As any New York denizen knows, the rat is both the city's unofficial mascot and the ruler of its underground domain. That's why the artist Keren Richter and the art director Gabriel Kuo chose Rats as the name for their new curated pop-up shop in Berlin, which pays tribute to the underground creative culture of the Big Apple.
Set in the central shopping strip of Mitte, the boutique, which has its grand opening tonight and is the first in a series of temporary stores, is stocked with more than 50 different items, including art books, accessories and design pieces, which you can't ordinarily find in Berlin. Ranging in price from $1.30 to $565, the pieces were mostly imported from New York via carry-ons. (A few were shipped from other cities, including Los Angeles, Sydney, Seattle and Stockholm.) Every product is labeled with a little white card explaining where it came from and what that place specializes in — books from Ed Varie gallery in the East Village, for instance, are accompanied by a note saying that the gallery supports "New York artists who are in the early stages of their career." The objects overall are a mix of high culture and lowbrow, with leather bracelets by the New York designer Lauren Manoogian, bottle openers by the Red Hook design studio Fort Standard and minimalist zines by Thomas Valentine alongside a discontinued box of Cracked magazine trading cards and a fluorescent skateboard salvaged from an upstate flea market.
Oh, and there are also Doritos. "You can't find any of these brands here," Richter said.
The moniker, Kuo added, also refers to New Yorkers like the two of them, who've been steadily infiltrating Berlin. "We only come out at night," he joked.
Rats is open Monday through Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. through Aug. 24. Torstrasse 68, Berlin; ratsshop.com.
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