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Berlin Independents Guide is an artist-run communications platform for project spaces, galleries, and independent initiatives in Berlin. We offer three types of membership for art spaces:
regular, non-profit , and adopt a project space (gallery is "adopting" the costs of a project space)

For more information please check www.bpigs.com/members

02/09/2025

Losing clients left and right here. But it is ok.

02/09/2025

Tips this Week Opening this Thursday, Sep. 4, 18 hr .haus

Reading Performance at 19 hr with Anke Dyes, Inka Meißner, and Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson.

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Printed in a limited edition of 555 copies, “Quotes about Books from Books about Books—Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition” will be released on 4 September 2025 in conjunction with the exhibition at einBuch.haus in Berlin.

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“Quotes about Books from Books about Books” is an artists’ book, an exhibition, and a library of books about books, including periodicals, journals, exhibition catalogues, zines, monographs, and artists’ books spanning 1974–2025. Edited and compiled by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson , the project presents 148 quotes drawn from his archive of printed matter that reflects on the book as medium, material, and metaphor.

The selected quotes address themes such as the economic realities of production, freedom of the press, authorship, and the artist’s book as a political object. The project also considers the book as an exhibition space, an object that resists categorization, and a self-reflexive medium. Some quotes and illustrations further reflect on the materiality of books in more abstract or experimental terms. At its core, the project engages with long-standing debates around what a book is—or might be—questions that continue to shape contemporary publishing practices.

Subtitled “Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition”, the publication resists conventional ordering, unfolding according to its own internal logic. Through excerpting, recontextualizing, and cataloguing, it explores how books articulate their own conditions of production, distribution, and reception.

02/09/2025

Tips this Week! Opening Thursday Sept 5th OSZILLATIONEN (OSCILLATIONS) between order and chaos Hans-Peter Klie and Andreas Schmid
Opening: 05.09.25, 7 pm Exhibition: 06.09.–04.10.25

extra opening hours
Sun., 07.09.25 + 14.09.25, 2 –6 pm
Thu., 11.09.25, 3 – 7 pm
Sat., 13.09.25, 4 – 8 pm

In contrast to many Western traditions, in which chaos and order are seen as opposites, Far Eastern philosophies tend to dissolve this polarity into a greater whole. While modern chaos theory defines the limits of determination from within from a scientific perspective, Far Eastern philosophy offers a holistic framework in which chaos and order can be understood as complementary aspects of reality.  Far Eastern philosophy can therefore offer an alternative to the deterministic world view that has long dominated Western science. It enables an understanding in which the world oscillates between order and chaos without one of the two principles being regarded as fundamentally superior or desirable.  In their joint concept, Hans-Peter Klie and Andreas Schmid create an interplay of components that utilises metaphors as a connecting element in terms of form and content, illustrating that the world oscillates between order and chaos.

28/08/2025

Next Friday September 5th

We are very pleased to invite you to our NO:BOOKS presentation at SUPALIFE KIOSK () Berlin

On Friday, September 5, 2024, we will proudly present the publications created so far as part of the NO:BOOKS publishing platform. You can look forward to “No Drone Zone” (a silkscreen book) and “No Solo” (a linocut book)!

For these book projects, around 24 artists came together to create high-quality print graphics using the techniques of screen printing and linocut, shaping them into two original graphic books.

We would love to celebrate this special occasion with you!
Yours, NO:BOOKS

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*WHERE
/ Raumer Straße 40 / 10437 Berlin

*WHEN
Opening: September 5, 2024 / 5:00 PM
*/September 5 — September 26, 2025/*

Poster / Artwork

28/08/2025

We made our first meme 😁

27/08/2025

Sat, 30 Aug 19:00-Sun, 31 Aug 2025 7:00 at HILDEGARD: Learning to listen in the long dark: a vigil

*reminder: Intentionally Hildegard has no social media presence. You can reach them the old fashioned way.

"We are entering the long dark. I use that term not negatively at all. I use it alchemically, because certain things can only happen in darkness. We are in a time of decay, a time of collapse, a time of endings, a time of sheddings. These are necessary." Francis Weller

Let us gather again to continue the practice of bearing witness through a late summer night. Preparing food and an altar, taking a walk in the woods and with plenty of time for simply sitting together on the earth around the fire in silence, let us surrender to the alchemy of the dark. Together we can explore ways to expand our capacity for being with the losses and uncertainties of these times - taking refuge in elemental embodiment, the wisdom of plants, and the superpowers of compassion, curiosity and solidarity – in communion with the other creatures of the night.

With Siegmar Zacharias and Lucy Powell

We invite you to think about what you want to dedicate this vigil to. Collectively we can stay present to it. We do ask you to commit to the full duration of the vigil, but napping is totally fine!

Places are limited and can be reserved HERE, free of charge
https://siegmarzacharias.com/
https://lucy-powell.com/
image: Daniel Dietz

27/08/2025

Tips this Week: Selin Davasse
Corpus Iuris Artis: II. The Hearing, Opening and Performance

The law is a fragile performance, it relies on speech acts: swearing to tell the truth, telling a self-serving version of the truth, making up the truth along the way, surviving the holes being poked in our truth, trying to get to the truth at whatever cost.

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Opening & Performance 30.8.2025, 19.00
Selin Davasse
Corpus Iuris Artis: II. The Hearing

Image credit: Video still courtesy Selin Davasse & soft power.

25/08/2025

It's time!!! From Wednesday this week, Berlin Atonal ’25 extends deep into the night across Tresor, Globus and OHM, hosting some of the festival’s most adventurous club sets and live shows.⁠
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Tresor anchors the harder edges of the programme with acts like Civic Instruction (Hadone & UFO95), Rrose, Animistic Beliefs, a special b2b featuring Anthony Linell, DJ Red and Neel, a live show from TYGAPAW and much more. Globus leans into dub-inflected explorations and new b2bs, with appearances from Djrum, DJ Pete b2b Calibre, Mia b2b Reni, Vlada b2b Skee Mask, Significant Other and Marylou, alongside Facta & K-LONE, Pinch and Martyn. OHM is, as always, the most intimate setting, pairing premieres and special projects with close-quarters intensity. Highlights include live shows from LAMB K305, Mouth Wound, Wrecked Lightship, St Agnis, Nexus and Gombeen & Doygen, alongside sets from Gavsborg, Baba Sy b2b Opoku, MBODJ, sofiii, Lil M**o, STILL, livwutang, gyrofield and plenty more across each of the five festival nights.⁠
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Tickets on the door for each night, while pre-sales still available at Resident Advisor. Tap the link in bio for more info. ⁠
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21/08/2025

Tips next week! Save the Date and don't miss this one In exactly 1 week - Thursday August 28, doors open at 6 and performance at 7 - is✨:

Human Mycelium a performance and textile installation by Thomas De Falco , created especially for the Kunstverein at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.

Like mycelium in the soil, the work weaves a network of threads, gestures, and sounds, telling of closeness, touch, and loss. From reused materials, a fragile landscape emerges in which three bodies move slowly, organically, always striving for contact without ever completing it. Music by Francesco Fusco permeates this space of longing and interconnectedness.

Human Mycelium opens a place for slowness, fragility, and care. It is an invitation to sense the invisible ties between humans and nature.✨
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Performers: Marie Zechiel , Bien Adami , Shaun Monahan | Music/Sound: Francesco Fusco | Assistant: Sonnhild Maria Schietzel | ✨

Curated by Chiara Valci Mazzara✨

📷: „Body“, textile sculpture, cotton and silk thread, socks and undergarments (detail), 2025 © Thomas De Falco

📌📌📌📌 The performance starts 7pm sharp and lasts about one hour. As space is limited, please reserve in advance. Without a reservation, entry is strictly first come, first served. The installation remains open until 9pm

RSVP: [email protected] or [email protected]📌📌📌

21/08/2025

Register now for Printing with the natural world / Berlin 13 & 14 September workshop kenny

What happens when foraged plant inks interact with riso printing?

April Gertler and Lucila Kenny invite you to a two day workshop to encounter materials and methods in a variety of new ways to make new images blending chemistry, technique and intuition.

There will be multiple parts to the 2 day workshop :

- a walk in Neukölln, foraging for seasonal colour and make plant inks.

- introduction to Riso printing
- collage with both natural and printed materials while exploring plant inks

- make a one page double sided zine in an edition of 12 which will interconnect these two different methods of using colour and image

Date: September 13 & 14 (Sat & Sun)

Time: 11:00 - 17:00

Location: WIRWIR, Stuttgarter Str. 56, 12059 Berlin-Neukölln
Price: € 120 (materials and lunch included)
Group: max. 7
Link www.lucilakenny.com

21/08/2025

Our editor in chief comments: OF COURSE they are letting POC women lead the way out of the cultural rabbit hole; the political and moral wasteland that is Germany right now, and curate a diverse show that will ruffle zero feathers, walk the line on the code of conduct*, and ultimately stay mute on Palestine.
Premature? Maybe. But this was my initial reaction to reading this news, and judging from the comments on these threads, I am not the only one.

Naomi Beckwith, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng: Say hello to Documenta’s first all-female artistic team. (Do we still need to celebrate firsts for women in 2025? This is the third female curator. This is an editorial cry for help. You know what was really exciting and was censored and disrupted mercilessly? The first Global South art collective curating a show with art collectives.

Link to article in bio
Link to more information on the documents code of conduct also in bio

20/08/2025

Love getting all the September shows in!! Save the Date

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