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SOLO FOR…

In the exhibition Solo for … Dan and Lia Perjovschi the ifa gallery Berlin presents two artistic positions that combine image and text in very different ways, respectively commenting upon current affairs from their own approaches.
Dan Perjovschi responds with his spontaneous, stylised, almost comic-like drawings to current socio-political conditions. Daily, Weekly, Monthly is a retrospective [...]

DB

And, speaking of our friends at Raster-Noton, we should make sure to mention Japanese electronic wizard Ryoji Ikeda’s new audio-visual installation db which just opened at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof, and suffice to say, this is not to be missed.

MONDAY MUSIC: KANGDING RAY

A little teaser by our friend Kangding Ray, who will be performing material from his excellent album Or at Berghain tomorrow evening, as part of Club Transmediale’s Raster-Noton night, which are always a treat, featuring new lecker material from the likes of Byetone and more. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

UNDERSTANDING DIFFICULTIES

Don’t miss genius comedian/musician Reggie Watts on his first ever Berlin gig this Sunday at Festsaal Kreuzberg.

TONIGHT: HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III

Born in Warsaw (1966), trained in Grzegorz Kowalski’s legendary workshop at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Artur Żmijewski has been a leading figure of video art since the end of the nineties through a striking series of short works which display the crushed condition of the Western body in our inhuman societies.
He achieved international [...]

REALITY STUDIO

Berlin Fashion Week is already gearing its pretty head, and while we’re too busy to take in much this time, we will certainly make an exception for our friends at Reality Studio, because this is always worth the time, especially when in the great location of Voo Store in Kreuzberg (and who, Voo that is, [...]

BOOK WORKS

I’ve received seven invitations now by the artist Martin Zet to donate one of my zero copies of Thilo Sarrazin’s controversial bestseller, conveying some shady views on Muslim integration in Germany. It is the first official act of the Berlin Biennale coming up this summer, which promises to be an interesting one, curated as it [...]

YES BUT KOI

On Living And Dying In Doubt

A few weeks back, we asked Kim Hiorthøy, Oslo & Berlin dweller, late blooming electronic musician & MPC wizard, shape shifting renaissance man, prolific graphic designer (for Rune Grammofon et al.), director, artist (who might want to see this in quotes) and art world defier, author, and self-proclaimed amateur for life, to redesign a cheesy [...]

FORM, FUNCTION AND ENNUI

We are all familiar with the so-called hipster culture. The contemporary hipster hangs around at cafés, talking about art, fashion, organic food and social justice, ideally while chatting about the next big thing to reblog on their tumblr. Well, one should not categorize that harshly, since categorizing stuff is so mainstream…
A very nice and [...]