At Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin there is right now a very cool and very inspiring photo exhibition Dennis Hopper – The Lost Album. More than 400 photos taken by Hopper in the 1960’s. Originally exhibited in the US in 1969-70, and now for the first time in Europe. The photos all taken from Hopper was 25 until he
On April 29, 2013 International Dance Day, also known as World Dance Day, is celebrated all over the world. The day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute. The date was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre, who was born in 1727, a French dancer
In the soon coming November days 22 and 23 Lower East are the hosts of a Urban Safari in Berlin. We have two to three seats left, so if you are a quick mover, join us for this adventure. Maybe you can even get a reduced price 😉 Lower East – in co-opreation with changels – invite you
Today KiC – Kunsthåndværk i Cenrtrum opens in Ridehuset Aarhus. KiC is a censored arts and crafts market, which presents arts and crafts, that unfold in the field between art and design. More than 60 designers are represented. On the market you can find textiles, jewelry, glass, ceramics etc. Christmas shopping can start here. Lower
If in Aarhus, you have the chance to meet three fantastic lions! “The sculptor Claus Ørntoft has just completed a major sculptural installation for Marselisborg Palace Park in Aarhus which will be unveiled at a ceremony on Friday 26 October 2012 at 15:00. The work, a gift to H.M Queen Margrethe II from Aarhus Municipality
Lower East are very proud of having designed the graphic material for the huge Edvard Munch exhibition that is shown in ARoS Aarhus Art museum. We designed the big exhibition book and a great wall biography in the exhibition room as well as brochures. The exhibition is amazing and absolutely wonderful – we highly recommend
European Glass Context 2012 forms part of a biennial symposium for European contemporary glass and ceramics on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. Through comprehensive exhibitions, workshops, master classes and lectures, an opportunity will arise to discuss and present the best of contemporary European glass today. This event is motivated by a desire to promote the
Berlin is a vibrant metropole, a melting pot of young entrepreneurs and fresh ideas, funky design and inspiring inviting atmospheres. A perfect spot to be diving into, make you smile, think of old and new ideas, wonder about how f*** crazy some ideas can be and simply enjoy the love for new, small and bigger
Right now there are two exhibitions at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. Lower East rushed through the museum/kulturhaus, we suddenly had that one extra hour to spend with Meister Paul Klee. The first exhibition, Master Klee! Teacher at the Bauhaus, “is organised in accordance with the 24 chapters of Klee’s teaching. For each chapter a selection
We rush in to bring the last post from dOCUMENTA (13). We spend some good hours just being, looking, listening and exploring this very cool project: 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House: (text from the documenta webpage) “In collaboration with a team of development workers-in-training from Chicago and from Kassel, Theaster Gates is restoring and
It’s closing time. dOCUMENTA (13) are closing the doors for the exhibition in Kassel, Germany on September 16. Be there – or you will have to wait until 2017 for the next documenta. If you manage to go there this week, you just HAVE TO see the William Kentridge installation ‘The Refusal of Time’. Five
Danish newspaper Politiken just gave a fantastic review of the Border Crossing at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark – five hearts out of six. Once again we suggest you to check the thematic exhibition that touches on contemporary migration issues in films and videos by some of the world’s foremost visual artists/film and video directors out, exhibition
Second post from Lower East’s Documenta (13). Study for Strings, a atmospheric sound installation by the artist Susan Philipsz, based on Pavel Haas’ Study for Strings from 1943. At the end of platform 13 at the former Hauptbahnhof, which is today only in marginal use, we listened quietly to the artist’s work mixing up with the railway noise
There’s a big thing going around these days: The dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition in Kassel, Germany. From mid-June until mid-September, 100 days to be precise. Lower East went there and we were really impressed, almost blown away. Art all over Kassel! We managed to see maybe one-tenth of the exhibitions, most likely less. We had some
If somehow you still are in Odense, Denmark, or if you find your way to the hometown of H.C. Andersen before August 26 you must go and see the exhibition ‘Out and Look’ with hundreds of pictures by the excellent danish photographer Viggo Rivad at Museet for Fotokunst at Brandts. At the day Lower East checked out
“It is excellent video art“. This weeks art experience according to the newspaper Politiken. Maybe you should drop by Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark? Lower East is checking the exhibition “Border Crossing“ out now.
Today is the day! Today the exhibition Border Crossing will open at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense Denmark. Lower East finished the design work on the catalogue just in time (and hopefully the printing house will keep promises and deliver latest at 4pm). The exhibition will run until September 16 2012. Here we invite you to a
On June 21 the exhibition Border Crossing will open at Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark. Lower East are right now working late hours to finish the catalogue for the exhibition. The exhibition will touch on contemporary migration issues in films and videos by some of the world’s foremost visual artists/film and video directors: Alfredo Jaar (Chile/US), Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan), Aernout
Great poster! Maybe one should take a culture trip to Great Britain? Maybe checking out Turner at National Gallery or Hirst at Tate Modern. Take a look at Visit Britain
Lower East dedicated this weekend to join Berlin’s celebration of Gerhard Richters 80th birthday. Together with our good friend Claus Lembourn we first viewed the huge retrospective exhibition at Neues Nationalgalerie “Gerhard Richter: Panorama”. It was breathtaking. We were thrilled by the way the exhibition was curated and designed and the museum – drawn by