Berlin - City of Artists

Whether it be illegal street art, expansive installations, provocative action art or quickly jotted paintings, Berlin has an expansive array of art. Recent years have seen the German capital become a mecca for contemporary art. The city inspires artists from around the world and offers them a low cost of living that they greatly appreciate. More than 6,000 professional artists live in Berlin.

Artist Studios in the Court Houses

Since 1983, all sorts of different artists have been working in Wedding’s six court houses. Built in 1912, they are situated between Gerichtstraße and Wiesenstraße....

Emergence Into the Nineties

Since the fall of the Wall, an increasing number of successful artists from around the world have been flocking to Berlin. Most of them come because the others are...

Eradication by the Nazis

The National Socialists banished and murdered many artists whose works were defamed for being “abnormal”. Others were able to flee or left voluntarily. Under the...

Expressionism from the Weimar Republic

As bleak as the Weimar Republic’s political reality was, its illustrious cultural scene experienced a rapid upswing in the 20’s. Through the abolishment of both...

Kulturplus e.V.

The studio area run by kulturplus e.V. contains nine studios. The ateliers are in the rooms of the former Riverboat discotheque at Fehrbelliner Platz.
These...

Max Liebermann

“When you come to Berlin, it’s on the left.” This is how the painter Max Liebermann described the location of his home at Pariser Platz 7, directly next to the...

Olafur Eliasson

Using a non-toxic dye, he coloured the waters of various rivers around the world for his Green River project (1998 – 2001). The reactions of the uninformed public...

Onset of the Renaissance

Under Electors Joachim I and Joachim II, the Renaissance arrived in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Berlin was developed into a central residence and experienced its...

Shrouding of the Reichstag

It is rare that an artistic event in Germany has created as much emotion as the one which was entered into the Bundestag as printed matter 12/6767: On February 25th...

The Frederick-era Boom

The Prussian Academy of Arts was founded in 1696. However, it was the reign of Frederick I - who crowned himself as the King of Prussia in 1701 - that saw the desire...

The “jungen Wilden” in the Wall’s Shadow

In the late 60’s and throughout the 70’s, student-based alternative culture prospered. Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer and...

Thomas Demand

Even though his mother was an art teacher, she was sceptical when he wanted to study art. However, when Thomas Demand’s advanced art course projects for a Bavarian A-...

Chill out in a restaurant along the water

Located directly on the water, this romantic, relaxed and comfortable restaurant is decorated with wooden furniture, old lamps and ornate picture frames. Simply put, Freischwimmer is a cool location in Kreuzberg’s Flutgraben area. The restaurant is in a very old building that was once used for renting and repairing boats. The entrance is directly next to Berlin’s oldest gas station. You can sit outdoors during the summer and indoors during the winter.

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