TIPS FOR GOOD MOMENTS: OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WEEKEND & A SMALL OUTLOOK FOR FEBRUARY

TIPS FOR GOOD MOMENTS: OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WEEKEND & A SMALL OUTLOOK FOR FEBRUARY

If your New Year’s resolutions are giving way to January doldrums, allow us to brighten your month with some tips for food, fun and another shot at NYE. First up, a special trip to the cinema: 85-year-old DJ Vika from Warsaw will be attending Kant Kino in Charlottenburg tomorrow (17.01.2025) for a screening of the documentary in which she stars. Vika! – directed by Agnieszka Zwiefka, also in attendance – tells the story of how the former prison educator (real name: Wirginia Szmyt) shunned a quiet retirement to learn the art of DJing. Another culture highlight is at ChertLüdde in Schöneberg, where a retrospective exhibition celebrating the work of the Berlin artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932–2024) runs until 22.02. Wolf-Rehfeldt, known for her carbon copies and typewriter works, was a key part of the postal art movement. There’s more art over at Haus Kunst Mitte, the Altbau-housed art space that’s actually in Moabit, where tomorrow (17.01) States of Uncertain Domesticities is opening. The multimedia “performative exhibition” explores themes of home and housing through works, interventions and performances from 44 international artists.

If your memories of New Year’s are already fading, then perhaps it’s time to embrace Lunar New Year, which this year is celebrated on 29.01. Food is usually the focus of this Asian holiday, so get your reservations sorted with a traditional Korean dinner of Tteokguk (rice cake soup) at Dotori, the anju bar (think Asian tapas) in Weißensee. The four-course New Year’s dinner will be served between 30.01 and 02.02. Our final recommendation is also culinary: the Olive Oil Dinner, a five-course meal on 08.02 hosted by Chelsea Turowsky Studio in Wedding. Highlighting olive oil from Honest Toil, a producer of cold-pressed oils from small Greek farms, the set menu will be accompanied by drinks by DJ and foodie Cate Gowers. You can book a place via Instagram or email and start filling out your February calendar…

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Marjorie Brunet Plaza / Credit: Kathryn Cornelius; Kerstin Flake; Maria Ezcurra; ChertLüdde, Berlin and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Berlin; Doroti; Cate Gowers & Chelsea Turowsky Studio; Yorck Kinos

Kant Kino, Kantstr.54, 10627 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map
Screening of Vika!, 17.01.2025 20h – tickets here.

ChertLüdde, Hauptstr.18, 10827 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
In the end something begins with us runs until 22.02.2025

Haus Kunst Mitte, Heidestr.54 10557 Berlin–Moabit; map 
States of Uncertain Domesticities, 18.01–15.03.2025

Dotori, Gustav-Adolf-Str.159, 13086 Berlin–Weißensee; map
New Year’s menu 30.01–02.02.2025 – book a table here

Olive Oil Dinner, 08.02.2025 19h30 at Chelsea Turowsky Studio – book via Instagram or email.

@chertluedde
@dotori_berlin
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@honest_toil
@hauskunstmitte

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