Art in Berlin

This weekend marks the beginning of the Berlin Kunstherbst. The Berlin Art Forum is taking place for the 11th time and apparently ranks high among international artfairs. I went to see Berliner Liste yesterday. I really would like to say something really nice and positive about it, because I think I have developed a tendency to diss the Berlin Art scene - or should I say the Berlin version of PoMo recycling in the visual arts?
So let's start with the positive aspects. A few videos were quite entertaining. Like "Corporate Warfare", that depicts men in suits trying ti climb an escalator going the wrong direction and trying to get ahead of the next guy. Very literal, I know. But quite fun. And then there were some drawings that looked like the artist had had a great http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giftime doing them. I always enjoy getting a sense that people out there are still having fun. Sometimes it's hard to remember that art can be fun, especially when you walk around art fairs and galleries and see artists in complicated art outfits and anorexic curators in uncomfortable looking designer dresses and business suit clad galerists that talk so slimey one wonders why the paintings don't slide off the walls.
What bothered me about the show was their slogan: aktelle kunst - contemporary art.
The paintings in particular were utterly uninspired and having your oilpainting be influenced by the photoshop introduction you got at the apple store was contemporary 6 years ago at best. And even back then it rarely helped anybody's art. Likewise, quoting Jeff Koons, John Baldessari and Neo Rauch isn't really enough anymore to make art transcend. Just as a bad visual oneliner almost never becomes any more profound if you put a picture of George W. Bush in it. There are quite a few of those as well.
I think the building where the event takes place makes a visit worthwhile, though. It's an old electicity plant of sorts, later became the Vitra Design Museum and has now been turned into Prenzlauer Berg's hippest cultural venue.

If you go, let me know what you think. I need more positive opinions on the art scene in Berlin, else I'll grow bitter and that would interfere with my "getting settled in Berlin" plans.