Germany Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Germany - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Germany.
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Standing ovation: Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie opens in Hamburg
By Sam Lubell Last updated
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The Amano Group opens its third Berlin property, Hotel Amano Grand Central
By Ella Marshall Last updated
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At home with artist Chiharu Shiota
In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We catch up this week with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota on creating art with her body, and the past lives of found objects
By TF Chan Last updated
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Thonet’s limited-edition chair by Studio Besau Marguerre celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Hamburg’s new Fontenay hotel capitalises on the city’s abundant greenery
By Daven Wu Last updated
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The architecture of Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021)
Pritzker Prize winning German architect Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021) passed away on 9 June 2021 at the age of 101. Here, we revisit a story from the Wallpaper* archives, celebrating the geometric shapes of his 1968 Pilgrimage Church near Koln
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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World View: Letter from Germany
Our World View series shines light on the creativity and resilience of designers around the world as they confront the challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Working with our international contributors, we reach out to creative talents to ponder the power of design in difficult times and share messages of hope. In Berlin, designers have embraced the slower pace of life and developed a stronger appreciation for community and environment, writes Emily McDermott MORE FROM WALLPAPER* WORLD VIEW
By Emily McDermott Last updated
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New Berlin gym uses neuroscience to improve physical health
Hagius is a new Berlin gym that uses light and scent to create the optimal enviroment for your workout
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Vaust designs new poke restaurant, Berlin style
Berlin design studio Vaust creates a concrete and stone poke restaurant in the heart of the city
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Modernist muse: the art world significance of Mies van der Rohe’s collages
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Mapped out: explore the streets of Berlin through Bauhaus and brutalism
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Nomos Autobahn watch is rethought by designer Werner Aisslinger
Three new models make up the Nomos Autobahn Director’s Cut Limited Edition watch series, in motoring-inspired hues
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Munich’s newest bar Herzog is a sexy space inlaid with strips of brass
By Daven Wu Last updated
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The iconic BMW HQ in Munich celebrates its half century
Karl Schwanzer designed a corporate icon for BMW. Now 50 years old, the company’s Munich HQ is still going strong
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Skin in the game: Alexandra Bircken on fashion, club culture and the fragility of flesh
We profile German artist and former fashion designer Alexandra Bircken, whose complex work explores the human body as a ‘moving sculpture’ – woven with unruly desires, pleasures and violence
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Berlin art exhibitions not to miss: an ongoing guide
Explore our ongoing guide to the best Berlin art exhibitions
By Martha Elliott Last updated
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Last chance to see: Libby Heaney’s quantum-powered take on a Hieronymus Bosch masterpiece
At Berlin’s Schering Stiftung, artist and physicist Libby Heaney is harnessing quantum code to reimagine Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th-century The Garden of Earthly Delights
By Nick Compton Last updated
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The brutalist designs of Berlin-based studio Vaust
Multidisciplinary Berlin studio Vaust digs deep into the German capital’s weighty brutalist legacy to create impactful designs and interiors
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Artist Ian Cheng explores the technological and aesthetic potential of AI
In Berlin’s cavernous Halle am Berghain, New York-based artist Ian Cheng plunges viewers into an immersive world of AI and existential anime in ‘Life After BOB’
By Will Jennings Last updated
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Herbar: new Berlin beauty brand combines art and adaptogens
Herbar is a Berlin beauty line for all ages and skin types that harnesses adaptogenic mushrooms and plants for its products, and local artists for its branding
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Weimar’s Bauhaus Museum designed by Heike Hanada opens in Germany
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Max Dudler bridges past and present in his railway museum visitor centre in Bochum
A visitor centre for the Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum, the German city's private railway museum, this minimalist brick volume is the work of Swiss architect Max Dudler
By Nick Leech Last updated
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Tobias Grau’s illuminating solution to home workspace lighting
The German lighting experts launch ‘Team’, a new system featuring innovative technology and a minimal, human-centred design by creative directors Timon and Melchior Grau
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Urban futures: Raumlabor speak to W* about their largest exhibition of the year
By Leigh Theodore Vlassis Last updated
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New Asian diner Dashi spices up Berlin’s Mitte district
Dashi, a new diner in Berlin’s Mitte district, offers an appetising and harmonious juxtaposition of Asian and Western worlds
By Sheila Lam Last updated
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On the trail: Tobias Rehberger devises a ’24 Stops’ cross-border walk
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Sustainability, art and German farmhouse architecture meet at Gutshof Güldenhof
Germany's Gutshof Güldenhof is a farming complex transformed into a hub for arts, sustainability and social life, courtesy of Heim Balp Architekten and artist Danh Vo
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated