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Like Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), I visited the Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) with my first Museum Pass in 2010 and was determined to go back during my Berlin Museum Marathon in February this year. The Museum is housed in a combination of the Collegienhaus (Old Building), the former […]
The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Berlin was the first venue I visited with my first Museum Pass in 2010 so it seemed appropriate that it should be the first stop on my Berlin Museum Marathon. At the beginning of February I used the Museum Pass my work colleagues bought […]
When I left my job in London to move to Berlin my colleagues made a collection and bought me The Berlin Pass, which includes a 3-Day Berlin Museum Pass. Bought separately, the Museum Pass costs €19 and with it you get free entry to 55 of Berlin’s best museums and galleries. Last week, I finally […]
The Berlinische Galerie, Berlin’s Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, has posted the video Berlinische Galerie: The Shuttered Society. Art Photography in the GDR 1949-1989 on its YouTube channel. As stated in the ‘About’ section of the video on YouTube: The Berlinische Galerie is to stage the world’s first comprehensive exhibition of art photography […]
Berlin has a plethora of Christmas Markets (Weihnachtsmärkte) but one market this month offers an alternative to the usual glut of Glühwein stands, Crépes sellers and Christmas gift stalls – so if you’ve had a kitsch overload head to Stattmarkt at Stattbad Wedding. The Stattbad is a former public baths (Stadtbad) and the Stattmarkt makes […]
Robert Montgomery’s billboard installations for his Echoes of Voices in the High Towers exhibition have to be one of the more unique Street Art styles that I have seen in my time in Berlin. Ironically, Robert Montgomery is British but it wasn’t until I came to Berlin that I got to see any of his […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a very art-oriented Sunday. After checking out the Stroke Urban Art Fair I went on to have a look at re:MMX. The original MMX exhibition took place in Berlin in 2010 in the anonymous looking house at Linienstrasse 142 that it has returned to in 2012. The building […]
Yesterday afternoon, with Berlin’s weather teetering on the edge of the depressive part of its bi-polar summer weather cycle, I went to the Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum). I have been conscious for a while now of neglecting Berlin’s museums. I’ve posted about the Deutches Historisches Museum and The Stasi Museum, both of which I […]
One thing that Berlin does not have a shortage of is world-class museums and back in May I got to see one of the very best, the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) for free. Sunday 20 May 2012 was International Museum Day and as part of the celebrations a number of Berlin’s museums offered […]
Mark Jenkins uses humour and shock tactics in his art, particularly his street installations, to convey his message. Jenkins’s work employs a number of ideas and techniques but it is his life-size and life-like figures that have always intrigued me. He creates these sculptures by taking live models and wrapping them in cling film and […]
