) is an event based on recognizing this developing film genre, which includes avant-garde performances, short films, and television commercials…..[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Mar. 28, 2014.
In her exhibit now at Galerie Eigen + Art, Birgit Brenner displays just a few of the strata, neuroses, and complications of internal experience. Though that theme is not a new one to art, she draws inspiration both from the thought-stream of daily hum-drum and universal, uncontrollable insanity of self-doubt. …[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014.
Director Carsten Aschmann said in 2012 rather humbly about his film, Waterscope, that “There are a lot of films about water. Now here is one more.” But the experimental film paired with the unusual, industrial sounds from Dieter Moebius draws few comparisons…[read on…]
