Planetariums take us to unknown, mysterious places – usually distant stars or foreign planets. But what about the infinite vastness of art and fantasy here on earth? From 11.–13.09.2020 the Zeiss Planetarium is being transformed into a gallery of the future, showing video and sound installations within its giant dome for the Berliner Festspiele’s “The New Infinity” as part of the Immersion series. What might a VR simulation of a psychedelic experience look like? And what is the nature of human existence? Works by artists including Jan Kounen, Caterina Barbieri and Ruben Spini provide answers for this by focusing on “visual music”, where musical structures are translated into visual images. Starting things off is a reimagining of light artist Thomas Wilfred’s meditative symphonies of color which connect art and technology. Meanwhile David OReilly’s new work “The End of Stories” deals with personal accounts of people during the lockdown. Topping things off are full-dome audio-visual performances by Agnieszka Polska, Robert Lippok and Lucas Gutierrez. (Text: Olga Potschernina / Kunst: Makusu Matsutake, Robert Lippok, Lucas Gutierrez & David Oreilly / Fotos: Michael Nast)

For the chance to win a pair of tickets for the performance on 12.09.2020 at 19h30 send us an email with your name, number and Instagram. Good luck!

“The New Infinity” at the Zeiss Planetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin–Prenzlauer Berg; map

The Berliner Festspiele’s Immersion series also includes the summer project Down to Earth, running until 13.09.2020 at Gropius Bau.
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What is it like to be a gallerist or a collector? If Art Week has got you curious about how the art world works, let Office Impart give you an insider glimpse. Founded by Johanna Neuschäffer and Anne Schwanz in 2018, this “gallery 2.0” isn’t a physical space with regular exhibitions, but rather an initiator of networks and collaborations amongst artists, venues and collectors. Their latest partnership is an exclusive invite-only gallery tour (12.09.2020) in partnership with Berlin Art Week featuring insights into how to begin an art collection. Part of the Good to Talk discourse series, the tour meets at Galerie Tanja Wagner and ends up at the giant industrial hall of Berlin Decks in Moabit for a collectors talk. But there’s more: within the hall you will also find Office Impart’s very own exhibition, Zugunsten der Gegend (6.–20.09.), bringing together works by Christian August, Susanne Bonowicz, Lena Marie Emrich and Moritz Neuhoff plus an outdoor installation from the Klub7 collective. Each artist presents ideas about cities both as built structures and social spaces – the perfect end to a day of artistic discovery. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Otto Felber, Office Impart)

To win a pair of tickets to the Good to Talk gallery tour on 12.09 send us an email with your name, number and Instagram. Good luck!

Office Impart at Berlin Decks, Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 16–21, 13353 Berlin–Moabit; map

The exhibition Zugunsten der Gegend runs 6.–20.09.2020 at Berlin Decks. For visiting times check the event page.
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Time for a culture holiday? Why not head to Zehlendorf, where Haus am Waldsee is dedicating the exhibition Barkow Leibinger – Revolutions of Choice to the American-German architecture firm founded by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger. On arrival at the beautiful 1920s villa you are guided in between two concrete walls to the exhibition’s center in the sculpture park, where you find the pavilion that was first built in 2016 as a “Summer House” for London’s Serpentine Gallery. In the lower part of the house, the diversity of the duo’s sculptural and often experimental concepts becomes apparent, the result of more than 20 years of collaboration. Since founding their Berlin office in 1993, the two architects have realized numerous projects around the world, including the Biosphere in Potsdam and the Trumpf Smart Factory in Chicago. Barkow Leibinger are part of a generation that continually question the norms of architecture through artistic approaches and the development of new materials. On 29.08.2020 you can join Barkow Leibinger for a symposium & artist dinner where the pair will discuss their approach to materials and experimental building. (Text & Photos: Ramona Razaghmanesh)

Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin–Zehlendorf; map
Barkow Leibinger – Revolutions of Choice runs until 04.10.2020.
Tues–Sun 11h–18h
Event: full-day symposium (Saturday 29.08.2020, 11–18h) with Barkow Leibinger including dinner with the artists at 19h. Register by email.
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