finding berlin

Between June 12th and 15th, Mind­pir­ates will trans­form their ven­ues with images, sounds, light­ing, tex­tures and intens­it­ies, show­cas­ing a cur­ated pro­gram of films, per­form­ances, work­shops, dis­cus­sions, read­ings and live music in order to inter­act with our audi­ence in a por­no­graphic art exper­i­ence. Install­a­tions through­out the Mind­pir­ates

The ‘Ver­ein der Gestal­tung e.V.’ (an inter­dis­cip­lin­ary design col­lect­ive) invites design­ers / pho­to­graph­ers / cre­at­ives to a monthly get-together in the Café Vab­rique at Ritter­str. 12 – 14. Every­one is wel­come. Please bring your friends and col­leagues. The idea is to meet new people, dis­cuss your work, start new pro­jects or just have a cof­fee

Back­yard cor­di­ally invites you to join the open­ing of the exhib­i­tion Almost Legal: Ver­n­is­sage 20.04.2013 / 20.00 / Back­yard / Gitschiner Str 22 / U-Prinzenstr Artists: THC Crew, Dan Rowe, Adam Tylicki Video Premier: 22.30 DJs: DT64, Ghetto Para­dise, Suz It is impossible to take the S-Bahn or the bus in Ber­lin without noti­cing the graf­fitis of Kreuzberg

The next ONBOOZE Ceviche Bar will pop up to feed you through the arti­ness of the Gal­lery Week­end Ber­lin. For two nights at two dif­fer­ent loc­a­tions ONBOOZE will share their tempt­ing Ceviche and vicious Pisco drinks with you. Night N°1 will be hos­ted by no one else than the unique magazine store do you read me?!

Dur­ing the last weeks I spent long nights view­ing and order­ing my messed up photo archive to pick out proper shots for my new web­site. In that pro­cess I found quite a lot of old and inter­est­ing pho­tos I almost for­got about. Like this series about graf­fiti mes­sages I star­ted to shoot in early 2007. Back then, my atten­tion got from

Due to suc­cess, the exhib­i­tion Ralf Schmer­berg: Der Tod nimmt sich einen Tag nach dem anderen is exten­ded from 22 Janu­ary – 1 March, 2013. Open­ing hours:  Tues­day, Thursday and Sat­urday 13:00 – 20:00 Wed­nes­day & Fri­day, 17:00 – Midnight Mind­pir­ates Pro­jek­traum (3rd Back­yard) & Atelier Ralf Schmer­berg (5.0G) Entrances on Schles­is­che Strasse 38

Let­ters from Aleppo a show by Berlin-based urban art pho­to­grapher Just, is cur­ated by Open Walls Gal­lery and will open at Stattbad on the 15th of February. Open­ing hours: Thursday-Saturday, from 17:00 to 20:00 Exhib­i­tion on dis­play 15÷02÷13 — 02÷03÷13 Admis­sion: €3 The first part of the exhib­i­tion will intro­duce the viewer to Just’s images taken in Ber­lin and

Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This name is not just weirdly uncomfortable to foreigners, but to German speakers too. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. You'd think that Germans, who like to put words together, would call it "Weltkulturenhaus". It's remote area is pretty exceptional, too. To me, it seems just SO out of the way of anything that you'd have to be really dedicated to go to an event or exhibition. I know I used to pass it on one of my many trips with the designated tourist bus line "100", and keep thinking: man, what the hell, why would they place such a gorgeous object right into the middle of nowhere (and yes, Tiergarten is right in the middle of nowhere to me, because IF IT'S NOT IN KREUZBERG THEN HOW CAN IT EXIST?!). All joking aside, this is an exceptionally important place in Berlin. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of the Cultures of the World - seriously, can we just call it Bert or something from now on? It just feels so cold and impersonal) is an institution full of cultural insights, from concerts to exhibitions to readings to films to conferences and whatever else can be visually exhibited in the "world cultures" context. Remember how everybody went crazy about the Transmediale partys a couple of days ago? Well, if you were so inclined to actually participate rather than just get wasted, you'd have known that the Haus der Kulturen der Welt plays a central role in enabling the exchange of cultural practices, even in music and popculture. Besides, it's one of the last institutions that is still completely funded and commissioned by the state, a growing rarity in Berlin.

What if Ber­lin was like New York? What if all we did was breed high rising monu­ments, cov­er­ing the sky with amaz­ing archi­tec­ture, giv­ing Ber­lin the look and feel of a met­ro­polis? A con­ven­tional met­ro­polis, that is. Most people tend to appre­ci­ate that Ber­lin is not like New York, and yet it seems like an inter­est­ing exper­i­ment: what

On the occa­sion of the 55th win­dow with the install­a­tion ‘exit through the gift shop’ by Helen Hart, Anna­belle Schuster and Melanie Wal­ter I am pleased to invite You to the gal­lery for some drinks. a pro­ject of the Mas­ters pro­gram Bühnen­bild– Szen­is­cher Raum TU Ber­lin, dir­ec­ted by Prof. Ker­stin Laube, in cooper­a­tion with Gonza­lez Haase AAS “exit through

On Janu­ary 29th, at 17:30, trans­me­diale 2013, fest­ival for art and digital cul­ture gone BWPWAP, offi­cially opens its doors at the House of World Cul­tures (HKW). Per yearly tra­di­tion, Jan 25th to Jan 27th will serve as the offi­cial pre-festival week­end and teaser called reSource 003: P2P Vor­spiel presen­ted together with trans­me­diale part­ner: CTM

Neue Ber­liner Räume, C/O Ber­lin and AJLart are pleased to present the install­a­tion of Robert Montgomery’s light sculp­ture All Palaces Are Tem­por­ary Palaces at the Post­fuhramt in Berlin. The Post­fuhramt is a palace – in terms of size, archi­tec­ture and opu­lence. For fif­teen years it has also been a won­der­ful loc­a­tion for art and cuture. Des­pite all the