Posts Tagged ‘Art’
MADE
Carlijn Potma chats to Nico Zeh, creative orchestrator and founder of acclaimed Berlin art space, MADE... Over a year ago, Berlin was enriched with a new conceptual art space: MADE. ‘Yet another art venue..’, many would think. But this art center - 420 m2 , located on the 9th floor of a former office building at Alexanderplatz and designed by the architect Alexis Dornier - seems more ambitious. Fully supported by Absolut Vodka, this all-white creative space programs a wide range of [...]
The Three Sisters
Molly Hannon checks out a new Kreuzberg dining spot that fuses rock & roll with traditional cuisine and local produce... “Primitive Rock 'n’ Roll and Fine food” is the Three Sisters’ motto. However, upon entering the restaurant, one senses there is nothing primitive about this place. It looks more like an old style ballroom reminiscent of the American South, with its high lofty ceilings, whitewashed walls, long oak bar, and a small stage with a grand piano. (This Southern [...]
Cafe Hilde
Book readings, hearty Irish breakfasts and home-made cakes... My first encounter with Café Hilde was on a dark and wet winter night back in January. The streets outside glistened with snow and rain rapped at the windows like a lunatic insect as I sipped wine with friends and listened in hushed silence to a voice from the past. The voice belonged to Orson Welles – to a 1938 radio broadcast of him reading from Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness to be precise. Welles' voice, wrapped [...]
Kunst Werke Institute For Contemporary Arts
A jewel in Mitte's art scene crown... Berlin’s Auguststrasse isn’t short on galleries. This well known Mitte street is a main artery for contemporary art in the city, long ago earning the sobriquet “East Berlin's art mile” for its impressive wealth of independent galleries that line both sides of the street and show everything from sculpture and fine art to photography. Of all the street’s venues, the Kunst Werke Institute For Contemporary Arts at number 69 is perhaps the most [...]
In Praise of Edgar Reitz’s Heimat
Wyndham Wallace profiles a 1980s German TV epic... “History is written by the victors”, Winston Churchill once said, and as someone living in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s I grew up with an interpretation that deemed the Germans humourless warmongers whose crimes should never be forgotten. In the playground, the word ‘Nazi’ was virtually interchangeable with ‘German’. The ‘propaganda’ of the war-associated films and comic books I consumed as a child was so deeply [...]
The Art Of Urban Sketching
Berlin Illustrator Rolf Schroeter talks about his passion for Urban Sketching and the relationship between art and place... I was born in a small town near Cologne in West Germany. After an apprenticeship as a stonemason I travelled to Italy, then took a degree in architecture from RWTH Aachen. During all that time, and especially during my architectural studies, I used sketchbooks. I worked as a tutor alongside Professor Heiner Hoffmann, who put a strong emphasis on filling sketchbooks with [...]
Slow Art Day, 17th April 2010
A new international event that encourages us to Slow down and take more time to enjoy art. Most of us have been guilty of blurring around at least one museum or gallery in our lives, ignoring the majority of the art therein, or focusing more on what's for dinner later than what's in front of us. Indeed, research shows that people spend as little as eight seconds looking at an individual work. Which is why New Yorker Phil Terry, founder of non-profit Reading Odyssey, created the Slow [...]
C/O Berlin
A contemporary photography space and slice of Old Berlin all in one… There’s no lack of photography exhibition venues in Berlin. The city’s profusion of empty, run-down buildings and smart, upmarket galleries cater competently for its burgeoning photography community, reinforced by the plethora of cafes and restaurants eager to give their businesses a creative twist. Since opening in 2000, the privately financed, internationally-minded venue C/O Berlin has emerged as one of the [...]
Q&A: Nathalie Daoust, Photographer
Canadian photographer Nathalie Daoust was born and raised in Montreal but has long been itinerant. In the late 90s she spent several months in New York crafting a collection of images from the famous artist-themed Carlton Arms Hotel, which were later transformed into a book (New York Hotel Story). Since then Daoust has travelled from the Swiss Alps to Brazil and Japan in search of evocative imagery, venturing ever deeper into the fascinating territory of sex, memory and gender stereotyping [...]
