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With its rich heritage of Street Art and Graffiti, it is only fitting that Germany’s first museum dedicated to the art forms should open in Berlin – the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. For the first time impressive art work of world-known and emerging artists of the urban contemporary art are brought together […]
With its rich heritage of Street Art and Graffiti, it is only fitting that Germany’s first museum dedicated to the art forms should open in Berlin – the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. Graffiti and street-art are part of Berlin and vice versa. They function here as a local art form: it helped […]
The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) this week unveiled the Pergamon Altar 3D Model created by Fraunhofer IGD, which is now accessible via the Pergamon Museum website. The Pergamon Altar was built on the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon (then in Ancient Greece but now located in Turkey) in the 2nd century […]
The German Resistance Memorial Centre (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) in Berlin houses an exhibition about the German people and groups who took a stand against National Socialism. The Bendlerblock The German Resistance Memorial Centre is located in the Bendlerblock, site of the offices of the Reich Ministry of Defence and the Supreme Command of the Armed […]
The Neurotitan Gallery in Hackescher Markt’s Haus Schwarzenberg is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015 and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to finance its upcoming projects in Berlin. The rewards on offer to backers include hand printed tote bags, original artworks and limited edition jewellery. Neurotitan is run by the Schwarzenberg eV, […]
Berlin RAW, an exhibition of the photos of Yuto Yamada, a Japanese photographer living in Berlin, opens this evening at the Urban Spree Galerie in Friedrichshain’s RAW Gelände. A quick look at Yamada’s Instagram stream reveals a fascination with the high-rise skyline of Tokyo and the abandoned buildings of Berlin. According to the Urban Spree […]
The Olympus OM-D Photography Playground has made a welcome return to the Opernwerkst ätten in Berlin. Now in its second year the Photography Playground consists of a series of 9 installations from international artists that are intended to be both visually striking and interactive. My favourite installations were those that I thought encouraged the highest level […]
It’s Gallery Weekend in Berlin – a time when the city’s many galleries showcase art from a broad range of local and international talent – so when better to share this film from Monocle magazine on Art in Berlin. Berlin is a hotbed of creative talent. In the 1920s, artists were attracted by the city’s […]
An interactive exhibition is ideally suited to Berlin, a city overflowing with creative people, and that is what Olympus has created with the Olympus OM-D Photography Playground, which opened at the Opernwerkstätten last night. The Opernwerkstätten, built between 1939 and 1941 with some involvement from Albert Speer, used to house the workshops of Berlin’s many […]
French Street Artist JR began his Wrinkles of the City project in Cartegna in 2008 – since then, he has continued the theme in Shanghai, Los Angeles and Havana and this month, Berlin. As luck would have it, I spotted JR and his crew at work at Warschauer Strasse two weeks ago today. Having recognised […]
