Last week’s 27th International Short Film Festival in Berlin featured a stellar line-up of short films that certainly maintained the city’s world-renowned reputation for high-calibre film festivals showcasing both emerging and...read more
Within the next two weeks (starting from today!), brace yourselves for some serious film festival action! Berlin is simply spoilt for choice when it comes to internationally renowned, esteemed, and much-loved film festivals, from the mainstream...read more
I'm quite fond of talking to strangers. My favourite place to do so is in transit, waiting for a train, bus or plane. It is easy to start with a meaningful glance in a hilarious moment or to comment on an ostentatious piece of...read more
After a short hiatus whilst a new venue was found, Berlin's very own life drawing collective, *Life Drawing Berlin, is back! Now located at the recently established arts collective and co-working space, Agora Collective in Neukölln, *Life...read more
Over October 14-16 Postbahnhof reeked of spray paint. Within a can throw of the East Side gallery it seemed like the right place for an Urban Artfair from the outside. Large mini-walls had been haphazardly placed in the courtyard with...read more
Sounds sexy. And with a line up of artists including performance poetry, video installation and live music we are pretty sure it is going to be sexy. The night begins with video work from 1998 by Anneliese Holles , writer and visual...read more
Nathan Ritterpusch is a New York artist currently based in Berlin. After running into each other at an opening for a summer group exhibit at Horton Gallery in Kreuzberg, I went to visit his studio in Prenzlauer Berg. He is currently working on a new...read more
In a Lonely Place, last month's exhibition at the C/O, brought together three series of works from New York based photographer Gregory Crewdson. Disturbing and beautiful, his work tests the boundaries between reality and fiction, nature and...read more
There is just one week left until BANG BANG BERLIN Gallery opens its doors for our first art exhbition - 'ON' by Golden Sun Movement. Luke Insect, Leo Zero and Dave Little and will be showing Berlin exactly why they are the UK's most legendary...read more
September 1st marks the opening of the "Berlin - Italy" exhibition, the exhibition takes a look at Italian fashion over the years, the glamour, the stuctures, the perfect tailoring etc etc.
The exhibition will last until the 15th of...read more
In collaboration with Dialogue Books, Cultural Connections creates a link between our book of the week and an idea, a place, a film, a work of art or an object. Each book of the week featured in Cultural Connections has 10% off for that week, so...read more
To Love or to Forget? My Romantic History REVIEW
Memory and Love can be fickle friends. One minute it seems you have all of life's great conundrums figured out, the next, you're looking back on your past with disdain (or disbelief) at what has...read more
Anja Teske: Photographer
Currently on view at K80 Galerie in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin is an exhibit featuring two artists one being photographer Anja Teske. On a warm afternoon, Anja met me at the gallery to discuss the work on display. In a small...read more
This week Berlin plays host to some rather eccentric and exciting events. At the experimental arts project space MicaMoca in Wedding, the Polish are taking over and claiming the city as theirs in a weekend of exhibitions and performances entitled,...read more
LAST CHANCE!: Exhibition runs until 21st August at the me Collector's Room.
It’s not every day you find yourself confronted with the image of a woman eating her own breast with a spoon. But then the ME Collectors Gallery isn’t your...read more
The BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER recently reached it's final deadline for entries for this year. We spoke with one of the esteemed judges, Walter Gehlen, about what it takes to judge a competition of this scale and what to expect this time...read more
In collaboration with Dialogue Books, Cultural Connections creates a link between our book of the week and an idea, a place, a film, a work of art or an object. Each book of the week featured in Cultural Connections has 10% off for that week, so...read more
There comes a point in every cinephile's moviegoing experience when our very nature is called into question. Are the images of slightly out-of-focus birds cut with the roar of rolling waves really a profound metaphor for life, or rather a contrite...read more
By Mike T West
Germany’s one and only touring film festival dedicated to the fantastic is back! Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Fantasy Filmfest spends the summer travelling to eight major cities around the country. Committed to...read more
Keep your diary free this weekend or cancel anything that's not pressingly urgent: the illusive Artsbase 2011 festival is imminent and for the art-loving mavericks amongst us, looks set to be one hell of an adventure...
It all seems a bit too good...read more
In our modern age of technology, film photography is a dying art, and no more so than the Polaroid. It is no exaggeration to say that this humble little camera was revolutionary. Yet, what was once considered to be a simple, accessible and...read more
Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is a Korean-Italian American artist who has been based in Berlin for four and a half years. Having already been an expat, she made the leap from New York to Poland where she studied poster art and then landed happily in...read more
An anarchic current runs through this summer’s programme at the Berlinische Gallery entirely in keeping with its specialist collection dealing in the art of the avant-garde: three artists and three exhibitions are brought together under one roof,...read more
The first thing that struck me about Berlin when I arrived here, fresh from the gritty, red-brick delights of Manchester, was a heightened awareness of space. Perhaps this is the secret behind Berlin’s impressive creative output. You cannot but...read more
