Art
Fans of New Contemporary and Urban Art will be delighted to hear that the STROKE Urban Art Fair is moving from Munich to Berlin for its third edition this coming October. Not only the move from Munich to Berlin - the melting pot for urban and street art - but also the move from spring to fall makes a lot of sense to us because there will be a lot of art fairs and exhibitions taking place to that time during the Kunstherbst.
The venue will be The Station at Gleisdreieck that is also home to the Premium trade show during Fashion Week. We are particularily looking forward to their special exhibition When Bloggers become Artists where 10 bloggers were invited to create a piece of art that will be printed by Whitewall and exhibited at the fair. Participating blogs are LesMads, Amy&Pink, Ignant, Artschoolvets, Styleclicker, Uberding, Eve Without Adam, Whudat, Looky Looky and Suz is submitting something for iHeartBerlin.de.
After the jump you’l find a recap of the last STROKE.ARTFAIR as well as details for the next one.
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by Frank
on September 2nd, 2010
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photo: Wolfgang Brückner
Inside the vibrant Wrangelkiez a new restaurant called Eckstück opened recently. Its walls are covered by artwork of Berlin’s countless street artists. Even if some of the graffiti work does not reflect my taste, the work of Pabo and Hr. v. Bias is really beautiful. The menu consist mainly of pizza and the atmosphere has something of a student canteen. For all fans of street art the visit of Eckstück provides a good overview of the styles of many Berlin-based street artists. More pictures and the address, after the jump.
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by C.R.
on August 31st, 2010
in Art, City Guide, IHB, Kreuzberg, Restaurants
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For all of you who love to customize your fashion magazine while waiting in the train or at a café for the as usual unpunctual date this exhibition at the gallery Camera Work will kick your ass. Two photographers for the Italian Vouge, Tina Berning & Michaelangelo di Battista, decided to go further then the standard beauty photography. So their FACE/project was born. To see more pictures and the address of the gallery take your face after the jump.
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by C.R.
on August 30th, 2010
in Art, Charlottenburg, IHB
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Surely you’ve seen the neon installation by Maurizio Nannucci on the facade of the Altes Museum which states: “All Art has been contemporary”. Even though this is now pulled down, it probably inspired me a little bit. When I looked at the following designs from the collection of Astrid Andersen from London, I thought: “All fashion will be vintage.“ Can you think why? I have a certain feeling about it. If it wasn’t already I would like to copyright this sentence. Or opensource it? More pictures from this strange but great collection which I found at the very nice blog Ignant after the jump.
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by C.R.
on August 20th, 2010
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There is a Berlin-based street artist that fights the general beauty-dogma with Disney stereotypes. For sure I like the approach of the Fight Lookism movement, even though I think they should do more art and write less texts. Normally I would say that this type of gender/political/critical movements are much more serious in Germany than in other European countries . But I think that the Fight Lookism guys seem to be very relaxed. Let’s see if they do some crazy stuff to argue with the fashionistas next week.
by C.R.
on July 9th, 2010
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I hate most of the TV shows that getting really successful these days. I hated Big Brother, hated Germany’s search for a Superstar and definitely hated Germany’s Next Topmodel. Some of the reasons I am explaining here. But I am intrigued by beauty contests with a special twist. Like the Miss Landmine Election initiated by the Norwegian artist Morten Traavik. In 2009 his project was prohibited by the government of Cambodia. I think that the idea is great and that it gives people without hope something back: The feeling to be beautiful. I think that should be something that Fashion Week should also be about. Some photos of Miss Landmine after the jump.
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by C.R.
on July 8th, 2010
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Michael Page
A little art quicky in between all this Fashion Week blabla. Strychnin is opening a new exhibition that looks quite stunning to me: Futurescapes with Michael Page, Damon Soule and others. I totally want the painting above by Michael Page! A preview and details after the jump.
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by Frank
on July 7th, 2010
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Street artists who jump through the night to take their revenge on society have always had something romantic for me. That’s also why I am a big fan of the following ad-busting artist: Princess Hijab loves to put some nasty black paint over the pretty western faces of Parisian ads. Putting the face behind a painted veil should definitely demonstrate that the discussion between western and oriental believes about culture are not getting to a right result. Even if I am not so sure what kind of message Princess Hijab actually has on her mind with her art, I love the way she takes my attention and makes me think. For a more traditional approach you might perhaps check out the Veil-Fashion-Blog (no kidding). More pics of the ad busting work of Princess Hijab after the jump.
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by C.R.
on July 6th, 2010
in Art, Fashion, IHB, X
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In the heat of the night, shining skin of sweaty bodies, hot bodies of boys and girls dancing the night away. Staying by the lake during the day, dancing during the night, how could your weekend be any better? There is a heat wave and if you start complaining you probably might have forgotten the winter we had. The sweatiest parties you’ll find after the jump:
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by Suz
on July 1st, 2010
in Art, Events, IHB, Parties
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images: Crystalmafia
Crystalmafia is an artist duo from Berlin, consisting of photographer Kieran and painter Ashley. They are originally from the US, they both used to live in San Francisco for several years before they moved to Berlin.
Kierons photographs were published in magazines such as Vice, Nylon, Papermag and Spin; they were recently exhibited at Lucas Carrieri Gallery. Ashleys pictures were shown in several exhibitions in San Francisco and in Berlin.
More pictures and an interview with Crystalmafia after the click.
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by Jens
on June 20th, 2010
in Art, Fashion, People, The Makers
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