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DISCOVER BOOKS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE AT THE APARTAMENTO MAGAZINE BOOK POP-UP — RECOMMENDED BY FREDDY KORNFELD
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DISCOVER BOOKS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE AT THE APARTAMENTO MAGAZINE BOOK POP-UP — RECOMMENDED BY FREDDY KORNFELD

As a gallery owner, I am a great lover of art and books. So this week is a very special one for me: Yesterday (22.11.2023) a bookstore opened in Berlin – for just four weeks. Here you’ll find books that reflect and discuss the zeitgeist, as well as classics and forgotten treasures. The store is presented by the great magazine Apartamento, which provides tongue-in-cheek insights into the homes of special people, artists and personalities. You might discover that even some of these much-admired people don’t always hang up their towel after a shower or clear away their plates after breakfast or dinner. It’s wonderfully authentic and far removed from the coolness of glossy magazines. Maybe the trio Nacho Alegre, Omar Sosa and Marco Velardi will come to our artists’ booth and the 69salon by Kornfeld sometime … We’re excited and won’t be doing any extra cleaning, we promise! All book lovers can browse through the Apartamento Studio until 22.12. Incidentally, the store was designed by architect Sam Chermayeff and looks pretty hip with a silver bed and a rubber curtain that looks like milk.

Freddy Kornfeld is a Charlottenburg gallery icon with three spaces on Fasanenstraße: Kornfeld Galerie Berlin, 68projects and 69salon. He opened new exhibitions with Tammam Azzam, Philip Grözinger and Stefan Rinck on Saturday (18.11.2023).

Text: Freddy Kornfeld / Photos: Daniel Farò & Freddy Kornfeld

Apartamento Pop-up c/o Apartamento Studios, Kastanienallee 27, 10435 Berlin–Prenzlauer Berg; map
Wed–Fri 13–18h, Sat 11–19h, 03. & 17.12.2023 13 –18h

@apartamentomagazine
@kornfeldgalerie
@68projects
@69salon_by_kornfeld

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BOOK SHOPPING AT LITERATURENSOHN IN BRUNNENSTRASSE — RECOMMENDED BY VERENA SCHWARZ
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BOOK SHOPPING AT LITERATURENSOHN IN BRUNNENSTRASSE — RECOMMENDED BY VERENA SCHWARZ

Reading can provide a much-needed break from digital doom scrolling. The only question is: what to read? Literaturensohn offers help! In September, Coco Meurer brought her eponymous Instagram account to Brunnenstaße. Only books she has herself read make it onto the shelf here. Curation. Curation. Curation. Since 2020, the book enthusiast has been recommending works by young, fierce, strong and female voices on her channel. She has developed three categories for her recommendations – from light holiday reads to philosophical hunks. Coco has now moved to Brunnenstrasse. And because she loves not just books, but creative work in all its forms, the shop regularly hosts events with creative partners. A workshop with crochet artist Mimo from Amigurumimo, whose cute figurines are also sold in the store, was fully booked in just a few minutes. In January, the Cologne-based Ben Tausend Tattoos will make a guest appearance. And if you’re planning to launch a novel, with her creative office, Coco also develops outstanding digital campaigns, covers and artworks. Literaturensohn is really worth a visit, even if your pile of books is already stacked high…

Verena Schwarz has been in charge of communications for international companies for many years, most recently for furniture brands. She also has a strong passion for culture and sport in all its forms.

Text: Verena Schwarz / Photos: Savannah van der Niet

Literaturensohn, Brunnenstr.34, 10115 Berlin–Mitte; map
Tue–Sat 11–19h

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ART INTERVENTION: THE GROUP EXHIBITION MENTAL HOT SPOT AT OOW ARCHITEKTEN — RECOMMENDED BY LOUIE VAN NIEUWENBORGH
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ART INTERVENTION: THE GROUP EXHIBITION MENTAL HOT SPOT AT OOW ARCHITEKTEN — RECOMMENDED BY LOUIE VAN NIEUWENBORGH

Imagine coming to an exhibition and finding yourself in an office where employees are going about their daily business amidst the art on display. This will be the case at the OOW architecture office on Leipziger Straße (09.11.2023). Architects Sebastian Blancke and Mathis Malchow asked artist and curator Tim Plamper to put together an exhibition and gave him carte blanche to do so. For the “mental hot spot” exhibition, he assembled sixteen exciting artist positions from Berlin. The works are not to be shown in an empty room but in an everyday environment. For example, there is a perfume by Christian Kölbl, who offers his new car perfume (edition for 250 euros) on a screen, which smells of pepper, violets, varnish, leather, plastic, and ozone.

The artist Billie Clarken has placed a two-meter-high and four-and-a-half-meter-wide PVC chipboard hedge on tables, disrupting the work process and communication among office workers. Some works make direct reference to architecture, such as the cork model of a socialist-classical building in Berlin created by Philip Topolovac. It has strict proportions and elongated windows. If you look closely, you can also identify the building—it’s the Berghain dance temple, often considered the ultimate ‘mental hot spot.’ Other works can be seen by Emma Adler, Patrick Alt, Maxime Ballesteros, Rebekka Benzenberg, Lukas Glinkowski, Jason Gringler, Charlotte Klobassal, Anna Nezhnaya, Tim Plamper, Alona Rodeh, Fette Sans, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, and Lisa Tiemann.

Belgian Berliner Louie Van Nieuwenborgh discovered his passion for architecture, art, and baking as a teenager. His “mental hot spot” is Flouxus Food, a collective he founded that combines food and intermedia. Inspired by the Fluxus art movement and sprinkled with the current zeitgeist, they publish zines and music.

Text: Louie Van Nieuwenborgh / Credit: Alona Rodeh, Christian Kölbl & Maxime Ballesteros

Mental Hot Spot bei oow, Leipziger Str.56, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Mon–Fri 9–18h bis 08.12.2023. Opening 09.11.2023 18– 21h.

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@timplamper 
@flouxusfood
@louievn

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THE INVISIBLE POETRY BEHIND TECHNOLOGY: POETICS OF ENCRYPTION CONFERENCE BY KW DIGITAL — RECOMMENDED BY ANNIKA VON TAUBE
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THE INVISIBLE POETRY BEHIND TECHNOLOGY: POETICS OF ENCRYPTION CONFERENCE BY KW DIGITAL — RECOMMENDED BY ANNIKA VON TAUBE

Art and technology go great together in their curiosity for new things and striving to translate human imagination into something tangible. Yet art’s interest in technology tends to be mystically colored. It seems happy when it comes across as dark and inaccessible as possible, as a black box, black site or black hole. The more enraptured, the better. In the course of exploring this darkness, art can provide illuminating insights into the way technology works, but it can also lose itself in the occult fog. On 27 & 28.10.2023, the Poetics of Encryption conference hosted by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and organized by digital curator Nadim Samman will be devoted to art’s ambivalent relationship to technology, with a speaker lineup that includes artists Trevor Paglen and Jon Rafman and digital culture scholar Orit Halpern.

The venue is the former Delphi silent cinema in Weißensee. Once a place where the magic of technology created images as portals into another world, the venue could not be more fitting. The etymological origin of the word “encryption” goes back to the Greek verb kryptein (to conceal), crypt being a term for an underground vault in a sacred building. The encrypted is a hidden spiritual place, and a poetic thought. Those interested in AI, VR or NFTs are better off at other conferences: Poetics of Encryption is not about technology as an artistic medium, but rather the invisible infrastructure of the internet (server farms, network connections, hordes of data workers operating in secrecy, etc.) and how we might understand our own relationship to technology.

Text: Annika von Taube / Photos: Christian Werner / Credit: Andrea Khora; Most Dismal Swamp

Annika von Taube is founder of art and technology platform and newsletter Modern Meta. She writes and develops art and talk formats and advises companies on how to use art as a strategic companion in the field of tech.

Theater im Delphi, Gustav–Adolf–Str.2, 13086 Berlin–Weißensee; map
Poetics of Encryption 27. & 28.10.2023. Opening 26.10.2023. You can find the whole program and tickets here.

@kwinstituteforcontemporaryart
@modern_meta 
@electricpigeon

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MEDITATION, SELF-DISCOVERY & SPIRITUALITY WITH “THE ART OF BEING YOURSELF” PODCAST — RECOMMENDED BY JULIA VUKOVIC
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MEDITATION, SELF-DISCOVERY & SPIRITUALITY WITH “THE ART OF BEING YOURSELF” PODCAST — RECOMMENDED BY JULIA VUKOVIC

How satisfied are you with yourself and your life? What transformations would you like to see? And why are you holding back? Michaela Aue has been teaching and practicing yoga and meditation for more than 20 years. In her podcast, Die Kunst du selbst zu sein (“The Art of Being Yourself”,) she shares with her listeners her personal experiences and transformation stories of how the art of meditation has transformed her life from chaos to order. She shares her tricks and tips on how meditation and spirituality can become faithful companions in your journey of personal growth. In addition, there are exciting interviews with people who dare to go their own way and in doing so express themselves every day in a new light. Michaela has accompanied and enriched my journey for more than three years now and won me over straight away with her unique voice and personality. If you want to get to know this powerful and wonderfully warm woman, be sure to listen to this podcast and be a part of the art of being yourself.

Julia Vukovic is a freelance art director living in Graefekiez. She designs for the Berlin art and culture scene, loves books, magazines and podcasts, practices yoga and regularly submerges her head under water.

Text: Julia Vukovic / Photos: Alicia Minkwitz, Cottonbro Studio & Julia Vukovic

“Die Kunst du selbst zu sein” by Michaela Aue is found everywhere podcasts are available.

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