What’s on in Berlin in January?

After an unusually mild Christmas, winter is back in full swing. Don’t miss out the last weeks of three exceptional exhibitions.

The Anton Corbijn Retrospective at C/O Berlin

Anton Corbijn is a renowed photographer and director (Control, The most wanted man) and to mark his sixtieth birthday,   C/O Berlin is presenting a retrospective composed of around 600 photographs, as well as films and other materials. (Read more)

From Hockney to Holbein. The Würth Collection in Berlin in the Martin Gropius Bau

The Würth Collection is one of the largest private collections in Europe, containing more than 16,800 works of art. The most important of the classic modern artists are represented, as well as masterpieces from the Middle Ages and classic works of contemporary art. The unusual exhibition is a gain for the Kunstherbst Berlin. With more than 400 works of art of international significance, the collection will be presented to the public in a scope never previously seen, in an exhibition space of 5,000 square meters.

Among the works on display are David Hockney’s season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore, masterpieces of classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection’s Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Madonna With the Family of Mayor Meyer”. Another highlight is the 25-piece monumental installation “The Last Judgement Sculpture” of British sculptor Anthony Caro in the spectacular atrium of the Martin-Gropius-Bau. (Read more)

The Botticelli Renaissance at the Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum

Sandro Botticelli’s Venus certainly is one of the most recognized painting of all times. This exhibitions examines its influence on other artists. Among the approximately 150 works on display are numerous masterpieces by artists such as Edgar Degas, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and Bill Viola on loan from the world’s leading collections. (Read more)

On my to-do-list this month:

1. A walking tour by Slow Travel Berlin: Writing The City: A West Berlin Literature Tour www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/from-benjamin-to-brecht-a-berlin-literature-tour/

2. A visit to the amazing Saturday market at Markthalle IX in Kreuzberg www.markthalleneun.de

3. Museum of Communication http://en.mfk-berlin.de

4. Breakfast at Distrikt Coffee https://www.facebook.com/distriktcoffee/

5. Sticking to my New Year resolutions!