"I’m sorry to break the first cardinal rule of Berlin nightlife—you don’t talk about Berghain—but when I pull up to the club and see a factory line of black silhouettes wearing the exact same BDSM harnesses from Amazon.com … biiiiiitch! I cannot resist going in. I mean, come on. That shit looks like a meme" - clubs&drugs lover Michelle Lhooq writes in her latest Instagram about the famous club. "I hit the Berg three times during my trip, and every occasion felt like a hollow simulation, like taking a soulless ride through techno Disneyland. It was as if a meta-level of self-consciousness was hanging over the club - an acute awareness that THIS IS BERGHAIN. Half the dancefloor looked like they stepped off the Balenciaga runway, and the bug-eyed models stomping around on designer amphetamines were actually terrifying. Dabauchery didn't look like an act of debasement but a way of fitting into a proscribed lifestyle".

Berlin’s mythical temple of bassy industrial techno, the Berghain club is reopening today as an art gallery, Guardian reports. Studio Berlin exhibition contains works by 115 international Berlin-based artists that were produced in the city during lockdown. The idea of the exhibition was “to send a message that Berlin’s cultural life is still very much alive”.

Berghain is probably the most famous club in the world today. It all began in 1989 with gay sex club Snax - the same people went on to create Berghain. A new book No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 - Today and an exhibition of the same name capture the period from those […]