Figure of a future city floating in the sky. Tomás Saraceno, Cloud Cities, 2011. Installation view at Hamburger Bahnhof. Photo: Tomás Saraceno Tomás Saraceno's huge installation works are now in exhibit at Ham...

BASED IN BERLIN

2011.9.6　 Text: Kiyohide Hayashi

Berlin used to be an utopia for contemporary artists. At least to me, I’ve had a clear image of Berlin as a city of art before I moved in and the image had not been ruined even after I started to live here. However th...

A CHARITY EVENT “HILFSAKTION FUER JAPAN” IN BERLIN

2011.6.13　 Text: Kiyohide Hayashi

A charity event for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami was held in Berlin. Even though I may fail to report objectively as I was also involved with this event, I would like to represent one movement in B...

THE 6TH BERLIN BIENNALE

2010.9.21　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In mid-May, posters plastered all over the wall of a building near Moritzplatz caught my eye. The posters were portraits of women and close-ups of their body parts shot in black-and-white with white and saxe blue bord...

TRANSMEDIALE 2010

2010.3.19　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Transmediale is a media art festival consisting of exhibition, symposium, film screenings and workshops. The parallel event, club transmediale focuses on music and performance. Here we will focus on the exhibition for...

ILLUSTRATIVE BERLIN 2009

2009.10.27　 Text: Anna Saulwick

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...

THE 3RD PICTOPLASMA CONFERENCE

2009.4.27　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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 simple character faces made from three circles. Thi...

TRANSMEDIALE 2009

2009.2.12　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

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 "...

URBAN AFFAIRS – STREETART BERLIN 2008

2008.7.18　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

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 reunification of the city...

NEW LIFE BERLIN FESTIVAL 2008

2008.6.26　 Text: Peta Jenkin

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...

DMY 2008

2008.5.31　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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

2008.4.29　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

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...