While Thea and Ethan were in Belgium and The Netherlands, Suzanne and Ashley spent time in Berlin prior to heading to Kassel for Documenta. The first day they saw all of the venues related to the Berlin Biennial including St Elisabeth-Kirche, KW Institute, the Peace Wall, Deutschlandhaus, and the Akademie der Kunst. This has perhaps been the Berlin Biennial most related to current events, in particular the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the global revolutions and uprisings.

They were also able to see a number of museum exhibitions, such as “Pacific Standard Time” at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, which travelled to Berlin from Los Angeles; Roman Ondak at the Deutsche Guggenheim; Haroon Mirza at the Schering Stiftung; and, at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Anthony McCall and Hans-Peter Feldmann, the latter exhibition being very moving and unsettling.

The final day was spent at galleries, most of which still had shows up that were presented during Berlin Gallery Weekend. Highlights included Cerith Wyn Evans at Galerie Buchholz, MD72, and Schinkel Pavilion; Rirkrit Tiravanija at Neugerriemschneider, and “Big Inexplicable,” a group show at Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie. They also found moments to visit with gallerists at Johnen Galerie in Mitte and Silberkuppe in Kreuzberg.