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Monthly Archives: September 2015

02.10.2015

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Time is merciless, and believe it or not: mono.kultur is turning 10. Naturally, we will celebrate the occasion accordingly, with our friends at Acud Macht Neu. We will confirm the program very shortly indeed, so in the meantime, save the date: 02 October 2015. We’re looking forward to seeing you there.

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: STYLE & THE FAMILY TUNES (POSTSCRIPT)

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The first magazine to commission me in Germany was fashion and music magazine Style & the Family Tunes, at the time Berlin’s answer to i-D or Dazed & Confused. Launched in the mid-1990s, it survived a whopping 17 years in which the media landscape irrefutably began to transform, leaving Style amidst its wreckage. Few genres [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: FOALS

Monday, September 14, 2015

Foals are a reliable sonic choice when we need something to keep us awake at the studio, so any news of a new album is always welcome – their latest, What Went Down, is out now.

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GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Today’s highlight: The Graphic Novel Day in Berlin!
For the 5th time, the internationales literaturfestival berlin (lib) presents the Graphic Novel Day at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele which will have national and international graphic novel and comic artists as its guests. The event which has been organized in cooperation with Tagesspiegel editor and comic specialist [...]

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FOR MATHILDA

Saturday, September 12, 2015

For Mathilda is a new gallery space in Neukölln founded by Marc Wellmann and Anna Töws. The space is dedicated to exhibiting second hand art and up and coming artists, with works ranging from the 19th century to contemporary pieces. “We believe that art should be accessible and affordable. Young artists should have a space to present [...]

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LONG STREET COFFEE

Saturday, September 12, 2015

A café to help train asylum seekers? A no-brainer of an idea—here’s what it actually took to get it off the ground! ‘How to start a business for good – on a really tight budget‘. Go Long Street Coffee! (via Dumbo Feather)

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ACUD OFFENES HAUS 2015

Friday, September 11, 2015

It’s been a little over a year that Acud, that veteran among independent arts spaces in Berlin, has been taken over by a new generation with fresh ideas under the heading Acud Macht Neu. All the more reason to join them this weekend for their first anniversary party tomorrow, offering a tasty musical line-up, naturally, [...]

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INTERPRETATION OF NATURE

Friday, September 11, 2015

Across photography, installation, and social sculpture, Mathias Kessler probes the contemporary imagination, employing a visual language that borrows from the Romantic landscape genre and expedition photography, using empirical reason and the “sublime” as foils for an investigation that goes beyond the mere “natural” surface to explore the more complicated political and economic forces that have [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BEIRUT

Monday, September 7, 2015

After a four year-hiatus, our favourite troubadours Beirut return with a new album that, judging from their new single No No No, sees them return to full form. They are coming to Berlin to play live in a couple of weeks, but alas, it is completely sold out. No no no.

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COLOMBIAN POSTSCRIPT

Saturday, September 5, 2015

If you are following our Instagram feed, you will have seen that we spent a week in Bogotá for a workshop at the impressive Utadeo university. Now that we’re slowly recovering from our Colombian hangover, it’s time to send a quick thank you towards the design department for inviting us in the first place, to [...]

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