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.

STROKE.03

07.-10.10.2010

Station Berlin

Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6

10963 Berlin

Do-Sa 13- 23 Uhr, So 13-18 Uhr

Tagesticket: 8 EUR

www.stroke03.com

George is an Australian curator who has put together many exhibitions here in Berlin for instance at her own gallery We Make Stuff Good at Stattbad or at Tape Modern and other places. Not being from Europe makes it a little tricky for her to stay here in Berlin, so her buddies of Stattbad are throwing a party for her at their new place called Pavilion which is right opposite Stattbad at Gerichtstr. 23. The profits should co-finance her visa and laywer. We wish her all the best!

And for those of you who are hungry for guestlists. We are raffling off tickets for the open air party Reisen Macht Den Kopf Frei in our Facebook group.

More parties for the coming days and the weekend after the jump!

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.

all photos by: Wolfgang Brückner

Eckstück

Wrangelstrasse 20

10997 Berlin

www.eckstueck.de

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.

FACE/project

Tina Berning & Michaelangelo di Battista

4.09.10 - 30.10.10

CAMERA WORK AG

Kantstraße 149

10623 Berlin

Open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 to 18

Last Friday the second SKYY SWAP MARKET in Berlin took place at Stadtbad Oderberger. It was really phantastic and I’m glad Gina and I could be the hosts of this event with our Designer Scouts platform. Many of our designers have donated their pieces for a good cause, and many new ones we have come to collaborate with on this occasian. Amongst them C.Neeon, Esther Perbandt, Adddress, Moga E Mago, Mikenke, Blame, Von Bardonitz, Paula Immich, Howitzweissbach, Burkhardt/Möllmann, JULIAANDBEN and all the designers of the design collective The Offer. Thank you very much and of course also to the many bloggers that have submitted their outfits and came to the market. Impressions after the jump.

To try out new restaurants is more of a couple thing. Single women don’t eat anything anyway until they caught a new man and single men do not understand why they should spend so much money for food if they can still eat a lot cheaper at the snack-bar at the corner where it always tastes best. Okay perhaps it’s not always like that. But the little kick of the new thing can be enjoyed far better with the loved one than with friends or relatives. Visiting the Three Sisters will be a kick that I’ll save for later for a while. In morbid Casino of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, this restaurant opened its doors to visitors not so long ago. If you are ready to engage with new stuff then you will find the address after the jump.

3 Schwestern

Snax (Friday at the Skyy Swap Market)

Hooh! What’s up at former fun fair Plänterwald? I hope they have plans in case the rain doesn’t stop. Apart from that, the new shit: get your new outfit right at the party, no need to go shopping beforehand, just swap your clothes. What else is up, smaller though, right after the jump:

Thursday

The last Tropico Disco at Bar 25 with Cheers Chris, Emil Doesn’t Drive back from holidays, Clown Triste and Top Secret from France who is about to release his debut vinyl soon.

Friday

Skyy Swap Market at Stattbad Oderberger presented by Designerscouts. Swap your outfit, dance and drink at Prenzlauer Berg’s old and beautiful pool.

Gold And The Beautiful at Stattbad with Berlin based GeisBaBa, The Polyamorous Affair and more. Dive into that pool and don’t forget to dress golden.

White Trash Fast Food presents Future Days. This time with acts And So I Watch You from Afar, An Emerald City and Admiral Black.

Saturday

Better not fear the way east About Blank near Ostkreuz, otherwise you’ll miss Get Deep with Disco and Deep House by duo Trickski, disco with Emil Doesn’t Drive, furthermore Andreas Saag and Genius of Time. We have 2×2 tickets for you guys, just leave a comment in our discussion forum on Facebook or below with email-address.

Another Stricken Bar at Jacki Terrasse with hammocks, photobooth, music and ’stricken’, of course.

So they have managed to rent the place at Plänterwald and organized a party with a long line-up including Tiefschwarz, Mandy, Hugo Capablanca and the like. Well, I heard that the Bar 25 people are going to move to exactly that place some time next year. This may be a rumour though. If not, you got it from me first ok?! So if you’re willing to pay 20 Euros and feed the money machine, go to Luna Park and hope that the rain stops for Christ’s sake.

I have heard so much about this place. I always wanted to go, but I never really got quite round it. I’m talking about the Spreepark at Plänterwald. It’s that abandoned amusement park with a quite dramatic backstory. The owner and his son actually sit in prison for trying to smuggle drugs in one of their rides from Peru back to Berlin. It’s all really Hollywood actually.

This coming weekend I will finally have a chance to go to this mythical place. Luna Land is opening it’s doors there for a two-day party marathon with Tiefschwarz, M.A.N.D.Y, Matthew Johnson (live), Ame, Hugo, Un Homme et Une Femme, Crystalmafia, Joey Handsome and many more. A few more impression and the flyer after the jump. Win tickets in our facebook group.

Tickets for 16EUR if you subscribe to their newsletter.

lunalandberlin.com

Not only a truckload of great designers are giving pieces of their collection to the SKYY SWAP MARKET, also a whole bunch of fellow bloggers are submitting their outfits. See what they have to give here.

Is Take That actually the only boyband where nobody turned out to be gay? More impressions of Last Days of Take That after the jump…