Journal 2020

For her exhibition ›Readings From Below‹ at Times Art Center Berlin, curator Ariane Beyn evokes the concept of the archive to ask questions about artistic access to the present. A conversation about methods, ways of reading, yesterday, today—and of course, the Internet

After several years in Berlin-Lichtenberg, the haubrok foundation is back at the former ›Haus des Kindes‹ on Strausberger Platz. An exhibition about exhibition concepts opens in its new space on the fourth floor of the listed building

During Berlin Art Week, Lerato Shadi will open her solo show at KINDL—Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. Here she talks about crocheting as writing, historical erasure—and the colour red

The artist Nevin Aladağ answers the twelve questions of our questionnaire: on pugmarks, teahouses, and reading glasses

For the exhibition ›Down to Earth‹ Stefanie Hessler has curated an ›exhibition within the exhibition‹ on the ocean. Here the curator speaks on the ocean’s potential as a model for different modes of thinking, questions of sustainability, and on infrastructures

Zeiss Großplanetarium, a major stellar theatre in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, will host the Berliner Festspiele programme series ›The New Infinity‹ for the first time this year. The domed planetarium will feature work by artists including Caterina Barbieri and Ruben Spini. It also has a long and eventful history

The building at Oranienstraße 25 in Kreuzberg has housed a symbiosis of various cultural institutions over the years. Now, rising rents threaten to displace more than just the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

Anne Duk Hee Jordan on ›Artificial Stupidity‹

The gallerist Johann König answers the twelve questions of our questionnaire. On young talents, Piero Manzoni, and the smartphone as workplace

Annette Kelm’s latest series shows a selection of books burned by the Nazis in 1933. This work is on view at Museum Frieder Burda’s Salon Berlin during Berlin Art Week

The artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader answer our questionnaire—on the Pink Panther, rupturing languages, and Netflix

The gallerist Tanja Wagner answers our questionnaire. On wool socks, art as a broadening of horizons—and the lack of female artists at high-profile exhibitions

Arts of the Working Class on distribution

C/O Berlin presents ›Voll das Leben!‹, the first retrospective of Harald Hauswald, co-founder of the legendary Ostkreuz agency and one East Germany’s most eminent photographers. The opening will coincide with Berlin Art Week

Each week, we ask two protagonists of Berlin Art Week to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Sung Tieu

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Marie DuPasquier and Ewa Dziarnowska

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Jonas Englert and Ivo Wessel

Two figures from the Berlin art world select a link and tell us something about it. This week: Anne Schwanz and Daniel Völzke

Marc Bauer is the winner of this year’s Gasag Art Prize. For his show at Berlinische Galerie, he turns to digital life and approaches it via his preferred medium drawing. A conversation about E-paper technologies, different image cultures—and drawing’s privileged relationship to memory

John Miller on PowerPoint

A project space known as The Watch calls a rather unusual building home: a former GDR guard tower in the former East Berlin district of Treptow. An archive of the site’s now 30-year history of artistic use will be on view for Berlin Art Week

During Berlin Art Week KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art is opening four, parallel exhibitions. Christiane Meixner spoke with the new Artistic Director Kathrin Becker about her plans for the venue

Hyphen-Labs on Free Will

The Feminist Health Care Research Group (FHCRG) studies the history of the health care movement. The collective will present a new publication at the 11th Berlin Biennale. A conversation about research as an artistic medium, the need for access and what the health movement of the 1970s and 80s can teach us today

Two figures from the Berlin art world select a link and tell us something about it. This week: Anna Gritz and Christina Landbrecht

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Aram Bartholl and Sven Beckstette

Noah Klink, one of three nominees for the VBKI-Preis Berliner Galerien, answers the twelve questions in our questionnaire

Artist Cao Fei answers your twelve-piece questionnaire—on headaches, dreams and on being your own audience

Vivian Suter has now spent more than three decades working in her garden in Guatemala, where nature intervenes in her paintings and contributes to their creation. After a 2017 presentation of her work at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel comes ›Bonzo’s Dream‹ at Brücke-Museum in Berlin. Suter’s first institutional exhibition in Germany puts her work in dialogue with pieces by artists associated with the »Brücke«group

The London-based artist, whose solo exhibition at C/O Berlin opens on 11 SEP, is the first to answer the twelve questions on our questionnaire

Slavs and Tatars on Fermentation

Nadim Julien Samman, Curator Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, speaks about curating in the digital sphere, his plans for Berlin Art Week and the »triumph of the screen typology« in the wake of COVID-19