The Weekly Art Guide

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Thomas Kratz “Artemis” (Nude) at Croy Nielsen

The upcoming week promises artistic obstinacy: In a spectacular auction, Hamburger Bahnhof will gather money for Christof Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa, the up-and-coming artists Thomas Kratz and Markus Saile present their newest abstract works and don’t give up on painting, Evan Gruzis familiarizes us with Pop Noir and Bjarne Melgaard thinks that Shelly Duvall’s performance in The Shining is so fucking annoying that he made a movie about it. Up from next week my holiday-replacement-time is over and you will get your full-bearded (and in the meantime half-Latino) Frank back. All that’s left to say is: Thank you all so much for your trust and for reading my posts!  Of course you can still follow my art-reviews on my blog artfridge.de and once in a while here – on iHeartBerlin. See my full guide for the upcoming week after the jump…

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Arnold Newman, “Pablo Picasso. Painter. Vallauris, France. 1954”

The art week starts, less dingy and more militant than the last one, with capitalism killing love, and it ends with a deathly poets’ battle at Volksbühne. In the meantime, two outstanding photography exhibitions crystallize to be the weekend’s highlights: Candida Höfer presents bombastic still lifes, and C/O Berlin dignifies Arnold Newman‘s portrait shots of the creative elite in a large retrospective.  Additionally, Allan Kaprow – the godfather of “happenings” – is reanimated and there is a group show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien that sorts out the black market of translations. Get all the information after the jump…

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Boris Mikhailov “ohne Titel” (from the series “Case History”), 1997-1999, Sammlung Berlinische Galerie

Prostitution at Walter König, Pornography at KW, Pushy Kissers at Galerie Lüttgenmeijer – what the hell is going on? Beside all that filthy stuff, a great retrospective of Boris Mikhailov at Berlinische Galerie, loads of exciting artist talks and British conceptual art is to be expected in Berlin’s upcoming art week. Check it out after the jump…

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“You killed me first” at KW Institute

We can look forward to another week of exciting movie screenings and great openings: KW celebrates cinematic perversity and New York’s Rock’n’Roll-times with their exhibition about the Cinema of Transgression, Werner Herzog introduces individuals who have been sentenced to death, Bertien van Manen documents the habits of Russian peasantry and Alicja Kwade spins around in circles. See all details after the jump…

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Betty Drunk GBR 2011 Director: Laure Prouvost © Laure Prouvost

The 62. Berlinale dominates the upcoming week: Forum Expanded – its avantgardistic and experimental section – combines film, installation and performance in countless events; and, of course, many galleries go along with the current art-film trend: neugerriemschneider features a film by James Benning, and Cinzia Friedlaender presents the newest creation by artist duo Jutta Pohlmann and Dirk von Lowtzow. Besides all the films, Berlin also offers other artworks, as for instance installations by Robert Morris, paintings by Marcel Eichner and perhaps something kinky and rebellious by Dash Snow.

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Tobias Zielony “Manitoba Brokenhead” at KOW Berlin

This week is all about the Transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The media-art-festival features concerts, screenings and performances. In addition, HBC. hosts a reading about Hipsters, Figge von Rosen Galerie introduces us to ASDFGHJKLÖ and Tobias Zielony observes teenagers. Additionally, lots of after-show parties invite to dance the night through.

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by Maria Brunner in Face / OFF, Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann

Bonjour everyone! This week, Berlin’s weather couldn’t be worse, but fortunately there are lots of events inviting us to forget the world outside: The Mindpirates are celebrating with Lionel Williams and Raz Ohara, Jorinde Voigt shows works from the last seven years and several group shows are opening. Finally, a Sunday flea market enables a perfect escape from both hangover and the rain. While Frank enjoys the Paris Fashion Week and travels around the globe, I will do my best acting for him as your iHeartBerlin art guide for the next six weeks. See my first guide after the jump…

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