Your art weekend in Berlin

Pop-up exhibition / The Graffitti Life

Wednesday 26th March – From 7pm 

Those with their ears to the ground will know that this week a slice of hipster London will meet a slice of hipster Berlin with the presentation of a temporary exhibition in Mitte. A showcase featuring the work of a number of street artists from Shoreditch based institution The Graffiti Life Gallery, the event will last for three days and feature not only artwork but a number of special surprises for it’s guests. Find out what these are by registering at this temporary website. Fingers crossed it’s a free bar.

The Graffiti Life Pop Up Gallery //Torstraße 95, 10119 Berlin 

Opening / Martin Creed at Johnen Galerie

Thursday 27^th March – 6-9pm

Following an acclaimed retrospective at London’s Hayward Gallery, this Thursday some of Martin Creed’s latest works will be unveiled at Berlin’s Johnen Galerie. A new part of the gallery (a landmarked building in its courtyard called the Rotwang Haus) will display the collection of new works including sculpture and video, complementing the other permanent Creed installations already at the gallery. 

Johnen Galerie // Marienstraße 10, 10117 Berlin

New project space / FLEX

Thursday March 27^th March – 7 until 10pm 

A new non-profit project space based in Mitte, FLEX aims to create a dialogue “between artworks from artists who face off on common ground”. Their first opening, ‚Dialogue 1‘, will juxtapose one of Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist’s most famous works, ‚Pickelporno‘ with German artist Yvonne Roeb’s sculpture ‚Midnight Rider‘. Both dealing with the themes of courtship, the former will be beamed into the project space via YouTube, viewed as it would be in a home environment, and Ms. Rist’s written reaction to the show’s proposal will also be present in the space. 

FLEX // Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstraße 21, 10178 Berlin 

Vernissage/ Tagore’s Post Office at nGbK

Friday 28^th March – From 7pm 

The latest exhibition at nGbK focuses on the life of a fascinating man, one Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, composer, novelist and painter, amongst other things. The first ever non European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, Tagore was a highly influential creative, modernising many elements of Bengali art and literature. The show ‚Tagore’s Post Office‘ will re-engage with Tagore’s ideas on subjects such as ecology, education and cosmopolitanism, as well as his critique of nationalism and much more, through both artistic works and research. Following the opening on Friday evening there will be a talk on the exhibition between the curator and some of the exhibition organisers on Saturday 29^th March at 2pm.

nGbK // Oranienstraße. 25, 10999 Berlin 

Live Street Art / CLASH WALL

Saturday 29^th March – 12 until 6pm

Berlin’s walls are no stranger to colour, most surfaces in the city daubed with bright designs and at best, vivid artwork and worst, scrawled mindless graffiti. This Saturday get involved in Berlin’s burgeoning street art scene with the interactive street art event happening on a house wall in Mitte. Organized by Converse and distinctive Berlin based street art/illustrator duo Wurst Bande, submit your idea for the wall on the event’s Facebook page in order to make your design become a reality at the event on Saturday, and get two tickets to watch it happen! 

Clash Wall // Torstraße 86, 10119 Berlin

Autor: Marie J. Burrows

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