Numéro Berlin’s contribution to Ciara feels less like a playlist and more like a sonic, visual exhibition with beautiful and intriguing films accompanied by intriguing soundscapes. The selection reflects a sensibility that is both instinctive and intentional. There is a subtle tension running through the playlist, between intimacy and distance.

“This playlist moves through spaces that feel both intimate and staged. Rooms become silent witnesses to gestures of control, desire, and withdrawal. Bodies appear composed, aware of being seen but slightly out of reach. Between softness and tension, something shifts: what begins as familiarity slowly turns into distance. A choreography of presence, where nothing fully reveals itself.”

Experience our playlist at Cifra HERE

CARHARTT WIP X F.C. REAL BRISTOL

For their first collaboration steps Carhartt WIP and F.C. Real Bristol into a shared universe, somewhere between workwear, spot and fantasy. Founded under SOPH. F.C Real Bristol has always functioned as a kind of imagined football club, blurring the line between performance attire and everyday uniform. Those contrasts carries through this capsule, where athletic silhouettes meet Carhartt WIP´s grounded, utilitarian palette.

Varsity jackets, nylon warm ups and moisture wicking sets are rendered in dusty browns, deep navy and black, while accessories and memorabilia like scarves, caps and even a custom fotball is all part of the “club”.

Shot by Theodor Guelat, the campaign mirror that world, slightly surreal, abstract and just removed enough from reality to feel intentional. Simply put, a collaboration that doesn’t just reference football culture, but subtly reimagines it.

DOLCE & GABBANA X RAY-BAN

A classic, reframed. Dolce & Gabbana and Ray- Ban come together to revisit one of eyewear’s most enduring silhouettes, the Aviator.

Originally designed for function and later adopted as cultural staple, the shape is reworked here through Dolce & Gabbana’s distinctly expressive lens. The shooter and Outdoorsman II models retain their iconic structure, but are elevated with subtle shifts in detail and attitude.

Captured by Grey Sorrenti, the campaign leans into a bold, high energy vision, unfiltered, confident and unapologetic.

It’s less about reinvention, more about reinterpretation where heritage meets a sharper more contemporary edge.

GALLERY WEEKEND IN BERLIN

Each spring, Berlin’s art world shifts into a different rhythm. For one weekend, the city’s gallery network opens in full, new exhibitions, new conversations, and steady flow of openings spread across neighbourhoods.

Gallery Weekend Berlin brings together more than 50 galleries across the city, each presenting a solo and group shows by emerging and established artists. Rather that a single venue, it unfolds like a map, inviting visitors to move through Berlin itself as part of the experience.

Founded in 2005, the event has become a fixed moment in the international art calendar, offering a snapshot of where contemporary art is right now, from painting and sculpture to installation, video and more experimental practices.

This year’s edition runs from 1-3 May, turning the city into a dense circuit of openings, studio energy and late nigh conversations, where the lines between audinec, gallery and artist feel briefly more fluid than usual.

GUCCI THE ART OF SILK

The House’s storied legacy of silk craftsmanship enters a new chapter with The Art of Silk, a project that reimagines ten archival scarves through a contemporary lens. Selected by Demna from the Gucci Archive in Florence, their distinctive motifs embody the artistry of the House’s early language of print. This reinterpretation preserves the character of the originals while offering a nuanced reflection of Gucci’s ongoing exploration of silk as a medium.

The collection includes Your Majesty, Double Trouble, Morso D’Oro, Giardino di Seta, Lungomare, Hard-Wear, Salon Privé, and Il Gattino, alongside two exclusive Flora designs created for the opening of LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries. Together, these designs embody the richness of Gucci’s early visual language, spanning Flora, animalia and nautical prints, and other emblematic motifs.

The collection is accompanied by a dedicated campaign exploring the silk scarf as a dynamic element of personal expression, presenting multiple ways of wearing it. Through a refined interplay of movement, texture, and styling, the campaign highlights how the silk scarves evolve from archival designs into a fluid, modern accessory.

On the occasion of the launch, Gucci further extends its dialogue with art and education through a collaboration with the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze. A selection of ten paintings, reproducing the House’s scarf designs created for The Art of Silk, project, has been developed by students of the academy. These works will be exhibited at the Gucci Rodeo Drive store in Los Angeles, creating a bridge between heritage design and contemporary artistic interpretation. As part of this initiative, Gucci will support the participating students through dedicated scholarships, reinforcing its commitment to nurturing emerging talent and fostering the next generation of creatives

RINA SAWAYAMA EMBRACES SPRING FOOTWEAR IN NEW SS26 CAMPAIGN

April, 9th 2026 UGGs rings in the spring season with a new sandal offering, bringing ye signature feel into the warmer weather. Global musician and artist return for the Spring 2026 campaign, perfectly capturing the bold, dynamic aesthetic of the silhouettes with the brand’s iconic heritage of comfort, premium materials, design innovation and style.

The newly released campaign features a collection of sandals and clogs that reimagine the silhouettes consumers know and love, this time with contrasting textures, colors, style, and energy. Pulling inspiration from the brand’s warm-weather icon, the GoldenGlow  sandal, the GoldenGlow  Toggle has a lace-up pull able to be cinched for an ideal fit. A similar aesthetic but with more coverage, the GoldenGlow Canvas Clog, includes a molded rubber toe and outsole, complete with a breathable canvas upper and anti-odor sockliner. Rounding out the sandal offering, the GoldenGaze Toe Post, has the comfort of the Goldenstar with a sleek silhouette for easy wear.

The styles are available now at UGG.com, UGG® stores, and select wholesale retailers nationwide.

NEW SINGLE: NIA ARCHIVES  “DANGER”

Nia Archives is back catapulting us straight into her unmistakable jungle universe: with her new single “Danger,” she kicks off an exciting new chapter. The flirtatious track acts as a kind of hedonistic manifesto and unfolds like a playful rhyme: here, “Danger” becomes an acronym celebrating personal freedom, self-confidence, and love. Carried by genre-bending alt-jungle beats, the song blends raw energy with a new, intimate honesty.

The release is accompanied by a striking video directed by Claryn Chong, in which Nia confidently celebrates her sexuality and the female gaze, dancing in front of a mirror, full of confidence and carried by the butterflies of being in love. It’s a powerful snapshot between girlhood and womanhood, and at the same time an expression of her artistic self-discovery.

About the track, she says:

“It’s definitely an X-rated tune, I really pushed that side – I’ve never even sworn in my music. But it’s a part of love…or of lust… that people get a bit scared to talk about. Being in your mid-20s, you’re figuring out who you are, exploring your sexuality… I think people kind of get stuck in girlhood, but really and truly, I’m 26 and I feel like I’m entering womanhood.”

MARINA ABRAMOVIC: BALKAN EROTIC EPIC. THE EXHIBITON 

One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political resistance.

Women beat their chests and massage their breasts in lamentation, while a living naked body lies entwined with a skeleton: drawing on the folklore of Abramović’s native Balkans, the exhibition weaves together filmic and sculptural installations with live performance to explore eroticism as an offering that binds life and death, the self and the cosmos. It highlights the artist’s performances not merely as acts of personal endurance, but as imagined rituals that reposition the erotic body as carrier of spiritual, political and ecological meaning.

Celebrating their 75th birthday, the Berliner Festspiele unfold Balkan Erotic Epic in two parts: following the exhibition at Gropius Bau, Balkan Erotic Epic.
The Stage Version, a new multi-hour theatre production, will open the Performing Arts Season in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in October 2026.

On view at Gropius Bau from 15th. April- 23th. August.

In honor of OONA’s exhibition opening at Schlachter 151, the teams from Numéro Berlin and CIFRA hosted a private dinner to celebrate the artist’s vision and her performance ‘For Human Eyes Only’ alongside close friends of the magazine and the art scene. Among the guests were many key figures from the Berlin fashion industry, such as Götz Offergeld, publisher and editor-in-chief of Numéro, as well as deputy-editor-in-chief Antonia Schmidt, Ann-Kathrin Riedl, editor-in-chief of Fräulein Magazine, the editor-in-chief of Gruppe Magazine, Hella Schneider, stylist Marvin Lobodda, and influencers Hanna Goldfisch and Lele Berlin, alongside the curator of the exhibition Anika Meier and other collectors and artists.

Throughout the evening, the artist remained true to her central motif. Despite her physical presence, her face stayed hidden to preserve her essential anonymity. Her work raises existential questions: “If machines are trained to read the body as data, what does it mean to be seen? And what becomes visible when the machine fails to detect the body?” In this context, cameras are transformed from instruments of control into collaborators.

Last week, the Schlachter 151 exhibition space hosted the opening of OONA’s first solo exhibition. Under the title “Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story,” the artist presents a body of work born from an unusual symbiosis. Since 2019, OONA has performed in the London Underground in front of surveillance cameras, appearing not as an anonymous passerby but as if positioned before the lens of a fashion photographer. To obtain this material, she entered into an exchange with David, whose job involves managing this data. Over 400 emails later, a digital connection developed between two strangers, forming the foundation of her art.

The dinner was powered by CIFRA, a platform for digital and video art that provides specialized software and hardware for a precise presentation of digital works.

Stream OONA’s videos from the exhibition on CIFRA

On March 19, the exhibition ‘Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story,’ curated by Anika Meier, opened at Berlin gallery Schlachter 151. The artist OONA appeared in person for the opening but remained completely anonymous through her clothing, consistent with the theme of the exhibition. Anonymity is a central motif of her Art. In the video and image works, the artist is constantly present, yet her face is never visible.

 The material originates from the surveillance cameras of the London Underground. This was made possible by David, who has been working for London Transport since 29 years, which allows him to release footage to people exercising their right to information within the legal 14 day period. To obtain the recordings from David, OONA meticulously documented her outfits, her routes and her exact travel times.

Although David and OONA have never met in person or spoken to each other, they exchanged over 400 emails. This anonymous, purely digital connection served as inspiration for OONA. In addition to the performances in the subway, the exhibition displays the email correspondence with David. After receiving her personal data and the required documents, David used various recognition programs to follow OONA through the stations using object tracking while the identities of bystanders were anonymized. In this “love letter” OONA looks through the lens of surveillance technology to find and appreciate the human on the other side.

Dedicating an exhibition to someone she has never met underscores the sincerity of her artistic approach. OONA is not merely focused on herself or her appearance on camera. Instead, she finds joy in the process of obtaining the material from David, allowing this unique exchange to guide her inspiration in new directions.

The exhibition Midnight Zone by French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents a fascinating exploration of the infinite vastness of the sea. In his works Charrière links artistic visions with scientific findings about our environment, with water serving as the central focus. It is the basis of all life and, at the same time, a fiercely contested resource. The exhibition illuminates both the impressive side of the element and the crises of our time, ranging from the climate catastrophe and melting glaciers to the threat to the oceans from pollution and industrial mining on the seabed. In science, the “Midnight Zone” refers to the area of the ocean lying between 1,000 and 4,000 meters below the surface, where no rays of sunlight can reach. It is the namesake of the current exhibition.

To create the feeling of being underwater, the entire hall is completely darkened and accompanied by the actual soundscape that occurs at this depth. Contrary to popular belief, the underwater world is by no means a place of silence. The theme of phonography, acoustic recordings, guides visitors through the first three rooms of the exhibition. Behind this lies the overarching concept of porosity. The recordings of coral reefs make audible how countless organisms, such as snapping shrimp and fish, create a dense fabric of sound. Each reef possesses its very own characteristic acoustic note, which was captured for this work.

A central aspect of the exhibition is rooted in a personal experience of the artist: the so-called “drift dive” in the open ocean. In a drift dive, one allows oneself to drift suspended with the current until, in the monotony of the deep blue, any sense of space and direction disappears. Charrière describes this state as being carried by the water, a physical merging with the environment.

Reemerging far from the starting point illustrates the power of invisible currents and the blurring of the boundary between the individual and the environment. This idea of porosity and merging with the biosphere runs like a common thread through his works.

For a photo series in the exhibition, Charrière collaborated with two breath-hold divers who let themselves glide into the depths without breathing apparatus. The shots show an astounding natural phenomenon: an undersea layer, the halocline, which appears like a second water surface or a “sea beneath the sea.” The works show how human bodies sink into this dense layer and are, in a sense, swallowed by the water. This scenery serves as a metaphor for diving into the unconscious, a state of total suspension in which the boundaries of the physical world seem to blur. A central feature of Julian Charrière’s work is the deliberate use of ambivalence.

Charrière’s works often possess a very appealing aesthetic, paired with uncanny and hidden elements. This interplay of beauty and unease runs through many of his works.

The video installations show the impressive biodiversity in the dark regions of the ocean. The gaze follows a lamp from the sky down into the midnight zone of the Pacific, making the life hidden there visible. Since this abundance of fish is acutely threatened by the mining of manganese nodules, the artist succeeds in drawing attention to this endangered habitat in a subtle and aesthetic way. These video installations are accompanied by field recordings from the filming location, layered with sounds by Californian musician Laurel Halo.

Through a photo series in which the artist attempted to melt an iceberg for hours with a blowtorch, a reversal of the romantic understanding of nature occurs. While humans are traditionally often portrayed as reverent but distanced observers of nature, Julian Charrière makes them visible as active participants and causes of global change. Even if the physical effect of the burner on the massive ice mass remained minimal, the images capture the point that Julian Charrière wants to make: We are not just guests on this planet, but intervene massively in its vital cycles.

A project that occupied Julian Charrière for over three years, and which he himself describes as perhaps the most complicated project he has ever worked on, arose from the vision of literally reversing the carbon cycle. Carbon, which had been stored in the ground for millions of years and released into the atmosphere by humans, was to be transformed back into the hardest material in the world: diamonds. This process is understood as an “act of reconciliation” with the Earth’s melting ice caps and glaciers.

The creation of the work resembled a scientific and global odyssey. In collaboration with ETH Zurich, the artist used special membranes to extract CO2 directly from the ambient air. When the COVID-19 pandemic made travel impossible, the focus shifted to the human community. Nearly 2,000 balloons with breath donations from people all over the world reached the artist by mail. This collected carbon was metabolized with the help of microorganisms from the deep sea and finally grown into diamonds in a solar-powered plasma reactor. The goal was not the creation of a material object of value, but rather the return of these stones to the receding glaciers, as a symbolic gesture.

Julian Charrière meets criticism of the ecological footprint of his art practice with remarkable openness. He describes his life as being in a state of constant ambivalence. The awareness of his own carbon footprint through travel and transport stands in contrast to the goal of creating visibility for endangered places through highly aesthetic works like Midnight Zone. Midnight Zone is Julian Charrière’s largest solo exhibition to date. In cooperation with Museum Tinguely, a space was created for Wolfsburg in which one can dive deep into the sea and experience and understand it in a new way. The exhibition makes the beauty and the threat to our oceans, as well as the biodiversity in the depths, physically tangible, bringing the element of water into focus in a completely new way.

Exhibition opening on March 13, 2026, at 7 p.m.,

Open 14.3.–12.7.2026