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Berlin-based American ex-pat Daniel Kingery, an old college friend of mine, ditched his homeland almost a decade ago and has become a rather amazing artist. I hope to drop in on him sometime. I hear Berlin and Baltimore have a lot in common.
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This is the story of Ignatz Nacher. In 1905, Nacher invented the pasteurization of beer, which was followed by the opening up of his own brewery in Berlin. And not just any brewery; here, the first production of the now famous Pilsner beer was celebrated. But, being German and Jewish, the Nazis claimed it for the regime and Nacher eventually died poor in Switzerland, while the brewery helped fund the war. It’s not a real happy story.
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Illustrator and mixed media artist Zoe Keogh returns to her hometown, Perth, for a solo exhibition entitled Behind Closed Doors at Artspace Gallery in Nedlands. Now based in Berlin, Zoe creates contemporary works based on personal identity and gender role.
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Lunette optical frames look so stunning that the Berlin-based eyewear company does not need to employ a ‘sex sells’ strategy to their latest advertising campaign. The 2011 series focuses on casually sophisticated and classic looking frames for all face shapes and sizes. Ooh wee! Goodbye daily contact use.
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Berlin-based artist Ralf Schmerberg built this igloo out of 322 refrigerators to comment on the energy we waste on a day to day basis.
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Berlin seems to be a great place for street art in general, as we’ve reported before. This fractal graffiti however takes spraying artistry to a whole new level.
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New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin.
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Andrew Abbott’s work looks like it could have been produced in Berlin between world wars, but there’s a disaffected New Wave streak in his images, evident in some of the cathode-ray hues he chooses and the humorous titles he gives his paintings.
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Rigaer 105 is a non-commercial project room based in Berlin. It attempts to operate in a non-consumerist and non-capitalist way and it’s run on volunteer basis by young people from across Europe. The aim is promote cultural exchange and social understanding, making it an open and inclusive space for people wanting to exchange ideas, knowledge and abilities.
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Matthias Heiderich is a Berlin-based photographer. This work is from his series entitled Color Berlin. Along with photography, Heiderich is also a musician and records electronica-IDM-experimental music under the name, Massju.
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Italian photographer Guido Castagnoli’s interest in photography began when he shot his first images using a family-owned Leica. Following this, he left his position at the advertising firm to devote himself entirely to photography. He is now represented by Periscope Creative, Berlin and Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York. These images are from his Provincial Japan series.
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Appliance company Bosch recently planted giant ‘mammoth steaks,’ ‘dinosaur legs,’ and ‘sabertooth fillets’ in a grocery store in Berlin to promote their new VitaFresh cooling technology. The shrink wrapped chunks of ‘prehistoric meat’ were stickered with QR codes that curious shoppers could scan with their camera phones to access more information about the technology.
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Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have brought their experimental art to the masses with an installation housed in a salvaged, thirty-foot Chinese junk ship in Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park.
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Sharing a space with Australian designer, Anneliese Hauptstein, This is Make Believe, and other designers, Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto, the creative team behind We Are All Made of Stuff have recently opened a summer pop-up shop/studio/gallery/temporary event space rolled into one: ‘having lucked into finding the perfect location in the gritty and cool Reuterkiez district of Neukolln, the desire to make something interesting and fun was irresistible’.
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If I were the CEO of a big company, I would totally hang a bunch of Argentine-born, Berlin-based artist Juan Arata’s paintings, not because they suit a corporate environment but because I like making people uncomfortable with very subtle visual cues. I said this at a job interview for a CEO position once, which is why I am not a CEO.
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