“Is the equation between destruction and growth also a formula for art?” writes American postmodern novelist Kathy Acker in Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body, her seminal 1993 meditation on how weightlifting exposes the shortfall of words in capturing embodied experience. The question hovers at the edges of a visit to Slovak sculptor Veronika Janovec’s apartment in Kreuzberg, Berlin—part private home, part ongoing testing ground for the effect of her works within space. Its sparse palette and gallery-like air suggest art and life as a single continuum.

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Tadashi Kawamata has been creating temporal installations from salvaged materials since the late 1970s — wooden accretions that appear to have grown organically from the architecture they inhabit. These symbiotic structures have been exhibited everywhere from the Venice Biennale to Documenta, the Centre Pompidou and MoMA PS1. This year, a new set of works will appear at Maison Ruinart in Reims, where Kawamata is the artist in residence for the annual curatorial program Conversations with Nature.

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In the heart of Berlin, a quiet courtyard sits framed by historic properties that once thrummed with the energy of industry. Here, on the ground floor of a 19th-century building, you’ll find Strom—a café where reverie meets play, conceptualised by Berlin-based architectural multihyphenate Celeste Asfour.

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Sanghyeok Lee’s work is nothing if not balanced. It is restrained and minimal. Playful and intellectually rigorous.

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Berlin’s vibrant Torstraße in Mitte isn’t exactly a street you’d associate with the words “calm” or “retreat”. Yet, from the moment you step into the sports studio Hagius, housed in the historic former post office building, the noise of the city immediately fades away. There’s a sensitive and balanced feel to the space, which was founded in 2020 by brothers Nicolas and Timothy Hagius, who wanted it to be a little more than just a “gym.”

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For over fifty years, ORFÈVRE has been a home for jewelry that values meaning as much as beauty. Among the artists it champions, the German sculptor and goldsmith Walter Wittek stands out for a radical clarity of design that unites minimalism, conceptual depth and technical mastery.

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On Berlin’s monumental Karl-Marx-Allee, one of the former GDR’s emblematic sites of Socialist Classicism has taken on a renewed role as the working home of one of the city’s leading design exports.

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Hamburg’s growing TRADER constellation stems from founder Vincent von Thien’s wish to offer his city more than another café. TRADER Gallery in the Schanze set the first tone, uniting specialty coffee with art and design.

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At Berlin’s Futurium museum for futures thinking, the exhibition Ocean Futures (on through 31 August 2026) navigates the planet’s vast expanses of water as infrastructure, archive and neighbour. At its centre stands Filipino artist Leeroy New’s installation Balangay Spacecraft—a colony of interlinked spheres forged from bamboo and recycled plastic—part mangrove, part artificial island, a future habitat taking root on shifting ground.

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In Berlin’s diplomatic center, not far from Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate, a new interior offers an unexpected lens onto domestic life in a district defined by ministries and embassies.

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In stone, time turns tactile—a record of sediment, heat, and movement pressed into matter. At Marbledworks, that long geological story continues in contemporary form.

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The craft of KARST reveals itself first in a feeling. An ambience of warmth, polish and clarity. A closer look at—and feel of—the Berlin carpentry studio’s interior joinery and custom furniture reveals the details that build toward this impression.

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High on a ridge above Portugal’s Atlantic coast, Casa Plaj appears almost imagined: a red geometry in a green expanse, elemental yet precise. Designed by Lisbon-based extrastudio for a young family, the holiday house is both retreat and experiment – built slowly, iteratively, in high attunement to wind, light and time. Its creation captures a portrait of architecture as process: formed through exchange, grounded in the textures of place, and open to evolution.

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When Berlin-based design duo Yellow Nose Studio first removed the K from ‘kindergarten’ to name their evolving collection of objects, they opened more than a typographic space.

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For architect Seamus Kowarzik, the shift between a building and a bench is hardly a shift at all. The same questions persist – how materials meet, how light moves across a surface, how space feels when pared back to its essentials.

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