Artworks & exhibitions in Berlin – 13 inspiring examples

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Carsten Nicolai’s syn chron – A one of a kind masterpiece

Artists have an enviable knack for coming up with staggering designs. Carsten Nicolai is no different. In syn chron, he teamed up with his group of architects to design a one-of-a-kind sound, light, and architectural masterpiece. It’s unthinkable how Carsten Nicolai conceptualized the rarely talked of art. Syn Chron stands as one of the unique [...]

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What happens in Cyprien Gaillard’s Nightlife?

Installations, Mixed media 4 min read

Cyprien Gaillard is known for creating work that interconnects history and nature, as well as humankind’s connection to both. In particular, Gaillard is known for exploring the beauty of failure and the natural collapse of things in general, and in particular, only deeply interested in ruins. His work spans numerous mediums, including etching, performance art [...]

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Keith Haring’s subversive Berlin Wall mural – The story behind

Murals, Paintings 2 min read

As an outspoken social rights activist, Keith Haring was not one to shy away from controversy. His Berlin Wall Mural is just that – controversial and provocative. In fact, Haring himself told The New York Times that the mural was a “subversive” act that was meant to make a political statement [...]

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Why was Anni Albers a leading textile artist?

Textile art 3 min read

Anni Albers was a well known German textile artist and prominent printmaker. She is perhaps one of the most well-known print artists of the 20th century. Albers dared to go where no textile designer had gone before, which in part helped to launch her designs into popularity. Born in Berlin, Albers became a student of [...]

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Why does Lara Almarcegui create massive piles of rubble?

Installations 2 min read

Spanish born Lara Almarcegui who currently lives in Rotterdam has always had a deep curiosity for examining processes of contemporary transformation that are brought about by the social, political and economic transformations in society. Since the early 1990s, Lara has examined urban areas that most artists choose not to focus on, such as rubble from [...]

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Carsten Höller’s slides: A fun way to experience museums

Architecture, Sculptures 9 min read

Carsten Höller is well known for playfully including his slide installations in major museums across the world. Höller, formerly a scientist with a degree in agronomy, is famous for repurposing real-world components, such as slides, for art spaces. The majority of his works feature aesthetics that are relational, meaning that the projects created are inspired [...]

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Thomas Struth & a new visual language in photography

Photography 3 min read

Thomas Struth is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary photographers of our time. He is renowned for his black and white photographs of cities such as Düsseldorf and New York, as well as his family portraits. Why are the Museum Photographs important? The artist who lives in Dusseldorf acquired his inspiration for his Museum [...]

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Meekyoung Shin’s beautiful sculptures – Made entirely from soap

Sculptures, Statues 2 min read

Meekyoung Shin, a South Korean sculptor, became popular for her Translation series, using soap as her medium of art. Trained in the tradition of European sculpture, her statuettes are made factoring in the Western and Eastern styles of relief. Her works are usually made from palm oil, a vegetarian soap. Her technique The free-standing ancient [...]

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Photographer Timo Stammberger in subway tunnels without permission

Architecture, Photography 1 min read

Timo Stammberger (b. 1980) is a Berlin-based photographer. He is the first to document subway tunnels in his extensive series Underground Landscapes that shows the underground architecture from major cities like New York, Lisbon, Budapest, Berlin and others. Underground Landscapes The surprising element is that the subway tunnels that millions of people pass through every [...]

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Magdalena Jetelová’s domesticated pyramids fill up museums

Installations 3 min read

Czech installation artist Magdalena Jetelová has made a name for herself in the world of conceptual land art, and the Domestication of Pyramids is hands down her most spectacular work in this art form. Even though she is also well known for her light contraptions and visualizations of nature and landscapes, the Pyramids remain the [...]

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Cyprien Gaillard’s Recovery of discovery – A beer pyramid

Installations 5 min read

Cyprien Gaillard is a French modern artist born in 1980 in the capital of France, Paris. Currently, he lives and works between New York and Berlin. His work oscillates between minimalism, romanticism, vandalism, and land art. Influences Land art artist Robert Smithson created and advocated the concept of entropy. This concept, the idea of disorder [...]

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Cyprien Gaillard’s massive neon sculpture of an Indian overlooks Berlin

Installations 3 min read

The mascot of the American baseball team Cleveland Indians, popularly known as Chief Wahoo, is as highly recognized as it is controversial. That makes Cyprien Gaillard’s (b. 1980) installation on top of Haus der Statistik, an abandoned government building in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, a headline magnet. At times, the arbitrariness of what symbolic icons can make [...]

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Who was Daniel ‘Tagno’ Weissbach?

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art 5 min read

Daniel’ Tango’ Weissbach (1976-2020) was a Berlin-based graffiti artist who began his trade in the late 1980s. He studied at the University of Potsdam’s animation department and graduated in 2006. At the age of 12, he decided that he wanted to be an artist. Weissbach began as a graffiti and street artist before expanding into [...]

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