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This past weekend several art fairs all converged on Berlin. One was held at the historical Templehof airport, serving as the location for Allied air aide to West Berlin and officially closed last Friday. Another was held at Messe, a large conference center on the western side of Berlin. Two others were held at hotels in Berlin. Ultimately art fairs are exhausting and often not the most exciting places to see artwork. There is usually a lack of cohesion between the art presented in the gallery's booths that is mostly on display for collectors and sales.

However, we thought this would be an opportunity to see a lot of art all at once and took the marathon trip to visit these over the end of last week.


Entrance to Preview Berlin at Templehof hangar


Preview overview

There was a free shuttle service provided from the Preview Berlin fair to Artforum Berlin across town. We had managed to obtain a free professional pass to Preview and were able to ride in a Toyota Prius across town. At Artforum we were expecting to have tickets on hold. The tickets were not there when we arrived but somehow we managed to talk them into giving us a free VIP pass.




Albert Weiss work on paper

I could not get very many good angles of the Artforum booths but the architectural features of the building were amazing for their 1960's kitschy German style.


Coatroom


Lounge (w/ mirror and glass terrarium)


Chandelliers

We also attended an opening in a pavillion on Karl-Marx-alee held in an old building that was built by the East German gov't to house communist art in the 1960's.


Capitain Petzel opening