Berlin blog / Culture
Highlights from Berlin’s museums, galleries, and cultural outings.
Gerhard Richter
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Germany's most celebrated modern painter turned 80 this year with a bang - retrospectives mushroomed all over the country, including a major show at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Around 140 paintings and five sculptures from all periods of the artist's extensive oeuvre, carefully selected together with the artist himself, offer visitors a profound insight into his diverse body of work. The Mies van der Rohe building is put to good use – the outside edge of the exhibition displays a dazzling array of Richter's small colorblock paintings, a long bright line facing out through the museum's glass walls.
AADKmigrationen
Friday, March 9, 2012
The artistic network AADK (Berlin/Portugal) presents Tristesse Deluxe - Nomadics, a new exhibition that explores traveling. Talks, music/video shows and discussions as well as a classical exhibition with videos, tableau paintings, objects and spacial installation will explore traveling as an interface between new places and old networks, focussing on the artistic perception of space, time and motion.
Stasi Museum
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Stasi’s methods of coercing information were pretty incredible, fearsome then and now fascinating: scent tracking (storing each individual’s scents in jars), the infamous button cameras… The headquarters, in Berlin-Lichtenberg, including the offices of the Ministry for State Security,
Berlinale 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Get your glitz on this winter at the Berlinale, a prestigious film festival that's surprisingly accessible to the public. The Berlin International Film Festival shows about 400 films within ten days, mostly international or European premieres. Films of every genre, length and format find their place in the various sections: great international cinema in the Competition, independent and art house in Panorama, films for young audiences in Generation, new discoveries and promising talents from the German film scene in Perspektive Deutsches Kino, avant garde, experimental and unfamiliar cinematography in the Forum,
transmediale 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
transmediale celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012, and as always it's a fascinating look at the weird and wonderful world of digital art. This year, the arts festival celebrating digital culture wraps their program around the theme "in/compatible." Everything seems to connect in our network culture, but not everything fits or works together. What artistic imaginations arise from this confounding reality?
Navigating Darkness
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The exhibition Navigating Darkness transforms Tape Club from a black-walled nightclub to a shadowy art world. The dark cavernous space is punctuated by a constellation of works that shine, reflect, or cast shadows.
Hamburger Bahnhof: Cloud Cities
Friday, October 28, 2011
Miniloft apartment's neighborhood museum, the stellar contemporary art behemoth Hamburger Bahnhof, has another wondrous winner of an exhibition. Visitors float in Tomás Saraceno's hanging bubble gardens and are immersed in utopian installations that shatter traditional concepts of place, time, gravity and architecture.
Tränenpalast
Friday, October 7, 2011
Tickets for a concert directed Daniel Barenboim are usually hard to come by - but not this weekend. Show up early with a picnic, blanket and sunscreen, for a free outdoor concert on the famous Bebelpatz. The Staatsoper presents Staatskapelle Berlin, performing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 F-Minor, op. 36.
Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
Friday, September 16, 2011
Each autumn the literary world descends upon Berlin for a ten day festival of readings and discussions. Meet the personalities behind the pages; follow their words on a rhythmic journey across nations and cultures in eighteen different venues across town.
Museum of Extraordinary Objects
Friday, August 12, 2011
The DesignPanoptikum, or Museum of Extraordinary Objects, is a treasure trove of the strange and unexpected. The shop front, in a dingy Plattenbau on Torstraße, looks like a strange junk shop, but visitors are soon led further into owner Vlad's bizarre collection. The museum displays historical everyday – and not-so-everyday – objects and curiosities from the history of medicine, the film industry, sports, aviation, construction, industry, and household goods.