Painting Reality is the work of Dutch performance artist IEPE and an anonymous crew who on April 25 2010 ‘dumped’ 500 cans of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint onto the asphalt of the busy junction, Rosenthaler Platz, in Berlin and let passing cars do the rest. The result a giant Pollock-esque painting of coloured – red, yellow, [...]

www.mauer-mob.com On a previous post we mentioned the project “Recreating the Berlin Wall”, a massive flash mob art action project initiated by Martin Butler, a unique and participatory event that aims to recreate the full length of the once dividing wall with the presence of 33,000 people from 8 – 8.30 pm on November 9 [...]

A team of seven researchers/artists led by visual artist Simon Faithfull have set up an unique mobile research station in Berlin to investigate existing urban waste ground in down town Berlin. Mobile Research Station No.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster – built from standard waste container, the [...]

Marcia Caines Palais Des Festivals © Mipim 2009 In view of the financial crisis, the 20th MIPIM international property fair was inevitably different to past years. The annual 20 year-old event, a property sector institution based in Cannes that brings together thousands of delegates – architects, developers, agents and other property professionals – from all [...]

strong>DMY Berlin, contemporary design platform founded in 2003 by Berlin’s leading creative thinkers, will be holding the DMY International Design Festival this year from 3 – 7 June in Berlin. The interdisciplinary design festival part exhibition, part fair, describes itself as having become an annual “scene-meeting place, trend barometer, design laboratory and playground”. Since its [...]