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Get on the spaceship: SCRATCH’N’CUT at MADE

Article by Elizabeth Feder in Berlin // Nov. 19, 2011
Lee “Scratch” Perry said it aptly: “What I see here is a trip. We are all on a space ship.” In his description of SCRATCH’N’CUT, the exhibition currently on view at MADE, Perry focuses on the transformative and…[read on…]

Still Lives and Moving Images

Article and photos by Devon Elise Atkins in Berlin // Nov. 16, 2011
Everyone has different ideas about what happens when we die, every culture a different way of mourning or celebrating the life we have lived. A Wake opened to coincide with…[read on…]

The Affordable Art Fair: Art for Everyone!

The premise: Art for Everyone!

Founded in 1999 in London by Will Ramsay, the aim was to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art….

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Berlin Artists Take Center Stage at Saatchi Gallery

Zhivago Duncan - "Pretentious Crap" (2010-2011); Wood, glass, mixed media; 300 x 307 x 250 cm; Image courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London © Zhivago Duncan, 2011

Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 7, 2011.

On November 18th, the international reach of Berlin’s emerging art scene will be presented prominently in Saatchi Gallery’s first survey of German art, Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany. Artists from Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bremen and Cologne will be exhibited. Fourteen of the twenty-four artists hail from Berlin.

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Unbound. Agora Rethinks the Artist Book

Blog entry by Virginia Wagner – in Berlin; Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.

“Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes. We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture.”
Lev Grossman, New York Times

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Stubborn Wolf: Skeletons and Landscapes

"Pink Vaginas" (2009), acrylic on paper, 8 x 11 inches

Blog entry by Devon Atkins – in Berlin; Friday, October 28, 2011.

Not long after Hiyme’s arrival in Feburary this year, he broke his foot and was left wheelchair bound and lonely, struggling in a city made of staircases. Luckily for this painter, his character is not dissimilar to his paintings, colourful and chaotic, fun and magnetic – somehow eight months later, with an ever slowly-healing injury, he has survived the worst of it and is showing his work for the first time in Europe. …

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Friedrich Seidenstücker: Of Hippos and other Humans at Berlinische Galerie

Blog entry by Anna Freedman – in Berlin; Thursday, October 27, 2011.

Fredrich Seidenstücker had a particular quirkiness when it came to taking photographs. Having taken interest in what others may consider distinctly mundane, he made a niche for himself in street and animal photography. He was most successful commercially in the years prior to WWII, at a time when his optimism and sense of humor could be reflected by society as a whole…

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