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Imagine… John Lennon Street Piano

August 25, 2010

Imagine there’s no heaven, above us only sky… After the Streetpiano Festival earlier this month, all pianos were placed at different locations in the city. One of these painted instruments is located on an airfield at the Tempelhof Airport in the middle of Berlin. The piano was painted with famous quotes from John Lennon, one [...]

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Streetpiano – Piano Music meets StreetArt

August 3, 2010

Piano Music meets StreetArt. Last weekend, I took a walk through Berlin’s Mauerpark, a public park in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district near some remains of the Berlin Wall and I discovered a couple of fancy painted pianos standing around with street artists working on them. After I gathered some information, I now know that the [...]

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Sandsation 2010

June 16, 2010

For the 8th time, Sandsation is back in Berlin with over 20 sand artists (called carvers) from all over the world (You may remember last year’s event). This year I had the chance to see the artists live in action. But, what kind of sand do they use? Well, the sand has been compressed into [...]

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Also Heroes Have Bad Days…

June 2, 2010

A Superman I’ve never seen before, his face rammed into the ground, blood drops all over the place… the text behind him on the wall reads “also Heroes have bad Days…“. The sculpture by the German artist Marcus Wittmers in front of the Jewish Museum Berlin is part of the current exhibition “Heroes, Freaks and Superrabbis: [...]

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TURMKUNST 2010 – It’s Done, it’s done!

May 25, 2010

Remember the big red colossus from my first article? After almost two month and 2.000 Cans the whole Monument is now completely covered with paint and Europe’s most spectacular open air gallery is nearly completed. The artwork will remain for at least one year so there should be enough time to pay it a visit.

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TURMKUNST 2010 – Going Underground

April 26, 2010

While the work above ground is still in progress, we are going underground, because the subway station below the big red monument was painted as well. A handful of artists were invited to prettify the bleak walls around the stairs and escalators at Berlin’s Schloßstraße.

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TURMKUNST 2010 – Street Art XXL

April 6, 2010

It’s time for another Street Art and this one is special. Turmkunst 2010 or Art Monument 2010 is a project of 4 international artists, Flying Förtress (Hamburg, Germany), Honet (Paris, France), Sozyone (Alicante, Spain) and Craig KR Costello (New York, USA). During April, Turmkunst 2010 will be Europe’s most spectacular open air gallery, with 2000m², [...]

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Cosplay at Leipzig Book Fair 2010

March 22, 2010

Last weekend, I was in Leipzig to visit the Leipzig Book Fair 2010. The Leipzig Book Fair is the most important spring meeting place for the publishing and media sector and has evolved into an attractive hallmark both in Germany and across Europe. But after I arrived at the exhibition grounds, it was obvious that [...]

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Welcome to the Space Show World Premiere

February 20, 2010

I watched the second Anime during this years Berlinale, the world premiere of Welcome to the Space Show or Uchuu Show e Youkoso / 宇宙ショーへようこ if you are more familiar with the Japanese title. A tiny mountain village in a remote woodland region. Five primary school kids have come together in this idyllic spot in [...]

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Berlinale presents Summer Wars サマーウォーズ

February 17, 2010

So I watched Summer Wars today at an official cinema of the Berlinale 2010. It’s the DVD premiere in Germany and the movie was shown two weeks earlier, of course in Japanese language with English subs. The movie was about a boy called Kenji, a computer technician for a virtual world called Oz (a massive [...]

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