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If you’re lucky enough to be in Berlin this weekend, make sure to scope out the first edition of Gallery Weekend *Discoveries, a new series of exhibitions spotlighting fresh artistic talent organised by the Gallery Weekend Berlin network. Gallery Weekend Berlin has long been a highlight of the international arts calendar, and it seems its little sister is primed to follow suit.

Some 50 galleries across the city are taking part in the new initiative, among them Tanja Wagner, Crone and Sprüth Magers, which presents a solo exhibition of ten new works by the Paris-based artist Hanni Alftan. König Galerie, meanwhile, highlights a trio of artists whose reputations are on the rise, including painter Dennis Osadebe and Californian-based artist Heather Day. At Peres Projects, you’ll find Staying with the Trouble, Harm Gerdes’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Gallery hop complete, head down to the Neue Nationalgalerie to catch its solo Alexander Calder exhibition, featuring his entrancing mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles. If you’re a fan of avant-garde art, look to Museum Barberini’s brilliant exhibition exploring Impressionism in Russia. Scoot along to Transit for supper before sipping on classic cocktails at Ora. And then to bed. Or not. Berlin’s famously hedonistic clubs have finally reopened. At least for now, the all-night party has resumed. See you on the dance floor.

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Dates
16 September 2021 — 18 September 2021

Viewing Eye of the Collector

London’s art world is abuzz once more with new exhibitions, private gallery views and art fair openings. Turning heads this week is the inaugural edition of Eye of the Collector, a new format art fair launched by the former head of Masterpiece, Nazy Vassegh.

Located in the stunning surroundings of Two Temple Place, a neo-Gothic mansion commissioned, in 1892, by the world’s richest man, William Waldorf Astor, Eye of the Collector offers exceptional works of art and design spanning 6000 years. The selected pieces, chosen in collaboration with participating galleries, are presented as if they were in a collector’s home. Vassegh is hoping the absence of booths and the carefully curated cross-category display will create new dialogues that will inspire and engage.

Some 30 dealers (big and small) are taking part in the first edition. You’ll encounter everything from prints and mid-century design to studio ceramics and contemporary sculpture. In keeping with the fair’s eclectic spirit, ancient art and works by modern masters including Picasso, Warhol, Haring and Fontana are shown opposite new works and commissions. The fair also seeks to spotlight previously overlooked artists, including the New York abstract expressionist painter Perle Fine and the German-born Swedish painter Lotte Laserstein.

Eye of the Collector is a new fair for a new era. Snap up tickets sharpish — even if it’s just to marvel at the opulent interiors of this luxury London landmark. (Those outside London can browse highlights online.)

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Dates
08 September 2021 — 12 September 2021

Viewing Wim Wenders, Imperial War Museum

In November 2001, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Wim Wenders travelled to New York to capture the aftermath of 9/11. Having grown up in the rubble and ruins of post-war West Germany, Wenders was particularly haunted by the attacks. ‘All of mankind was badly shaken,’ Wenders recently told The Guardian. ‘But I kept dreaming of being stuck in collapsing towers. I wanted to somehow exorcise these things.’

Wenders entered the site as the assistant of Joel Meyerowitz, the city’s only official photographer permitted to document work on ‘the pile’ at Ground Zero. He shot sparingly, however. ‘I feel places talk about us, they tell us about ourselves,’ he continued. ‘As a photographer, I become the listener.’

Five large-format photographs taken during his six-hour stint at Ground Zero are now on display at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of its 9/11: Twenty Years On programme. They are as captivating as they are terrifying. Cranes, diggers and firefighters loom large against a background of hellish chaos and destruction. With the Taliban’s recent retake of Afghanistan, these images are more chilling than ever.

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Dates
10 September 2021 — 09 January 2022
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