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AWARD CEREMONY 16th September 2016

On Friday, the 16th of September 2016 the “Award for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives” will be presented by State Secretary Tim Renner. The event is organised by the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives on behalf of the Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. Coinciding with the Berlin Art Week, 20 prizewinning Berlin project spaces and initiatives will have exhibitions and events in their spaces or in public.

This year´s 20 award recipients are:

A TRANS, ADN Pförtnerhaus-Statsion-TACHO, Apartment Project e.V., Art-Lab Berlin im iPhonedoctor, ausland / projekt archiv e.V., Berlin Community Radio, Büro BDP, Errant Bodies – Sound Art Space, Group Global 3000 e.V., grüntaler9, Kulturpalast Wedding International e.V., Kunsthaus KuLe e.V., Kunstverein Neukölln e.V., LAGE EGAL, Lettrétage e.V., Neue Berliner Räume e.V., Scriptings Showroom and publishing house, sign-CIAT, super bien! gewächshaus für zeitgenössische kunst, Zwitschermaschine/Kulturpark 3000 e.V.

FREEDOM OF SPACE
when: 16th September 2016, beginning 5:30 PM
where: Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin.

Program

5:30 – 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion

“(Visual) Artist Careers in Berlin – who and what advances art production?”

Moderator:
Christian Kobald (Spike Art Quarterly)

Panel Discussion Participants:
Wibke Behrens (Koalition der Freien Szene, Speaker – KuPoGe),
Heinz Bude (Sociologist), Lou Favorite (Artist),
Anne Katrin Stork (Project Space Manager – super bien!)

Does art production still make sense before the background of inexplicable works and projects in the art-Mecca of Berlin? Have artists themselves missed out on progress, while they have degraded into subsidy-addicts and supplicants, or is their path through the social system already predestined on the basis of their working situation and practices? Who benefits from this situation? Is it a couple of commercial galleries, who bask before this background, but seek out hardly any points of contact? Or is it the project spaces and initiatives that take advantage of the communication-drought artists find themselves in, without delivering anything of comparable value? Are large festivals like the Berlin Biennale appropriate when almost no one of the many thousand artists in Berlin are profiting from it? What are the unions doing? What are the politicians doing? And what is the scene itself doing?

7:30 PM
Award Ceremony/Book Launch/Performance

Following the panel discussion will be the official “Berlin Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs Award for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives 2016” ceremony led by State Secretary Tim Renner.

The award will be presented in 2016 for the fifth time. For this occasion the photo book “Freedom of Space” will be issued, which documents the inner life of project spaces and initiatives – exhibited artworks being the focus.

Performance:

Grotest Maru – Timebank

Starting at 9:00 PM
Party/Performances

u moellhusen + the feedback gents

Aérea Negrot / BPitch Control

DJ-Crew

Soulix & Marian Tone (Beatkollektiv/Wedding Soul)

Sandra (Soul You Can´t Buy It)

Exhibitions by the award recipients during of Berlin Art Week 2016

A TRANS
c/o Kunstpunkt Berlin
Schlegelstr. 6
10115 Berlin

Standard Euro_InfoRaum

14.-24.09.2016, Wen-Su 2-7 PM

16.09.2016 1-7 PM
Opening: 13.09.2016, 7 PM
Artist: Anne Metzen
Curator: Isolde Nagel

Apartment Project e.V.
Hertzbergstr. 13
12055 Berlin

footnotes

14.-18.09.2016, 12 AM – 7 PM
Opening: 13.09.2016, 6 PM

Art-Lab Berlin im iPhonedoctor
Perleberger Str. 60
10559 Berlin

The Country of Last Things

15.-18.09.2016, 2-7 PM
16.09.2016 1-7 PM
Opening: 14.09.2016, 7 PM

Artists: Larissa Sansour, Steve Sabella, Tatjana Schülke a.o.
Curators: Charlotte Bank, Salah Saouli

ausland/projektarchiv e.V.
Lychener Str. 60
10437 Berlin

Queeries Into Collective Feminisms

16.-18.09.2016
Fr from 1 PM, Sa and Su from 12 AM

Performances, Talks

Berlin Community Radio

Berlin Art Week Brunch Special
13.-18.09.2016, 11 AM – 12 PM

daily radio shows

Büro BDP / Broken Dimanche Press
Mareschstr. 1
12055 Berlin

And When The Panic Rises You Shall Have This City’s Sympathy

13.-18.09.2016, 10 AM – 6 PM
Brunch reception: 17.09.2016, 10 AM – 1 PM

Artist: John Holten

Errant Bodies – Sound Art Space
Kollwitzstr. 97
10435 Berlin

Sound Matters (or: What to do with the money?)

14.-18.09.2016, 5-8 PM
16.09.2016 1-8 PM

Opening: 13.09.2016, 5 PM
Performance: 15.09.2016, 8 PM

Artists: Alex Arteaga, Mario Asef, Serge Baghdassarians, Alessandra Eramo, Ernesto Estrella Cozar, Peter Cusack, Georg Klein, Brandon LaBelle, Thom Kubli, Ines Lechleitner, Laura Mello, Jutta Ravenna, Antje Vowinckel, Jeremy Woodruff

Group Global 3000 e.V.
Leuschnerdamm 19
10999 Berlin

Menschenzeit, wir erschaffen eine neue Erdepoche!

14.09.-04.11.2016, 16.09.2016 1-4 PM,
17.09. & 18.09. 1-6 PM
Opening: 13.09.2016, 7 PM
with Matthias Pfister:

"Bilder aus der Quetschkommode"

Curators: Tom Albrecht, Robert Günther

grüntaler9
Grüntaler Str. 9
13357 Berlin

In der Zeit löchern oder Rote Streifen

14.-18.09.2016, täglich 12-6 PM
Opening: 13.09.2016, 12-6 PM

Performance
Artist: Willem Wilhemus

Kunsthaus KuLe e.V.
Auguststr. 10
10117 Berlin

mision mischen 88

10.-17.09.2016, 4-9 PM
16.09.2016 1-4 PM
Live-Programm: 13.09.2016, 4-9 PM

Artists: Coersvideo Mietrebellen, Clozi Wildner, Erna Porten, Franz J. Hugo, Friedel Kantaut, G.roupO.noff, HeikeMaria unVORStellBAR, Henrik Ken, Karina Amazona, Rainer Wieczorek, Richard Rabensaat, Sarah Teichmann, till van Tast, Thomas Kleinschmidt, Thomas Richartz, Thomas Reimann, Uwe Möllhusen, Viola Wandrey, Weiyi XU, Weltausstellung.

Curator: Heike Maria unVORStellBAR