At Fondation Cartier, Paris. Stunning! Last day today.

A photo exhibition at Civilist. Saturday, October 9, 7 pm.

Works by Mode 2 and Superblast. October 7-10 at Studio 44, 19 h, Berlin-Mitte.

New work by Steff Plaetz at the Unlike Gallery. October 8, 19 h.

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SHOOT, Saturday, July 17, 7 pm at Civilist Berlin

Featuring Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Walter Pfeiffer, Boris Mikhailov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jürgen Teller, Mark Borthwick, Ari Marcopoulos, Hiromix, Glynnis McDaris, Linus Bill, Jason Nocito, Yurie Nagashima, Tim Barber, Peter Sutherland, JH Engström, Dash Snow, Kenneth Cappello, Louise Enhörning, Nacho Alegre, Michael Schmelling, Ola Rindal, Paul Schiek, Madi Ju, Jaimie Warren and Thomas Jeppe.

The 10th EMERGEANDSEE Media Arts Fetival is an independent exhibition run by students who feel committed to support filmmakers and media artists and to show their latest work. Have a look at the festival program and drop by for lectures, exhibitions and a closing party – Friday June 18 to Sunday June 20 at the Stattbad Wedding Berlin.

SUNDAY is a one day contemporary art event in Berlin Mitte which will gather some of the most noticeable young galleries from Berlin and other parts of Europe under one roof. SUNDAY will occupy three spacious floors of a brand new building on Rosa Luxemburg Platz designed by BundschuhBaumhauer architects.

May 2 2010, 12-7 pm, Linienstrasse 40, 10119 Berlin.

Created for the London Sci-Fi Film Festival / Life in 2050 Exhibition from 22 April to 04 May 2010 at the Proud Central Gallery.

From March 25th until August 8th 2010, MoMu – Fashion Museum in Antwerp will run the exhibition BLACK – Masters of Black in Fashion and Costume.

The exhibition illustrates the historic phases of the colour black, with examples from painting, historic costume and contemporary fashion by Belgian designers such as Ann Demeulemeester, Olivier Theyskens and Dirk Van Saene as well as the international couture houses of Givenchy, Chanel and Gareth Pugh.

Four years ago, Dr. Lou Robbins found a mug shot and started collecting original images from the dark side of the food world. He found bartenders, cooks, and waiters who had been pushed over the edge and were accused of murder, theft, pimping and pandering, and drunken and disorderly conduct.

Now he presents his collection for the first time to the public in his show “Food Industry Mug Shots 1899-1954”, which opens Friday at Rabelais Books in Portland, Maine. Via

An audiovisual installation during the Mutek festival in Montreal by Olivier Ratsi, Joanie Lemercier and Thomas Vaquié. Via

Photographs by this guy right here.

On the evening of August 28th and August 29th, 2009, Ralph Ammer and five computers will be collaborating in drawing thousands of stick figures onto the walls of Zionskirche in Berlin. What sort of pictures will emerge when a huge crowd of individuals plays by simple social rules? In these digital cave paintings mass phenomena dominate singular protagonists and form moving social images.ss

This year Venice is hosting the 53rd Biennale, which includes an international art exhibition, an architecture exhibition and festivals of contemporary music, dance, and theater – as well as the Venice Film Festival. Official site.

Mr. Superblast and Jay One: “The end of the world is coming February 12th”. This Thursday at the LODOWN Gallery ‘West Berlin’, 7pm.

Casting a Shadow – Alfred Hitchcock and his work.
From January 29 to May 10 at the Filmmuseum Berlin.

Maripolarma is a polaroid excursion of the 80s in New York. Vernissage at Sevenstar Gallery Berlin, Friday, 30th Jan. at 9 pm.

Photography by Olivier Fermariello and Sandro Di Camillo at Gallery Neox. Vernissage Jan 18th, Berlin, Bergmannstraße 59. Via

Coarse Toys hit Berlin with their new designs. 4010 Gallery, tomorrow December 10th, 8pm.

Photographs by Andreas Gehrke, Majo Ertel and David J. Hotz. Kunsthalle m3, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, November 8 to 22.

For more than 50 years Richard Avedon was one of the biggest names in the fashion industry being the first to break down the barrier between so-called serious and non-serious photography. He was employed by Harpers Bazaar, later by Vogue, then in 1992 ended up as the weekly New Yorker’s first regular staff photographer.

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 19 October 2008 to 19 January 2009

An exhibition showing the fantastic work of British graphic designer Alan Aldridge is currently running at the Design Museum in London. Via

Arthur Szyk is considered one of the 20th century’s most important political caricaturists and illustrators. He confronted the threat of National Socialism in his sketches and drawings years before the beginning of the Second World War. The exhibition presents Arthur Szyk’s oeuvre in the form of a representative cross-section which focuses particularly on the artist’s inventive, detailed political caricatures.

29 August 2008 to 4 January 2009, German Historical Museum Berlin

The Tropics – Views from the Middle of the Globe is an exhibition of the Goethe-Institut and the Ethnological Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

12 September 2008 to 5 January 2009, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin

The definitive city guide for the mobile generation: Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Copenhagen. Additional cities to come are London, New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

London architect Zaha Hadid designed the Chanel Mobile Art pavilion, which has already made a stop in Tokyo. The structure is made of lightweight panels that are packed in 51 shippable containers. Each participating artist was asked to create a work that was at least in part inspired by Chanel’s classic 2.55 quilted-style chain handbag.

The pavilion will occupy the Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street NYC, from Oct 20 to Nov 9 2008.

The Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent exhibition comprises drawings, photos, paintings and sculptures from the Man Ray Trust collection in Long Island, New York. The Man Ray Trust collection has never gone on show before. 13 June to 18 August 2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin.

The Vader Project recruits the world’s leading artists to each re-appropriate Darth Vader’s conventional black helmet into an art piece of their own.

Berlin Calling – Photography by Alex Flach at Pool Gallery Berlin. From July 10 to August 9 2008.

London exploded in May with the Cans Festival, a sort of global gathering of stencil art heads unprecedented in scale.

Starting July 4, 2008, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie will feature my favourite photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto in a retrospective of his fascinating work.

Presenting approximately 350 B/W and colour prints by Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi and Newton, the exhibition presents the forerunners and central figures of the classic period of Paparrazi Photography and provides a visual commentary about the evolution of this phenomenon.

The Helmut Newton Foundation, Jebensstrasse 2, 10623 Berlin – Germany
June 19 – November 16 2008

Art Biesenthal III

Vernissage: July 5 2008, 15:00-24:00, Wehrmühlenweg 8, 16359 Biesenthal.

Artists: Roberta Barta, Olivia Berckemeyer, Norbert Bisky, Marcel Bühler, Dennis Feddersen, Carla Guagliardi, Andreas Gehrke, Sabine Gross, Jan Koch, Carsten Kraemer, Alicja Kwade, Via Lewandowsky, Yudi Noor, Katinka Pilscheur, Fabian Reinmann, Thomas Rentmeister, Stefan Riekeles, Vincent Tavenne, Raul Walch, Ina Weber

My Xerox Weighs a Tonne presents the work of 25 photographers and artists from diverse backgrounds. Curators are Misha Hollenbach and Shauna Toohey, the creative team behind the PAM design label.

Participating photographers are Tobin Yelland, Mike O’Meally, Aaron Rose, Max Creasy, Todd James, Ed Templeton, Misha Hollenbach, Max Doyle, Brendon Fowler, Alex Corporan, Raphael Rashid, Renks, Beci Orpin, Ari Marcopoulos, Dion Kovak, Shauna T., Elska Sandor, Dale Nason, Fergadelic, Gen Kay, Ben Sansbury, Micah Handorf, Deanne Cheuk, Sk8thng, Delta

Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, 2021 Sydney, NSW, Australia. July 25 – August 31 2008

40+ creatives were given the task of creating their own interpretation of a cult, classic or obscure film poster from the past. The result is Now Showing, an art exhibition paying homage to more than 70 years of film.

COSH Gallery, Soho, London. PV: Thursday 29th May. 6.30pm—9.30pm. More details here.

Steven Harrington comes to Berlin with his ‘Our Mountain’ traveling art experience on June 7th at the West-Berlin gallery.

Dan Funderburgh shows his work at the Riviera Gallery in Brooklyn.