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LOLA’s Spring Art Guide

A look at Berlin’s must-see exhibitions this Spring

Club Curating with Siofra

Irish DJ Síofra guides you through this month's tastiest club events

Club Curating with Mark Gill

Mark Gill of Fandango guides you through this month's tastiest club events

LOLA Loves: Holiday Edition

Our top picks for Berlin-based gifts

MEDIA MATTERS: STUCK magazine

The new print mag compiling artists' stories and wisdom

Sedef Adasi: An Artist That Moves People

Berghain’s resident talks club culture

Club Curating with The Honey Tapes

Garage Girls co-founders guide you through this month's hottest club events

Backtrack: PortraitXO

The singer, songwriter, producer, and installation artist reveals the soundtrack to her life

A Love Letter to Critical Mass

How and why Jonny Tiernan fell for the joyous bike protest event

LOLA’s Autumn Art Guide

A look at Berlin’s must-see exhibitions this autumn

Maya Shenfeld: A Sonic Adventurer

Maya Shenfeld talks Berlin, her album Free Fall, and her upcoming workshop with Ableton’s Loop Create

The Art of Curating Information

The NoisyLeaks! curators on the origins of the exhibition, the work, and what's next

The Cutest Rave in Berlin Turns One!

Lunchbox Candy celebrates one year of queer and inclusive parties

Club Curating with Paul Hanford

Your monthly round up of Berlin club events

Everyone’s Invited: Is Bang On Berlin’s Most Inclusive Festival?

Founder Eilis Frawley takes us behind the scenes of this year’s event

documenta 15: a rhizomatic and distributive approach to artmaking

Reflections on the successes and shortcomings of the 2022 edition

Celebrating Five Years of Smut Slam

Cameryn Moore’s standout moments from five years of creating Berlin’s iconic dirty storytelling event

The Last Word: Kat Nip

Polish-born Berlin-based stand-up comedian Kat Nip gives us an insight into what makes her tick.

Music for the Masses

Melissa Perales on bringing down barriers and curating culture for all

Reel Good Music

Modeselektor’s masterful ode to mixtape culture

Give Yourself Over To Cunt

Dani Brown on the upcoming premier of THE PRESSING

Unravelling the Helix

Getting Personal, and Professional, with Catnapp

Behind the Building: Axel Springer Campus

OMA Architects’ Chris van Duijn on Berlin’s iconic construction

Sounds of Berlin: April 2022

Your monthly music round-up from Berlin’s best and brightest

Video Premiere: GRIP TIGHT – Straightotheheartofit

The alt-pop gem gets given a vintage console treatment

Celebrating Two Years of Kinktastisch

Kink event promoter Hilly Leader on the joy of setting fetishes free

Backtrack: Mark Reeder

The Berlin legend reveals the records that define his life

Meet The Boy Behind ‘Boy Meets Boy’

Daniel Sánchez López’ debut film is this year's must-see LGBTQIA+ film

Private Spaces: Capturing Berlin’s Kink Scene in the Midst of a Pandemic

The Voyeur Berlin Kinky book takes an intimate look at sexuality in lockdown

Sounds Tasty: The Charity DJ Cookbook Blending Beats with Eats

James Martin, aka DJ-producer Eira Haul, tells us how lockdown laid the table for his DJ charity cookbook, Turn The Tables

Light on the Horizon

How a chance meeting between Tristan Jong & Robert Owens led to a house anthem for optimists

Encapsulating a City in a State of Flux

Photographer Alexander Steffen on his new Vanishing Berlin book

Berlin Music Video Roundup #7

A fresh transmission beaming in Berlin’s brightest music videos

Hounds of Love: Howard & Rooney

Meet Evvol and their two beloved four-legged friends

Current Affairs

Berlin City’s Left-Green Years Could Soon Be Over

The political landscape might be a-changin'

Sounds of Berlin #10

A selection of great tracks from old faves and new talent

The Woman in Constant Motion

Step inside the kinetic world of creative polymath, Juliana Huxtable

In Pictures: CSD Berlin 2021

65,000 fabulous people turn out for Europe’s biggest LGBTQ+ event

Folk Music by the Fireside

The inaugural open air event hosted by The Famous Gold Watch records

Orange is the Warmest Colour

From Berlin Sex workers to Greek footballers, Artist Spencer Chalk-Levy weaves together different worlds

Berlin Music Video Roundup #6

A delicious selection of Berlin’s tastiest video treats

Berlin’s Bodies of Water at Night

Dante Busquets’ Fluid Nights photographic series shows the city in a unique light

Sounds of Berlin #9

The latest and freshest Berlin tunes you’ve been looking for

Art, Sex, and Sisterhood

The story behind Berlin Strippers Collective

Roll Call: Berlin’s Best Magazines

A marvellous list of the city’s finest print media

Blacker than Black

The projekt_k40 and KSBP artistic collaboration that plays with perception

Berlin’s Unsung Museum Heroes

Bigging up our favourite underground museums with a nice digestible list

Empowering Womxn to Skate and Create

Meet Hera, the Berlin-based non-profit organisation providing a safe space

Berlin Music Video Roundup #5

A fresh crop of sound and vision from the city

Berlinale is Back, Baby! (sort of)

Film lovers get ready: Berlin’s most famous film festival returns in a special format

10 Homegrown Podcasts Straight Out Of Berlin

Audio content to perk your ears and tickle your brain

Keeping it Spicy

Mary Scherpe tells the story of the Feminist Food Club

Sounds of Berlin #8

Fresh Berlin sounds of all shapes, sizes and dimensions

Nazira On Championing Kazakh Culture

The up-and-coming music producer’s influential voice in club culture

Media Matters: SOFT EIS Magazine

SOFT EIS is an island in Berlin’s creative industry

The Composer Sonifying Surveillance

Artist Tony Cruise’s innovative and experimental collaboration with designer Rachel Crane

LOLA’s Gallery Weekend Berlin 2021 Guide

Towing the line between digital and IRL to finally bring back some art

Berlin Music Video Roundup #4

We’re back with new optic nerve-tickling pleasures and wide-ranging sounds

No Purse Strings Attached

How a Berlin-based organisation is leading the charge for a German universal basic income

Sounds of Berlin #7

LOLA’s hand-picked selection of Berlin’s best new sounds

“For many of us, 2020 was still a sexual year.”

Pornceptual's fourth print issue shows how eroticism has survived the pandemic

He’s So Berlin

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding is the sassy comedian getting us through it all

From Near-Death to Debut Novel

How former DJ John J. Shepheard reinvented himself after a brush with mortality

Media Matters: Flaneur Magazine

Flaneur magazine captures the ‘je ne sais quoi’ of city streets

Building Bridges with Easterndaze

The festival that’s bringing Central and Eastern Europe music and art to Berlin

The Unfiltered Truth About Coffee

Podcaster James Harper’s mission to reveal the stories behind the bean

Berlin Music Video Roundup #3

More of Berlin’s music videos – you’re welcome

The BFFs Behind BFF

The all-female video collective bringing artistic experimentation to Berlin’s tech scene

Label of Love: Detriti Records

Davide Lace is dancing with chaos in Berlin

Behind Closed Curtains

‘Berlin Offstage’ is the photographic project documenting the stories of local performance artists

Sounds of Berlin #6

Our latest batch of Berlin favourites, handpicked with love

Erotica and Self-Expression

Eme Sofia is putting a new lens on self-photography

LOLA Loves #1

OH SH*T short film, Invisible Friends podcast, and more

Hounds of Love: Ciapek

Meet Kamile Majcher and her six-year-old Great Dane, Ciapek

Positively Powerful

whynow is Gabriel Jagger’s new platform changing the way we engage with media

Reframing Berlin’s Everyday Spaces

Unreleased photos from Peter Bialobrzeski's City Diaries

Shuttered

The cultural casualties of Berlin's pandemic response

Writing Her Own Destiny

Gianna Shamone’s journey to becoming a poet

The Weirdest Year

How the pandemic has changed Berlin

Sounds of Berlin: 20 for 2020

A selection of the year's best releases, picked by industry heads and LOLA

Polling Opposites: The Photographic Project Breaking Down Biases

Sandra Ratkovic’s ‘Merseyside and Brexit’ project is changing the way we see the Brexit vote

Underground and Out There

Mary Ocher’s new agency that’s diving deep into the world of experimental music

Entering a Whole New World of Pleasure

Ola Mydzynska on sex tech and how women changed an entire industry

A Walk in the Park

Laura Lukitsch on capturing the essence of Berlin’s green space with Park Project Berlin

Berlin Music Video Roundup #2

Delicious, decadent ear-and-eye candy coming your way from Berlin's best

Hungry for Words: the Story for Food Project

Christina Kyriazidi's alternative economy that uses stories as capital

Here Lies The Future of German Cinema

Yony Leyser dissects cultural identity and representation with Faraz Shariat, director of ‘Futur Drei’

Media Matters: SAND Journal

The evolution and philosophy behind Berlin’s most dynamic literary journal

The DIY Sex Educator

Laureen HD talks sex and stigma

Sounds of Berlin #5

This month's best new Berlin-based releases that will warm your eardrums

Sven Marquardt Takes the Stage

A behind the scenes look at the photographic exhibition ‘Stageless’

The LOLA Guide to EMOP Berlin 2020

Our tips for the questioning, subverting and engaging photography festival

An Ocean of Noise

Robin Staps on two decades of Earth-shattering rock music

Brandon Stanton, The Man Behind Humans of New York

Getting to know the people's paparazzi

Benching Berlin’s Mission to Reclaim Public Space

Sustainability meets community-building through guerrilla furniture building

Berlin Music Video Roundup #1

The most exciting new visual-audio releases from Berlin-based artists

Uncaged Melodies: When Street Football Meets Electronic Beats

Tristan Jong on the story behind an uncanny connection between football and music

Berlin Art Week Reimagined

The creative ways the art scene is adapting this year, and how to see it happen

Inside Overmorrow’s Bewitching Realm

The immersive art experience bringing Berlin’s subculture to the fore

Life in the Middle of Loophole

Jan Gryczan on steering one of Berlin's most beloved artistic communities and underground venues

LOLA’s List: Berlin’s Eco Fashion Heroes

The best choices for sustainable fashion in the city

Sounds of Berlin #4

Help yourself to our buffet board of Berlin’s best new music

Gudrun Gut: Forever Going Her Own Way

Understanding the singular vision of a German music legend

Sounds of Berlin #3

Feed your hungry ears with new music from the city

Berlin Through The Lens: Marianneneck

Photographer Uli Kaufmann documents the daily life of an old school Berlin bar

Berlin’s Podcasting Tour Guide

Wouter Bernhardt is the creator of acclaimed podcasts Berlinology and The Low Season, and a damn fine tour guide

In Pictures: Nein zu Rassismus

More than 15,000 people gathered at Alexanderplatz to protest in solidarity against police brutality

Intimacy in Isolation

Pornceptual's new project documenting our sex lives in quarantine times

Media Matters: 20 Seconds

Berlin’s newest print outlet for experimental music and art

Skirt Club: A Safe and Sensuous Space for Sapphic Exploration

Robot Bennett On Releasing His Debut Techno Track, Aged 70

The septuagenarian spinner marks another milestone in his late-blooming career

Otto Umbehr: The Unconventional Photographer of the Avant-Garde

Berlinische Galerie’s posthumous celebration of the acclaimed German photographer

13 Berlin-Based Podcasts That Have Kept Us Sane During Quarantine

Whether you’re interested in current events, comedy or music, we’ve got you covered with Berlin’s best English-language podcasts

Quarantine Through the Lens: Daniel Seiffert

How Berlin photographers have creatively responded to the corona crisis

Quarantine Through the Lens: Mario Heller

How Berlin photographers have creatively responded to the corona crisis

Quarantine Through the Lens: Rebecca Rütten

How Berlin photographers have creatively responded to the corona crisis

Current Affairs

Sounding Off: Coronavirus has killed the ‘entitled millennial’

The youth deserve lockdown compensation: a green recovery

A Weekend of Neo-Classical Delights

A guide to Q3AMBIENTFEST, Potsdam’s boutique ambient gala

Coming To Town: Jessy Lanza

The Candian-born singer and producer on anger, anxiety and family

Dear Mom and Dad

Kseniya Apresian's photography reveals unspoken and repressed childhood feelings

Zero Waste, All Taste

Sophia Hoffmann’s decade of crusading for better food

Net Art’s Deep Berlin Roots

Exploring the seminal role Berlin has played in defining the artistic genre

Video Premiere: © Linda Fox – Teenagers Kissing

A gorgeous slice of perfectly subdued power-pop

Sounds of Berlin #2

Stick these releases into the Walkman that is life

Media Matters: KALTBLUT Magazine

Cold but sexy with Berlin’s boldest fashion and culture mag

The Last Word: Joe Hatchiban

The Bearpit Karaoke founder, MC and bringer of joy gives us an insight into his mind

LOLA Live w/ Skiing, Big Eater, Goblin Prince & Acid Gold

The first LOLA event of 2020 was an absolute blast

Is Instagram Ruining Photography?

Berlin-based photographer Timotheus Theisen discusses Instagram’s impact on his work.

At Lavanderia Vecchia, There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch

Neukölln’s favourite laundrette-themed Italian restaurant is giving back to the community

The Amazing Views of Berlin From Above

Volker Gehrmann's photography shows the city from a rarely seen perspective

Current Affairs

Sounding Off: Stop Burning Bicycles

Trashing Uber’s electric bikes is misguided rage, says Joel Dullroy

Voyages New With COMA

Heavenly electro pop from one of Germany’s best

Step Inside The Dream World

This new immersive art production will take you on a trip

Behind the Track: Alanas Chosnau – Losing My Mind (Call of the Wolf mix)

Mark Reeder on the inspiration for his Le Chant du Loup soundtrack song

Why You Should Check Out The Romani Film Festival

Hamze Bytyci, the festival’s creative director, on what makes it special

Verena Spilker On Elevating Opportunities for Artists in Berlin and Beyond

The TQU founder's simple advice for those looking to support Berlin's queer artists: ‘Be brave and be generous.’

The Future is Green

Radbahn’s vision of revamping cityscapes for sustainable living

The LOLA Guide to BedTalks Berlin

The festival seeks to answer the burning question, “Is Berlin still poor but sexy?”

Inside the Mind of Gaff-E

We speak with the formidable MC ahead of her LOLA party performance

Real Junk Food Project Berlin

Tackling food waste one trolley at a time

Eat It, Love It, Do It.

The queen calling for Berlin’s drag revolution

Looking forward to Trashfest’s 10th anniversary

Local hero Jimmy Trash talks us through the Trashfest, a hell-bent festival of international, rock & roll, disco debauchery

Song Premiere: Eilis Frawley ‘Illusions’

The Berlin-based percussionist's debut single is a delicious slice of avant-garde pop

In Pictures: Berlin Coffee Festival

Getting our grind on at the annual caffeine-centric happening

Exploring Berlin’s Sacred Club Culture

No photos on the dancefloor 1989 - Today at CO Berlin

Rabih Beaini’s Guide to Morphine Modern / Morphine Contemporary

The avant-garde curator on the highlights of the upcoming festival

Inside World of Whorecraft

A tour of today’s sexwork and why it isn't what you may think

Current Affairs

Berlin’s Five-Year Rent Freeze Explained

Joel Dullroy breaks down the radical new policy

Introducing: Nansea

The genre-bending purveyor of queer chamber-pop

The LOLA Guide to Pop-Kultur Festival 2019

Three days of meticulously curated concerts, films, talks, exhibitions and more

Label of Love: Disco Halal

Moscoman's influential imprint

Tripping the Light Fantastic

Christopher Bauder’s lifelong obsession with light and sound

Pornceptual: Six Years In Pics

Co-Founders Raquel and Chris select their favourite photos

LOLA’s Guide to Alternative Pride Events

Highlighting Berlin's unsung happenings

The Queen of Filth

Genderfluid hillbilly Christeene is coming for you

True Romance

How Curses and Berlin fell for each other

13 Reasons Why You Should Go To WHOLE

(Spoiler alert) It’s not for tea and biscuits

Brown Clouds Clearing

Fat White Family’s Scintillating Turnaround

Why Girls Curate

The founder of Curated by GIRLS on the platform’s origins and mission

LOLA’s Sex Positive Party Guide

Our recommended play pens for the curious and open-minded

Rebuilding the Inner City

Kevin Saunderson brings his son to the fore in new line-up

LOLA’s Guide to Superbooth 2019

The synthesizer festival of your dreams

In Pictures: Lesbian Visibility Day 2019

Lesbians and allies alike join for a Kiss-In demonstration at Alexanderplatz

Current Affairs

How To Fuck Up An Airport

Millions over budget and years overdue, Berlin's new BER airport is a disaster

“Do what you love every day”

The mantra that fuels DJ/producer and Disco Halal boss Moscoman

When life gives you lemons, start a record label

Meet Lemon Test, the imprint putting its own twist on electronica

Talk Dirty With Her

Cameryn Moore, the smutty storytelling founder amplifying Berlin's sex lives

Kolja Kugler’s Heavy Metal Ensemble

The madcap artist on his robotic band and cornucopia of junk

Streets, Camera, Action

The classic and authentic approach of the Berlin Street Photography Club

LOLA’s LIST: Podcasts of Berlin

A selection of the best podcasts being produced in or about the city

Nils Frahm

Master of melody, Builder of dreams

Ducks! Things That Were Lost track-by-track

A sneak preview of their brand new album

The LOLA Guide to Maerz Musik 2019

Our top picks for year five of the diverse and experimental festival

Video Premiere: Yvois (feat. Ducks! & Ben Osborn) ‘Sit Tight’

A mental mindfuck and exploration into the psyche

Any Given Sonntag: Art, Apartments and Cake

The Berlin initiative changing how we experience art

Come One, Come All: Welcome to Circus Charivari

A glimpse into the wild wonderland on the fringe of Berlin

Sounds of Berlin #1

Ryan Rosell from The Chop on the Berlin releases he is digging right now

Marga van den Meydenberg’s Pop-Up Portraiture

The Dutch photographer capturing the souls of Berlin

Let’s Talk About Sex and Drugs

The doctor and the drag queen providing an essential space for discourse

A Newly Visible Iran

Photographer Soheil Moradianboroujeni reveals a different side of his homeland.

Where Tech, Music and Art Collide

A Festival Guide to CTM & Transmediale 2019

“Book me before I die”

Robot Bennett, the 69-year-old techno DJ on a spiritual mission.

Behind The Iron Curtis

The Berlin-based electronic artist channeling melancholy and ambiguity

Ten Years of Shameless/Limitless

Independent promoter Kevin Halpin celebrates a decade of gigs and good times

More Than Just Music

The Northern Ireland Music Prize is a beacon of hope

Coming to Town: Iceage

The Danish punk upstarts are back

Coming to Town: Villagers

In conversation with the inimitable Irish troubadour

Media Matters: DADDY Magazine

Celebrating two years of the Berlin mag with a punkish take on diversity

Song Premiere: Ducks! unveil ‘Pinprick In’

Berlin's finest electropop duo drop stellar new single

Coming to Town: Suede

Brett Anderson on being an outsider and the beauty of the blue hour

Tricky

West Country boy turned Wahlberliner

Developing Talent with Fotoklub Kollektiv

The photography collective founders on the importance of community

A Prize for the People

Taking stock of Berlin’s art scene with Berlin Art Prize co-founder Alicia Reuter

WHOLE Lotta Love

The team behind Europe’s first queer festival open up ahead of highly anticipated second edition

Celebrating Five Years of Pornceptual

Co-founders Raquel and Chris on the highlights of their journey so far

Classic Film: Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders' soaring vision 30 years on

The LOLA Guide to Pop-Kultur Festival 2018

Our top selections from the three-day smorgasbord of happenings

Clued-In:

Ida Tin talks about revolutionary period-tracking app

Shine On: Using Art to Make an Impact

The Solar Panel Art Series and Little Sun Foundation team up for auction

Snapshot: Torstraßen Festival 2018

The choice highlights from this year’s TSF

Video: Free Free Dom Dom ‘Bye Bye’

Berlin's sweetest electro-pop duo make friendship breakups sound surprisingly good

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in June

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

The LOLA Guide to the 2018 Torstraßen Festival

Local and international art, music and film converge for Berlin’s favourite block party

Label of Love: Project Mooncircle

The Berlin imprint with fifteen years of outer-space exploration

Making Fun of Old White Dudes

Israeli-German artist Shahak Shapira on his journey into stand-up comedy

The Queens of Queer Korea

Drag means more than dressing up in Seoul

Art Imitating Life

Line-blurring artist Andy Kassier is the king of tongue-in-cheek

Photographing Great Falls

Artist Michael Dalton on his book release and solo exhibition

Coming to Town: Mick Harvey

Honoring the artistic influence of Serge Gainsbourg, 90 years later

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in May

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

LOLA Recommends: Gigs in April

We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month

Video Premiere: Adventure Team ‘Family Matters’

The Berlin-based slacker indie trio drop debut album and single

LOLA Recommends: Gigs in March

We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in March

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

Coming to Town: Jen Cloher

The Australian singer-songwriter on her deeply personal new album

Let’s Talk About Porn

Erika Lust on the making of indie adult cinema

Coming to Town: Steven Wilson

We talk pop, truth, and artistic freedom with the musician and songwriter

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in February

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

Berliner Photoautomat

The story of Berlin's iconic photo booths

Young Syrians Rapping for Revolution

Syrian rapper and activist Mohammad Abu Hajar on fighting authoritarianism

Coming to Town: Liima

We talk dystopian futures and eighties childhoods ahead of their Berlin gig

Drums, Gender and Horror

Sara Neidorf on empowering musicians and her passion for feminist horror film

LOLA Recommends: Gigs in December

We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in December

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

Dispatches: A Frontline Report from Mosul

Photojournalist Sebastian Backhaus shares his words and photos from the Iraqi war-zone

Torchlight

Creator Kevin Braddock on breakdown and recovery

Song Premiere: Luckless, So Talk (Ducks! Spinning Circles Remix)

A first listen to the collaborative dreamy disco remix

Dispatches: Dry County Distilling

The small Tennessee town devoted to making whiskey

Flipping Brilliant

A niche pastime makes a triumphant return at the German Pinball Open

Consuming Consciously

Quartiermeister Beer and their mission to do some good with every bottle

Five Berlin Artists You Need to See at Loop

LOLA's top tips for this weekend's festival

Copy, Paste, Delete, Repeat

Romano's genre-fluid journey through music

EP Premiere: Bonnie Li ‘Plane Crash’

Dark and bewitching melodies abound

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in November

Choice art, film, and performance

Acid Test

Tales from within Berlin’s microdosing scene

Champagne Supernova Julia Bosski

The powerhouse behind Polish Thursday Dinners gives us the dish

Transgression, Desire, Revolution

Director Yony Leyser on breaking rules

Getting To Know: Sarah Walk

The singer–songwriter on her powerful debut album

In Good Company

The nominees of the 2017 Preis der Nationalgalerie discuss their work

Video Premiere: Hior Chronik ‘Whispers From The Surface Of A Lake’

A dreamlike concoction of ambiance, drone, and harmonics

Song Premiere: KOY ‘RUN’

Did someone say 'electronic mermaid witchcraft'?

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in October

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

In Pictures: Moderat’s Big Finish

Their triumphant hometown gig ahead of taking a break

Coming to Town: The Black Angels

Frontman Alex Maas talks Trump, psychedelics, and the confusion of our times

Black in Berlin

Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor’s crucial salon

Feel the Hype

Artist Joe Hayes on critiquing consumerism culture

In Review: Pop-Kultur

New location allowed music festival to really pop

Berlin’s Green Spaces: Körnerpark

Enjoying an oasis preserved by neighbourhood spirit

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in September

Choice contemporary art, film, and performance

Ostpunk Never Dies

Henryk Gericke on what it meant to be a punk in East Germany

Exploring our Pen and Paper City

The Anger, Love and Desire of Notes of Berlin

BIMM’s Class of 2017

An album of Berlin’s up-and-coming talent, track by track

Exploring Borderlands

Valentina Culley-Foster photographs the spaces that divide us

Buddhism, Politics and Power Struggles

What’s going on with alt-indie icon Thurston Moore?

LOLA Recommends: Gigs in August

We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in August

Choice contemporary art, performance, and film

An Unseen Side of Pakistan

Berlin-based photographer Manolo Ty on his book, ‘Pakistan Now’

The End of Moderat?

The iconic Berlin trio on their indefinite hiatus

In Pictures: The BIMM Berlin End of Term Gig

As another year draws to a close, the students perform as Festsaal Kreuzberg

Moved By The Stars

Kiani del Valle on her work as a conceptual dancer

LOLA’s Melt Festival Selects

What we’re most looking forward to seeing this year

20 Years of Melt

Germany’s top festival celebrates two decades of good times

Exercise One Are Keeping Techno Dangerous

The Berlin duo invoking the spirit of the nineties

LOLA Recommends: Gigs in July

We list our unmissable live events of the month

Remembering Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, activist and mother of Berlin

A Cult Filmmaker’s Radical Reputation

Bruce LaBruce on the power of provocation

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in July

Choice contemporary art, performance, and film

The Life of a Jazz Legend and Auschwitz Survivor

Coco Schumann's remarkable story of how music kept him going

Confronting Body Image On Tinder

Photographer Eylül Aslan asks: What don’t you love about me?

Delving Into Berlin’s Dark Corners

Photographer Matthew Coleman finds light between the shadows

In Pictures: LOLA’s First Birthday

Celebrating one year, four issues and a lot of good times

Video Premiere: Angela Chambers ‘Siren’

A choice cut from her debut EP gets the video treatment

A Bloody Fight For Reproductive Rights

Cute Fruit Undies on taking action in Trump’s America, one period panty at a time

Devugees Welcome

One company’s mission to integrate refugees through technology

Getting to Know: Carla dal Forno

Talking cello, painting and her debut solo album

Calm After the Storm

Nick Donovan of DeadBear on life, work at BIMM Berlin, and the inspirational hunger of his music students

The Seven Year Itch

LOLA’s picks for this year’s Torstraßen Festival

Chatting Up Cher Nobyl

A power-dressing career woman and social commentator

The Papa of Kotti

Meet Seydo Uzun, the kiosk counsellor for those in need

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in June

Choice contemporary art, performance, and film

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Frontwoman Sónia Tavares shares her thoughts ahead of their Berlin show

Getting to Know Berlinstagram

An unofficial ambassador in focus

Brilliant And Bold

Love, legacy and smashing the system with Black Cracker

Birdwatching: A New Way of Looking at Our City

Berlin’s Birdwatching Scene

Tour Diary: Gurr

The Berlin-based Garage-rockers share photos from their recent European tour

Odd City Episode Five: Strings Attached

How Groupmuse are changing house party music

LOLA Recommends: Art Events in May

Bold and experimental contemporary art

A Common Language for Teenage Refugees

The music production workshop that's building futures

LOLA Recommends: Berlin Gallery Weekend 2017

A weekend of diverse contemporary art

Hello Humans

Ducks! introduce their dream disco and electronic weirdness

Rearranging Reality

Britta Thie on media, satire, and reinventing the everyday

Current Affairs

When It All Began

Day one in Trump's America

Coming To Town: HVOB

We catch up with the band ahead of their sold-out Berlin gig

In Pictures: BIMM Berlin’s End of Term Gig

The music students rocking out at Musik & Frieden

Bouldering in Berlin

Comedian Caroline Clifford rates the city's climbing gyms

Promoting with Purpose

Meet Bang On, the Berlin indie collective putting female musicians centre stage

Connecting Strangers With Their Stories

Artist Tala Who on the importance of being

Verloren in Berlin und Bukarest

Photographing the turbulent lives of street youth

With and Without

Sophia Vogel’s clothing-optional photography series

Boys Noize: Banging the Drum for Berlin

The electro outsider on following his punk spirit

Where Have All The Dodos Gone?

Berlin-based curator Lisa Gordon talks about her new dodo-themed exhibition ‘Have you seen this bird?’

More Than My Boob

Artist Annique Delphine discusses her latest work

Bigger Than This Land

Multi-platform artist, Mary Ocher talks politics, place and privilege

Pit Bukowski’s Celluloid Dreams

Indulging our curiosity with the Berlin-born actor

How My Mother Raised Me

Mitski talks post-pubescent tightrope walking ahead of her show at Lido

Fire, Bikes, Beyoncé

In conversation with ethereal singer/producer Magic Island

Introducing: Eveline

The electro-pop duo on releasing their debut

Sweet Reposition

The Temper Trap’s Dougy Mandagi on making indie smash hits and moving to Berlin

Resisting from Abroad

Ideas for the future from the Berlin Women's March

The Singularity of the Chicken

Artist Andreas Greiner on collaborating with nature

The Street Life of Roc Roc-It

Collecting stories and crossing borders

Odd City Episode Four: Bear City Rollers

All rollin', no hatin'

Porn This Way

Stripping down the art and politics of Pornceptual

Closer to Some Kind of Truth

Bulgarian pop artist DENA on her deeply personal new material

One Night at the Lamplight Sessions

An intimate evening with an array of international performers

LOLA’s Favourite Berlin Indie Releases of 2016

The 10 local records that kept us sane during this unique and Bowie-less year

Odd City Episode Three: Cooking the Books in Kreuzberg

A literary oasis with a proper English roast

Current Affairs

On the Shores of Lesbos

Filmmaker Ben Jones documents the refugee crisis

Oddcity Episode Two: Where There’s Wheels, There’s a Way

Mobilising Berlin’s new arrivals

Homeless Veggie Dinners

Charitable cooking with a side of community spirit

From Belfast To Berlin

Making Stories, Making Sounds: Northern Irish Music Comes to Neukölln

Orchestral Manoeuvres

Andy Leomar's Symphoniacs: where classical meets electronica

Irish Sports are Thriving

One club's success against the odds

The Adrenalin Fuelled Photography of Thomas von Wittich

Scaling rooftops and riding trains to document the Berlin Kidz

Oddcity Episode One: Ofen Bar and the Sound of Silence

One venue owner’s creative solution to noise pollution

Bergnein

Meet the creative duo behind the tabletop tribute to the church of techno

Peaches

Rubbing Berlin up the right way

Money Talks

Gross Net’s Philip Quinn on his debut album

Culture Night Belfast 

One night to unite a city

Waves, Sand, and Sunlight

Elizabeth McTernan on mapping as storytelling

Konrad Langer’s Fresh Perspective

The Instagram specialist with a geometric focus

Recommended Gigs in November

Party Fears’ Maggie Devlin lists her unmissable live shows of the month

In the Friend Zone with Michael Mayer

Unveiling the collaborative process behind the techno legend's latest album

On The Road to Reeperbahn

Train gigs, showcases and good times

Arthouse

A guided tour of Weißensee's art commune 'Kunstlerhaus Parkstraße'

Berlin’s Green Spaces: Görlitzer Park

Exploring the history of Kreuzberg's undisciplined garden

Anne Imhof – Angst II

Dancers, Falcons, Drones and Music at Hamburger Bahnhof

The Immersive Photographs of Johanna Keimeyer

An artist's repeated baptisms in hotel pools of the world

Splicing Music and Fashion with Larry Tee

Original NYC club kid and flamboyant party machine introduces a new queer party to Berlin

Strong as Fuck

The ongoing impact of Sara Jordenö's award-winning documentary KIKI

Pondering Infinity

John Kameel Farah's Spiritual Sound

Election Fever in Neukölln

Jöran Mandik finds that even running for office is easier than going to the Bürgeramt

Cliffe Notes

Barry Cliffe's Top Five Berlin Bands of the Moment

Luckless

Introducing an ever-changing musical outfit from half a world away

The Artists Who Turned a Döner Factory Into a Contemporary Art Space

A tour around one of Neukölln's most distinctive cultural hotspots: Horse & Pony Fine Arts

Breaking Through The Silence

Electronic producer Ryan Vail on his debut album

Twisted Reality in The Mind of Nikias Chryssos

The underground director on his dark debut feature, Der Bunker

Documenting the Changing Face of Berlin

Alexander Steffen captures the city's transience in Vanishing Berlin

In Pictures: By The Lake 2016

Festival Hits All The Right Notes in Weißensee

Mark Reeder

A Life at the Heart of Berlin's Cultural Revolutions

Colour in The Clear Morning Light

Gergana Petrova on shooting the uniquely poetic Berlin 05am

The Frisbee Jesus of Görlitzer Park

Herbert Schmidt on Life as a Kreuzberg Legend

Daily Portrait Berlin

365 Days, 365 Portraits, 365 Naked Strangers

The Unique Worldview of a Skateboarding Photographer

Dennis Scholz on capturing the interplay of architecture and skating

Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert

The rising star of Berlin’s art world is full of surprises

The Artistic Vision of Sarah P.

A fearless and fierce approach to music

The Divine Comedy of Caroline Clifford

A unique insight into the workings of the comedienne extraordinaire's mind