Berlin-Paris Gallery Swap

If you're feeling shorter of pocket than usual this month, but still fancy a cultural jaunt to raise the spirits, head to either Berlin or Paris, where due to a large-scale gallery swap you get the chance to get a two-for-one experience of both cities' finest contemporary artists

The Berlin-Paris program is a traditional swap shop affair: 12 Parisian galleries have been twinned with a Berlin counterpart and are showing their work in the German capital until 18th January. Led by the French embassy in Germany, the exchange has a cultural precedent in the Centre Pompidou’s 1978 exhibition, ‘Paris-Berlin’, which explored the art scenes of France and Germany in the first half of the 20th Century. Aside from giving us an opportunity to take in a double whammy of contemporary art, the scheme’s idea is to provide the galleries with expanded viewing and networking potentials in anticipation of a more restricted climate in the coming years.

- From www.wallpaper.com