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THE HISTORY OF HIP HOP AT FOTOGRAFISKA: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
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THE HISTORY OF HIP HOP AT FOTOGRAFISKA: HOW IT ALL BEGAN

If you had told legends like Lauryn Hill, Biggie or the Beastie Boys that hip hop would one day be featured in a museum, they probably would have laughed. How could a movement born from music, graffiti and fashion in the 1970s Bronx possibly be expressed within the confines of four white walls? Yet today, hip hop is a billion-dollar industry, and its story can be told through various media. This is precisely what the exhibition “Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious” sets out to do. The creators trace the rise of hip hop as a cultural form through images, texts and beats, all in an engaging and accessible way, without “museumization.”

The exhibition features over 200 photographs by renowned documentary photographers like Martha Cooper and Janette Beckman, showcasing industry icons — sometimes striking a pose, other times revealing their vulnerability. In Berlin, this traveling exhibition, previously shown in New York and Stockholm, will be expanded with a special chapter: visitors can discover who exactly made German rap big and what influences have persisted from past to present. The exhibition kicks off on 20.09.2024 with an opening party, where only the classics will be played.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Christian Witkin, Henry Chalfant & Jesse Frohman

Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str.54, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map

Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious presented by Fotografiska and Mass Appeal 20.09.2024–26.01.2025. Opening Party on 20.09.2024.

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WANNA SEE WANNSEE? — AN EXHIBITION AT LIDO ON THE FUTURE OF THE TOWN

WANNA SEE WANNSEE? — AN EXHIBITION AT LIDO ON THE FUTURE OF THE TOWN

The weather gods have been kind to us this year — it’s been a supremely gorgeous summer. Barely returned from trips to the Adriatic and Baltic Sea, I’ll be spending the last sunny days at Berlin’s lakes and lidos — none as well-known or iconic as Strandbad Wannsee. Located in the Wannsee Bay within the Grunewald forest, with its sandy beach and architectural backdrop, it’s my go-to Berlin lido. (Although, unfortunately, swimming is currently prohibited due to blue-green algae.) While up to 10,000 bathers enjoy the 1.3-kilometer-long, 80-meter-wide sandy beach every summer, a unique architectural monument is falling into disrepair just a few meters behind it. When the town took over the lido exactly one hundred years ago, lido director Hermann Clajus had a vision to create a place of recreation where all social classes were welcome. He opened the lido to everyone. From 1929 to 1931, city planning officer Martin Wagner and municipal planning officer Richard Ermisch designed an iconic building in the New Objectivity style — a spacious “Weltstadtbad” for the modern physical culture of the Weimar Republic, with light, air and sun for everyone. Clajus, who was threatened with dismissal and persecution after the National Socialists came to power, took his own life in March 1933.

Today, stores, kiosks, snack bars and a café, as well as a rescue station, changing rooms and showers, line the lido’s 500-meter-long promenade. At the end of the promenade stands the weathered Lido Beach restaurant. Its curved dining room, with a bar and terrace, is embedded in a large traffic circle with a circular walkway and was once the focal point of the lido. Its capacity of 2,500 seats was heavily utilized year-round as a beer garden, excursion restaurant and ice rink. Now, students from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences are proposing to save the monument in the spirit of continued construction. Drawing on the former workshops used for lido maintenance, a “construction hut” could be built at Wannsee, providing young people with training in various construction trades, catering, gardening, lifeguarding, fitness coaching and park ranging. From 31.08 to 15.09.2024, the “Wanna See Wannsee?” exhibition will showcase how architecture and history can be combined with sustainable reuse to save the monument and continue the social mission of the lido and its founder, Hermann Clajus.

Text: Milena Kalojanov / Photos: Clemens Poloczek

Strandbad Wannsee, Wannseebadweg 25, 14129 Berlin–Nikolassee; map
Wanna See Wannsee? 31.08.–15.09.2024

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FEED THE RIVER: THE SPREE BECOMES A STAGE FOR SOUND AND PERFORMANCE

FEED THE RIVER: THE SPREE BECOMES A STAGE FOR SOUND AND PERFORMANCE

Berlin and its Spree. Yes, it’s often said to be dirty, harboring an inexhaustible supply of bottles, rusty bicycles and shopping carts in its depths. But nowadays, it’s also a place for recreation and excursions — whether for dog owners, children feeding swans along the banks, or those on a first date. In the past, the river was the city’s lifeblood. Goods, heating and building materials were supplied via the Spree. It was a vital connection to and from the outside world. What remains unchanged is that the Spree still flows through the city, and this is precisely the starting point for the “Feed the River” project. Sound designer, musician and producer Nicolas Teubal, together with musician and filmmaker Segundo Bercetche and music label Danzee, have brought “Feed the River” to life. After its premiere in Hamburg in 2023, this heartfelt project will now be presented in Berlin. Situated in the center between the Rotes Rathaus, the Bärenzwinger and the Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin’s 700-year-old historic harbor is practically the city’s birthplace.

Hošek Contemporary, an art gallery and venue for performances and music, is located among old ships and cutters, and will serve as the main venue for “Feed the River.” But it won’t stand alone. The musical productions and performances will take place all along the banks of the historic harbor. The performances will overlap, promising unique soundscapes. The program focuses on the river, and as writer Fernando Soto Aparicio says, “Todos los ríos son el mismo mar” (All rivers are the same sea). The artists will explore themes such as climate change, migration, the relationship between humans and nature, culture and the cosmos. The event is free of charge and takes place on 01.09.2024, from 17-21h. The extensive lineup of international artists includes QOA, Camila Nebbia, Nicolas Teubal, Diane Barbe, Don Jegosah, Ariel Schichter, Megan Jowett, Comunidad Sikuris Berlin, and Fluid Ecotonalism. Come to listen, discover and engage with the constant flow of the Spree and the pulse of the city.

Text: Laura Iriondo / Credit: Feed the River

Hošek Contemporary, Fischerinsel Park am Historischen Hafen, 10179 Berlin–Mitte; map
01.09.2024 (entry is free)

@feed.the.river

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FROM GREEN TO BLUE: CAPTURING SUMMER THROUGH ART

FROM GREEN TO BLUE: CAPTURING SUMMER THROUGH ART

What do you see when you lie on the grass at Tempelhofer Feld? Maybe it’s dusk. Or maybe small clouds slowly drift by. Alexander Rosenkranz and Florian Merdes have captured this feeling of summer melancholy in a series of photographs. Their snapshots are often blurred as if seeing the world anew after closing their eyes for too long. This personal approach to the field as a large open space, place of longing, and eternal topic of debate is now on display at Haus am Kleistpark. Another place that has a magical effect is the Plänterwald. For decades, the GDR’s first amusement park lay dormant, now the city is rebuilding it. Before the park celebrates its reopening in 2025, Kinderhook & Caracas, a Berlin project space by artists Sol Calero and Christopher Kline, invites the Gray Voice Ensemble to bring the ruins to life. Their exhibition and the musical piece can be seen from Sunday (25.08.2024) at Spreepark Art Space in the Eierhäuschen.

In the late summer months, you can lose yourself at the other end of the city by swimming in the Humboldthain summer pool. The art space Tropez is hosting another highlight here on Sunday (25.08.), shortly before the end of the season: dancers, a saxophonist and a composer will explore what group instinct means. The performance is open to everyone and ends with a hands-on activity for children. It’s the perfect end to the weekend, but hopefully not the summer, not yet!

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Alexander Rosenkranz, Florian Merdes, Ink Agop, video still “A Wonderful World” – The Gray Voice Ensemble 

Haus am Kleistpark, Grunewaldstr.6–7, 10823 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Tempelhofer Feld – Alexander Rosenkranz & Florian Merdes, 23.08.–27.10.2024
Opening: 22.08., 19h

Spreepark Art Space, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin–Plänterwald; map
The Gray Voice Ensemble: A Wonderful World, 25.08.–20.10.2024
Live Performances: 25.08., 15.09., 20.10.

Tropez at Sommerbad Humboldthain, Wiesenstr.1, 13357 Berlin–Wedding; map
NANA with Sara Lu, Rayne J Raney, Soroa Lear and music by VCO and Julius Gabriel 25.08.2024, 17h

@hausamkleistpark 
@alexander_rosenkranz
@florianmerdes
@spreeparkartspace
@kinderhookcaracas
@thegrayvoiceensemble
@tropez_tropez 

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THE LONGING IS POLITICAL — SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU’S VIDEO ART AT BERLINISCHE GALERIE’S COURTYARD WITH JUNG & ARTIG AND MOBILE KINO
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THE LONGING IS POLITICAL — SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU’S VIDEO ART AT BERLINISCHE GALERIE’S COURTYARD WITH JUNG & ARTIG AND MOBILE KINO

Few things harmonize as well as hot summer evenings, art, cinema and icy drinks. Of course, friends of the Berlinische Galerie and their association “Jung und Artig” have known this for a long time and have been organizing just that for several years with the “Mobile Kino”: contemporary video art under a starry sky (free of charge). On 30.08.2024 it’s that time again. From 6:30 pm, the event will kick off in the courtyard of the museum with a relaxed get-together with DJ sounds by Pvssy Divx and refreshing drinks. At 8 pm, the artist of the evening, the German-Colombian Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, born in 1982, will talk to Sophie Angelov from the Berlinische Galerie about her:his cinematic works “Mila Caos”, “Las Hermosas Invisibles” and “Trying to Forget You”, which will be on display afterwards. Paetau’s entire body of work examines queer cultures and decolonial themes. For example, “Mila Caos” is about the transformation of teenager Sébastian into the eponymous drag queen and his longing for maternal recognition for his performances in illegal drag shows in suburban Havana. While “Las Hermosas Invisibles” revolves around the post-mortem, autobiographical connection between Paetau and his*her recently deceased trans sister. Finally, in “Trying to Forget You”, a broken heart finds music in the night-time streets of Berlin and in the open arms of the strangers it encounters. There couldn’t be a better way to end the month in the pulsating center of our favorite city.

Text: Alina Herbel / Photo: Pauline Ruther; Stills: Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau “Trying to Forget You” & “Mila Caos”

Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstr.124–128, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Open Air Video Art & Artist Talk with Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, 30.08.2024 18h30–23h

@berlinischegalerie
@jungundartig_berlin 
@lapaetau

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