Museum Nikolaikirche and Ephraim Palace

But first, I went to check out the ever changing gallery scene in Leipziger Straße around the Julia Stoschek Collection. It is very confusing, galleries are in and out of several locations around Leipziger Straße 47 to 55, but there now seem to be two more permanent (as permanent as that sort of enterprise ever gets in Berlin) fixtures: KVOST, and Sweetwater.

Then on to Nikoliaviertel. An area I usually shun due to my allergy towards buildings that have been completely reconstructed. One thing is renovating what is still standing, but reconstruction from scratch just gives off a totally fake aura.

Anyway, the exhibition Aufbrüche. Abbrüche. Umbrüche. is shown in the Ephraim Palace and in Museum Nikolaikirche.

The Ephraim Palace is, at a stretch, suited for this type of exhibition, but Nikolaikirche – or any “old” church for that matter – is definitely not. What a mess that exhibition is, although with several interesting works.

And then I just played around with long exposure of the atrocity that is the ferris wheel on Alexanderplatz, which I guess is the German version of a kind of “winter wonderland”.