Berlin Art Week

Berlin Art week snuck up quickly.  Which left visitors like me in a bit of a frenzy to see and do as much as I could in 6 days.

Lucky I was taken in as a volunteer for Art-parasites to see & document for their on-line art magazine.  This pretty much gave me free access and permission to talk, photograph and document what ever & who ever I liked!

Day 1- Opening of Berlin Art week.  Auguststrasse in Mitte.
This was crazy, the whole street blocked off for art, music and more art.

 



 

Day 2- During the day I checked out B.AGL @ Ostbahnof,

Then attended the opening of Berliner Liste @ Kraftwerk (old power station)
I found the building the most amazing.  3 Floors of this old power station transformed into this industrial show roo

  



3 Stories, art, art, art @ Berline Liste

 






B.AGL
 

Quick 5 minutes with Kellermann infront of his SMALLEST works from that series...standing at 2 meters tall!  When asked if he was a carpenter he chuckled saying his process is very similar!  2 days ago he was contacted regarding a commission in Dubai, 30 sculpture & 30 artworks to be completed next on his to do list.  Check out his recent seafood cookbook at the show, all his own original recipes & artworks featured.

  



B.AGL
 



Crazy book sculpture.  One of my favourites at Berliner Liste

  

 

 




Painter Michal Plata in front of his painting installation @ Berlin Lister 

 



Quick 5 min with David Holland @ Berlin Lister.  Holland loves the artfair as he mingles with people from all over the world.  He was flattered to have people recognise his artwork from a previous encounter.  David mentions it’s typical he comes here to Berlin however gains opportunities to exhibit back in his hometown London!

 

 

 

Very accessible screen prints, 20 Euro prints.  His large pieces were printed, then reworked with paint.

 

Day 5 & 6- PREVIEW Berlin

 

 

 

 

BANKSY- Real or fake?? read the full article here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Artist Jen-Ole Remmers from Galerie Villa Koeppe Gallery with his SOLD artwork.  He states

the young male collector is his perfect candidate as he can follow his career grow. 

Remmers artwork utilises found cardboard boxes from supermarkets.  Cutting and arranging

these large 3D wall sculptures.  He states, ‘supermarkets are like the police, I'm always

travelling so i’m no regular.  I get a kick out of hiding and stealing their rubbish’.

  

 

Roey Haifetz
See more here

Art-Parasite Tristan chatting with Gallery owner from Art Felicia in Lichenstein.  Crazy sculptures made out of silicone by Anke Eilergerhard were catching peoples eye at her stall.




Janina Roider

Konstantin Bayer

Zhao Yang



"Now I can buy me new shoes for the winter!"

Emilia Neumann with 3 of her 5 sculptures SOLD today. With a marble appearance her sculptures are created out of plaster combined with an assortment of construction materials. Using aluminium & rollers she creates and tension between clean & rough with her unique floating artworks.

Jesus Lizaso

Johan Schafer

The Hochschule Fur Gestaltung art academy has a new artist displaying each day for PREVIEW. Today Karolin Back says her most common question is whether her work is painting or photograph?? You'd be surprised by the answer as she plays with the combination of mediums

 

Quick 5 minutes with Australian Gallery owner Michael Reid.

After opening his sister Gallery in Berlin this year, Michael Reid from Sydney Australia, is the go to guy for contemporary Australian Art.

Just before setting up his stall here at Preview, Reid visited the Royal Academy in London which confirmed his choice to join the ‘Berlin Art Scene’ with his gallery in Mitte.

He states, ‘the English are still stuck on the colonial vision, they are a wealthy city, however Europe doesn’t have the same baggage’.  The German market is intrigued by the Australian art scene.  However can they afford it?  Australians are used to the prices and value of their artists. Reid states, ‘Europeans are much cleaner in the way they view art.  They use their mouth to view, asking questions in a non-passive manner.’

See Michael Reid with accessible artworks by Brian Robinson & Christian Thompson as well as an investment diptych by Danie Mellor, Australia’s leading Indigenous artist.

 






"Excuse my terrible English'

"They say, show us more, what's going on in Poland'

Nicole Wojcik from DNA gallery shares with me her intimate response to mixed media works by Grzegorz Klimek.  Oil, sand & sap which she stuggles to describe as 'juice of a tree' appear different at every encounter.  These textured abstract pieces are created with homemade dyes, mixing & scratching effects.

Artist Tamara Muller

From catalogue:  'I get inspired by things that make you want to close your eyes and at the same time give you the urge to watch'.

What typifies the paintings of Tamara Muller is how extremes come together, as well in subject as in technique.  The background a monochrome surface, the clothing given shape merely with a drawn line, while the faces are extremely details and realistic.

But how bright the colours may be, how cute the figures, the paintings evoke a certain uneasiness; the bodies of the figures and they way they pose are childlike, yet the faces are of an adult and have a clearly erotic undertone.

Yasam Sasmazer