Vanessa Oberin - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Vanessa Oberin - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Vanessa Oberin

Author and cold water swimmer Jessica J. Lee on engaging with topography on a molecular level
Berlin

Author and cold water swimmer Jessica J. Lee on engaging with topography on a molecular level

Turning, the memoir depicting all she had learned from swimming Berlin’s lakes each week for the course of a year—from...
Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values
Barcelona Architecture

Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values

It was during the preceding decades, a time associated with the Spanish housing boom, that Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed and Carlos...
Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things
Los Angeles Architecture

Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things

At least Andrea Lenardin likes to think so—despite the attribution of a different value throughout time—“the things are also always...
Meet the FF Contributors: Dalia Castel
Berlin Community

Meet the FF Contributors: Dalia Castel

Despite her choice to leave Jerusalem, it never really left her. So, in 2011 Dalia and her friend Orit Nahmias...
Infradisciplinary artist Pinar Yoldas is advocating a good Anthropocene with the help of speculative biology
San Diego Art

Infradisciplinary artist Pinar Yoldas is advocating a good Anthropocene with the help of speculative biology

Pinar Yoldas refuses to tune into this song of doomsday, one that underlies most assumptions about our future on Earth....
Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno on our presence on earth and the possibility of an Aerocene age
Berlin Art

Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno on our presence on earth and the possibility of an Aerocene age

Art and science are often described as two opposing disciplines. Looking at the practice of the Argentinian artist and trained...
On the German autobahn with photographer Jörg Brüggemann
Berlin Art

On the German autobahn with photographer Jörg Brüggemann

Jörg Brüggemann has been photographing the German autobahn for around a year and a half. Up until now, the resulting...
Now in its fourth year, Berlin Feminist Film Week is delivering the views we urgently need
Film

Now in its fourth year, Berlin Feminist Film Week is delivering the views we urgently need

What do we mean when we talk about feminism? We are writing the year 2017 and a woman identifying as...
Auroville through the eyes of Ostkreuz photographer Anne Schönharting
Auroville Art

Auroville through the eyes of Ostkreuz photographer Anne Schönharting

Those must have been questions the founders of Auroville asked themselves in 1968 when they built their very own city...
Meet Kimberly Drew, the curator whose online presence offers us different ways of seeing

Meet Kimberly Drew, the curator whose online presence offers us different ways of seeing

In only six years Kimberly Drew’s blog, Black Contemporary Art, has become widely recognised for the collection of work it...
The Poetics of Smaller Spaces: Architect Oke Hauser on the future of urban cohabitation
Berlin Architecture

The Poetics of Smaller Spaces: Architect Oke Hauser on the future of urban cohabitation

Available housing cannot keep up to pace with the rate at which people continue to arrive. It’s a poor state...
After the gin flood: How Alexander Stein turned Monkey 47 into a long-running hit
Black Forest Food

After the gin flood: How Alexander Stein turned Monkey 47 into a long-running hit

Alexander Stein, who’s seen plenty of new gins from smaller distilleries come and go in recent years, knows all too...
A seat at the Norwegian table: Celebrating the distinctive designs and local cuisine of the Nordic country
Berlin Design

A seat at the Norwegian table: Celebrating the distinctive designs and local cuisine of the Nordic country

For a building that houses Berlin’s Norwegian embassy, the famous Oslo-based architecture firm Snøhetta transplanted a 15-meter-tall, 120-ton granite block...
Publisher Ricarda Messner on the potential for alternate universes in print
Berlin Home Stories

Publisher Ricarda Messner on the potential for alternate universes in print

Quite the contrary, they’re actually becoming both more diverse and more sophisticated. For Ricarda Messner, whose magazine Flaneur is often...
Life on a Divided Island: The Urgency of Contemporary Art in Cyprus
Nicosia Art

Life on a Divided Island: The Urgency of Contemporary Art in Cyprus

Born and raised in Nicosia and Limassol, artist Peter Eramian and photographer Stelios Kallinikou belong to the younger generation of...