In Berlin, there were four art fairs held from the end of this September to the beginning of this October - Berlin Art Forum, which will be the 10th anniversary this year; Berliner Kunstsalon, which has been started s...

BACKJUMPS ISSUE #2

2005.10.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

According to one of the latest criminal research, the crimes tend to occur easily where there are many scribbles or many destroyed things left behind. On the other hand, by showing the index that shows the place is ma...

NACH DER NATUR (TOWARDS THE NATURE)

2005.9.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In these few years, there are public opinions saying that Berlin has been getting "spremely sharp". At the beginning, when I just had arrived here, there were still conservertive, former West German unpolished sense,...

TROUBLE 1: FEMALE BODY

2005.7.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

There is a building called Stadtbad Oderberger in Prezlauerberg, a district in northeast Berlin. It was originally a swimming pool, designed by Ludwig Hoffmann, an early 20th century architect, and used up until the l...

TRANSMEDIALE 2005

2005.3.3　 Text: Peta Jenkin

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...

PICTOPLASMA CONFERENCE

2004.12.3　 Text: Peta Jenkin

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...

CHRISTIAN FRIENDRICH FLICK COLLECTION

2004.11.4　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

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 ...

CONTACT EUROPE 2004

2004.8.3　 Text: Peta Jenkin

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...

SANDSATION 2004

2004.7.3　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

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...

MOMA IN BERLIN

2004.6.3　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

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 ...

THE 3RD BERLIN BIENNALE

2004.5.3　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

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...

BLIND DATE

2004.3.4　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

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...