“Where have you been all my life?” you asked me when we first met and I felt like asking you the same thing. A useless question really, what answer could I ever give to that? But I knew the kind of feeling that made you ask it because I was experiencing it too. Where was […]
x Read more xIn one of his poems Romanian poet Lucian Blaga said “I do not have my heart in my head/Nor do I have brains in my heart”. Following from this idea, two types of thinking can be distinguished, the sacred and the profane, let’s call them the cold reasoning (or simply, reasoning) “the brains” and the […]
x Read more xIoana Cristina Casapu is the Managing Director of Berlin Art Parasites. Journalist, creative director and fashion photographer. She began experimenting with Polaroid film in 2013. Her work was featured in Cake Magazine (UK), Confashion (PL), JUTE (US), Polaroid of the Day (ES), Feature Shoot, Cultartes and others. She is the co-owner of Retro Future media […]
x Read more xToday, the paintings of the impressionists are recognised worldwide for their value. Some pieces by Renoir, Monet and Degas are worth more than one hundred million dollars. But the impressionists have not always been as valued, appreciated and famous as they are today. On the contrary, their rise to the top was hard, messy and […]
x Read more xDOR Romanian, [noun] An untranslatable word describing the feeling of longing/craving/yearning for someone or something than it has to do with the nostalgia, missing of a place, state of mind or person and warm sensation of emptiness caused by a powerful memory. Something you can even feel for something or someone you’ve never seen or […]
x Read more xI have great news for you! You may be an advocate for human rights and you may not even know it! And that is incredible because the world desperately needs more human rights advocates in this day and age when the culture of fear becomes more and more present and intense. Let me tell you […]
x Read more xI am fascinated about the idea of living life to the fullest. A timeless idea, steaming from the classical carpe diem, reiterated so often nowadays in books on self-development. As much as this idea fascinates me I still cannot claim to know for sure what it truly means to live to the fullest. Perhaps the […]
x Read more xIs the space we’re in at any given moment just background noise? Or are we created by our surroundings? Visual and performance art opened the door to these questions in 109 Gallery’s most recent show, and we listened. The next show, “The Surrogate Space,” will add another voice to the conversation.
x Read more xSenseless soliloquies, the artist as a drone, caged birds, and elaborate denim outfits – I wasn’t sure if I was at an art gallery or lost and drunk somewhere in Brooklyn.
x Read more xThree street artists from Bristol bring their unique styles (and crazy accents!) to Berlin exclusively for VAGE’s second pop-up exhibition at the WYE this Thursday!
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Painting by Catrin Walz Stein
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