Tips this Week!

bpigs team — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:40:37 +0000

Summer is in full swing and Berlin is being very Berlin this week... we are talking mysterious meet at the U-Bahn station and follow the arrows kind of Berlin. And if that is not romantic enough we also have music for unfinished Airports. Let's get down to it!

WEDNESDAY June 19

21h- 23h Rewilding the Memory - Event Hosted by +DEDE as part of the

THURSDAY June 20
18h- 22h AS IF FALLING UNDER A SPELL-- Event Hosted by GOMO (Vienna) as part of the

FRIDAY June 21

_{Aleksei Taruts, Samara, 2019 - Text on the plate "live as you live"}

19h
Hey, Mars! curated by Lydia Korndörfer
with A/A (Andreas Greiner & Armin Keplinger), Natalie Körner, PPKK (Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld & Louis-Philippe Scoufaras), Elisa Storelli
show runs until 11 Aug 2019

20h- 21h Music for unfinished airports - Event Hosted by ITALIC as part of the Berlin Project Space Festival
Location: BER-Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt, 12527 Berlin - Schönefeld
There is a shuttle bus every 30 minutes from Schönefeld Airport to the P3/BER car park (also at night). The bus stops directly at Willy-Brandt-Platz.
AIRCHINA - A sound installation for an unfinished airport with AIRCHINA.

12h B_LA Connect last weekend gallery tour starts at
at KAP STRALAU –Geo location 52°29´19.9”N 13°28´58.0”E
with Johannes Grau & Bernardo Arias Porras, Eric Keil, Grazyna Roguski, Pinkcloud.dk
Kap Stralau is a wet and slippy experience right next to the bank of Spree River in an ancient amphitheatre: There are boats, there are flares, there is fish, there are water and dust, and there is a spatial concept created by Storage Capacité in cooperation with the design collective Pink Cloud. This is the place and the time to start a unique transmedial and operalike-enactment by the lyrical, performative and musical positions of the artists Eric Keil, Grażyna Roguski and Johannes Grau.
Storage Capacité is a gallery concept which hails to the Espace Trouvé. Realising site-specific On/Off-exhibitions, intimate and strict focused. Their claim is to establish a link between an international profile and a non-bound artist-run environment.

SUNDAY 23rd June

18-10h TZVETNIK presents L’amour as part of the follow on fb for details

What Did I (Not) Miss: Gallery Weekend Berlin 2016

bpigs team — Mon, 02 May 2016 09:18:52 +0000

What Did I Miss

Bpigs team was out and about attempting to capture as much of the Gallery Weekend magic as possible. Take a virtual stroll through our snaps from the last week's events.

Gallery Weekend once again showed what Berlin is capable of. It gathered the finest of the Berlin art scene in an entire week packed with exciting events all over the city, which culminated with the grand Weekend, and ended festively with May 1st. Here are just some of the highlights in an attempt to capture the magic of it all.

Appropriating Language #15: Daniel Knorr – "State of Mind" @ Maniere Noire

Our favorite spot in Moabit outshined itself for the Gallery Weekend with the show "State of Mind" by Daniel Knorr (read more about it here). For those who missed the opening; our tip is to get in contact with the gallery owner Majla Zeneli for an enthusiastic presentation of the piece and the artist's impressive oeuvre. The show is open until 31.05.

MANIÈRE NOIRE

Group show & space opening @ Rainbow Unicorn

Rainbow Unicorn is a creative studio and a newly opened gallery for contemporary visual arts with a name that could not be more inviting. Right in time for the Gallery Weekend, they celebrated their new space with an ambitious inaugural group show. We look forward to spending warm evenings getting lost in conversations at their next events.

Rainbow Unicorn

raster-noton - "white circle" @ Halle am Berghain

The 20th anniversary of the electronic music label raster-noton coincided with the Gallery Weekend, and their installation "white circle" at Halle am Berghain was considered by many one of the best shows seen last week. Same goes for the show at Galerie EIGEN + ART by the label's co-founder Carsten Nicolai. It was quite amusing to bump into Gerd Harry Lybke and the rest of the EIGEN + ART team at the Friday night party at Berghain, where we all met again after the Gallery Weekend openings to celebrate raster-noton's 20th birthday and the greatness of Berlin's music and art.

Read more about the installation in our review.

Erste Botschaft - frohe Botschaft @ Botschaft / Uferhallen

Last week we welcomed quite a few novelties; several new spaces opened, some of them temporarily, some permanently - such as Botschaft in Uferhallen in Wedding. A garage-sized space was not what we had in mind when we saw its location (a vast industrial complex) and the list of artists participating in the show (about 90?!), but somehow everything found its place. Spaces like OZEAN already proved that size is not all that important, and we fully support the newcomer.

Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner - "Island songs" @ Grimmuseum

By hearing the sound of the water, the wind, and the odd sound of nothingness, the exhibition "Island Songs" by Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner transported us to a deserted island. The exhibition consists of a collaborative sound installation based on field recordings, and cultivates a field in-between documentary, sound art, and electroacoustic composition.

Adam Linder, Shahryar Nashat / Hannah Weinberger @ Schinkel Pavillon

One night, two performances. A group of musicians improvising together, every15 minutes in a new direction. From bittersweet to moody, lazy, and doubtful; this night brought everything. The second performance: an installation of a dying brick (so he said) and a videoscreen of zoomed body elements.

Henning Strassburger - "Superet Light" @ Soy Capitan

"Bad bad bad Murphy" as the title of one of Hennig Strassburger’s works at Soy Capitan already builds up your imagination. The paintings are free of figuration or associating objects, familiar spheres and moods, although I am quite sure I saw a surfboard in his work, or was it a palmtree? Anyway, Strassburger’s work is very dynamic, and the show is a playful addition to the exhibition space of Soy Capitan.

Marte Kissing @ LARRY

LARRY bar turns every Wednesday into an exhibition space hosted by the artist Hannes Gruber. A welcoming place for after-opening drinks, or just to see some art. Last Wednesday it included a neon installation by Marte Kissing.

Karsten Konrad - "Room Service" @ SMAC

The exhibition by Karsten Konrad at SMAC consists of various spatial translations with the material of the everyday, suddenly becoming useless, but visually very attractive.

Sweatshop @ Schau Fenster

This weekend Schau Fenster turned into an interactive exhibition / studio space. A group of artists worked for six hours with one chair, a tripod and paint.

Jens Einhorn, Christopher Fülleman - "Vita Parcours" @ DUVE

A double show featuring a frozen liquid yellow piece on the ground, a work by Christopher Fülleman. On the walls paintings by Jens Einhorn. Vigorous and with a sense of vulnerability.

Mike Bouchet - "Bounty" @ Peres Projects

There is beauty in everything; even in trash. A collection of colorful two-liter glass Coca-Cola bottles and painted trash filled the exhibition space of Peres Projects. An exhibition by American artist Mike Bouchet about our society’s collective materialism and consumer habits.

Carsten Nicolai - "reflektor distortion" @ Galerie EIGEN + ART

During the first night of the Gallery Weekend a crowd of people gathered in front of a parabolic basin filled with water, as if a holy ritual was about to be performed. Topics were pretty mundane, though: what to do and where to go next was vigourously discussed. Even hair coloring.

The exhibited piece consists of three main components, and generates three states of reflection: mirroring, distortion, and disturbance. Classic Nicolai.

Clemens Wilhelm - "Only for Tourists" @ HilbertRaum

"Only for Tourists" is the exhibition presenting various videos with an entertaining perspective on tourism by the artist Clemens Wilhelm. From happy naive backpackers, a gang of big game hunters, a time-traveling tourist, the world’s largest statue of the Pope, a hiker in the Scottish Highlands, Chinese pseudo savages, the Mona Lisa, Mongolian wrestlers, the Statue of Liberty and Santa Claus... I wished that being tourist would be a full-time job.

Sygns Pop-up Gallery Bar

Exclusively for the Gallery Weekend, in order to support the arts (the best way we know of - free drinks & music till late), the neon lighting company Sygns transformed a space convenienty located in Linienstrasse into a pop-up bar, with the exhibition of works by Te Charuchart.

Sebastian Black @ Croy Nielsen

Croy Nielsen showed "Completed Paintings" by Sebastian Black. It was not so easy to decipher that the overlapping forms in the paintings are in fact based on the image of a cartoon puppy. Do you see it now? No? Thought so. What we did see was a nice colour palette to borrow for the spring / summer outfits.

Megan Rooney - "Piggy Piggy" @ Croy Nielsen (Garage)

One of the most memorable points of the Gallery Weekend was the discovery of Croy Nielsen's slightly creepy garage which served as a temporary exhibition space for the show by Megan Rooney. The artwork and the space created the perfect synergy, and made it much more exciting than a regular white cube show. You can see it until June 4th, when the space transforms back into a garage.

"Günther Förg, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig" @ Nagel Draxler Kabinett

Happy to welcome a new gallery at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz: Nagel Draxler opened their second exhibition space just across the street, which is in the same block with Delmes & Zander, Yvonne Lambert, Spike Art Quarterly, Index Berlin, Roger Bundschuh Architects (the studio that designed the gallery), and the very first Bpigs office. We should not forget to mention BQ, Croy Nielsen, L40, and hopefully more to come.

Jim Lambie @ Gerhardsen Gerner

A show that speaks to pop culture and music geeks, by a rock musician-turned-artist Jim Lambie, in Gerhardsen Gerner's wonderful new space in Linienstrasse. Everyday objects and materials are transformed into sculptures and re-energized wih a punk attitude. Fun fact: on this occasion, the Berlin-based musicians Parra for Cuva and the duo Trash Lagoon released a new LP, for which Jim Lambie designed the cover.

Tobias Rehberger - "Presently" @ Neugerriemschneider

One show noone missed and everybody talked about was Tobias Rehberger’s “presently”, a group exhibition including over 60 artists, designers, architects, musicians... Such as Franz Ackermann, Bernhard Wilhelm, Ai Weiwei, Sven Väth... The list goes on forever, and there was a LOT going on in the exhibition space. Not only because of the volume, but also the variety and creativity of works. If you happened to miss the show - imagine it as a wacky dream birthday where the coolest people showed up and everyone brought a present.

Rachel Harrison @ Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler

Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is situated on the 4th foor of an office block building. Rachel Harrison responded to the space by making new work, and a fully equipped conference room used by other businesses in the building. A unique show which many referred to as a must-see. We will add: do not miss!

What Did I (Not) Miss: FIAC, OFFICIELLE & Paris Internationale 2015

Adela Lovric — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:51:48 +0000

What Did I Miss

Last week in Paris: FIAC, OFFICIELLE, and the new-born Paris Internationale. See what we did or did not miss at these three fabulous art fairs.

FIAC - Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain

OFFICIELLE

Paris Internationale

What Did I (Not) Miss, Berlin Art Week Part 2

bpigs team — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:06:10 +0000

What Did I Miss

The Berlin Art Week saga continues - so far, so good! Although a lot of events are already behind us, it is still not too late to catch up. Check out our highlights and venture into the art jungle.

Wednesday, 17 Sep

All the gold that I have – Emilie Pitoiset @ Klemm’s

Klemm's

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Some Lesser Known Rituals Of Wimbledon @ Soy Capitan

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Vicky Uslé - Weightlessness Encounter @ alexander levy

alexander levy

Thursday, 18 Sep

abc art berlin contemporary @ Station-Berlin

ART BERLIN

Thursday, 18 Sep

Positions Berlin @ Kaufhaus Jandorf

POSITIONS BERLIN

What Did I (Not) Miss: Berlin Art Week, Part 1

bpigs team — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:20:29 +0000

What Did I Miss

Berlin Art Week is stirring up the spirits once again with six days of events all around the city. Confusion and excitement, the crowds and the queues, free drinks, gossips, wacky outfits and cool shows. Here's what we did not miss so far; Part 1.

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Berlin Art Week opening / Vertigo of Reality @ Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste

Vertigo of Reality- and the metabolic office for the repair of reality

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Mike Bouchet – Power Lunch @ Peres Projects

Peres Projects

Power Lunch

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Corinne Wasmuht @ Johann König, Berlin

Corinne Wasmuht

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Forty and Forty @ Galerie Neu

Thomas Scheibitz / Thomas Demand / Arte Povera and 'Multipli', Torino 1970 - 1975 @ Sprüth Magers

Wednesday, 17 Sep

Open House @ Leipziger Strasse 60

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 11.09 - 14.09

Cyrus Smith — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:22:51 +0000

What Did I Miss

September is upon us. Berlin Art Week is upon us. Grab your art goggles and come get messy. Empty your schedules, grab a partner, and leave your life by the way side. This was the warm up for what awaits...

Thursday, 11 Sep

Michael Just, Manuela Kasemir, Ruprecht Von Kaufman @ EIGEN + ART Lab

EIGEN + ART Lab

Friday, 12 Sep

Andreas Blank – The imprint of the space someone used @ Galerie Christian Ehrentraut

Friday, 12 Sep

Chris Succo @ DUVE Berlin

DUVE Berlin

CHRIS SUCCO

Friday, 12 Sep

Vector Issue-5 @ Schau Fenster

Saturday, 13 Sep

Kate Cooper – Rigged / Ryan Trecartin – Site Visit @ KW Institute for Contemporary Art

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Saturday, 13 Sep

Janos Fodor - Overmorrow @ Grimmuseum

Grimmuseum

János Fodor

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 01.08 - 03.08

bpigs team — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:22:17 +0000

What Did I Miss

The sign that says "Vacation" still decorates many entrances around the city; nevertheless, we are back on track, just to prove that it is always a good idea to stay in Berlin. Many were lured last week back into the gallery crawl routes by the brand new Project Space Festival Berlin, which had a very promising start.

Friday, 1 Aug

Ursula Mayer - Vibration/Frequency/Substance @ Import Projects

Import Projects

Saturday, 2 Aug

Stravaganza @ Agora

Agora

´Stravaganza

Sunday, 3 Aug

Hors d'œuvre - The Secondary Concern @ tête

tête

Hors d'œuvre - The Secondary Concern

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 26.06 - 28.06

bpigs team — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:29:55 +0000

What Did I Miss

Our 48 hours were well spent last week not only in Neukölln, but not very far either. Openings at KLEMM'S, Circle1 and Studio Chérie, as well as the performance at SomoS, were our main destinations, with many stops around the artists' favorite neighborhood.

Thursday, 26 Jun

Wanton Mobility @ KLEMM'S

Klemm's

Wanton Mobility curated by Arielle Bier

Friday, 27 Jun

Francesca Fini, Michal Helfman, Olaf Kühnemann @ Circle 1

Circle1 - Platform for Art & Culture

Friday, 27 Jun

Courage @ Studio Chérie

Courage - Photo contest

Saturday, 28 Jun

Unclean in Motion @ SomoS

SomoS

Unclean-Group exhibition

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 18.06 - 21.06

bpigs team — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:06:17 +0000

What Did I Miss

Music lovers and football fanatics had a special kick out of last week's events. Us art folks did not feel deprived in any way; we did concerts at Mauerpark, we know the relevant results, and we still did not miss the most interesting events of the week: openings at Alte Kindl Brauerei, Das Gift and Kuckei + Kuckei, and two special performances at SomoS.

Wednesday, 18 Jun

Unclean Conversations: Pedro Bustamante and Mischa Tangian @ SomoS

SomoS

Unclean-Group exhibition

Thursday, 19 Jun

It's About Time + Radio Picnic opening and Salon Bruit @ Alte Kindl Brauerei

Friday, 20 Jun

Martha Breeze - Remember Umbrella @ Das Gift

Das Gift

remember umbrella - Martha Breeze

Saturday, 21 Jun

Lilly Lulay - Indistance @ Kuckei + Kuckei

Kuckei + Kuckei

Indistance Lilly Lulay

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 12.06 - 15.06

bpigs team — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:50:56 +0000

What Did I Miss

Last week nobody missed the Berlin Art Prize, which evidently turned into one of the most important cultural events in Berlin. Cheers to the winners and the organisers for this great get-together for the entire art scene. Besides the big ceremony, plenty of other events kept us entertained from Thursday till Sunday - check out where the curiosity led us this time.

Thursday, 12 Jun

Marc Desgrandchamps - Solitudes @ Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin

Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin

Friday, 13 Jun

Attilio Tono & Veronique Pozzi - Impermanence @ Das Gift

Das Gift

Saturday, 14 Jun

Berlin Art Prize @ Kühlhaus Berlin

Sunday, 15 Jun

Ines Kotarac - K wie Körper @ Suzie Fu