Berlin has cash only bars, stickers to put over your phone’s camera before you can come into the party, and a strong poster culture. The surfaces of the city are covered in a growing, shedding, and regenerating skin of posters. Most are good. Here are the ones I liked this year.
A flyer for the 2030 Berlin Klimavolksentscheid, which did not passAn exhibition, an experiment. Poster on the bridge over the Treptow/Neukölln/Kreuzberg canal cornerMatrix Nightclub hiring poster, WarschauerstrBrutalismus 3000's Ultrakunst Tour, poster at Warschauerstraße.Popa Chubby at Berlin Hole 44, poster by Treptower Park underpassBoogie & Funk, 23 'til lateTranslation: You don't have to explain it to me in English. I do speak German.Acts playing in the carnage of mid-summer Görlitzer ParkPolyamour at Suicide Club, poster on Oberbaumbrücke south approachEargasm God, poster on Oberbaumbrücke south approachHard For No Reason, stickers at a day party in RummelsburgCongo-rama, poster on HasenheidePoster at Elsenstraße in the midst of A100 constructionTranslation: Bass the A100 away! Poster for party protesting the construction of the A100 autobahn through MarkgrafendammPop-Kultur at Kulturbrauerei, poster under S-bahn tracks on KiefholzstraßeExtinction at Rosa Luxemburg Platz, poster for a rallyMongolian music group known for their polytonal throat singing, poster on a construction fence in BaumschulenwegNotices from existing residents of the neighbourhood trying to find accommodation for reasonable rents. Translations: Caro, Robert & Levi don't want to leave here [...] We're looking for a new home and ask for help. We can just about manage 1,400 euros.Super, poster on an electrical box at Schlesisches BuschLouie Vega is coming to Berlin. Poster at Oberbaumebrücke south approach.Theater of Things. Poster under S-bahn tracks at Kiefholzstraße.Hamam Nights at Panorama Bar, Berghain. Poster at Warschauerstraße.Model railway and toy expo. Poster am Schlesi.Fragments of old posters under Warschauerstraße S-bahnhofZementbass at ://about blank in Markgrafendamm, which would be destroyed by the A100 autobahnMira, asks local dog owners if she could look after or walk their dogs. Next to the drawing of the dog's face, translation of two notes: (It would make me happy) (I am 8 years old). Note pinned to the notice board of LPG Biomarkt, BouchéstraßeDance Factory Berlin, poster at HasenheideA Psychadelic Show at Urban Spree. Poster fixed to the pavement for pedestrian to look at while they wait for the light to change at Warschauerstraße.Cheese Berlin, meet the cheese maker. Poster at Markhalle Neun.Hand-painted reproduction of the film poster for Close (2023) at 2m x 3m scale, exhibit on film posters at KulturforumClosing down sale at Mensch Meier, poster in Wrangelkiez.Alternate poster for Dune (2022), exhibit on film posters at KulturforumOld posters at Warschauerstraße S-bahnhofFrontex is the EU's border enforcement agency, poster in Wrangelkiez.Translation: With your head throughy the walls, poster am SchlesiPoster on the bridge over the Treptow/Neukölln/Kreuzberg canal cornerDuring the DDR government, local authorities refused to pay licensing on American marketing materials and created their own for imported films, exhibit on film posters at KulturforumFast Music. Poster am Skalitzerstraße.English Traders by Boddinstraße sells homeware. Translation: Gift Stress? Poster in the eponymous passage on the approach to Passage Kino.
