Vegetarian, vegan, slow food, bio, perfect red apple and similar… forget it! Everything, or almost, that you associate with the idea of healthy food is wrong. Basing on an american trend, which – looking for the right way to feed body and mind – is trying to re-actualize prehistorical nutritional regime, Boris and Rodrigo put on the first paleolithical restaurant in Berlin, >Sauvage<. Facing onto a quiet street in Neukölln - Pflügerstrasse 25, 12047 – you can enjoy at Sauvage restaurant a wild taste experience. From Sauvage are banned sugar, gluten and grain, as well as lectin and phytin, which – as Boris and Rodrigo tell us – “with every bite they attack our digestive- and immune system, putting our bodies in a constant inflammatory state“. For that reason you cannot find at Sauvage rice, pasta and bread, but a more sophisticated and scientific developed concept of “healthy”: organic fruits, seeds, nuts, vegetables and herbs are the main ingredients, but you can taste meat and fish coming from organic farms too. Everything cooked in a crispy way – in order to maintain all the energetic substances – and just with extra virgin olive oil and ghee (a clarified and homemade produced butter).
The paleolithical diet dates back to the pre-agricultural era, when men were just hunter and gatherers and needed everyday to get their own leaving. And as far as Rodrigo and Boris are concerned, eating prehistorical you are really going to gain that atavistic but for us new forces, which the heavy ingredients of our times take us away by digesting. That’s the interesting point of Sauvage’s concept: that’s not just a good “Sunday” meal, it’s nothing exotic; to a greater degree here you can make more than a food experience, because paleolithical food is part of a lifestyle, which – tracking back to the roots of mankind and comprehending paleolithical sport – tries to develop a more natural relationship between body and environment, as well as between body and soul. Therefore adopting a paleolithical way of live concerning nutrition and movement it’s not just matter for an evening in a restaurant… but, if you want to start with it, for the first step you can visit Sauvage, from Tuesday to Sunday h. 18-24 or enjoy the conference on paleolithical sport coming soon in the nice atmosphere of that «prehistorical-berliner» restaurant.
 

A little portfolio in Germany can wreak worldwide havoc? “No, that’s impossible! My money is just there…behind the ATM”. Someone could try to defense himself by that way, but you know that this is not right. Just one example: between 2000 and 2009 Deutsche Bank fostered with your money amounting to 7,8 billion euro nuclear power companies. If you want to avoid that impressive economical butterfly effect, if you want to shape actively your world, let’s join “Social – Banking – was richtet unserer Geld an?”. The event will take place at the 21th September 2011, 19 p.m. at the >ecoShowroom<, Almstadtstraße 35, 10119 Berlin-Mitte. It has been organized by the ecoShowroom and the PR Agency >sieben&siebzig< which puts on eco-events as walking tours in the forest, breathwalks in Berlin and promotes Bio-products and eco-friendly companies. Shaping your lifestyle could not just mean to deal with your little “sphere”. Developing a sustainable way of life and then living about a hundred kilometers away from a nuclear power plant is frustrating. Supporting peace and knowing that your money is lent to weapon companies riles you up. Social banking means: let your money be used consciously, knowing what it’s provoking. If you want to explore the new possibilities that social banking offers to active citizens, let’s visit the ecoShowroom website and get to know more about the info-evening.

ART, MUSIC, FASHION, ACTION! this is the motto of the >Chicks on Speed<, the female collective that has never been only an electro-pop band, but a fusion of music, fashion and technology, with unique performances and an intense collaboration with artists, creating a fluctuating structure that generates Art. "Cultural Workship Now!" organized by the group and the >Kunstraum Kreuzberg<, will be both a presentation of concrete objects, video works and installation, and a series of diverse performances. The project, inspired by Warhol's Factory, will condensate the kaleidoscopic fieldwork of the group and wants to be a sort of Noah's Ark for art.
Mittwoch, 14.09.11: Theremin Tapestry
(live music, performance and lecture)
Anat Ben-David Jerusalem/London, Dorit Chrysler Graz/ New York, Jasmin Guffond NZ/Berlin, with Brass Players: Hilary Jeffery, Melissa Logan, Gaelle Scali.

Parallel to the exhibition that features the diversity of CHICKS ON SPEED’s artistic field, there will be a series of performance/music/lecture evenings between the 14th and 17th of September held in the rooms of the former chapel (Studio 1):

Program, starting 8 pm in Studio 1 each day, entrance fee €5/€10:

Wednesday, 14.09.11: Theremin Tapestry
(live performance, theory lecture and video screening)
Performance lecture-Anat Ben-David, music Jasmina

Thursday, 15.09.11: The Naked Performers go Bollywood
(theory lecture and video screening, DJing)
With Melissa Logan, Kroot Juurak, Maral Salmassi

Friday, 16.09.11: Venus Goddess Inventor
(performance, theory lecture and video screening)
With Kathi Glas, Anat Ben-David, A.L. Steiner

Saturday, 17.09.11: Wrectangle: sometimes a cigar box is not just a cigar box
(theory and practice mash up, performance, music, party)
Melissa Logan, A.L. Steiner, Kroot Juurak, Nadine Jessen, Jasmina Machina

Today you can enjoy the vernissage ofAlfred Ulrich at the galerie >Kai Dikhas< in Prinzenstraße 85D h. 18-21 in the renascent area around Moritzplatz. For the second exposition after the success of «Camaron» by Lita Cabellut, Moritz Pankok is going to propose some works of the german and romani artist Alfred Ullrich. The exhibition Transidentities III will take place from 9th September to 4th November 2011. Working with different printing techniques Alfred Ullrich tries to mix beauty and row, comeliness and provocation with the purpose of experimenting different identities at the invisible border between western and romani culture. That’s because it’s in the little everyday-contrasts that we can trace down prejudice and cliché; and it’s exactly on that fine line – crossing the boundaries between two cultures – that a minority – and expecially an artist belonging to it – has to build his own identities. For that reason Alfred Ullrich’s art and the very general project of Kai Dikhas Gallery deal not just with romani culture. Because properly speaking it exists nothing as “the pure romani culture”, simply because since the age of their coming in Western Europe they have never been one people with one state and one culture. Romani are a scattered people living within another culture: a myriad of groups which had no contact between them in the history, which speak different language and haven’t a strong identity as “Romani”. Experimenting with this amazing wealth of experiences is the intellectual challenge that involves the Galerie Kai Dikhas and Alfred Ulrich.
 

On the 6th of September till October 15th at the >Circleculture Gallery< it will be possible for you to immerse yourself in the sometimes scary, sometimes funny, dreamland of the painter Kevin Earl Taylor, where people and animals are symbiotic and the animals turn into anthropomorphic figures. The American artist explore the theme of symbiosis, both in positive and negative terms: life and death as a continuum, to stimulate the collective consciousness that we coexist on the same planet in the same environment. An abstract narrative in a renaissance oriented painting style but with humor, and the invitation to embrace the animal within yourself. KEVIN EARL TAYLOR – ANIMAL INSTINCT Vernissage: September, 6th 2011 7pm Opening hours: daily Tue-Sat 12am-6pm until October 15th Location: Circleculture Gallery

Nowadays many freelances work at home and if you have never tried it, that means: lots of distractions and a little prodding from the surrounding environment…moreover at the end of the day, what ails you? People. How to fight that little contemporary tragedy of loneliness? Co-working is the right answer, so you can set up your garage and meet a couple of friends but…that’s already not enough! Why? Because you are in a garage six feet under the ground without air, light and colors. Did you never feel that? >Wostel’<s owners – Mary and Chuente – yes! They are two Berliner freelance which have tried to work at home, in a bar and even in a garage. But they wanted something more exciting! Wostel is exactly the outgrowth of that need: the need to let themselves be inspired from a comfortable space, to stay together with other people. So they tried to joint the work with the atmosphere of a hostel and from that mix arose Wostel. In Wostel you don’t need to rent a table for one month, but simply, like in a hostel, you can “check-in” and enjoy a friendly work atmosphere with red walls, trendy wall covering, couch, wood-table and armchairs giving onto one nice Neukölln’s street for only 10 euros per day. Thanks to that flexibility Wostel has a customer’s wide range from native to nomad freelance. What is important is “having ideas but not a place for them”. Because ideas need a place in the world to come true and Mary and Chuente’s one found its place in in Neukölln - Hobrechtstrasse 66 -  in Januar 2011. Wostel bore with that concept: people around you + a prodding environment. No pure functionality, not just a place to spend you working hours and which helps you to spare some money, hence: not soulless but though-provoking furniture and spaces. Co-working means re-define the space-ideas relationship. Ideas need places and places kindle ideas. Private space and work-improving ideas intertwine in that contemporary “hank”, which is our society; you could no more draw the outlines of your working-time, so the only way to resist to the «bureau-fication» of your life is to make your bureau your own home, to transform it into a meeting-point for friends and not-yet friends. Following that principle Mary and Chuente organize also Movie-nights and many other events…because at the very end life isn’t solely work and co-workers could become a co-mmunity! Don’t you believe that an environment could lead you to new ideas? Wait and see! Coming soon by Wostel is a co-laboratory for artists!

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James Franco, the Hollywood heartthrob best known for his role in the Spiderman trilogy and his breakthrough role on the cult 90s teen series ‘Freaks and Geeks’, is apparently no longer just a world famous actor, but an artist, director, and PhD candidate at Yale University.  It seems there is no end to Franco’s creativity as he adds more and more strings to his bow, and February will see his first European art show presented at >Peres Projects< in Berlin. The show, which includes short film pieces, sculpture, installations, drawings and photographs was first exhibited at the Clocktower Gallery in New York last summer, and draws upon childhood experiences and the development of notions such as identity, masculinity and sexuality. But is his art actually any good? As much as James Franco is a talented actor and dreamboat, it is easy to be a little sceptical that his artwork will be as impressive. One thing’s for sure, he wouldn’t have got such attention had he been just a regular bloke. But we must reign such prejudices in – he has the support of high profile curator Alanna Heiss, who has hailed him as an important artist of his generation, while the public persona which has allowed him to pursue his art to such a high level is a significant aspect of the artwork itself. This is particularly evident in his film, ‘James Franco Erased’, as he re-enacts scenes from films he has previously appeared in, playing himself as himself as it were. It should make for interesting viewing, whether you end up agreeing with Heiss or not. The show runs from February 11th to April 23rd.

Photo Credits: Stills from James Franco’s Bill and Tenn, 2007, and Burning House, 2009.

>Pret a Diner< is a one of a kind venture by masters of all things culinary Kofler & Kompanie, offering a temporary gourmet dining experience to the people of Berlin for a mere, fleeting month. Until the 20th of February a specially renovated Alte Münze, Berlin’s old mint turned hip event location, will play host to the restaurant and the team of bright young things that are behind it (think Michelin stars aplenty). As a different talented chef takes over creative control each week, the diners are invited to banquet on their edible fairytales. This week chef Bernhard Munding of the Berlin restaurant Dos Palillos and specialist in far eastern cuisine is in charge, so you can look forward to dishes such as ‘Arriving in Oita – the horseradish remembers what drinking sake is all about’, or ‘Secrets in Guangxi – the ox discovers a potato’s past’. Not just content with being an atmospheric restaurant serving fresh seasonal produce in an undeniably cool location, Pret a Diner is also serving as an art gallery, popup shop, late night bar with resident DJ David Sanchez, as well as throwing the occasional party and concert as post dinner treats. To find out more or to book a table visit www.pretadiner.com.Photo Credits: Pret A Diner

The naked body is a fascinating thing: its various textures, ingenious hinges, fleshy folds or taut skin, and has been beloved as a subject for art, sculpture and photography for centuries. In an exhibition still running for a few more days, ‘Paradis’ a series of nudes by influential fashion photographer Juergen Teller will be presented at the Berlin gallery >Johann König<. With the support of Parisian magazine Paradis, Teller was given the opportunity to use the galleries of the Louvres as his studio in 2009, and chose Brazilian supermodel Raquel Zimmerman and actress Charlotte Rampling to be his muses. Placing his models in relaxed, unpretentious poses, he juxtaposes these living breathing bodies with ancient sculptures and iconic paintings, exploring the line between the animate and inanimate. The exhibition is part of ‘Berlin-Paris’, a gallery exchange project initiated by the French Embassy in Germany, and runs until the 29th of January. Meanwhile a selection of new photographs by Juergen Teller is being exhibited at the >032c workshop< at Brunnenstraße 9. Men and Women, curated by Joerg Koch, consists of three series of portraits that explore the image of masculinity and feminity. Sex and gender is arguably the most defining and problematic part of the human condition, and one that Teller often uses in a provocative way. Photos in this exhibition include portraits of Teller’s five-year old son posing with weights in the gym, and a naked, reclining Vivienne Westwood.  The exhibition runs until March the 12th.Photo Credits: Juergen Teller Paradis XII, 2009; Juergen Teller Paradis XIII, 2009. Courtesy Johann König, Berlin