This week is all in the name of art. After Mar­cus’ rather elab­or­ate and spe­cific art­icle about the UdK Rundgang — and of course, his magg-nificent pic­tures as always — I decided to actu­ally share my opin­ion on the Weißensee exhib­i­tion.

First of all, I had no expect­a­tions. After the lib­er­at­ing chaos and vast pos­sib­il­it­ies at the Uni­versität der Kün­ste I was pre­pared to see everything. Turns out: those kids at Weißensee who have finally fin­ished their Dip­loma do have some­thing to show for! The loc­a­tion — the corner house on Orani­en­platz which used to be a shop­ping mall — was chosen per­fectly to put the art­work on dis­play. And art­work it is: from the weird­est install­a­tions to the most crit­ical and mes­mer­iz­ing paint­ings, a great vari­ety on five levels of artsy goodness.

If you can make the time, pay the exhib­i­tion a visit. It’s def­in­itely worth your busy­n­ess. The pic­tures should only give you a slight impres­sion of what to expect, but in no way do they cover up even a teensy bit of what is offered in Kreuzberg. Also, remem­ber: whenever we take pic­tures of art, we don’t mean to steal the inten­ded form of dis­play. We just want to say: this is what we like, but you will never under­stand it if you don’t go and see it for yourself!