Based on the structure of speed dating, curators are invited to review artists portfolios in 10 short sessions of 12min each. In Speed portfolio viewing networking is stripped down to the bare essential, leaving out the snick snack that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Short, friendly and to the point!  20 artists are selected- each artists meets at least 4 curators. The past two portfolio viewings have resulted in an overwhelming amount of collaborations, most of them solo shows and a few group shows. 
PARTICIPATING CURATORS 

Stefania Angelini - L'atelier(kunst)spielraum
Susanne Prinz -  Verein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz
Peter Lang - independent curator
Elena Gilbert- independent curator
Sophie Goltz - independent curator
Susanne Husse - Note on
Lily Khositashvii- independent curator
Nora Mayr, Marie Graftieaux and Gilles Neiens- insitu 
Annette Schemmel - independent curator
Dr. Constanze von Marlin - Junge Kunst e.V. Wolfsburg (Kunstverein) 
Anja Henckel, Nadim Samman - import projects

GUESTS
Julia Hartmann - REH Kunst, independent curator

HOW TO APPLY?
1. Download and consult the Curator's menu below. Choose your prefered curators. 
2. Download and fill in the Application Form below
3. Include a PDF portfolio with no more than 10 pages (images 72dpi). Artists applying with a video works can send up to 3 links.
4. Include a short CV
5. Transfer application fee of 10 euro 
6. Send your application to info@bpigs.com with the subject line Portfolio Viewing.

- See more at: http://www.bpigs.com/projects/speed-portfolio-viewing-iv#sthash.q89Xj8nZ.dpuf

Speed Portfolio Viewing

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How Did I Do It

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Isobel Gowdie (text Maria Santos pictures courtesty of Isobel Gowdie)

Berlin is dressing up for the Fashion Week. No matter whether it rains or snows, if you are still under an after-Christmas financial recovery plan or just far from looking like the shape of a cigarette. Apart from the official dates, there is plenty of equally attractive side activities as, for instance, the Vintage Fashion Fair. And if you just happen to stand for high quality vintage and designer items, Isobel Gowdie is definitely your thing. Right in the middle of Mitte's most selective yet high stylish shopping area, this off store run by artists Iris van Dongen and Martin Skauen combines haute couture and catwalk brands with art editions and design furniture.

It's just pure passion for beautiful things what pushed both of them to open a clothing store in a courtyard of Alte Schönhauser Str. 39. Always aiming to offer a fair price for handpicked items mostly from France and Holland, the list of selling brands include such well known names as Isabel Marant, Dries van Noten, Missoni, Margiela, Daisy Kroon, Humanoid, APC, Acne and many more.

(read full article here: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-met-isobel-gowdie)

Have you met...  Isobel Gowdie

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met... Jesper Dyrehauge and Lotte Mølle  of die raum… (text Maria Santos, pictures courtesy of die raum)

There is a certain exhibition space in the middle of a jungle ruled by proud stroller-pushing parents and compulsive coffee drinkers that really worth a visit to the heart of Prenzlauer Berg.

die raum is a 5 m2 exhibition space in the multifunctional house in Oderberger Straße 56 designed by BARarchitekten.

Run by Jesper Dyrehauge and Lotte Møller, they are just celebrating their first anniversary after eight exhibitions and a reasonable amount of fun.

They claim to be the smallest art space with the biggest flyer: for each exhibition they produce a poster in collaboration with the exhibiting artist that is also part of their concept.

 

But the danish curator combo has very different backgrounds and fields of work. Lotte studied Art History before landing in Berlin. Her work comprises writing and dealing with artists in terms of production, while Jesper is an artist himself. He has worked in public space before, but now primarely works with a variation on painting using different printing techniques.

I met them in Oderberger Straße and we talked about artist salaries, modernism and, how they get by with a little help from their friends, as the song goes.

 (read full article: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-met-die-raum)

Have you met...  Jesper Dyrehauge and Lotte Mølle  of die raum

Off space / Artist run space / Project space / Independent / Non Profit / Temporary / Contemporary / Avant Garde / Hype / Playground / Cool…

Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… (text Rachel Simkover, pictures courtesy of Cell63)

The story behind origins of the Cell63 art gallery is unique. Luisa Catucci worked in Italy as an illustrator and graphic designer before moving to Berlin seven years ago (when Berlin wasn’t as popular as it is today). She wanted to have an atelier for herself with a showroom so she could display her own work. Her friends were impressed with the space and asked to show there as well. Luisa had involuntarily become a curator and gallery director, and she realized that she really liked organizing shows and that is how Cell 63 came about. The project has been in its current location for 2.5 years. Recently Luisa has started bringing Cell 63 to art fairs including the Kunstsalon Berlin, Art Verona in Northern Italy, and the Blooom fair in Cologne.

(read more: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-metluisa-catucci)

Have you met...Luisa Catucci of Cell63

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Stedefreund (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

On the occasion of one of the most exciting re-openings of this season, I met director Anne Fäser and artist Kerstin Gottschalk from the collective that comprises the artist-run space Stedefreund.

If there is something that can certainly define the spirit of this group is their passion for space-hopping. Now celebrating their fifth anniversary, they are coming back after a little break with a new group show at their brand new space, housed in a former garage from the DDR near Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

The group was originally founded by twenty artists, mostly students from the art school Berlin Weißensee, but the number of members disminished over the years to the current amount of eight. Right after graduating, the idea of promptly starting to exhibit triggered these eager young artists to find a place for Stedefreund.

However Anne comes from a different background. After completing studies in Art History and Art Pedagogy, she works as Kunstvermittlerin, what we could call an “art mediator”. Other artists names involved in this project would include: Stefka Ammon, Astrid Busch, Nicole Degenhardt, Anne Gathmann, Surya Gied, Kerstin Gottschalk, Marlena Kudlicka, Rebecca Michaelis, Julia Prezewowsky, Marcel Prüfert, Katja Pudor, Alexandra Schumacher and Julia Staszak, who besides of being active Stedefreunde, also carry on with their parallel works and exhibitions for other galleries.

Their address change every 2 to 2,5 years, what means that they have been already located in several places, including Rosenthaler Platz (whose grey walls were sort of a trade mark), as well as in Dorotheenstraße, and now in the courtyards of Saarbrückerstraße 6-8, where they are getting ready for the big opening of the groupshow Space Release #1 tonight at 19.00.

(read full article: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-met-stedefreund)

Have you met... Stedefreund

Off space / Artist run space / Project space / Independent / Non Profit / Temporary / Contemporary / Avant Garde / Hype / Playground / Cool…

Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Christiane Grüß / 7hours (text by Rachel Simkover pictures by 7hours)

Christiane Grüß, born in Freiberg, studied theater and economics and worked as a nurse before founding 7hours. While working in the pathological museum in Berlin in the late 80s the relation of the display of anatomical specimens to art became clear, both were focused on form and questioning. She started organizing exhibitions in the museum to spotlight the collection and the importance of thinking about the self and the body. There were, however limitations with working in this scientific setting, so Christiane decided to move into the center of the art field, to NYC, where the first permutation of 7hours took place.


Also before relocating to the current location at HAUS 19 in 2005, 7hours occupied the tower, an impressive four floors and attic of the Märkisches Museum, beginning in 2001. The director at the time was interested in filling the space and exploring the potential of bringing contemporary art into a more historical context. The senate was asking to close the tower and some historians in the museum were not supportive of the project, but thankfully the director was persistent and Christiane was able to curate six TURM shows.

(read full article: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-metchristiane-gr%C3%BC%C3%9F)

Have You Met…Christiane Grüß / 7hours

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams/ Certain Sundays (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

Today we are having a music interlude in this section. This time I would like to introduce you to Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams, the curators behind Certain Sundays.

Heenan (Washington D.C., 1969) and Williams (San Diego, 1981) first met in California, but their careers followed different paths before they bumped into each other again in Berlin, where they decided to work together in this project.

Both organizers (also composers and performers themselves) conceived Certain Sundays as a monthly salon focusing in experimental music and sound where the audience would be highly encouraged to participate.

(read full article: http://bpigs.com/node/581)



Have You Met… Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams / Certain Sundays

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Heiko Pfreundt (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

Just a few days earlier than the Venice Biennale, Kreuzberg Pavillon first opened its doors in Liegnitzerstr., where Heiko's own atelier was initially meant to find a place. After one month and having realized how many people were observing from outside, he decided to open the space to the public.

Heiko Pfreundt has been closely related to art since quite a while. He first studied Art Pedagogy before completing studies in Visual Communicationl in Bremen. Instead of becoming a designer, he devoted himself to the arts and moved to Berlin after getting his degree, where he would work for several institutions. Between 2008 and 2009 he would get involved in Jet Kunstverein, an artist run space where he claims to have gained lots of experience and contacts. He also took part of the Glogauair residency program and worked as a culture manager before following his dream: to open his own space in Kreuzberg. Currently relocated in Neukölln, he is now sharing space with another Kreuzberg-inmigrant, Alessandro from Skalitzer140, because neighborhood-wandering is part of the concept.

According to Heiko, Kreuzberg Pavillon Neukölln can't be categorized as a gallery or whatever-space. It's meant to be the Pavillon.

 (read full article: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-met-heiko-pfreundt)

Have you met... Heiko Pfreundt /Kreuzberg Pavillon

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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Diego Castro and Eva May from Gitte Bohr  (Text by Rachel Simkover and pictures by Gitte Bohr)

Diego Castro and Eva May are preparing for the upcoming exhibition of Franziska Wildt’s work in their space Gitte Bohr: Galerie für Kunst und politisches Denken opening this Thursday, the 10th of November at 7pm. They took some time out of their busy schedules to answer some questions about their space and pose for a photo with a sculpture by Wildt, providing us with a sneak peek of their next show.

First, it would be great if you could tell me a bit about yourselves.

We are of Danish, German and Spanish decent and our backgrounds are visual art, anthropology and cultural theory. We have been employed by large art institutions, commercial galleries and art academies and have lived in London, Geneva, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, before settling in Berlin about 1 year ago. In short, we are highly educated people in precarious economic situations. (read full article: http://bpigs.com/diaries/have-you-metdiego-castro-and-eva-may)

Have you met... Diego Castro and Eva May from Gitte Bohr

A monthly suggested reading list of art-related printed matter all of which, for your convenience, can be found in Berlin!

Book Hook: Occupy the Art World?

by Rachel Simkover

Before your eyes is the second installment of the latest supplement to the BPIGS blog, in which I, an avid reader, collector, and book browser, provide you with a suggested reading list composed of art related books found in Berlin.

Considering all of the occupations of cities that have spread worldwide, the books on this week’s list address the relationship between art and politics. Do not worry, there will be no discussion here of Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics; instead, these works are less theoretical and more tangible. As demonstrated by recent protesters, the 99% is fed up with corporate greed and the unequal distribution of wealth. Is this issue relevant to the art world? What about the 99% of artists that don’t “make it big” and possess a tiny fraction of the wealth within the art market?
(read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/book-hook-occupy-art-world)

Book Hook: Occupy the Art World?

A monthly suggested reading list of art-related printed matter all of which, for your convenience, can be found in Berlin!

Book Hook: Alien Invasion!

by Rachel Simkover

 

I am sure that everyone had their fair share of Halloween activities this past weekend, so instead of a supernatural booklist, I have decided to go extraterrestrial. Maybe you are bored with, disappointed in, or ambivalent towards this planet, so this week’s list will at the outset take you elsewhere, but these selections will ultimately bring you back to Earth in order to reflect on what is happening down here.

Do aliens have the same problems we do?

Alien Nation(2006) is a catalogue for a show of the same name organized by London’s Institute for Contemporary Art that addresses the relationships between science fiction, race, and contemporary art. The twelve international artists chosen for the exhibit use the language of science fiction as a metaphor for ‘otherness’ and the threat of the outsider. In addition to the documentation of artworks, sci-fi film posters and film stills are interspersed throughout the book, extending the mingling of fiction and fact. (available at Archive Kabinett)

(read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/book-hook-alien-invasion)

Book Hook: Alien Invasion!

Book Hook

by Rachel Simkover

Welcome to the newest addition to the BPIGS blog, a weekly suggested reading list of art-related printed matter all of which, for your convenience, can be found in Berlin! But first, who am I, and what are my qualifications for providing you with reading suggestions? Born and raised in California and educated in the fine arts and humanities in upstate New York, I moved to Berlin for a much-needed change of scenery. I am passionate about books (and print media in general) and dream of one day possessing the ultimate artist book collection. Until then, I will provide a weekly list of books on my wishlist.

The selections for this week address the relationship between the printed publication and the Internet, an obviously appropriate topic for a blog column about print.

I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures(2011) is an accompaniment to the Infodecodata exhibition at the Graphic Design Museum. The essays by 82 artists, authors, curators, and designers address the issues surrounding the current production and consumption of information. The essays are concise, and each approach to the subject is unique, therefore in keeping with our decreasing attention spans and increasing information consumption skills. Given that new reading technologies allow us to highly customize our reading experiences, the collection is cleverly available in print (at Bücherbogen) and online (http://www.ireadwhereiam.com/), challenging the reader right from the start to take sides on the matter at hand: print or screen?
(read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/book-hook-intersection-internet-and-book)

Book Hook Intersection Internet and Book

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   Have You Met… Suvi Lehtinen (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

She landed in Berlin almost three years ago. Before starting the gallery under her name in Mitte, she would trace a long academic path from Finland via London and New York. Suvi first got her BA in Art History and then her Masters degree in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College before moving to New York, where she would spend four and a half years keeping herself occupied with another masters in International Relations and working at the Center for Humanities at the City University of New York.

She then co-founded Kuma Galerie in 2009, a project with a completely different program from what she is doing now, that served as a good training process for the gallery that she later on in 2010 would open in the same place in Novalisstrasße 7, this time under her only supervision. (read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/have-you-met-suvi-lehtinen)

Have you met... Suvi Lehtinen

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   Have You Met… Anna-Catharina Gebbers (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

I'm almost sure that you have met her before. In fact you probably took part in a project that she curated.

Remember the A0 posters at ex tip-Berlin-Shop during Gallery Weekend? Yes? Then you're in the right track, because she is behind Wert/Sache.

Prior to that and Bibliothekswohnung, Anna-Catharina completed studies in philosophy, german language and literature, sociology and psychology. She worked for six years at Produzenten Galerie in her hometown, Hamburg, before definitely moving to Berlin and getting involved in a handful of projects. Her practice is in fact very varying. She seems to be quite skilled in multitasking: she occupies herself with plenty of curatorial work: Zabludowicz Collection London, Forgotten Bar and several international galleries and institutions, including names such as Milica Tomic, Thomas Schütte or Santiago Sierra. While she's also a free writer, editor for Polar Magazine, a member of the Institut für Wissenschaft und Kultur and administrative and council member at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. (read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/have-you-met-anna-catharina-gebbers)

Have you met... Anna-Catharina Gebbers

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   Have You Met… Urs Küenzi (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

Since nights falls like big pianos lately, you can get the impression that days are shorter. But you can also grasp the best of Berlin evenings in venues with late opening hours like Subtitut (Fridays open until 21.00!).

Art theoretician and independent curator Urs Küenzi established this non-profit independence space in 2007 after three years of experience at White Space, which he founded in Zürich.

After getting his degree in Art Theory at the university in Zürich, and noticing the huge gap in swiss art in the Berlin art scene, he decided to open Substitut, where he assumes all the curatorial works, but also sporadically invites other curators to offer them the possibility of doing something on their own. (read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/have-you-met-urs-k%C3%BCenzi)

Have you met... Urs Küenzi

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   Have You Met… Malte Zacharias (by Rachel Simkover photos courtesy of Laura Gianetti)

   When I approached the address of Gartenstudio at Naunynst. 53, I was a bit unsure if I had arrived at my destination because the decal on the door labeled the space as an architect’s office. I peeked inside to see what was going on and was greeted by Malte Zacharias, one of the collaborators behind Gartenstudio, who was sitting on the floor with three children, working on a ceramics project.... (read full article http://bpigs.com/projects/have-you-metmalte-zacharias)

Have you met... Malte Zacharias

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    Have You Met….. Minken & Palme (by Maria Santos)

   The closest I have been to know them was meeting Georg Parthen and Nicolas Wollnik at their so-named space in Köpenickerstr. 159.

   Their paths crossed in Essen while studying Communication Design at the art school. Back in those days they thought that it would be nice to have a space of their own where to materialize common ideas and try out things. After previous solo experiences, they became partners in 2009, moved to Berlin and opened Minken & Palme in January 2010 (read full article: http://bpigs.com/projects/have-you-met-minken-palme)


Have you met... Minken & Palme

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Have you met..... Scotty Enterprises
(by Maria Santos)


This time I met Ulrike Ludwig, who spoke on behalf of the artist collective behind the Kreuzberg Gallery Scotty Enterprises. She is currently having a solo show at their space, what means that I also met the artist and saw her work, two birds with one stone................................................

Have you met... Scotty Enterprises

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Have you met... Stefania Angelini

Have you met... Susanne Prinz

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