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DEAR GREEN

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dear Green is the title of an exhibition which brings together artists from two cities, Berlin and Glasgow, in an ambitious large scale interdisciplinary show within the old good depot and railway station of Moabit. Spanning an eclectic range of work the show brings two communities of artists together for the first time. From moving image, installation [...]

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APOCALYPSE NOW?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País.
Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I started to notice that the images would arouse a certain sense for surreal beauty just at the same time they had a shocking impact [...]

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NEAR/ON/IN THE RUBBLES

Monday, February 17, 2014

The legendary and mysterious Teufelsberg in Berlin, meaning Devil’s Mountain, will be a station of several performances and actions for this year’s Month of Performance Art. The co-laborer  of the festival Richard Rabensaat invites performance artists to create ’site-specific and site-responsive actions’ near/on/in the artificial mountain made out of the the rubbles of The Second World [...]

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AN ETHNOLOGIC LENS

Friday, September 27, 2013

It all began with a journey to Brasil in 1968, when the photographer Leonore Mau and the author Hubert Fichte started working and travelling together. Mau, who was not only Fichte’s companion, but also his muse, documented African-American rituals and cults. Her ethnologic approach paired with a unique eye for motives, made her to one [...]

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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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BERLIN MEETS GLASGOW

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is a 3-day festival of innovative, diverse and highly acclaimed visual art, film, performance, music and design from Glasgow, presented at the Volksbühne Theatre and BQ, during Berlin Art Week 2013. THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is co-curated by Berlin-based gallery BQ and SARAH LOWNDES (author of “Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow [...]

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Fundamentals Shopping Mall

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Portuguese town of Óbidos has long been known for its medieval cuteness (while earlier it was regularly presented to the queen of the day to demonstrate the king’s affections, now it is continuously admired by senior citizens of northern European countries and photography classes with substantial equipment).
However, in the midst of souvenir shops and [...]

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‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

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SHROUD

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Opening tonight is the final intervention of our friends at Neue Berliner Räume into the cityscape of Berlin, who continue their collaboration with British artist Jodie Carey in a second installation titled Shroud, this time at the venerable Anatomical Theatre, which remains the oldest surviving university building in Berlin of somewhat mythical status. Fittingly, Jodie [...]

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LESSER KNOWN ARCHITECTURE

Thursday, June 6, 2013

It’s rare that we will recommend the Brandenburg Gate or the Reichstag when people ask us what to see when coming to Berlin. Not that these are a waste of time, but there are other places and sights woven into the fabric of our lives in the city that we will feel much closer to. [...]

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