It it not that my repertory of gifts is specially wide, to be sincere, although if there is one I display the most is the opportunity one. Oh, yes! What a big gift, this one of mine! The one that lets me spend four months in Berlin enduring eternal rains and that, on the...
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Eight artists work around the idea of how complex is actually the reality that surrounds it, for simple it may seems sometimes. Pieces by Ahmed, Alexander Dahmen, Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann, Herr Orm, K 110, Robert Matzke and Sabrina Karakatsanis give shape to Simple is Rare, the exhibition that started last Friday in Neurotitan...
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Simple is Rare opens today in Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin; a group exhibition that gathers the works by Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann o Sabrina Karakatsanis, among others and which, through different formats like painting, video-art, photography and illustration, give shape to a giant collective installation.
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Simple is Rare abre esta tarde en Neurotitan Gallery en...
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Oukan71 is a concept-store that opened its doors recently in Kronenstrasse, 71, in Berlin, mixing vanguardist design with zen decoration. You can read my article about the opening of the shop for Absolut Mode Society in here.
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Oukan71 es una concept-store que abrió recientemente en el número 71 de Kronenstrasse, en Berlín y que...
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During yesterday and today are taking place in Berlin the German Press Days, in the same building where Premium tradeshow takes place, too. National brands like Michalsky, Freitag, Juliaandben, Liebeskind Berlin o Reality Studio, among many others, are present there showing their collections for next summer.
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Durante ayer y hoy se celebran en Berlín...
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Voo store in Berlin is kind of hidden -in one of those so-typical courtyards in the German capital- in the number 24 in Oranienstrasse. When I discovered it the other day, visiting the pop-up store Primitive London had installed there, I couldn’t believe I had been missing that amazing spot for so long.
The...
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Friday evening was quite hectic in Berlin, to be sincere; after Stroke art fair and my brief visit to Voo to see the installation by Primitive London on its last day, the following not-to-miss appointment was in EastBerlin Store where designer Patrick Mohr -whose work I discovered last year during Berlin Fashion Week- presented...
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Primitive London is a London-based collective that works closely with artists and designers: it is also a shop and an art gallery created by Lui Nemeth and Andrew Green who, during last week, created a pop-up installation in Voo store in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Lui comes from Tokyo and Andrew from Australia although, after living...
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The urban art fair Stroke gathers together this weekend in Berlin the works by many artists coming from the most varied disciplines, from graffiti to graphic design, including illustration, photography, tattoo and, sometimes, even sculpture.
The event aims to free this kind of art from the elitist and exclusive mood that surrounds conventional and...
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The importance of the image- either photography, illustration or any other technique- as a transmitting element in fashion is unquestionable. The exhibition Visions & Fashion: Images of Fashion 1980-2010, that runs until next October, 9th in Kunstbibliothek in Berlin aims to cover the last thirty years of this decisive combination.
Far from acting as...
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The idea of an eternal summer looks, as cold times get closer, more and more appealing. My experiences on a surfboard can be counted on the fingers of my hands -of a single hand, actually- but I really wouldn’t mind at all joining up the guys in The Endless Summer by Bruce Brown to...
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On Tuesday, in Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, it was the presentation of the awards and jury selection of the latest edition of design festival DMY that took place last June in the German capital. The festival, held annually since 2003 aims to showcase all things related to contemporary, innovative and -not in rare occasions- conceptual product...
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The touristic walks around Munich a couple of weeks ago took me to discover Nymphenburg Palace, built in mid 17th Century as the summer residence for the rulers of Baviera at that time, a little bit along the lines of well-known Sans Souci in Potsdam, near to Berlin.
The palace -surrounded by amazingly huge gardens,...
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On Wednesday Berlin-based label Reality Studio will present their latest collection for next Spring/Summer 12 in a new action on the streets of the German capital as they already did this time last year. Only two days before the presentation, the designer Svenja Specht talks to us about the label, their collection for this...
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The immediacy of Polaroid pictures became, by the ’70s, the perfect allied to Helmut Newton’s impatience, as he once confessed in an interview. Being capable of seeing the image in real time satisfied his necessity of knowing how framing, composition and light were working together, hence that he always used this method as experimental...
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin organizes from tomorrow and till next Saturday Four Days of Jodorowsky, an event devoted to the work of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, his personal and own imaginary and his influence in the contemporary art scene, counting also on his presence for a talk before the screening of the...
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Sensual and fetishistic, magnetic. Like a sweet-aftertaste provocation, the work by Ellen Von Unwerth has always managed to move perfectly well in the most feminine and sophisticated eroticism.
Tomorrow, in Contributed gallery in Berlin, is the opening of The Big Show compiling some of the works this German photographer has done together with...
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Just Loomis has in his CV working experiences as significative as being the assistant to Helmut Newton, fact that obviously influenced his way of conceiving fashion photography. However, and parallel to his contributions to media like Harper’s Bazaar or The New York Times, Loomis has lensed since the 70’s and till today, countless daily...
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Forget about the city of light and everlasting love promises on the Eiffel tower, what do you really want? Maybe end up meeting all the hundreds of people that had exactly the same idea of celebrating February 14th there?
Because it does not have to be always Paris, because you can celebrate love everywhere, five...
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Rebel and systematically against the tide, defying the established conservative America of the 50’s, the figure of James Dean greatly and meaningfully influenced a whole generation, not only on a aesthetic level but also on a more ideological one. Till next Sunday 20th February is held James Dean: A different Icon in The...
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