Photoblog: BLO Atelier Arts Space
Last week, I stumbled upon Blo Ateliers, an art space that's been managing to keep " one of the most interesting and largest artist communities in eastern Berlin" hidden from me for the last four years, despite being right on my doorstep in Lichtenberg . It doesn't feel like you're going to an art venue; the road's cracked and flooded and leads towards what seems like the deadest of ends. There are signs telling you to stop, that the yard's for rail employees only, even as a handwritten sign promises that there's an free exhibition on. After a few seconds' hesitation, like the kind that I get before every new discovery made in Berlin ( is this a new find, or is it all in my mind? ) I went ahead in. A courtyard opened up and around each crumbling building in the complex, the litter of half-finished sculptures, DIY gardens and pointed statements written in graffiti and kept carefully clear of encroaching trees ...