Routes
Along Karl-Marx-Allee
Revel in the poetry of virtual worlds with Thibault Brunet in the Computerspielemuseum … observe everyday life in the GDR in the alten feuerwache … stroll along the Berlin Fruchtstrasse of the 1950s … forget reality again while viewing the exhibition in the gallery WAGNER and PARTNER … enjoy generous portions of coffee and cake in the tradition-rich Café Sibylle … fall under the spell of winter views by Lars Tunbjörk at Swedish Photography … warm up again in Babette’s Bar with tapas and cocktails …
From Zoo to Savignyplatz
Museum für Fotografie: discover the spectacular idylls and disasters in the photographic collection of Bogomir Ecker … admire Helmut Newton’s ‘Pretty Ladies’ … feel like Alice in Wonderland while leafing through the largest photo book in the world … take a stylish break in the Literaturcafé … be transported into the surreal world of Heinz Hajek-Halke at Johanna Breede’s Photokunst … return to modern times with Stéphane Couturier in the Galerie Kornfeld and in the Institut Français … browse photo books in the Bücherbogen shop to the ‘sound of the S-Bahn’ … drink a good cappuccino in the Giro Café … go on a journey with Stéphane Duroy through the more recent history of Europe at Only Photography … reflect on transgender themes in the exhibition by Bettina Rheims at Camera Work … follow in the footsteps of Martin Kippenberger in the legendary Paris Bar …
Unter den Linden
Breakfast with notable political and media personalities in the Einstein on Unter den Linden … witness the causes and effects of the Arab Spring in the Festival Centre on Pariser Platz … rediscover the photo-graphic abstractions of Heinz Hajek-Halke in the Akademie der Künste … stroll along Unter den Linden … marvel at the assorted flotsam and jetsam of Gabriel Orozco in the Deutsche Guggenheim … have an elegant lunch at Borchardt or a relaxed meal at Chipps … cross the Schlossplatz … follow the post-war development of Berlin in the Ephraim-Palais … pass through the Nikolaiviertel – Berlin’s historic centre … dine at HBC. with a view of the Fernsehturm or enjoy the best vegetarian food in the city at the casual Cookies Cream restaurant … have a nightcap at King Size Bar …
Criss-crossing Tiergarten and Kreuzberg
Have breakfast in the most beautiful Viennese coffeehouse in the city … commemorate the seventieth birthday of the exceptional artist Rosa von Praunheim in the Haus am Lützowplatz … explore experimental photography in-depth with Werner David Feist in the Bauhaus Archiv … speed through the diplomatic quarter along the Spree with the double-decker M29 bus … experience a pricey but unbelievable taste explosion for lunch at Tim Raue … discover Dennis Hopper’s energetic awareness of life in the Martin-Gropius-Bau … walk along the course of the Berlin Wall … fortify yourself with an espresso or dinner in the timelessly beautiful Sale e Tabacchi …
Round Lindenstrasse
Start the day with breakfast in the museum café of the Berlinische Galerie … visit the first exhibition in the world on artistic photography in the GDR 1949–89 in the Berlinische Galerie … promenade through the 1920s with the intelligentsia of Russia in the Galerie Berinson … be captivated by Katrin Korfmann’s large-format depictions of time and space in the Galerie Hilgemann … reconstruct the World Wide Web with Björn Siebert Bildern in the Hengesbach Gallery … stroll along Oranienstrasse – Kreuzberg’s rough boulevard … dine ‘très francais’ at Chez Michel … enjoy a last drink in the Würgeengel …
Round Schlesische Tor
Start the day with a Flat White at Passenger Espresso … experience Jimi Hendrix’s final concert on the Baltic island of Fehmarn in the nhow Gallery … catch a glimpse of the East-Side-Gallery and the Spree … have a delicious lunch at 3 Schwestern … observe architecture close-up at Chert Oskar Niemeyers … discover numerous artists’ books at Motto Berlin … discover pseudo-idylls with Stephanie Kloss at Laura Mars grp … abandon yourself to tapas and wine at Daniel Brühl’s Bar Raval … and review impressions while sipping on a root beer float drink at John Muir …
In the Planning Zone between Auguststrasse and Linienstrasse
Breakfast at Café Bravo in the secluded inner courtyard of KW … travel through the United States with Joel Sternfeld at C/O Berlin … get an impression of the 1960s in Wolfsburg in the Petra Rietz Salon … snack on New-York-style pastrami sandwiches at Mogg & Melzer … wander through mystical forest landscapes with Michael Lange in the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation … stroll through 1960s Berlin with Janos Frécot at Kicken … browse unusual magazines at Do you read me? … marvel at the Russian Empire in early colour photos at Gestalten Space … savour an Asian soup at Cocolo Ramen … view the catalogue motif of the European Month of Photography Berlin in the original at Pinter & Milch … delve into the Collection Regard in the reconstructed exhibition by Hein Gorny … feast on new German cuisine at the simple and beautiful Lokal …
From Hamburger Bahnhof to the Prenzlauer Berg
Drink a melange at the Sarah Wiener restaurant … muse on the allegorical, visual language of Carina Linge in the Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner … Loock Galerie: experience the atmosphere in a Berlin slaughterhouse through the camera of York der Knoefel … cruise with bus 245 to Nordbahnhof … accompany Elina Brotherus into her studio in the Gallery Taik … Pavlov’s Dog: count Pavlov’s namesakes with Michael Wesely … enjoy a good, light lunch in the charming Joris … be told the history of German Vietnamese and purchase new photo books at 25books … wander the course of the Berlin Wall … savour great food at the Volta in Wedding …
MapOn the Top of the Prenzlauer Berg
Drink a perfect coffee at the Barn Roastery … stattberlin: uncover the traces of the Stasi with Valérie Leray … learn about the life of punks in the GDR in the Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg … fortify yourself with a divine cappuccino at Godshot … or eat fine alpine cuisine for lunch at the Meierei … tour four continents with Abrie Fourie at Vice Versa … marvel at nudes by Maja Forsslung and photo books in the Kominek Gallery … look at exchange students undergoing personal change in the Galerie Ina Köhler … while away the evening at the charming Pappa e Cicciaden or enjoy it ‘very trendy’ at Katz Orange …
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