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Monthly Archives: April 2012

L’UOMO UNIVERSALE

Henrik Vibskov, the omnipresent ‘Mehrfachkünstler’ is already at a stage to present his first retrospective in the form of a book. The ingenius designer expanded the notion of fashion, while working towards an artistic ideal of freedom.

The unmissable compilation Henrik Vibskov is published by Gestalten Verlag.

MONDAY MUSIC: THEESATISFACTION

Black Up by Shabazz Palaces was one of our favourite albums last year, so it comes as no surprise that we would be listening very closely when THEESatisfaction, the girls who pinned some of the female vocals on Black Up, come back on their own, with a slightly sweeter funk on their debut album Awe [...]

BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND 01: MARK BORTHWICK

Berlin is in art fever this weekend, with Thursday’s opening of the new and, how to put it, brave? Berlin biennial and three days of Gallery Weekend. So far and two days in, what I enjoyed most, weirdly, is Mark Borthwick’s little installation at the back of the new Comme des Garçons store, called Fountains [...]

HA ZA VU ZU

Art collective Ha Za Vu Zu, based in Istanbul, will perform today at Voo Store. Don’t miss the after party at Luzia with the collective that also use music as their medium.

DONLON BOOKS

There’s an enjoyable interview with Conor Donlon of Donlon Books in the latest apartamento magazine. This independent bookshop is my type of bookshop, (and it also sells mono.kultur).
Donlon Books
77 Broadway Market
London

Double Dutch

Another fine and eclectic event to clutter your busy Berlin weekend schedules with.

PICTURING ROCHESTER

Jim Goldberg
Continuing its Postcards from America series (previous coverage here), Magnum has sent ten photographers to Rochester, New York, to create an visual archive of an American city. Rochester, former home of Kodak and in economic decline, seemed the ideal choice. Since each of the participating photographers possesses a very specific photographic style, House of [...]

FUTURE SELF

Made is a curious and pretty bling – as in very white – space on the ninth floor of Haus des Reisens on Alexanderplatz. Their focus is to bring people from different media together and work out a new collaboration, so you never really know what to expect, which I suppose is the idea. It [...]

ARCHIZINES BERLIN

We mentioned Archizines, an online archive for architecture periodicals, before, and editor Elias Redstone has done a great job touring the collection around the world in one large traveling exhibition. Tomorrow and just in time for the Gallery Weekend, the archive will find its way to Berlin, at Do You Read Me?!’s Reading Room, accompanied [...]

SENSITIVE FREQUENCIES

This tank – the German word is Panzer – was built by Berlin-based sound artist Nik Nowak, has a power of 40,000 watt and 13 built-in speakers. But don’t expect techno – Nowak wants to be more violent than that and succeeds to make you feel some strong physical reactions with very low frequencies.