It is Strychnin Gallery Berlin’s 7th birthday this year and over 60 artists who have exhibited here previously have been invited back to participate in an exciting group show, bringing different media ranging from painting to photography, assemblage, etching, digital painting, sculpture and drawing to light engraving to Berlin.

Vernissage: February 12th 2010, 19:00
Strychnin Gallery
Boxhagener Str. 36 / Berlin Friedrichshain

http://www.strychnin.com/

About the exhibition:

Featuring some of the best pop surrealism, neo-baroque, urban art, and fantastic realism today, Strychnin Gallery is proud to present the following artists:

Leslie Ditto, Wee Flowers, Lisa Mei Ling Fong, Annie Bertram, Seymour, Mimi S., Jason Limon, Richard Kirk, Beth Robinson, Raf Veulemans, Sophie Bastien, Edith Lebeau, Tim Roosen, Ver Mar, Miraschi, Squp, Gothic Hangman, Scott Holloway, Chris Peters, Jan Czerwinski, BORIS + NATASCHA, Tim Conlon, Till Krautkraemer, Alexander Sterzel, François Escalmel, Daniël van Nes, Kristen Ferrell, Bethany Marchman, Jon Jaylo, Marmite Sue, Damon Soule, Christian Rothenhagen, Virginie Ropars, Suzzan B., William McDermid, Lesley Reppeteaux, Nicoletta Ceccoli, KRK Ryden, Manuel Cortez, Christina Graf, Dirk Larsen, Ansgar Noeth, Elmer Presslee, Scott Radke, CANTWO, Zaelia Bishop, Chris Bonobo, Guillermo Rigattieri, Mayo, Cliff Wallace, David Hochbaum, Mark Verhaagen, Gene Guynn, Benjamin Vierling, Chrisitee, Diva, Martina Secondo Russo, Marcus Poston, Aaron Board, Daniel Elson, Carole Bielicki and others.

Mike Patton announced via facebook “Mondo Cane is finally mastered! Whew! Now to get busy on the artwork. Soon, soon!”

I should install a “like button” to our blog ^^

Mondo Cane is an upcoming album by Mike Patton. It will be cover versions of 1950s and 1960s Italian pop music, performed by Mike Patton with an orchestra of about 65 people.

I like ties. And since winter won’t be over soon, I’ve found the perfect solution: Andtie. It’s part tie, part scarf. Perfect!

http://www.andtie.dk/

Haha, this article by Jeremy Azevedo on craveonline.com is great! Now I’m craving for a Talisker…

http://www.craveonline.com/lifestyle/article/the-classic-malts-selection-88991/2

Dude. This malt is intense! Lagavulin 12 was bottled at full cask strength, and has not been diluted. It’s rather pungent. It’s like drinking leather. Put some water in it and you will discover an incredible flavor that makes a great alternative to a desert wine. Or, be a tough guy and drink it straight. You’ll probably piss fire, but everyone will think you’re badass. Or crazy. Or both?

Last Friday, KAISERBRAND had an interview on MotorFM. Damn, I’m not one of those guys who enjoy having a microphone in the face, and I hate to hear my voice ^^ After the session was over I just thought OMG…
But Miki from Motor did a great editing job and everything turned out all right. Puuuhh…

http://www.motorfm.de/wort/kultur/plattform-fur-kreative-kaiserbrand/

WINTER WARRIORS:

Exhibition space at stattbad, Wedding.
Home to empty swimming pools, studio spaces and creative organizations.

We make stuff good gallery has taken home here and invites you
to come and celebrate the indoor market and exhibition.

See the best market artists and creatives as well as a bunch of
international artists that have recently made Berlin their chosen city of residence.

Enjoy, home made pies, gluhwein guys, performing foxes and a bunch of affordable never seen before ART and ACCESSORIES.

Stattbad
Gerichtstr. 65, Berlin Wedding
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7:00pm
http://www.wemakestuffgood.com/category/events/berlin/

A troop of monkeys celebrate a feast, a panther wanders across a snowy Alpine landscape and a pack of white wolves surround a buffalo dripping blood in a manicured French garden. At first glance Walton Ford’s large-scale animal watercolour paintings evoke prints by French and British colonial-era illustrators from the 19th century. After closer examination however, they reveal a pictorial universe of complex and disturbing allusions. The various tigers, lions, birds and primates that populate the life-size pictures appear as vivacious protagonists locked in allegorical struggles. The resulting combination of historical fact, natural history inquiry and surreal imaginings give rise to Walton Ford’s brilliant ‘Bestiarium’.

Walton Ford - Bestiarium
January 23rd - May 24th 2010
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50 - 51, Berlin
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/

Tonight, 2 February 2010, transmediale.10 no longer belongs to the future but is the present! Come and celebrate as the festival opens at the House of World Cultures tonight. It is free of charge and no ticket is needed except for the speeches in the auditorium (February 2nd-7th). Launch yourself into Futurity …Now!

http://www.transmediale.de/

In the early 20th century, artists like Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Kolbe or Max Pechstein were intrigued by exotic craftworks from Africa and Oceania. The Georg-Kolbe-Museum is showing interesting works of art in connection with mundane pieces like books, posters, photos or advertisements to reveal the western image of those fantastical foreign countries.

“Wilde Welten”
Januaruary 24th - April 5th
Georg-Kolbe-Museum
Sensburger Allee 25, Berlin
http://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de/wilde_welten.html

The theme of La Fête Fatale no.5 is The House of Haunted Hollywood
~ An ode to the Stars of the past that died tragically and often before their time was up.

We will celebrate and invoke their spirits in a resurrection party of the starlets and harlots of the golden era.

The highest honor for these ghosts of Hollywood is for you to enter our mansion & give up your life for one night & dance like there is no tomorrow… because to them, there isn’t.

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As with every Fête Fatale you will be led by our talented conférencier to marvel at our gorgeous Burlesque Bombshells, (Empress Stah (London), Lalla Morte (Paris), Lady Ane Angel (London), Tara la Luna (Berlin), & Coco Clownesse (Berlin)) laugh at our bizarre characters like Major Obnoxious the loud-mouth pig man and Mitzy Metzger the bloody psycho maid, take part in our quirky comedy game-show with prizes, and win extra special prizes for the best dressed! Especially those that dress like our current theme….
You create our spectacularly beautiful & bizarre atmosphere of organized chaos. (But really, anything goes.) So get creative! ;)♥!! xoxox

More info: http://lafetefatale.de/

On February 5th will be opening his comics exhibition at Heroes Cafe. This show will feature a selection of my comics, a live drawing session, the premier of the 60-page Nonsense Cup #1 compilation, and some caffeinated specialties.

Heroes Cafe
Friedelstr. 49, Berlin (U-bhf Hermannplatz) from 18:00-22:00
The exhibition will run through February 26th

joshbauman.com
heroesberlin.com

Intoxicated Demons Gallery and Team from Hell (founders of STROKE.01) are back in Munich for further projects. Besides organizing STROKE.02 (May 27th-30th 2010) they will arrange a series of events and exhibitions.
The first one features the artists Andreas Pistner and The Keld.

ID.G presents - Warmlaufen für die STROKE.02
Andreas Pistner / Untold Stories
The Keld / exclusive screenprints

Vernissage: February 4th, 19:00
Exhibition: February. 05th-07th,14:00 - 21:00

Temporäre Galerie
Baaderstr. 7, Munich
http://www.intoxicated-demons.com/

Dear character connoisseurs and friends of Pictoplasma

This might be valuable information: Today, when the sun kisses the horizon, the Pictoplasma Berlin Festival’s Early Bird offer will be history!

Register online before sunset (Monday, February 1st), save cash and secure your full weekend of big screen animation glory, inspiring presentations and talks by upcoming and established artists, designers and filmmakers.

The confirmed line-up of presenting artists promises an eclectic mix of characters in all their glorious incarnations: Pete de Sève, Fluorescent Hill, Ville Savimaa, MyMo, Jeremy Dower and Ree Treweek… plus more psychedelic eye candy than your retina can possibly handle during selected screening programs.

Do yourself a favour: http://berlin.festival.pictoplasma.com

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PICTOPLASMA BERLIN FESTIVAL

9. + 10. April 2010
Kino Babylon Berlin:Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
10178 Berlin
Germany

Tonight about 60 museums will be open from 18:00 to 2:00.
Here you can find a list of all participating museums.
More info here: http://www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de/

On January 23rd, Saturday, between 3pm to 4pm pacific time you can log-on on Audrey’s shop and click the Purchase button, and you will be guaranteed a print!!
But you have to decide between the two print - it’s only one print per person.

~ Yuuwaku ~
Giclee print on 100% cotton archival fine art paper
Size: 15″x19.5″on a 16″x20.5″sheet

- OR -

~ Hyakki Yakou ~
Giclee print on 100% cotton archival fine art paper
Size: 22″x13″ on a 23″x14″sheet

Signed and numbered on the image area
Price unframed: $100
Price framed: $250

‘So Sorry’, the title of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition, refers to the thousands of apologies expressed recently by governments, industries and financial corporations worldwide, in an effort to make up for tragedies and wrong doings – though often without shouldering the consequences or the desire to acknowledge let alone repair. Saying sorry – or not saying it – is in the headlines everywhere and thus also in China. It seems, however, that the expression ’sorry’ has taken on the meaning of ‘fuck off’. Since to apologise also means that it is too late to make amends. Do we really want to buy into ’so sorry’? And should we not find new ways to say sorry and to express our regrets? Do we need a different culture of apologising?

The exhibition ends on January 17th, only a few days left to go there!
And you should attend one of the guided tours (they’re free)!

Guided tour/ German
Mo - Sa 18:30, So 14:00 + 15:30 + 18:30
Guided Tour/ English
Fr 18:30

Ai Weiwei - So Sorry
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1, Munich
http://www.hausderkunst.de/

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