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FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Tonight the group exhibition Fire and Forget. On Violence, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis, opens at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. “Fire and forget” comes from military jargon, and is a term for weapon systems that are no longer used in direct combat with an enemy but are launched from a [...]

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Bad books, in bad places

Friday, June 12, 2015

Read What You Want is no book club.
You come. You bring a book. You read.
That’s it.
It’s a fuckyeah to real books.
Bad books?
Banned books
Badly written books
Softcore books, and those hardcore books
Stolen books
Those goddamn raunchy books that I stole from your dad
Bad places?
Your uncle’s places
Dark & dirty places
Filthy places
Inappropriate places
Or a bad cemetery
Sunday 14 June. 14:00
‘Kirchhof [...]

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Goings On

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Lots going on in Berlin these days: A “Richtfest” right where NgoroNgoro went down (meaning there’s a pool nearby!), some wicked Fathers from Scotland, and Cee Cee goes all real world for a few days.

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MAKE CITY

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Whilst cycling in the city of Berlin, sometimes it is so shocking to observe how badly designed the city is. New condominiums or the so called ‘contemporary buildings’ of administrations are conquering our urban environment –the terrifying constructions spread around the city show that more is on the way.
Make City is a new festival on [...]

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SUMMER!

Friday, June 5, 2015

The first properly hot weekend in Berlin – enjoy.

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HUMAN COMMA BEING –  THE CLASS

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Dafna Maimon is a Finnish-Israeli video and performance artist based in Berlin and currently a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her recent video and performance hybrid project Human Comma Being is concerned with identity constructions that challenge definitions of the self, the other and the body, acknowledging our living or technological doppelgangers and missing limbs. During [...]

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This Sunday: Cheer On Mono

Friday, May 29, 2015

See that logo six seconds into the clip (also see above)? Yap, mono’s riding again…

For the fifth consecutive year our favorite cycling crew Team #TORtOUR will be taking part in the infamous Berlin Velothon. Join the team on Sunday from 10:00AM @no74_berlin to cheer for all the riders taking part in this year’s race! #adidas [...]

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WHERE THE PLACE BEGINS

Friday, May 22, 2015

Our friends at Neue Berliner Räume run a curatorial project that has made it part of their mission to explore Berlin as a gigantic exhibition space, organising interventions in various and ever changing places (for instance in 2012 with Robert Montgomery, which led to our collaboration on the accompanying artist’s book).
For the past few months, [...]

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JHAD

Thursday, May 21, 2015

In his solo show that will take place in GSL Projekt in Berlin, Aksaygın is contemplating on discrimination with the help of superhero Jhad, who is carrying artist’s ‘particular social, economical and sexual codes in Germany’. Fashion label SADAK, performance artist, musician and DJ Namosh and curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is contributing with their design, [...]

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Up on the toe, the air is thinner

Monday, May 4, 2015

Haleh Redjaian’s works on paper, textiles, and site-specific wall installations seek to embody Rumi’s provocation not only to become more inquisitively perceptive of the imperfect grids of daily life, but also to twist and break conventional patterns in order to reveal previously unknown gateways.

Redjaian creates ornamental forms by adopting the language of drawing in multiple [...]

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