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dóttir returns to its 2015 location, now newly renovated and integrated into the ground floor of the new Château Royal, as a female-led, vegetable-focused establishment. Here culinary director Victoria Eliasdóttir and chef de cuisine Elena Müller serve creative contemporary cuisine set in deep rounded flavours from mindfully sourced produce. The dishes, as individual as the hotel’s interior, combine classic flavours with forward thinking in à la carte and prix fixe menus, complete with a wine list of over 250 positions.
Photo: Esther Grünewald, © Bureau N
Detail Berlin, Floating University, Raumlaborberlin, © Pierre Adenis
Detail Berlin, Verlagsgebäude taz, E2A Architekten, © Rory Gardiner
The publication “Berlin. Urban Architecture and Daily Life Since 2009” by Edition Detail documents the continual urban upheaval that has defined the City of Berlin since the opening of the Neues Museum in 2009. In examining 30 separate projects featuring complementary essays and interviews, the book illustrates how architectural icons, unknown discoveries, urban spaces and locales shape everyday life in the city.
“Roads not Taken. Oder: Es hätte auch anders kommen können”, scenography by chezweitz, photo: Alexander Butz
“Roads not Taken. Oder: Es hätte auch anders kommen können”, scenography by chezweitz, photo: Alexander Butz
“Roads not Taken. Oder: Es hätte auch anders kommen können”, scenography by chezweitz, photo: Alexander Butz
The exhibition “Roads Not Taken” at Deutsches Historisches Museum presents an unusual look at the past. Conceived by historian Dan Diner, it explores 14 tipping points in German history that could easily have taken a different turn. To spatially implement the abstract mind game of “Roads not Taken”, scenographers chezweitz created a congenial exhibition design: Using the architectural tools of perspective and trompe l’oeuil, they designed powerful “possibility spaces” that distort or dissolve—depending on the viewpoint: the mind game turns into a visual game.
Front view Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26. Courtesy of max goelitz. Photo: Dirk Tacke
Installation view energy/power, 2022. Courtesy of max goelitz and Lisson Gallery, London, New York, Shanghai. Copyright of the artist. Photo: Dirk Tacke
Installation view energy/power, 2022. Courtesy of max goelitz and Lisson Gallery, London, New York, Shanghai . Copyright of the artist . Photo: Dirk Tacke
In “energy/power”, the inaugural exhibition of Max Goelitz’ new gallery space in Berlin, artist Haroon Mirza focuses on the harvesting and distribution of electricity to address socio-political issues deriving from technology, nature and humans. Central to the multisensory presentation is the large-scale octagonal sculpture Dyson Sphere (2021/2022), which combines radiating halogen lamps with solar panels. Simultaneously powering an ecosystem of sound-generating objects and psychoactive plants.
© My Inner Health Club
© My Inner Health Club
By combining traditional wisdom with current scientific insights, My Inner Health Club gives guidance on various aspects of health and well-being: from coping with stress, restlessness, and anxiety, to sleeping problems or poor nutrition. The streaming service founded by Ann-Kathrin Grebner and Yasmin Poloczek hosts online classes by leading experts and practitioners from across the globe, reviving ancient knowledge overlooked by the modern health system.
Key Visual: The ECAL Manual of Style: How to best teach design today? © ECAL, photo: Santiago Martinez
The Iceland Whale Bone Project – Hrefna, 2013 Design: Miloš Ristin; Tutor: Brynjar Sigur Arson © ECAL, photo: Nicolas Genta
Bread Worskhop, 2000 Gruppenprojekt; Tutor: Alexis Georgacopoulos © ECAL, photo: Pierre Fantys
Photos © Pujan Shakupa
Photos © Pujan Shakupa
Photos © Pujan Shakupa
Installationsansicht «Jubiläumsausstellung – Special Guest Duane Hanson» in der Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © The Estate of Duane Hanson/2022, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Mark Niedermann
Installationsansicht «Jubiläumsausstellung – Special Guest Duane Hanson» in der Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © The Estate of Duane Hanson/2022, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Lucia Hunziker/LLH Productions
Installationsansicht «Jubiläumsausstellung – Special Guest Duane Hanson» in der Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © The Estate of Duane Hanson/2022, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Lucia Hunziker/LLH Productions
Installationsansicht «Jubiläumsausstellung – Special Guest Duane Hanson» in der Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © The Estate of Duane Hanson/2022, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Lucia Hunziker/LLH Productions
Standing, sitting and strolling among 100 of the Beyeler Collection’s most iconic works are not only visitors but thirteen hyper-realistic sculptures by US artist Duane Hanson. Neither beautiful nor ugly, just ordinary at heart. The figures, embodying marginalised collectives of the 70s-80s American society, populate the rooms and enter a dialogue with both the artworks and the architecture. Yet only a special occasion could have attracted such guests, namely the Fondation Beyeler’s 25 Year Anniversary.
Lajos Kassák, Bildarchitektur II (Sketch of a kiosk), 1922, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Lajos Tihanyi, Large Interior with Self-Portrait – Man at the Window, 1922, © Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery, 2022
László Moholy-Nagy, construction, around 1922, bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB, © Copyright expired, photo: Jörg P. Anders
Little is known, that even before the outbreak of First World War, the rapidly growing city of Berlin attracted a great number of Hungarian artists. In search of a platform to engage with international audiences and encouraged by the failed revolution in their homeland in 1919, the German capital offered them a place to explore creative freedom. With “Magyar Modern” (Hungarian Modernists) Berlinische Galerie renders tribute to the versatile contribution of Hungarian artists to modern art. Among the artists presented are well-known figures such as László Moholy-Nagy or Marcel Breuer and exciting rediscoveries like Lajos Tihanyi.
La sentencia “Apártame de todo pecado”, 1994, Courtesy Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Photo: Anne Gold
Belkis Ayón, Nuestro deber, 1993, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Loan by Peter and lrene Ludwig Foundation, Photo: Simon Vogel, © Belkis Ayón Estate, Havana, Cuba
Belkis Ayón, ¡Ekwe será mío!, 1986, Courtesy Belkis Ayón Estate
Belkis Ayón, Sin título (Sikán, Nasakó y Espíritu Santo), 1993, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Loan by Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Photo: Simon Vogel © Belkis Ayón Estate, Havana, Cuba
With the survey “Ya Estamos Aquí” Ludwig Forum Aachen ties on the long-existing relationship of the museum with Belkis Ayón, a master of print-making and one of the most influential Cuban artists until this day. In her rich collagraphies she combined catholic iconography with depictions of Abakuá rituals, a secret Afro-Cuban cult which she studied extensively. It was by means of these patriarchial motifs that she reflected on her own social, political and emotional struggles—ultimately shaping new mythologies.
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Right in the historic centre of Berlin, the former site of Karl-Friedrich Schinkel’s famous Bauakademie will be home to the Federal Bauakademie Foundation. After an intense participation process with experts and citizens on the appearance and the use of the future building, one thing is certain: The Bauakademie is to be a demonstration project of what innovative, future-oriented and sustainable architecture means today and tomorrow—radiating the visionary spirit of Schinkel.
Installation view Palimpsest by Doris Salcedo, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © the artist; Photo: Mark Niedermann
Installation view Palimpsest by Doris Salcedo, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022 © the artist; Photo: Mark Niedermann
Intended as a place of encounter and grief, the walk-through installation by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo “Palimpsest” will be on display for one year at the Fondation Beyeler. The work records the names of refugees who drowned in the Mediterranean and Atlantic over the past 20 years, either embedded in stone slabs or forming as drops of water and seeping away in a constant cycle of inscription and erasure. It bears a timeless and universal experience by questioning how we collectively mourn, how societies remember and how personal suffering and public space are related.
© Vitra, Photo: Florian Böhm
Vitra has been producing the designs of Jean Prouvé since 2002. The French engineer, constructor and designer has had a significant influence on furniture design and was regarded as an innovator of industrial construction. In 2022, Vitra has revised the collection with new original colours and introduced a number of lesser-known designs. At Café Prouvé, a worldwide pop-up series, design aficionados can immerse themselves in the French designer’s oeuvre.
© Felix Brüggemann
© Felix Brüggemann
© Felix Brüggemann
© Felix Brüggemann
The opening of Château Royal marks the beginning of a boutique hotel that embraces the good food, wine and art that ignite the energetic flame of Berlin. Inspiring the interiors are materials popular during the city’s heyday at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries—craquele tiles, colourful stained glass and accents of marble, tin and oak. Each of the hotel’s 93 rooms features a work by a different artist with mediums ranging from painting and sculpture, text and sound. The artworks, discrete or loud, and the artists behind them embody the eclectic spirit of the city.
