Posted in barcelona on May 20th, 2011
In Barcelona – and indeed in all cities – contemporary art doesn’t always tend to be best represented in the big galleries and museums, with a considerable part of the work of today’s artists being produced in independent spaces which are separate to the large-scale cultural organisations. With this in mind, a new local proposal [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 20th, 2010
When the artist Alberto Prado, after many years of painting in his studio realized that Barcelona was lacking spaces to exhibit works by emerging artists, he decided to open his studio and found a nonprofit association to foster dissemination of art outside the institutional environment, an invaluable platform in the early stages of a career. [...]
Posted in berlin on Sep 6th, 2010
Any discussion of the Steampunk, in my opinion one of the most beautiful underground aesthetics must establish the bases of Steampunk. This artistic movement was born in the 80s as a subgenre of Cyberpunk, and was first mainly a literary genre in which the nihilistic and pulp fiction stories of cyberpunk begin to be set [...]
Posted in berlin on Aug 11th, 2010
There are European countries that where squatting (the occupation of abandoned buildings) is completely normal, and for example in both Germany and the Netherlands the practice is quite common. In Berlin there is a place that was bombed during the Second World War called Tacheles (which in Hebrew means “speaking out”) that after the fall [...]
Posted in berlin on Apr 7th, 2009
Darkness, cold, humidity …anyone tempted? No? Of course, not a lot of Berliners and tourists would be willing to pay for that, but never trust appearances: this could be the experience of a lifetime! The “Berliner Unterwelten eV” (the society for the exploration of the subterranean Berlin) organizes underground guided tours of the city since [...]
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