2024-12-30
Here are some of the coolest posters I saw in the city this year. Here’s the collection from last year. New Heavy Shit playing on Karl-Marx Allee Poster for the CTM festival, Berlin Oceanic Refractions installation at CTM Regular Thursday nights at KitKat Die Wissen art fair Letters from the Kindertransport Chill Mal Berlin, posted on the Treptower Park underpass Knocked Loose at Huxleys Radial System festival A sauna exhibit at the Finnish Embassy Utopia Europa at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Authentic body control, venue unspecified Fail Collective at Lido Acid for the children, location by request PDA, location via telegram Elm Street at AEVE William Forsythe at Staats Ballett Berlin A place for diversity and multidisciple at The Old Mint Espace by Görli Naomi 0 at Kantine am Berghain Country festival at the Polish bar How will Europe see it if the war in Ukraine lasts another year?germany
2023-12-28
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 pass An exhibition, an experiment. Poster on the bridge over the Treptow/Neukölln/Kreuzberg canal corner Matrix Nightclub hiring poster, Warschauerstr Brutalismus 3000's Ultrakunst Tour, poster at Warschauerstraße.Notes from Granta 165 (Deutschland)
2023-12-27
p8 WG Sebald was the last German author to make an international breakthrough. He grew up a few miles from the Austrian border, grew up in England, and considered himself a student of Peter Handke of the Grazer Gruppe. Wenderoman authors Monika Muron and Uwe Tellkamp turned to The New Right. Later authors of the genre bucked the trend: Lutz Seiler, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Felix Stephan. p9 The best West German art came from people who saw the Americans not as liberators but as those who ran a system that allowed the Nazis to integrate into the new government and elite: Gerhard Richter, Jörg Immendorf, Alexander Kluge.