I’ve seen some bizarre art in my time but Friede sei mit Dir by Peter Lenk – a relief sculpture of a giant penis on Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse in Berlin is about as strange as it gets. As the artwork is only a short walk from Checkpoint Charlie this is always a bit of light relief from […]
Michael Flückiger – Elephant Walk
If you happened to be glancing out of your window as Michael Flückiger rode past on his bike you might be in for a bit of a shock – the Swiss graphic designer has modified it to project the shadow of an elephant. Flückiger created what he calls his shadowmodification project with a speedometer, a […]
Martin Roller – Berlin Artist Plays With His Food
Every child the world over has been told (in his or her own language of course) ‘don’t play with your food’, an instruction that Berlin artist Martin Roller has thankfully ignored. There is no digital sorcery at work here – Roller creates the striking photographs by altering the objects themselves not by manipulating the images […]
Mickael Jou – 365 Self-Portrait Project
Mickael Jou, a Taiwanese-French-American living in Berlin has combined his love of photography with his talent as a dancer to create a magical series of self-portraits for his 365 project. The project started in Paris but having located to Berlin, Jou has used a number of its iconic tourist attractions as a backdrop, though that […]
Johanna Keimeyer at Stadtbad Prenzlauer Berg
On World Water Day, Stadtbad Prenzlauer Berg opened its doors to the public and hosted Pool Around Me, an exhibition by Johanna Keimeyer. As I’ve always wanted to see inside the Stadtbad I made sure to go to this exhibition before the GLS Language school renovates the building. The doors were open in the afternoon […]