Sonambiente Berlin 2006, the festival for hearing and seeing, was held from June 1st to July 16th and it generated an extensive network of events throughout the center of Berlin. More than 50 internationally renow...

POPKICK 06

2006.7.28　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

Together with the World Cup, "PopKick.06" will be held in Berlin from June 9th to July 9th. There will be public viewings where you can watch the game on two enormous screens. This event in the large Treptower Park is...

DESIGNMAI 2006

2006.6.30　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

It's a little known fact that Berlin is designated as "City of Design" by the UNESCO. The Creative Cities Network of UNESCO awards a city for each of the following seven categories - literature, cinema, music, folk a...

JOHN BOCK “LüTTE WITH OTHERS”

2006.6.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

"If there is a goddess, there is a prostitute" when I started being interested in contemporary art, someone told me so. It is one way of thinking, which has influenced my thoughts. A very impressive phrase that symbo...

TREASURES

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Up-and-coming Berlin-based artists have joined this group exhibition, curated by internationally acclaimed artists - Janet Cardiff, Rebecca Horn and Robert Wilson parallel to the Berlin Biennial. The location is a for...

PAINTING AS PRESENCE: THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The exhibition "Painting As Presence: This Is Not A Love Song" is aimed at visitors who are curious and interested – parallel to the Berlin Biennial – in getting to know positions of painting with very different refer...

THE 4TH BERLIN BIENNALE

2006.5.1　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The 4th Berlin Biennale has started. This time, it is held along the Auguststrasse, which used to be the main street for commercial galleries in Berlin. I am writing "used to be", because the Berlin art scene has long...

RESOLUTION/DISSOLUTION II

2006.4.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In a note not directly related to this article, the Berlin Biennale has begun at the end of March. As I noticed with interest, a number of small to medium-scale, yet high-quality exhibitions have been planned to coinc...

THE 19TH LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS

2006.3.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

One of the winter highlights in a cultural city Berlin, "Lange Nacht Der Museen" (Long Night of Museums) was held on 28th of January. This is the 19th edition, having been held twice a year since 1997. From ...

TRANSMEDIALE 2006

2006.3.1　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

When the weather had got warmer from the unusually coldest season this year, Transmediale 06 was held in Berlin. Transmediale is an art festival in Berlin, which you can look out over the current media art. The venue ...

A TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH BEUYS ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

2006.2.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Speaking of enjoying modern art in Berlin, first comes the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. Not only are there 20th century collections of the Western countries from Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg to Anselm...

PALAST DER REPUBLIK

2005.12.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Palast der Republik - the building was decided to be destroyed by the former Federal Republic of Germany (Eastern Germany) Congress in 1990. Because asbestos had been used for the building, they publicly gave the rea...