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PHOTOGRAPHY & ART


2026 Yearly Horoscopes — The Wild, Sexy, Planet-Savvy Guide for Every Sign
Discover your 2026 horoscope: big transits, relationship breakthroughs, career growth & money advice. Read your zodiac sign’s forecast now.


December 2025 Horoscopes — Get Ready to Close the Year with Fire
December 2025 astrology: sexy, soulful readings for each zodiac sign. Full Moon, New Moon, Neptune direct & your love, career, money vibes.


Snus Is Sexy—Why Berlin Can’t Shut Up About Pouchdaddy Nicotine Pouch Calendar
The holiday season just got a major upgrade for nicotine pouch lovers. PouchDaddy.de has officially unveiled its Nicotine Pouch Christmas Calendar 2025 Limited Edition, the return of last year’s best-selling sensation. After selling out in record time in 2024, this year’s calendar comes back stronger than ever – packed with more premium nicotine pouches, more brands, and greater variety than any previous edition.


November 2025 Horoscopes
November 2025 horoscopes: cheeky, sexy, planet-savvy readings for love, career & money. Scorpio New Moon, Taurus Full Moon, Mercury safety tips.


Champagne, Trojan Horses, and Pleasure Rooms: Inside the Mythology of Constance Tenvik
If you’ve ever stood in front of a Constance Tenvik installation and felt like you were part of a costume drama directed by a deeply literate club kid with a thing for ancient Greece and post-drag decadence, that’s exactly the point. Her work doesn’t whisper. It calls—through hand-stitched tapestries, larger-than-life personalities, and backroom mythologies dressed in Pucci.


Pain as Performance: Witnessing Cherry Velour’s 2426F
I first encountered Cherry Velour through her playful, disarmingly warm kinky clown persona—a welcome burst of joy in a scene often misunderstood. Her presence was magnetic, her energy infectious. But nothing prepared me for the sharp pivot when I witnessed her darker, more intense work live. It felt like watching two sides of the same coin—both raw, riveting, and unmistakably her.


Nylon Fetish: Inside the Lush, Fetish-Poetic World of Nylon Sonata
To enter the world of Nicholas D. Celano is to be gently unraveled. The Italian-born visual artist, writer, and filmmaker doesn’t just blur the line between memory and fantasy — he drenches it in soft tension and lets you sit with the ambiguity.


Phallic Fantasies – Meet Berlin’s Penis Rug Queen Page Travaglin
In a tucked-away studio somewhere behind Berlin’s endless nights, artist Page Travaglini is doing what probably no one else is—tufting dicks. It started as a personal experiment. It became art. It’s bold, cheeky, and absolutely unapologetic. Phallic, her exhibition of tufted penis rugs held at Berlin's fetish store The Code, blends humor, sensuality, and a little bit of Berlin’s rebellious spirit.


The Art of Kink: An Interview with The Berlin Chameleon
Berlin has long been a haven for those who seek freedom—sexual, artistic, and political. In this interview, The Berlin Chameleon, a photogra


How Techno and Fetish Fashion "Stole" from Gays and Escorts: Berlin’s Underground Fashion Evolution
Today, elements such as harnesses, latex, high heels, and chains are commonly seen in techno fashion and fetish gear in Berlin’s renowned cl


Why Does Everyone in Berlin Have a Weird Side Hustle? – The Quirky Jobs of Berliners
Berlin is a city of transformation—where creativity and commerce collide in the most unexpected ways. While Berlin has long been known for i


Fofo Altinell: "The more you do soul searching the more you find and have to deal with"
Fofo Altinell: "The more you do soul searching the more you find and have to deal with"


Malika Maria: "Visual Art Serves as My Therapy"
Malika Maria: "Visual Art Serves as My Therapy"


Visibility: Content with context
Riley Davidson, a performance artist and dancer, unveils a powerful narrative that resonates with creatives worldwide. After an unsettling


Adam Munnings: “Queer people are the pioneers of reshaping”
We had a long talk with photographer Adam Munnings, who’s been around the world but ended up in Berlin where they get inspired by love, queerness and individuality.


Death Drive-in: A guided theatre through capitalism, consumer culture and our nervous system
Playful spoke with the creative duo, Riley Davidson and Lauri Lohi, about their new simulated diner concept "Death Drive-In". It is premieri


Santana SexMachine is entering ‘Gay heaven for drag-queens’
Santana SexMachine Drag Race Sverige


Fetish photography from Berlin's underground and kink scene
Fetish photography by Raf – Playful Magazine interview. The photographer Raf is well known on the underground kink– and club scene, and have been shooting latex fetishists and slaves amongst many others that can be found in previous editions of Playful. We got curious on how it all started and what brought him to Berlin.


Photographer Emily Dodd-Noble captures subcultures and night owls of Berlin
35mm Berlin based queer photographer By: Emily Dodd-Noble interview. Emily Dodd-Noble, Berlin based analogue photographer for Playful Magazi


Deep diving: Sex positive safer spaces and darkrooms in Berlin
Deep diving: Sex positive safer spaces and darkrooms in Berlin


Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert: Gender as a Spectrum
With an eye for beauty, Joseph captures the essence of being human, whether a lover, a friend or someone he recently met. It’s the warmth behind the lens that shines through, and the ’leaving people be’.


Sam Madhu: Seeing her 3D animations rise through techno
Art by Sam Madhu for Playful Magazine


Krousky - A ’fuck up’ or a genius clown
The KitKat photographer is a person that you’ll notice as much in real life as on social media. In his forehead he has a tattoo that says “N


Berlin showed Spyros Rennt a different way of life
The Greek photographer Spyros Rennt captures sensuality, love, friendship and community.
His works are vulnerable and proud, filtered and unfiltered, fun and decadent, sensual and rough. It’s life as he experiences it and when getting lost in his book ’Lust Surrender’, you realize it's also part of you - which may be one of the best part of art.


Michele Baron discovered Berlin through queer rave culture
Photographer Michele Baron for Playful Magazine


Photographer Aghia Sophie used to cover some of Berlin's most famous nightclubs
Photographer Aghia Sophie used to cover some of Berlin's most famous nightclubs
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