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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 […]
Grüne Woche (International Green Week) is a massive food, agriculture and horticulture exhibition held for the 80th time in 2015 at Messe Berlin. I went for the first time on Saturday and was amazed by the huge selection of different food and drink from all around the world on offer. My food highlight of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new panorama by Yadegar Asisi opened in Berlin on Sunday 23 September and having recently seen his panorama at the Pergamon Museum with friends I was determined to go as soon as possible. The new Asisi Panorama, Die Mauer (The Wall) on Zimmerstrasse near Checkpoint Charlie, depicts a fictitious autumn day as seen from […]
As soon as I heard that a large-scale map of Berlin was being created on the Schlossplatz, entitled City of Diversity (Stadt der Vielfalt), as part of the city’s 775th anniversary celebrations I was fascinated to see how it would turn out. Over the course of the next 9 days I went to the Schlossplatz 3 […]
