To start the weekend with the good feeling of being “on top of our social game”, we are starting our tips in reverse order today. Next Thursday (27.03.2025): Spyros Rennt is a great photographer, so great his emotional images of people and objects that have somehow become human can also exist in catalog form. How convenient that he is launching his new book Intertwined and that you can take it home with you from 6pm to 9pm in Reichenberger Straße. Of course, a few works will be hanging on the walls as well. Tuesday (25.03.) is marked in gold in my calendar: the extremely clever Rabea Weihser, former head of the culture department at Zeit Online, also has a new book, but hers, How we became so beautiful, is about the cultural history of the face, make-up and selfies, injections and surgeries — and reads with the same light enjoyment as a well-researched magazine article. So see you at Publix. For all those who not only like to look at beauty and pictures, but take pictures themselves or want to understand the process better, the EMOP offers a nice event the whole weekend (22.-23.03.): various photo labs open their doors all over the city and explain how it works. Greetings at this point to Jochen Rohner, all other participants can be found here.

As we all know, Friday evening starts in the afternoon and nice and early, from 6 pm tomorrow (21.03.) it’s best to hang out at Laundromat. The Einhundert collective will be throwing a few drinks in Prenzlberg, accompanied by smooth sounds and if you can’t make it, listen to them later on Refuge Radio’s online program. Later on, the party continues at Paloma Bar in Kreuzberg with Into Orbit, the first evening of DJ jiyun kim‘s new event series, which facilitates encounters and connections between cultures and people with its parties and music. Let’s get started with the South Korean diaspora. Getting all fidgety from all the planning? Best to shake it off right away. Tonight (20.03.), photographer Kathrin Linkersdorff is opening her supernaturally beautiful photographs from the microcosm of nature at Haus am Kleistpark. The introduction will be given by art historian Horst Bredekamp. And afterwards? A drink at Bar Nonno around the corner and then off to Studio 1111 on the Potse. After all, Thursdays there are almost legendary, even after just one year of the club’s existence. Aura is the name of the program tonight (20.03.), it’s a so-called Creators Night with VJ and DJ and performance and all sorts of other things, but I’m sure there will be dancing too.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Chiara Bonetti, Eva Dieckhoff, Marta Pang, Safelight Berlin, San San, Spyros Rennt, Tilman Vogler

Bureau Wolff / Jordan, Reichenberger Str.121, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Book Launch “Intertwined” by Spyros Rennt 27.03.2025 18–21h

Publix, Hermannstr.90, 12051 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Book launch with Rabea Weihser “How we became so beautiful” 25.03.2025 18h30.
Get your tickets here.

EMOP Photo Lab Days
22.–23.03.2025 at various locations.

Laundromat, Stargarder Str.74, 10437 Berlin–Prenzlauer Berg; map
Einhundert + Friends Hangout  21.03.2025 18–22h. RSVP here.

Paloma Bar, Skalitzer Str.135, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Into Orbit 21.03.2025 22h 

Haus am Kleistpark, Grunewaldstr.6–7, 10823 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Kathrin Linkersdorff “Microverse” Opening 20.03.2025 19h

Studio 1111, Potsdamer Str.96, 10785 Berlin–Tiergarten; map
Aura 20.03.2025 19h30. RSVP here.

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If, like me, you’ve recently moved into a new apartment, you may be looking for one or two pieces for your home. Design classics are not a must but always a good choice, which is why it’s worth popping into Smow on Kurfürstenstraße, where there’s a design sale until 15.03.2025. The sale will feature work by Thonet, Vitra, Muuto, Kartell and USM Haller, to name a few. From there, I’ll be dancing on to the Kink — inspired by David Mancuso’s legendary “Loft” parties in New York — the bar will be transformed into a dance floor for one day (16.03.) with Island Universe providing the line-up. And if you dance all day long, you’ll need a pick-me-up. Gather in the Ringbar is hosting a “Women’s only Pub Roast” (16.03.), practically an extension of the feminist fight day. Everyone who identifies as female, non-binary and/or queer is cordially invited. The food, by Ruhi Amin, will include chaat masala pork scratchings, tandoori cauliflower, Punjabi pickles and much more. Each dish is inspired by an important woman in Roo’s life. From eating together to painting in a cozy atmosphere. Next up is “Still Life Drawing” — their next session will take place on 20.03. at The Boys Club Berlin. Lots of Broth and Zhodi Tesfa will lead the evening and everyone is welcome (no previous experience necessary). Once you’ve shouldered Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 and filled your belly with Indian delicacies, all that’s left to say is, “what a great weekend”! 

Text: Sophie Doering / Photos: Gather, Natascha Hamel, Smow

Smow, Kurfürstendamm 100, 10709 Berlin–Halensee; map
Design Sale until 15.03.2025

Kink, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin–Prenzlauer Berg; map
Daydancing 16.03.2025

Ringbar, Schwarzastr.1, 12055 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Gather x Ruhi Amin 16.03.2025

The Boys Club Berlin, Weisestr.27, 12049 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Still Life Drawing 20.03.2025

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