temperatures are rising

Last night, Berlin faced several openings - from today on you will be able to:

# See Cyprien Gaillard's "The Berlin Archive 2009–10" at 032c. The piece itself is nice, or as N said, coherent and pretty complex. However, I was excited to see if there were going to be any major catfights at the opening - Cyprien Gaillard is not only known as the artist who is striving to be on every art mag cover, but who is also breaking a lot of girls' hearts on his way. The number of girls I knew were affected doubled last night, and rumors were shared quietly inbetween the guests (the narrow concrete balcony would have made a terrific stage though). Still it is pretty interesting to get a real-life experience of one of the oldest artist chlichés.

# See Olafur Eliasson's "Innen Stadt Außen" at Martin Gropius Bau. Eliasson has been living in Berlin for years and still this is his first major exhibition. I wonder what took Berlin so long to discover that one of the most popular contemporary artist actually lives and works in Prenzlauer Berg and get this exhibition done.

# Be a member of Soho House. The british concept of elitist, yet cool member clubs with gym, pool, bar and suites has arrived in Berlin. Last night's "soft opening" was a mixture of artists weighing on the stupidity of chinese people, gallerists getting all touchy-feely doused with a lot of hair gel and expensive perfume. I am not opposing "high class" developments, when they are done in style. They served fried squid rings.

# See Andro Wekua's "Gott ist tot aber das Mädchen nicht" at Schinkel Pavillon, which who knows why is named after Schinkel, but just has some components of another Schinkel building attached to it and was built in the 1960ies by Richard Paulick. However, it's beautiful.