A chat with... multimedia artist Ján Mančuška
Sadly Ján Mančuška died in Prague at the age of 39 after struggling with illness for a long time. Sam Williams had a chat with him last summer regarding his 2010 Berlin exhibition.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Vanessa Pons
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners... this time with Vanessa Pons, director of the outdoor designer-fashion fair White Market.
View ArticleInterview: Alexander Ridha aka Boys Noize
After establishing Boys Noize Records in 2005, Ridha quickly made a name for himself as one of techno's most influential DJs. Now he has his own stage at Berlin Festival.
View ArticleZombie apocalypse hits Berlin!
OUR PICK! "Vampires are exclusive – but everybody can be a zombie, " according to director Marvin Kren, whose zombie love story Rammbock premiered this week.
View ArticleA chat with... Jason Forrest aka DJ Donna Summer
ECHTZEITMUSIKTAGE! Forrest wears many hats - as a radio/breakcore DJ, owner of the Cock Rock Disco label and founder of Berlin’s confetti-infused Birthday Party nights.
View ArticleInterview: Dor Guez
ON NOW! Arab or Jewish? Israeli photographer/video artist Dor Guez’s ID card says “Jewish”, but his family history is not as straightforward. With his solo exhibition Al Lydd, he paints a...
View ArticleInterview: Oskar Roehler
OUT NOW! Oskar Roehler is used to controversy. After his hate-it-or-love-it 2006 adaptation of Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles, the German director is back with fuel for a final roasting: Jud Süß.
View ArticleA chat with... director Katie Mitchell
Mitchell’s unorthodox directorial style has made her loved and loathed in the British theatre world. Her next project? A multimedia take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie – at Schaubühne.
View ArticleYoko Ono: "I have so much love because the whole world hated me"
INTERVIEW: Yoko Ono’s solo show opened last month at Haunch of Venison with a polysemous title, Das Gift (the poison), and a bullet hole in shattered glass.
View ArticleDiana Durdic & Tasha Arana
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners... we ask Sing Blackbird co-owners to describe their perfect weekend to us.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Daniel Tamayo Astie
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners... this weekend is Daniel Tamayo Astie's, cultural attaché at the Mexican embassy in Berlin and promotor of Mexican culture in Germany.
View ArticleINTERVIEW: director Claire Denis
One of France's most exciting living directors, whose films are currently being screened in a retrospective at Arsenal, gives us an in-depth look at her new film about Africa, White Material.
View ArticleA chat with... Steve Ignorant of Crass
Hardline politics and an urge to take the piss with their wicked sense of humor made Crass legends. Now the most visible member of the band is taking the songs on the road again.
View Article‘‘In England, they called him the ‘Cocktail Lounge Terrorist’’’
INTERVIEW: We speak with Carlos director Olivier Assayas about his new epic about the captivating terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.
View Article“Resistance is always late. If it’s on time, you don’t need it”
Interview: Billy Childish on being Childish. The English artist, punk rocker and prolific novelist explains that "any decent artist either lives outside England or is a weirdo".
View ArticleThe far side of near
A chat with... THOMAS STRUTH. The versatile, famed German photographer goes to the far sides of the planet to bring something to his newest exhibition in Berlin.
View ArticleRight hook, left rook
Germany’s champions take to the ring in Berlin on November 6 for the first ever International German Championships in chessboxing.
View ArticleInterview: director Guy Maddin
At 54, Maddin is not just the world’s most famous Winnipegger – he’s also Canada’s best living filmmaker and this magazine’s favourite avant-garde Kino genius. We caught up with him for a chat.
View Article“You can’t play wimp-rock and dress like a mad man”
A chat with... WhoMadeWho's Tomas Høffding. He talks to us about his new alter ego, BON HOMME.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Marie Tippex-Duncan
Marie Tippex-Duncan is the founder and booking-mama of European music agency Julie Tippex. She spends her days tending to her bands based in Berlin, Paris and London. Here are her tips for a rockstar...
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