TRANSMEDIALE 2005
Ever since its inception in1988 as a video art event, Transmediale has grown to be one of the biggest art festivals whose participating artists seek to interpret and reflect on the technologies that determine our expe...
Ever since its inception in1988 as a video art event, Transmediale has grown to be one of the biggest art festivals whose participating artists seek to interpret and reflect on the technologies that determine our expe...
At the very first Pictoplasma Conference on Character Design, held in Berlin's east in late October, character designers and enthusiasts alike converged for three days of lectures, workshops, screenings, and live perf...
The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is one of the most significant contemporary art collections in the world - so much so that, despite the overwhelming controversy surrounding it, the city of Berlin has decided ...
Cafe Moskau, an impressive building constructed in the 1960s and partially renovated in the year 2000, provided a grand canvas on which to stage the third Contact Europe event. The venue, once a late-night spot for fo...
Between the Chancellery and building site that is Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin's future main station, lies a patch of the tropic this summer - well, almost. 3800 tonnes of sand have been delivered here from the coast of Ge...
Since the end of February, a strange phenomenon can be witnessed in a corner of Berlin - a continuous line of people circling themselves around a glass building from early morning to late at night. In this city ...
BB3 - The 3rd edition of the young Berlin Biennial features fifty artists presenting visual, architectural, cinematic and sonic art works inspired by Berlin, facing its 15th year since the collapse of the wall and the...
Takehito Koganezawa had a performance at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin on January 31st. He is a Japanese artist based in Berlin, who mainly creates visual works and recently published an art book of his drawings. He...
Berlin, Germany's media art festival, Transmediale, was held in two locations in Berlin for the 17th year. The theme this year is "Fly Utopia!" and the contents of the festival were split into two categories: media ar...
On January 23rd, 2004, Helmut Newton pulled out of a car park at the Chateau Marmont hotel just off Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. A moment later his Cadillac accelerated and crashed into a wall, taking the life of th...
Berlin is on the brink of bankruptcy. It can be felt in the uncut lawns of parks, the empty storefronts of small businesses, and now in the echoes of bustling crowds and chants that fill the streets of Berlin almost e...
Though the name Daniel Libeskind has become synonymous with large-scale public commissions, it wasn't always so. Before the Jewish Museum was built in Berlin, Libeskind was known only as an academic architect without ...
Don't we all love urban communication and aesthetic and if there's a city that loves walls and hates walls, then it is Berlin. A fierce battleground for writers, sprayers, stickers, slogans. Backjumps magazine was fou...
After a very long dry spell, summer arrived and so did the good weather and it bought a lot of things with it. The Air in Berlin is positive and there is a general feeling of an upswing, I read somewhere, Berlin is mo...
Berlin was host to the first Designmay. A two week design orientated congress where over 100 participants contributed with products, project, ideas. I myself was very wound up in our own activities, so that I w...
Somehow I got an invitation to the Nordic Embassies to check out an exhibition of 23 young designers from Island. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegisch, Finnish and Islandish embassies are all packed together in style in pr...
Having the theme of "contrasts", this years "Profile Intermedia 5" focussed on the idea of contrasts between a lot of things: the contrast of the way a client sees an aim, the contrasts of the artists producing thei...