Whether you’re in the mood for romance, showing friends around from out of town, or just collecting your own thoughts outdoors, it’s always a good idea to take a stroll through Berlin’s cosmopolitan wonder. And with the lovely sun shining, can you think of anything better?
Kreuzberg’s Schlesisches Tor might be the hardest U-Bahn station for non-natives to pronounce. It also happens to serve as a junction between three districts, all straddling the eastern intersection of the Spree and Landwehrkanal. This area is full of vibrant activity – how about a stroll around it?
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by Keith | Kreuzberg
I love photo booths! Ask anyone! It’s true! In my kitchen I have a little collection of different photo booth photos with my friends from various events and or even from the regular booths on the streets. It’s a tiny bit tacky maybe, but I love it anyway because it’s a nice little memento of a certain event or time you’ve shared with a friend.
At the Eastside Gallery along the former Berlin Wall there is now a brand new big photo booth you have to check out! More about it and some impressions after the jump.
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by Frank | Photos
photo: GivingNot
In these last weeks, the East Side Gallery debate has bombarded my mind with contradictory thoughts, blurring even more my approach to German National image. Berliners are protesting in the street against capitalism, fighting to keep intact what remains of almost thirty years of a history of separation, violence, and oppression. Isn’t it paradoxical? Those people, who had been fighting in 1989 to tear down the infamous Berlin wall, are now fighting to keep it up. What once was a victory, has now turned into an international tragedy.
The reason for all this anger lays in the choice to ‘free up’ space for a majestic luxury condominium designed by some rich men in shirt and tie. Instead of questioning the validity of the reason, and demonstrate in favor of the preservation of German culture, I am struggling with all this sudden preoccupation with cultural value and memorialization. Without neglecting the historical relevance of the East Side Gallery and its significance in artistic terms, I am asking myself: How important is ‘memory’ in our society?
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by Devid | Stories
If your dreams don’t come true at Stattbad this weekend, you will have another try with the dreaming the weekend after. On November 14 you are invited to be part of a global art project about dreams. Photographer and street artist Justin Tellian is creating a series of group shots with people who consider themselves to be dreamers in front of monumental walls and buildings. He did this already in New York and Mexico City and now he will do the same in front of the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery. You only have to fulfill one requirement to be in the shot: wear white! Details after the jump.
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by Frank | Art, Events
