Viva Forever: A Spice Girls tribute exhibition
It's officially been 20 years since the dropping of "Wannabe" – a milestone marked by The Ballery's new Spice Girls exhibition. Spice up your life and celebrate (their version of) girl power with a mix...
View ArticlePalestinians speak out: After the Last Sky
INTERVIEW. Israelis have a voice here, but Palestinians, not so much. Curators of "After the Last Sky" Anna-Esther Younes and Pary El-Qualqili aim to change that with their fest at Ballhaus...
View ArticleArt Week for everyone
Berlin Art Week is upon us (Sep 13-18) but how do you handle it all? Fret not, whether you’re a snob, a trend-chaser or a hipster, here’s what to see and do at Berlin's six-day exhibition extravaganza.
View ArticleFinding love in chaos
Don’t let the screens and AI fool you – this edition of the Berlin Biennale draws warmth from the most surprising of places.
View ArticleRefugees on Mars: Halil Altindere
INTERVIEW! Refugees... in space! Halil Altindere is hitting Berlin Art Week with a jarring dystopian proposal: send them to Mars. Check out "Space Refugee" opening at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein on Sep 14.
View ArticleGround Control to Major Eckell
Dietmar Eckell returns to Berlin with another installation in his long-term photography project Restwert. The latest chapter documents abandoned sites and ways of being in a series of never before seen...
View ArticleThe future has begun: Constant Dullaart
High-profile digital detective Constant Dullaart wages war with Facebook in Synthesising the Preferred Inputs. Read our interview with him and then catch it at Future Gallery in Schöneberg before it...
View ArticleToxic safe spaces: Hannah Perry
INTERVIEW! British artist Hannah Perry's hypnotic installation 100 Problems at Contemporary Fine Arts takes on gender formation, relationships and vicious cycles with video, spoken monologue and music....
View ArticleLate November's art lessons
End your November with art presented by the Akademie der Künste. Camaro Stiftung hosts 150 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, while AdK's Uncertain States has a number events, including...
View ArticleGermany’s other guilt
The country’s little-known colonial history in Africa is on display at German Colonialism, a new exhibition at the Deutsches Historisches Museum through May 2017. It may not hit all its marks...
View ArticleArt in times of crisis
The Akademie der Künste overwhelms us with death and despair in Uncertain States, but there may be hope for humanity yet. It's on through January 15.
View ArticleOpening: Plüschtieroper
Berlin-born “grand dame of German pop art” Christa Dichgan arranged plush animals into operatic still-lifes inspired by her own life for this solo show at CFA.
View ArticleCindy Sherman
The ever-versatile photographer-performer portrays herself as a number of heavily made-up women in front of fantastical backgrounds in her most recent series. Through April 8.
View ArticleSea Life Berlin: Jurassic Seas
Fancy Jurassic Park... under the sea? Sea Life Berlin serves us something prehistoric by showcasing descendents of some truly fearsome creatures. Check out garfish, nautili and horseshoe crabs and...
View ArticleChristine Streuli's Warpainting E
“Warpainting E” is part of a series that uses a camouflage pattern where the paint is smudged and left to drip, perhaps hinting at the grisly reality of war but also giving viewers an insight into...
View ArticleMarch art march
Here are three exhibitions to hop to this spring before the mania really ensues with next month's Gallery Weekend. Berlinische Galerie, Galerie Bastian and the Georg Kolbe Museum are all calling...
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Luis Diego Cabezas
What does artist Luis Diego Cabezas get up to on the weekend when he's not exhibiting? Here's his perfect Berlin weekend.
View ArticleFast futures
From URL to IRL – a host of exhibitions this month focus on our ever-evolving relationship with technology.
View ArticleBiking Gear for Free Museum Entry
Wear your biking gear (cycling jersey, shorts, and helmet) to the Deutsches Technikmuseum to get free entry to their special exhibit for the 200th anniversary of the bicycle: "Wüüüste! Erich 'Wüste'...
View ArticleA suitcase full of secrets: Evan Light
An exhibition and a book are bringing the Snowden files back to Berlin. As part of the Signals (Sep 12-26, Diamondpaper), American surveillance researcher Light presents his “Snowden Archive-in-a-Box”...
View ArticleWho still cares about Snowden?
Online mag Berliner Gazette brings up the Snowden files, and what we really know of them, in exhibition Signals (Sep 12-26) at Diamondpaper and a book launch for "A Field Guide to the Snowden Files"...
View Article6 questions for... Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic megastar Olafur Eliasson is putting on the second Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (Sep 14-17). We asked him six questions ahead of his 100-artist strong Art Week splash.
View ArticleEyes on the prize
This year’s four Preis der Nationalgalerie finalists exhibit side by side at Hamburger Bahnhof. They’ll be coming together for an artist talk on Oct 12 (19:00, in English) before the prize is awarded...
View ArticleOpens! Jews, Christians and Muslims: Scientific Discourse in the Middle Ages...
The Martin-Gropius-Bau‘s new exhibition explores the significant transfer of knowledge across religions and regions from the years 500-1500 that has laid the groundwork for much of what we understand...
View ArticleFahrelnissa’s first chicken
Freshly arrived from the Tate Modern, the first major retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid highlights her role as a pioneering Turkish modernist who challenged a Eurocentric male-dominated art world. On...
View ArticleThe Gay Berliner: Meet me in the bathroom
A new exhibition makes Walter Crasshole wonder: whatever happened to gay sex in public toilets?
View ArticleThe Brecht-Benjamin bromance
This month is your last chance to see Thinking in Extremes, the extensive exhibition at AdK that catalogues the relationship between philosopher Walter Benjamin and playwright Bertolt Brecht.
View ArticleJaroslaw Kozlowski: Words and Colors
For this exhibition at Berlin’s premier space for Polish art, the 72-year-old conceptual artist presents a thoughtful selection of works from the last five decades. It's on through Feb 10.
View ArticleEvidentiary Realism
Like the offspring of Edward Snowden and Banksy, Italian artist Paolo Cirio’s own “performative hacks” mine internet data to create critical works at the intersection of privacy, copyright, democracy...
View ArticleWelcome to the dollhouse
INTERVIEW! Ahmet Öğüt on the seriousness of his miniature buildings in his exhibition Hotel Résistance, on at KOW through Jan 28.
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