PICTURE BERLIN

A huge thank you to and Joe Neave for the fabulous artist talk last night .
It was great to see and hear about your work!

Back in Berlin, residents had an excellent long afternoon at the current show at .
The social practice oriented retrospective is extremely interactive and left us feeling happy.
Played ping pong, pretended we were in a band, received FREE t-shirts freshly screen printed, and got haircuts by Elisa.
💜⚡️

(Pics by , .k.sims_ and )

The fifth location we managed to see while on our tour in Barcelona was the gorgeous Gustavo Gili.
The space held and contextualized important archives by many groups of more marginalized people who live and work in Barcelona.
The history is rich and multilayered- what a diverse and fantastic collection.
One highlight was definitely the work by ⚡️⚡️⚡️(last slide).

We had another amazing day at Manifesta 15! .antoniodelgadogarcia gave us a tour through the project he collaborated on with the artist
We played the game in the exhibition to create our ideal city - was a lot of fun and the conversation with Jose was wonderful.
Thank you so much .antoniodelgadogarcia for your generosity and kindness!

goes to Barcelona!! We are here for the with the current student residents from ⚡️⚡️⚡️
We had the utmost pleasure of meeting with who extremely generously gave us a tour of her work at one of the phenomenal Manifesta 15 locations: Casa Gomis in El Prat de Llobregat
We dipped our toes in the ocean and then headed to The Three Chimneys in Sant Adrià de Besòs ⚡️⚡️⚡️
We were especially taken by the work of and 💕☀️
We ended our day watching the astonishing moon rise. 🌖
Today we head to Cal Quitèria and the Monastey of Sant Cugat!

The current residents (all grad students from ) have been here since mid September.
Last night was the first artist talk/dinner. We had a really lovely and insightful evening with .grison - a screenwriter - as he meticulously walked us through the different components of the film The Dam (still in slide 2) which just was recently released.

This Fall semester , in collaboration with .institut, is working with Monae Sims, Lely Soy and Rick Li, 3 graduate students from based in Syracuse, NY.
They will be showing their work this evening at .institut at Open Studios.
If you happen to be in Wedding (Schererstraße 10) from 19h onward, stop by and say hi!

(Image stills from )

TRANSPORTAL - the group exhibition is now open!
Five of the six international artists are present!
Come stop by tonight for the opening - and if you can’t come by this evening- the show is open tomorrow and Sunday from 14-19h both days!

TRANSPORTAL
PICTURE BERLIN GROUP EXHIBITION

Opening: Friday, 13 September from 18h
with Laura Arena / Sofia Bergmann / Cynthia Bittenfield / Johanna Evans /
Hounyeh Kim / Macy Lee
Portals are transportive - An entrance to new dimensions, worlds and times. With visual explorations layering tangible and digital mediums, opening doors to new spaces or wrinkles in time, the PICTURE BERLIN GROUP EXHIBITION brings together multidisciplinary artists who have opened new portals in their artistic research, whether energetic, material and creative, or journalistic and historic. Exploring how varying practices, color-relationships, geographic mappings, multidimensional compositions, mass media and human stories speak about our times, the past and future, these artists have come together from different corners of the world to present their visual transportations at WIRWIR during Berlin Art Week.
WIRWIR, Stuttgarter Str. 56, 12059 Berlin-Neukölln

We had an amazing 2 part Risograph Workshop with students from California College of the Arts in collaboration with last week which was partly a PICTURE BERLIN program.
The students made a collective zine called Ich bin ein Berliner.
Thank you for collaborating with us!

We are taking a Summer Break!
But stay tuned for our Fall Sninanigams!

Yesterday was the last day of our Spring Online Session;
YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION
Thank you to the curators who did online portfolio reviews; Power Ekroth, Dorothée Nilsson, Sagal Farah and Daniel Neugebauer!
A huge thank you to our residents for making the session as dynamic and exciting as it was; Cynthia Bittenfield, Johanna Evans, Hounyeh Kim, Macy Lee and Naohiro Madea!
Finally a massive thanks to all of the fantastic artists and cultural workers who offered talks, discussions, workshops and support; Jeremiah Day, Onika Simon, Rafael Soldi, Ilyn Wong, Mauro Giaconi, Heiko Pfreundt, Lisa Schorm, & Ayala Gazit!
Finally lots of thanks to Hannah Goldstein and April Gertler for making it happen!
Stay tuned for our next Session!

first participated in back in 2015 and since then she participated in our 2019 festival celebrating 10 years of PICTURE BERLIN.
YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION is her third Time participating in the program. We are thrilled to have her back. We love connecting with our alums!
Welcome back, Cynthia!!

Macy Lee, originally from the Philippines and currently based in New York City is another current resident in our online Spring Session.
Macy works primarily with storytelling using photography as their main medium.
We are happy to have Macy joining us for this round titled YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION.

Johanna Evans is one of the current Spring Session residents and what’s so exciting about having her in the program is that this is her 3rd time as a PICTURE BERLIN resident! 💕💕💕💕
We are so happy to have her back!
Johanna made this work during our collective online analoge Collage session this week.

Naohiro Madea - Japanese but based in Ansbach, Germany is currently participating in our online Spring Session; YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION.
We are thrilled to have him join us. His work is rooted in photography but often takes a very painterly approach.
The work shown here was made during the second day of the online program which was a collective collage session.
Welcome, Nao!!

We are so happy to be working with; Hounyeh Kim-, one of our new current residents in our online Spring Session; YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION, she originally from Korea but based in Berlin currently.
She created this work during our online collaborative collaging session.
Welcome, Hounyeh!

We are thrilled to start off todays online Spring Session - YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION - with the following incoming residents; and Naohiro Madea
Looking forward to the next meetings which will focus on the professionalising of ones artistic practice through workshopping and support by international professionals in the field of contemporary art.

Today is the last day to apply to online Spring Session!

We hope to help you generate energy and excitement within your own practice with our second chapter of our online program YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION

The second part of the hybrid online session is spread out throughout the month of April (dates: 8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April). We hope to support and inspire you in finding a way to harness your own notions into potions!
We have a great program with a strategy workshop (with Onika Simon), a grant writing workshop (with Jeremiah Day), artist talks and of course, portfolio reviews (with Power Ekroth, Daniel Neugebauer, Dorothée Nilsson, Sagal Farah, Hannah Goldstein and April Gertler)

Application Deadline is 29 March!
Application is at ! Or
find the application at:
www.pictureberlin.org
Program dates:
8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April 2024!




Sheila Hicks, the American born, Paris based artist is unyielding in her ethics—enduring art and meaningful experiences which derive from a conscientious, curious, and ongoing engagement with the material world. Her verve for color, and abstraction are found in her wildly colourful textile based works.

We hope to help you generate energy and excitement within your own practice with our second chapter of our online program YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION

Application deadline is tomorrow!
29 March!

The second part of the hybrid online session is spread out throughout the month of April (dates: 8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April). We hope to support and inspire you in finding a way to harness your own notions into potions!
We have a great program with a strategy workshop (with Onika Simon), a grant writing workshop (with Jeremiah Day), artist talks and of course, portfolio reviews (with Power Ekroth, Daniel Neugebauer, Dorothée Nilsson, Sagal Farah, Hannah Goldstein and April Gertler)

Application Deadline is 29 March!
Application is at ! Or
find the application at:
www.pictureberlin.org
Program dates:
8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April 2024!



(Image: Portrait of Sheila Hicks with her installation from “Foray into Chromatic Zones,” London, 2015. Courtesy of PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo.)

The work of the Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga often manifests as installations, sound, video, and performance. She intentionally confuses truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives and create spaces in which marginal discourse can flourish. As a trained anthropologist and social scientist, she occupies the role of a researcher in her projects. We have been following Kapwani’s work for a long time and have been consistently inspired by her notions.

We hope to help you generate inspiration within your own practice with our second chapter of our online program YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION

The second part of the hybrid online session is spread out throughout the month of April (dates: 8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April). We hope to support and inspire you in finding a way to harness your own notions into potions!
We have a great program with a strategy workshop (with Onika Simon), a grant writing workshop (with Jeremiah Day), artist talks and of course, portfolio reviews (with Power Ekroth, Daniel Neugebauer, Dorothée Nilsson, Sagal Farah, Hannah Goldstein and April Gertler)

Application Deadline is 29 March!
Application is at ! Or
find the application at:
www.pictureberlin.org
Program dates:
8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April 2024!



(Image: Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga by ©Manuel Braun, 2021)

Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer who was active during the Spanish Civil War. We have been very intrigued and simultaneously amazed by this extremely talented photographer who was led through the world by her potions about the urgency of image making.

We hope to help you generate inspiration and also a sense of urgency within your own practice with our second chapter of our online program YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION>

The second part of the hybrid online session YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION will begin in April. We hope to inspire you in finding a way to harness your own notions into potions!
We have a great program with a strategy workshop, a grant writing workshop, artist talks and of course, portfolio reviews.

Find the application on our website
www.pictureberlin.org
or at the link in our bio!
Program dates:
8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April 2024!
Application Deadline is 29 March!


(Image: Portrait of German photographer Gerda Taro (born Gerta Pohorylle, 1910 – 1937) as she works at a typewriter on a desk, Paris, France, 1936. (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images))

Eva Hesse has always been a point of extreme inspiration for us at PICTURE BERLIN.
A German born, American based artist, retained some of the defining forms of minimalism, modularity, and the use of unconventional materials, she created eccentric work that was repetitive in form and shape and very labor-intensive. Her potion lied in the true impact of her artwork which has been her formal, artistic invention: for example, her inventive uses of material, her contemporary response to the minimalist movement, and her ability to usher in the postmodern and postminimalist art movements.

Eva Hesse is an inspiration.
We hope to help you generate inspiration within your own practice with our second chapter of our online program YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION>

The second part of the hybrid online session YOUR NOTION IS YOUR POTION will begin in April. We hope to inspire you in finding a way to harness your own notions into potions!
We have a great program with a strategy workshop, a grant writing workshop, artist talks and of course, portfolio reviews.

Find the application on our website
www.pictureberlin.org
or at the link in our bio!
Program dates: 8 - 10, 22 - 24 and 29 April 2024


(Image: Eva Hesse with her sculpture “Untitled or Not Yet” in her New York studio, 1969, photographed by Hermann Landshoff)