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...

TRANSMEDIALE 2008

2008.2.25　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

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...

HENRY MOORE “IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES”

2008.1.18　 Text: Eduard Prats Molner

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 BERLIN 07

2007.10.2　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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...

WHAT MAKES SHANGHAI ADDICTIVE?

2007.9.13　 Text: Gudrun Rau

"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...

DESIGNMAI 2007

2007.6.28　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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...

TRANSMEDIALE 2007

2007.2.27　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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...

VARIOUS GALLERIES IN BERLIN

2007.1.30　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

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...

THIS LAND IS MY LAND

2006.12.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

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...

U2 ALEXANDERPLATZ

2006.11.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

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...

WHAT MAKES BERLIN ADDICTIVE?

2006.10.5　 Text: Soh Wee Ling

Berlin is Germany's largest city and one of the most influential centers in European culture while Shanghai, the economic capital of the middle kingdom, is building skyscrapers faster than at the speed of sound. So wh...

ANSTOSS BERLIN

2006.10.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Approximately 60 top artists from 21 countries living in Berlin got together for this exhibition "ANSTOSS BERLIN" in Haus am Waldsee. This museum is located in a suburban of Berlin, Dahlem area. Despite its small appe...