ILLUSTRATIVE BERLIN 2009
We will be watching, with interest. Illustrative 2009 is the fifth installment of a festival that began four years ago. Over it’s lifespan the event has grown from a modest group show in Berlin to a roving festival...
We will be watching, with interest. Illustrative 2009 is the fifth installment of a festival that began four years ago. Over it’s lifespan the event has grown from a modest group show in Berlin to a roving festival...
Character, Icon, Comic, Anime, Robot and Android. There is the most impressive one among Berlin's street posters. It is the 3rd Pictoplasma Conference's poster, which was designed by Boris Hoppek who is known by his ...
Each year at the end of January Berlin gets for some days the center of the international media art scene. "Deep North" was the theme for this years Transmediale 2009 for "art and digital culture", which was held at "...
Streetart Berlin 2008 A lot of metropoles seems to have some street art: New York, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, L.A and also Berlin. But lately Berlin has attracted attention to international street artists since the re...
Perform in an opera. Be a part of a tv studio audience. Or be invited to film your favourite film star. It sounds like a virtual entertainment centre, but it’s actually a Festival of Participatory Art – ‘New Life Ber...
What would come to your mind when you hear the name of the city Berlin? It might includes Berlin Wall, the separation of East and West, the collapse of the wall, the progression afterwards, architectural buildings by...
The 5th Berlin Biennale Biennale entitled “When things cast no shadow” begun on the 5th, April 2008. This time the biennale was organized by the great young curator Adam Szymczyk and his partner Elena Filipovic. Accor...
People leave their home for various reasons; some in need for work to support themselves financially, some desperate to move because of wars or other forms of tragedies, and others longing for progress in life. People...
At the end of January in Berlin, which was warmer than usual, Transmediale 08 was held. Transmediale is an art festival to take a view of the present scene of media art and held in Berlin every year. This year, Haus d...
During 2007 summer, Berlin's Haus am Waldsee museum was entirely dedicated to Henry Moore's work. The selection for this exhibition took as a starting point the late 1950s, when Moore first fragmented the human figure...
Illustrative 07 has been holding at Berlin. This year is the second time and it has already decided that sister event will be holding at Paris from November 2007. It is expected that this event will be seen many peopl...
"Best advice you ever got?" "No pain, no gain." We pass by the "Alte Postfuhramt" and approach the side entrance to the "Rodeo Club". We're 3 hours early for the inauguration but the place is already open to th...
I saw the sunshine through the clouds just after the rain. But then I heard thunder as I went out. I was all wet when I got home then again, the sun came out. In this dramatic weather, DESIGNMAI was held from May 1...
A poster tells the trend. Posters since 1988 were in the chronological order and were pasted to the wall of the project library. This event, which started as a video festival, has become its 20th this year since the n...
This month, I will introduce some art works that caught my eye at various galleries I visited. First, is a young Brazilian video artist Marcellvs L. When I stepped in the middle of the exhibition I saw a huge scr...
I have had a vague sense that, since I came to Berlin, there are so many people who relatively freely cross the border here in Europe, as if there are no borders. It was the exhibition “This Land Is My Land” that supp...
We had so many events in October in Berlin: the art fair, the opening of the Bode Museum, the exhibition of Rebecca Horn, and so on. And this time, I take up the exhibition at the Alexanderplatz, which was a bit surpr...