Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking...into the future.

Time seems to be going on quickly these days.

Week before last, we spent 'Kunst-Tag' at the Hamburger Bahnhof. This is great venue but we had waited until the new exhibition came up to visit. They have a rotating collection and the major show up right now is a huge! (more than 200 works from 20+ years) show of Wolfgang Tillmans' photographs called 'Lighter'. In general, it was nice to see someone with such a wide ranging practice. We both commented on how this survey was kinda-like seeing everything that has ever been done or considered with photography, especially in relation to pop culture, but by one person.



I think we were most interested in the works that treated photography as sculpture...either literally as pictured above, or by rephotographing photographs.



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The weekend before last was pretty low key (see previous posting) but it was really nice weather-wise. On Monday, we headed out to the edge of town to finally have a day trip to the lake. This was a very nice adventure, the weather was fantastic, and I was able to find some public beaches were people go to swim once it gets a little warmer. We walked around the area a lot and had a little picnic on this ridge overlooking the lake.





The building in front of R near the water is part of the public beach area (not open yet apparently) with sunning decks and other facilities I imagine. You can kinda see the beach in front of it, but it is the same color as the building. This lake is easily accessible by S-Bahn, and is actually just on the edge of the 'B' zone (not even as far out as 'C'). The closest station is about a 10-15 walk from the beach. I look forward to heading back here this summer.

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Last Thursday we went to see a Friedensreich Hundertwasser show at Schloss Britz, which is on the far south side of town. This guys is pretty interesting and I suggest reading about his many involved projects. He was Austrian artists and architecture who was a very early environmentalist. He called 'straight lines the 'devil's tools'. Perhaps his most well know project is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.

Later that night we went to WN's opening at Magnus Muller...and the 'Anonymous Drawing Show' that we didn't get into. They had a ton of drawings and it was obvious they picked the widest range possible to present in the exhibition...


Anonymous Drawings

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Friday (April 5th) was the opening of the Berlin Biennale and PE was back in town for her opening. She hooked us up with tickets to go the opening and the after party, but unfortunately she was feeling sick and wasn't up for going out later.



It was a hugely crowded event...from the 4th (?) floor I was able to take a photo out of the window of the courtyard below. I had to blow out the color so you could see all the people because it was pretty dark down there.

It was great to see PE's work, but in general I wasn't impressed by the work or the show at this venue anyway. This part was at Kunstwerk, but there are 3 other venues around the city so maybe those spaces are better.


after party at nearby warehouse
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Also, my friend KM came into town (from Amsterdam) to see the show this weekend, but missed her train so she didn't make it until Saturday morning. We hung out on Sunday and had a great time but she left back to Holland on Monday. This was also the final week for all the visitor's that Ryan's studio-mate were having from CA. One, DB, R also works with though so we know him more and hung out a few times over the month that he spent in Europe...in Germany but also the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

It was a nice week to have some visitors from various places. We also are starting to make our plans from traveling in the spring over the next few months and coordinating with other visitors coming to Berlin to visit. We have a couple of weeks before our first trip though so I am trying to focus on getting some work done before that all starts. Recently, I have been working on a new website for myself and yesterday I rearranged our bedroom to make it more of a functional space.