The call for entries to the 2010 Illustrative Award is now open!!

A live drawing performance to be followed up by a video screening on 16 September. Tiberiu Bleoanca and Viviana Druga are inspired by contemporary dance that is abstracted from tradition, freeing the body and mind from restraint. Simple, primitive ways of communicating through movement are pursued. 23-31 August 2010 at Direktorenhaus. […]>

A new edition of Peter Nencini's Handwerk is currently exhibted in Berlin at Direktorenhaus. These works are a prelude to a larger show in September. Nencini says: "I'm showing thirty boxes... The boxed variant pieces have grown, with markmaking of granular character. Both to magnify surface and to dispense with textual information in favour of something mute." […]>
The fourth issue "CRAFTPOETRY" has it all: Nick Clements broaches the issue of
Re-Enactement, the aftermath of historical occurrences and their artistic exploitation, Julie Kogler analyses the rise of the surreal-pop-artists of the last decade while Basar Önal speaks about designing time. Last but not least Julian Waite explains the meaning of his ghost story as well as the terminus performance illustration [...]
An exhibition which deals with the peeling back of layers starting quite literally as the second floor of the house is presented for the first time.
Peter Nencini and Elisa Strozyk explore the textures of the house itself exploring the mid-peel status of the 1930s of building and its DDR legacy. While Daniel Becker creates a beautiful site specific light installation. 23 September, 19h […]>

Olaf Hajek’s illustrations reveal a peculiar luminosity. They are simple and clear and each drawing seems to hide an own private mystery which contributes a dose of fairytale to them. Hajek exhibits at Johanssen Gallery in Das Direktorenhaus from 28 May to 23 September. [...]»
On May 28th, 2010 the Direktorenhaus will be opened a new art space in Berlin, an experimental laboratory for Gesamtkunstwerk, the synthesis of the arts. Traditional crafts will be combined with analogue techniques and digital media, and will not be limited to their own aesthetics but also seen as experimental formations with both social and asocial connotations. The exhibitions in the Direktorenhaus play cat and mouse preconceptions; they mark the opening of a space in Berlin, where art, craft, design, music and life come together. [...]» Opening Photo gallery [...]»
Illustrative opened with a big bang on Thursday, 15 October. Find a first glimpse of the Grand Opening Party and the exhitbion here [...] »
Illustrative is proud to announce the winners of the Swatch Young Illustrators Award 2009. First prize: Julia Bruderer, second prize: Katia Fouquet, third prize: Paul-Henri Masson [...] »