From Lehrte to Berlin: The Need for a Poetics of Puberty
The feeling that stayed with me after finishing Kleinstadtnovelle was not that puberty itself is the problem, but the hostile conditions in which it is supposed to happen.
Read MoreThe feeling that stayed with me after finishing Kleinstadtnovelle was not that puberty itself is the problem, but the hostile conditions in which it is supposed to happen.
Read MoreLong-beloved by COVEN BERLIN since we began, artist and performer Melanie Jame Wolf opened her largest solo exhibition to date last October titled The Creep, curated by Adriana Tranca at E-WERK…
Read MoreIt was in 2020 when D’orjay, debuting Shit My Shaman Says: Volume I, a work Axe Pulse agnate in its anti-linear subversiveness, first came upon my newsfeed.
Read MoreCOVEN hosted this beautiful reading in the summer of 2022 on the beach with authors Zinzi Buchanan, Inky Lee, Daniela Medina Poch, and Meghna Singh. We selected their articles as…
Read MoreEmotional as in congratulations, mental illness runs in the family. Also, coronary heart disease.
Read MoreWhen considering having a threesome, there are five very important questions you should ask yourself to have the hottest and most fun experience possible for all parties involved.
Read MoreIn the first episode of The Lonely Island (2001), Ardy, played by twenty-three year old Andy Samberg, all lips and shaggy curls, stars in a goofy early-90’s-hip-hop-MTV-style interlude. From the twin-sized bottom bunk on my ten-centimeter iPod screen, I studied this scene with adolescent gravitas.
Read Morei see trees falling as they cannot ground/roots can’t hold onto anything /that would give them stability
Read MoreAs part of the large group exhibition titled How (Not) to Fit In – Metaphern der Adoleszenz at Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, in Esslingen, Germany, which ran from May 8 – July 17, 2022, COVEN BERLIN created the installation and environment we called AXE PULSE, eponymously named after our current magazine and curatorial theme (which can be read here).
Read MoreSacha Vega is an American artist creating at the intersection of photography, installation art, and writing, based in the Greater New York area. Through her practice, she “advises the viewer…
Pepa Prieto Puy is a Galician-born Spanish illustrator and artist. Her passion for drawing comes from childhood: when she was in school, she started a magazine with her friend Roberta…
Ali Fitzgerald is an artist//writer in Berlin. She currently makes comics about a hungover bear for McSweeney’s and queer mermaids for New York Magazine. Ali gave us 9 visual answers to our…