MUSIC – Trevor Bahnson 

Trevor Bahnson is a singer, songwriter, and prodigiously gifted guitarist who crafts indie-folk songs with a torch for rock ‘n’ roll romantics like Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. With a voice that carries wisdom beyond his years and a lyricism that draws strength from vulnerability, Bahnson makes music that sounds a bit like the desert where he was born: plaintive, powerful, with hints of mischief and mystery; it’s meant to reverberate across wild, open spaces.

Growing up in Santa Fe, Bahnson first picked up a guitar at age 10. By 14, he was obsessed with Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and had a job at a local music shop, where he tuned string instruments and casually impressed musicians three times his age with his natural ability. Bahnson started singing and writing songs at Berklee College of Music in Boston, but the rest of his musical education came from bands — like the five years he spent with Song Preservation Society, playing places like the Bowery Ballroom in New York and Voodoo Fest in New Orleans, opening for the likes of Grace Potter. He also spent two years busking in Berlin, studying how lyrics could stop an audience in their tracks.

ART EXHIBITION – „Sirens“ Ofir Dor 

Ofir Dor is a painter, a native of Israel, residing in Berlin since 2007. He will be showing large-scale paintings in a lush expressivity, depicting men and women in situations derived from a subliminal zone of dream, the occult, and sexual fantasy. Initially working in a more detailed technique, with scenes that bring to mind a dark underworld of esoteric cliques and subcultures, his painterly style has evolved into a freeform expressivity. It deals with nudity, the axes of gaze, the interplay of characters, and the force fields of push-and-pull between them, often approached in connection with noted art-historical precedents, erotic photography, and the widespread scopic practices of the digital age.

As ideas refine across slight variations – experimenting with color, composition, setting and gesture – he tries to attain a balance between a raw, energetic state and sense of balance and lucidity, doing so not so much be by a deliberate structure but rather by a fusion of image and paint, creating a one-time, particular event where content and form are bound together to create meaning.