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The Open University’s short film Bauhaus: Design in a Nutshell sums up the Bauhaus movement in an easy to follow 2 minute video. The school, which was founded in Weimar in 1919 by Berlin-born architect Walter Gropius, revolutionised art and design in the twentieth century. As it says in the the video’s description on YouTube: […]
In the UK, ‘leaves on the tracks’ is a much-ridiculed excuse for late running trains but in Berlin in Autumn 2016 an U-Bahn carriage filled with leaves caused disruption on the city’s U2 line; the seasonal prank was an art intervention by local graffiti and street art collective TOY Crew called Leaf the Train. The […]
Berlin-based photographer Jeisson Martin is willing to go further than most to ‘get the shot’, as you can see in his video series #EXPLOREEVERYTHING on his YouTube channel. The videos show Jeisson exploring the Berlin U-bahn tunnels and a rooftop with fellow instagrammer Franz Becker and an abandoned warehouse with his girlfriend Marisa Hampe. Welcome […]
As far as the fashion world is concerned it would seem that Berlin is the place to be right now and in 2016 everyone will be aiming for that Berlin style. Last week, within days of each other, two designer powerhouses – Gucci and Givenchy – used the city as the backdrop for their latest […]
If you’ve used the U-Bahn (underground train) in Berlin you’ve probably noticed that the windows are covered with a transparent sticker with a repetitive white Brandenburg Gate graphic. If you’ve given the windows more than just a cursory glance you may have noticed that the perspective of the illustrations of the Brandenburg Gate on those […]
Ostberlin IX – Punks is part 9 of Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR and features a series of black and white images of East Berlin punks from 1980 to 1989. The photos offer a glimpse into another time and to those who lived through it what must seem like another world. Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg are […]
What do you get the man or woman who has everything? Maybe, just maybe, the answer is an Atomteller – a German nuclear power plant in blue and white on a porcelain plate. The Atomteller was dreamt up in Berlin by author and researcher, Mia Grau, and Andree Weissert, an architect and designer. The pair […]
Turkish new media artist Erdal Inci has gone to incredible lengths to get across the true scale of the Berlin Wall with his project Berlin Wall: A Data Visualization. When we think about the Berlin Wall, despite having an idea of its length, we can’t easily envisage its real size. With this question in my […]
Berlin-based photo sharing app, EyeEm is teaming up with Canon and Imaging Mind to present Photo Hack Day 4 in Berlin on 28 and 29 November. Following registration and demo sessions, the hacking proper will start at midday on Saturday and continue straight through the night. The event is a 24-hour coding marathon that aims […]
Anke Fesel and Chris Keller, co-editors of Berlin Wonderland: Wild Years Revisited, 1990-1996, talk to Gestalten.tv about the images featured in the book and the momentous period that they represent in Berlin Wonderland: Pictures from a Forgotten City. The wall had recently fallen and there was a sense in Berlin that anything was possible, and just […]
