Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 06, 2014.
The Artisti per Frescobaldi Award will return after a successful debut in 2013, this time in Germany. The award, based out of Italy, focuses on contemporary photography and video art, inviting three artists per year to use one of the six Frescobaldi estates in Tuscany as inspiration for their work. [read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014.
The group exhibition Surplus Living starts from the premise that, today, capital accumulation has spread across all aspects of lived society. In an age of convenience, where technological, user-friendly solutions are available at every turn, we often neglect to question the way in which our social reality (both online and off) is permeated with and controlled by corporate concerns…[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 03, 2014.
Walking into Mind Pirates, in Kreuzberg on February 20, I was immediately confronted by Berliners lounging in black clothes and smoking cigarettes—all cast into an atmosphere of dark lighting (perhaps intentional). As I grabbed a beer, drone music clogged the high vaulted ceilings as Subterranean Rain performed a thirty-minute set. [read on…]
In it’s second edition, the Berlin Art Prize is calling for submissions until March 15, 2014. If you are an artist and have been living in Berlin for a minimum of six months, you are eligible to apply. [read on…]
Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
On February 12, the Boiler Room in Stattbad Wedding was packed tight with a range of clubbers and beautiful women who knew how to dance. Filtering through the series of side rooms in the club, I came to the dance floor, which was palpitating….[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
The newest cultural hub in Treptower Park, Das Moosdorf, is searching for artists to exhibit and perform at their opening festival titled Chromoos. The event will be a 36 hour festival during the weekend of April 5th & 6th, 2014…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyozumi & Photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.
Sofie Bird Møller mixes and matches body language in her new show at Sassa Trülzsch. As with many of her previous street art “Intervention” pieces, the base layer for her art is found material like advertisements, and, as with some of her newer work, old clothes…[read on…]
Blog post by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 20, 2014.
The first evening of the One Night Stand series took place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art last Thursday. The project space NOTE ON presented Crampographies, a combination of performance and video art which reflected the potentiality of the cramp as a collective-singular collapse from a feminist and post-identitarian perspective…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.
Live tableaus may seem like a played out and gimmicky art trend, but the performance Afterimage / Anti-Demo from Yvon Chabrowski last Thursday at the Eigen + Art Lab offered a tasteful poignancy to scenes modelled after viral photos of Russian activists at the hands of the police…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 10, 2014.
Hamburger Bahnhof’s latest exhibition doesn’t show new work from Harun Farocki, but the videos’ direct political criticisms are still just as relevant…[read on…]
