The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
Berlin is a city of photography: not only is it one of the most photographed cities, but there are also plenty of photos to see here. Galleries and exhibition spaces such as the Fotografiska, the Helmut Newton Museum of Photography and the C/O Gallery dedicate numerous exhibitions to the subject of photography. EMOP, Germany’s largest photography festival, also takes place in Berlin every two years. And, of course, you can also capture yourself perfectly in the capital. We have compiled the top 11 destinations for photography enthusiasts here.
Riso Silkscreening
Digital art to analog silkscreen printing using the MiScreen A4 (8.27 × 11.69 inches).
An exhibition of the work produced by a group of thirteen international collage artists will take place on May 13th in the studio space at the GlogauAir artspace, Glogauer Str. 16 Berlin 10999 in Kreuzberg. Following the exhibition, a number of the artists will be giving workshops or talks on their techniques.
BerlinAge Workshops
Saturday, 9.5. 3pm Cut & Past the GlogauAIR with Miss Glueniverse Paste up is a form of street art in which designed paper elements are printed out and stuck up around the city. In a joint action as part of the Co-Create the City exhibition, the outer wall of the GlogauAIR Art Space will be decorated – led by Berlin collage and street art artist and member of Berlinpastup, Miss Gluniverse.
How do you co-create a city? How do you picture the world around you? What places feel like home, and what landscapes live only in your imagination? In this workshop, we’ll explore how landscapes can reflect mood, memory, and identity.
Using collage, you will create evocative landscapes from layers of paper, colour, texture, and found images. You can bring photos of meaningful places or select from the materials provided. No prior art experience is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to experiment. Phyllis Schwartz, born in Brooklyn, is a photographer, ceramicist, collage artist and author. Together with Edward Peck, she regularly creates art projects for communities. sassamatt.com
Friday, 15.5. 11 am Bettina Homann: How I see myself on the inside – collaged Self-Portraits How do you see yourself? Who are you? Is there someone you would rather be? Would you like to change your eye colour or your mindset? This workshop delves into the possibilities of self-exploration and self-expression in the form of collage. You can work with photos of yourself (please bring a selection with you) or freely. No prior knowledge is required. Berlinage founder is working as a collage artist and writer. She very interested in the ways in which collage facilitates self-exploration.
Friday, 15.5. 4 pm Ginger Sedlarova: The four sentence challenge Pick up your scissors and push your cut-and-paste limits with this versatile art-making experience! The Four-Sentence Challenge involves creating a piece of art in response to prompts. A hat with several sentences on slips of paper is passed around for each artist to select four. These sentences are both the constraint and the freedom to create a collage that tells the story inside those four slips of paper. This exercise encourages both creative thinking and introspection. Ginger Sedlarova is a collage artist, storyteller and accidental archivist from Burnaby, B.C., Canada. She creates vibrant, emotional paper-based landscapes of memory using imagery, texture and colour.
Saturday, 16.5., 11 pm Louise Liu: Guided tour of the Exhibition Collage artist and Berlin Collage Club founder Louise Liu guides visitors through the exhibition, giving them the opportunity to talk to the international artists and then create their own work at the large collage table. @berlincollageclub
Saturday, 16.5., 3 pm 1+1=¥ The Magic of Co-Creation In this workshop, psychologist, coach and leadership trainer Anna Homann invites you to experience the exciting possibilities that arise when you dare to leave your comfort zone and engage in a collaborative process. We tend to always approach things in the same way that seems ‘right’ to us. But it holds great opportunities for genuine innovation, when very different – perhaps even contradictory – ideas and temperaments come together. Beyond the familiar, the magic begins. This workshop is not about collage, but about the creative process in general.
The Contemporary Collage Magazine hosted a Collage Expedition in Berlin this year in May. The expedition was edited on May 10 with an exhibition of the work that was produced. It featured the work of thirteen contemporary artists created in one week using only materials found in Berlin. The studio exhibition was held in Prinzessinnenstudio, Prinzessinnenstrasse 16, 10969 Berlin.
Collage Expedition in Berlin
The next series of expeditions will be held in Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK, and I understand that after that there may be one planned for New York.
Miss Glueniverse, @berlinpasteup, led a paste-up party today. She is a member of the Berlin PasteUp group, a collective based here in Berlin. Their work aims to connect beyond the street art community and foster a sense of belonging through accessible art. They are guided by the principle that no space or person should be deprived of art or safety, so they create interventions rooted in solidarity and inclusion. Their members are as follows: @petit.agite, @textilestreetart, @miss_glueniverse, and @fritz_craut.
Where is your place in this structure? How do you relate? What do you contribute? How do we create together? The city is a shared experience, permanently moving like a dance. A dance that is sometimes harmonious and sometimes involves a painful kick to the foot.
In an era when it seems increasingly difficult for humans to coexist in this world without conflict, Berlinage #3 is about celebrating the collage community. It is about coming together and sharing – sharing techniques, working methods, ideas (and of course a drink or two).
I was up at six this morning and walked toward the river and to the old bridges and museums, on the way back I paused to lean on the bridge wall and take in the scene. I felt tears in the clear morning air with the bike commuters peddling at a steady pace behind me. What was this feeling, a sense of feeling at home or experiencing what was lost or never came to where I have anchored my life. There is something about this place that is more alive, deep and grounded that pulls at my core. Or is it just a release of so complex I can not fathom it. Perhaps it is all of these things.
Raphael Warshaw’s work is about a photo’s ability to provide physical pointers to personal memories containing what is old, new, and yet to come. He expands on this in the following statement:
For me place is the template that organizes this personal archive and photographs are the external physical pointers to the memories it contains, old, new and yet to come. The camera however sees differently than you and me. The flattening of the image, limited range of intensity and modification of color (still more the translation from color to monochrome) yields an abstraction that we respond to differently than to the scene itself. It’s a single point in both time and scale serving as a placeholder for memory but can alter that memory in ways both simple and profound. It is an entry point, a starting place from which to understand what has happened, is happening, and, perhaps, what will. I want my viewers to think about scale and time from a vantage point of my choosing without being aware of my meddling – if blatant they will see only the s
Kreuzberg is home to one of the largest Turkish communities outside of Turkey
Kreuzberg was surrounded on three sides by the Berlin Wall. It became an “island” for those evading the West German draft, squatters, and punks. It is a major centre for the LGBTQ community and at one time hosted David Bowie and Iggy Pop at the SO36 club. In the 1960s and 70s it became the home to one of the largest Turkish communities outside of Turkey. Today, the community is in a state of flux as it transitions from a gritty enclave to a highly sought-after residential area.
Berlin’s community walls reveal a living gallery—raw, uncurated, and constantly changing—where anyone can contribute, challenge, or reinterpret the city’s voice. The walls function less as boundaries and more as open-air canvases.
