An exhibition which deals with the peeling back of layers starting quite literally as the second floor of the house is presented for the first time.

Peter Nencini and Elisa Strozyk explore the textures of the house itself exploring the mid-peel status of the 1930s of building and its DDR legacy. While Daniel Becker creates a beautiful site specific light installation.

Roman Bittner’s intricate Wallpapers will be shown as will Maike Dahl’s modern living silverware.

If you recognise the name Elisa Strozyk, that’s because we have written about her before as well. Elisa was responsible for the creation and installation of the photo-wallpaper and the lightboxes in Fabisch, and with her wonderful “wooden textiles”, won the 2010 Newcomers award at the German Design Prize.

The exhibition at the Direktorenhaus begins on Thursday 23rd September at 7pm. You can find the Direktorenhaus at Am Krögel in Berlin-Mitte, overlooking the river Spree, and it is open from Monday to Saturday, 11am until 7pm.

More Links:
Direktorenhaus Website
Elisa Strozyk

The idea, according to the organisers is to …

show especially developed art projects in Europe-wide Joint Broadcasting Events which aspire to share dreams of the different cities and report about local issues and exchange peoples’ stories and ideas. The media facades will be transformed into local stages and open a global window for cultural and societal processes to create a dialogue and connect the local public virtually with the other places throughout Europe.

Sounds funky. The main locations in Berlin are the Panorama Hall and a large rear projection window at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, which is on the Dorotheenstrasse, not far from Friedrichstrasse Station…take the Tram M1 from Rosenthaler Platz. The Festival will also be using the large Nightscreen Gasometer in the South of Berlin, and the screens of Berliner Fenster, which you can watch on the city U-Bahns.

For more information on the festival, check out the website.

Here’s the video:

AKTION MFFK from Tinderbox on Vimeo.

Here’s the link: AKTION MFFK

Here’s what they say about themselves:

DMY Berlin is an international design network for contemporary product design. At the yearly DMY International Design Festival Berlin both renowned and young, experimental designers launch new products, prototypes and foresighted projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, able to reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.

The designers presenting their work come from all over the world…indeed, the list includes showcases from Buenos Aires, Seoul, the UK and Taiwan, and the Youngsters section of the festival includes work from students of Goldsmith’s College of London, the UDK Berlin, and the Esad Strasbourg. Check out the designs of the future, and have a look around the Tempelhof park as well…it’s pretty cool.

Link: DMY International Design Festival Berlin

The Direktorenhaus can be found at Am Krögel in Berlin-Mitte, overlooking the river Spree, and is open from Monday to Saturday, 11am until 7pm.

“What is important for my work is the choice and combination of material; simple shapes and the design of the surfaces…working with various coloured clay, using a special paint.”

Both the look and the feel of Stefanie’s work is timeless, reflecting both her talent and a commitment to her craft where the value of an object comes not only through the aesthetic qualities of the piece, but also in the time and effort devoted to its creation. We have examples of her work as part of our “Berlin Design Showcase”, which you can find in both the hostel and the hotel.

Better yet, you can visit Stefanie at her studio-shop, which is open on Thursdays and Fridays between 1pm and 7pm, and again on Saturdays between 11am and 4pm. The address is Husemannstraße 22 (google map) and you can also get more information on Stefanie’s website.

Can you guess who it is? For his project “Cartoon Particles” Rainbowmonkey, aka Marcus Hofko was searching for the basic elements of classic cartoon characters. If you follow this link to the website, you can click on the different images of the elements to find out who is who.

The Rainbowmonkey is described by its creator as a personal playground for art, design and music, and there are plenty of other interesting things on the website. So take a look.

masslos is a combination of pictures and music from RoBErT GoEtZ…a project from Robert Alonso and Mathias Götz. The illustrations on the film are from Laska Grafix. You can find more tunes and videos (and in a better quality) directly on the RoBErT GoEtZ website.

One of 101 Heroes from Nina Staehli (and now mine), this little guy was born and grew up in Switzerland and was smuggled over the border to Germany in the bottom of a rucksack. With two of his friends he has made a new home for himself in Berlin-Wedding, where we now have the beginnings of a heroic football team.

About the Artist: Nina Stähli divides her time between Zug (Switzerland) and Berlin and has been involved in too many projects, awards, collaborations, exhibitions and publications than we have space for here. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan and Austria.

During her career she has won awards to studio and project stays in Berlin, Genoa and Tokyo and her most recent solo exhibition was called “Touching Heroes and Catalysis” at the Gallery Art/Seefeld in Zurich. Nina created “The Sparrows” which live in the winter garden of the Restaurant Fabisch at the Circus Hotel. You can see example of her work and more information on her website.