Vernissage / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Friday 27th February – 7pm
Unlike many other cities in the world, Berlin is a metropolis that genuinely tries to makes good on its promise to support the arts, with results that are occasionally quite staggering. This Friday night, you’ll have the opportunity to celebrate your own personal patronage of the arts with the opening of „History is a Warm Gun,“ where artists supported by the Berlin Senate through the Visual Arts Work Scholarship offer up work that engages with the intricacies of an artistic practice in a group show both gruelingly meta and astonishingly rewarding.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein // Chausseestraße 128/129, 10115 Berlin
Vernissage / KOW
Friday 27th February – 6pm until 9pm
Opening this Friday at KOW, Russian artist collective Chto Delat’s exhibition “A new Cold War atmosphere, an escalating search for enemies, ever-tighter repression of all dissent, and an open military confrontation with Ukraine leaving thousands of dead on both sides” could not be more timely. This poignant, powerful exploration of the relative weight of potential in different times and places offers an opportunity some rigorous contemplation courtesy of a genuine conceptual heavyweight.
KOW // Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin
Vernissage / Johann König
Friday 27th February – 6pm until 9pm
Alicja Kwade’s striking minimal objects make space for themselves in the halls they inhabit, expanding the world of the viewer and pushing the boundaries of material specificity. Powerfully inorganic and eerily sentient, Kwade’s work explores the boundaries of our reality with thrilling insight and witty, whimsical nuance.
We did an interview with Alicja Kwade. And for all of you who want to know how she works and what her art stands for, we have her artist profile ready: Alicja Kwade
Johann König // Dessauer Straße 6-7, 10963 Berlin
Vernissage / Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Friday 27th February – 6pm
This Friday at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, experience the raw power of Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s films exploring the position of labor throughout the world. The exhibition „Labour in a Single Shot“ and the accompanying conference delve into the many meanings and manifestations of the job in all it’s many iterations, a vibrant, daring look into an area of everyday life all too often ignored by the art world.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt // John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Closing Party / LEAP
Saturday 28th February – 9pm until 4am
Dance the night away in honor of the curtain coming down on one of Berlin’s dearly beloved art and technology mainstays. As LEAP prepares to shut its doors for good, there’s just enough time for one last party in honor of all of the incredible, devoted, avant-garde artistic times we’ve shared together.
LEAP // Leipziger Straße 63, 10117 Berlin