Berlin
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Just back from a heady few days in Berlin. Man I love that city.
We went for no particular reason. We were debating whether to go to christmas ATP about 2 months back and decided that we wouldn’t, having already been to an ATP in May. After a bit of scouring on the net for cheap flights Berlin was go.
We stayed at the new Circus Hotel which I can highly recommend if you’re going to Berlin. You must get Gabriel to make you a dirty gibson or negroni - that man knows his cocktails.
This trip included a visit to the Kunstgewerbemusuem the museum for the applied arts. It is full of ceramics, furniture, glass, tapestries, clothes, gold and silver work. The museum is in a large complex of museums called Kulturforum that also houses the incredible Gemaldegalerie. The mind blowing collection of early European paintings is something of a must see. When we visited, the museum was virtually empty which I find incredible.
We also went to Hamburger Bahnhof were there was a retrospective of Joseph Beuys, a Warhol exhibition and an exhibition called The Cult Of The Artist. I didn’t really like the exhibition but I think partly is was because all the text was in German and I didn’t have an audio guide. My favourite work was by Richard Jackson entitled Deer Beer. I’ve put a video of it below
A bit of shopping took place and I am now the proud owner of this sewing box which is also full of vintage notions. Hooray for Berlin
