With the whole of (cultural) Berlin closing it doors, there is nothing else to do but offer you a virtual tour of what could have been a great Mitte in March- Quest! On this Quest, we would have started at Eigen + Art Lab, the project space of Galerie Eigen + Art which is situated […]
In the first tour of the year we went art hunting in City West. Our starting point, Wentrup gallery showed works by Hicham Berrada (1986) under the titel Enclosed Natures. I’ve been seeing work bij Berrada popping up in exhibitions from Venice to Berlin. Berrada uses natural processes as a painter would use paint. He […]
Gallery Quest started the year with a gallery tour around tourist trap Checkpoint Charly. Definitely one of the highlights was the cardboard control room that Belgian artist Rinus van de Velde built in König Galerie. He creates these decors in order to make an alternate reality. First, he photographs them and then he translates them into […]
December featured the very first Gallery Quest in Moabit! We started at Bäckerei, where the installation Point of no return by German artist Josina von der Linden (1962) was on view. Normally the installation can only be viewed through the window, but the very kind Susann Unger who runs the project space opened the doors and […]
In October and November Gallery Quest focused on good old Mitte. Galerie Sprüth Magers showed Germany’s pride, conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) in the former ballroom downstairs and the speedy movies made by American artist Ryan Treycartin (1981) upstairs. How would you visualise time? It’s enormousness, its elusiveness. It’s rhythms, cycles and flows. The ups, […]
On the second of March, another Gallery Quest took place. Again we visited the exhibition Nostalgia at Chertlüdde where American artist David Horvitz plays with momentum and at Kraupa-Tuskany-Zeidler the very contemporary works by young artist Andrea Crespo (see this blog). But this time we kicked off and ended with two new art spots: Ashley Berlin […]
In February and March we visited several exciting spaces around Kottbuser Tor. In this alternative area, a lot of established galleries have put down root, as well as more experimental spaces. A great mix for our next Gallery Quest! On February 23rd, we started with DAAD Gallery where an immersive video installation by Italian artist Rossella […]
Is there cool art to be found around the tourist trap Checkpoint Charlie? Hell yeah! In January we explored the galleries in this gallery cluster. Painting will never die! We started at Galerie Barbara Thumm, were we dove into new work by Valérie Favre, Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Our next […]
The last weekend of April featured one of the main events in Berlin for galleries: Gallery Weekend! An excellent time for a gallery tour in one of the oldest gallery clusters of the new post wall Berlin. Our meeting point is just outside the gate at Linienstraße 119, where a rather big sign announces that […]
What better way to start the new year then by strolling through the art loaded Potsdamer Straße! Gallery Quest had the pleasure to organise a private and open tour in January in this very strange street, where the red light district meets te art scene. We started our art exploration in Future Gallery, one of my […]
After exploring the two art clusters in Mitte (August- and Linienstraße plus the gallery cluster around Rosa Luxemburgplatz), it was time to leave the high art streets and pay Kreuzberg a visit. Is it more alternative or as arty as the rest? We start with two gallery’s hidden in a courtyard in the Prinzessinnenstraße. First […]
In the first tours of the new year, we explored the gallery’s around Rosa Luxemburg Platz, where a mini gallery cluster is going on. 4 (and recently 5) gallery’s surround the square, which also has an interesting history by itself. Here you find the Volksbühne (with the recent Chris Dercon debacle), the Räuberrad in the middle and the art work on the […]
In November it was finally time to explore the art district where it all began in the nineties in Berlin. This liberal and very experimental art scene which is still a big draw for artist, art professionals and art enthusiasts today, started in a small area; the Auguststraße and the Linienstraße in Berlin Mitte. The […]
Is the only save place for refugees in outer space? And who owns space anyway? The installation Space Refugee by Turkish artist Halil Altendere (1971) at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein imagines a save haven on Mars. You can even get an idea of what a possible colony on the red planet would look like, using […]
On October 5th, Gallery Quest organized a gallery visit in the Potsdamer Straße area for a lovely group of Berlin ladies. We started our tour on the Schöneberger Ufer at Aurel Scheibler where we saw the hyper realistic paintings by Scottish artist Neil Gall (1967). His paintings mainly consist out of holes, cut out of […]
How to survive the madness of an art fair and find your way through a maze of contemporary art? On Sunday September 18th, Gallery Quest organized an abc Art Berlin Contemporary exploration to shed more light on some very interesting art. The first abc art fair was born in 2008 and came out of the same hat as […]
For the second year in a row, Gallery Quest organized a gallery tour during Gallery Night! All the galleries that are on view at the abc (art berlin contemporary) art fair open up their own spaces from 18:00- 21:00 hrs to show of the goodies. On Friday night September 16th, we visited the Checkpoint Charlie area and […]
“Confusion is the new luxury”. It sounds like an advertisement motto. Or a life mantra. Or both. But actually it is a series by the Canadian artist Shawn Maximo. For the Berlin Biennale, which ran from June 4th- September 18th, he designed a bathroom slash kitchen slash info center slash meditation space. And it summarizes this […]
Ontdek de kunstschatten op de Karl Marx Allee! Deze straat staat niet bekend om zijn galerieën, wat jammer is, want er zitten een paar toppers hier. We bezoeken er 4 à 5, waaronder drie Gallery Weekend participanten. Duur: 2-2,5 uur Kosten: 18 euro, 14 euro student Taal: Nederlands Aanmelden: via laureline@gallery-quest.nl Na aanmelding krijg je […]
On Saturday May 7th you can enjoy the Best-of-Gallery-Weekend-Tour! Gallery Weekend itself (29 April- May 1st) is an explosion of art events all over town. Seeing it all is an illusion, so my tip is to pick a Kietz to explore. And don’t despair, most of the exhibitions run longer so you can also visit them later. Like for example […]
Heb je dit weekend nog niks te doen? Of heb je bezoek en moet Unter den Linden nog afgevinkt worden? Combineer dan het nuttige met het aangename en doe deze “Do it yourself”-gallerytour! Dat Berlijn barst van de galerieën, dat wisten we al. Ze zijn overal te vinden, zelfs op Unter den Linden. Je moet […]