31/7/2014
Project space festival
Different venues, Berlin
For this month-long trip through Berlin's independent art scene, 30 Project Spaces will open their doors for a new surprise event occurring every day of August: culinary get-togethers, screenings, one-day-only exhibitions, and performative city tours.
The first inaugural PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL BERLIN invites creatives and visitors on a month-long
trip through Berlin’s independent art scene. During the Festival, 30 Project Spaces will open their
doors for a new surprise event occurring every day of August.
This summer the PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL BERLIN presents a selection of Berlin Project Spaces in a totally
new way. Each participating space has a 24 hour time-span to realize one event. The program of the
festival is as diverse as its participating project spaces: planned events include culinary get-togethers,
screenings, one-day-only exhibitions, and performative city tours. With its surprising and unusual formats,
the festival enriches the cultural summer break of Berlin’s August. The location, date and time of each
space’s event will be made public, however, like opening an advent calendar, the content of the event itself
will be a surprise and revealed the day prior to the event.
With a broad selection of participants the PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL BERLIN provides a momentary slice of a
lively as well as legendary Project Space scene. This includes some long survivors such as Autocenter, after
the butcher, general public and tête. Others have specific focuses, such as LEAP who exhibit digital media
and performance; and Kinderhook & Caracas whose year centers on the theme of ‘archive’. There are
collaborations, such as Secondary Narratives, which combines the forces of multiple high-profile project
spaces; and even spaces without places as seen in the nomadic approach of NOTE ON.
In addition to an adventurous summer month, the PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL BERLIN offers a platform to
consider the idea of ‘project space’. Usually what they share in common is what they are not - not a white
cube, not institutional, usually not commercial. The festival puts the work of its hosts in the foreground.
Project Spaces typically focus on artistic experimentation, spark dialogue, nurture local art communities and
are a labor of love of those who run it.
Participants:
after the butcher | Agora | Apartment Project | Archive Kabinett | Autocenter | Berlin-Weekly | Center |
Centrum | die raum | District | Espace Surplus | General Public | Grimmuseum | Import Projects | insitu |
KINDERHOOK & CARACAS | Kleine Humboldt Galerie | Kreuzberg Pavillon | LAGE EGAL | L40 | LEAP | NOTE
ON | NuN | OZEAN | Secondary Narratives | Sonntag | SOX | tête | uqbar | ZK/U
The Project Space Festival Berlin 2014 is initiated by insitu e.V. and realized in collaboration with the
participating project spaces.
PRESS CONTACT
Marie Graftieaux I Nora Mayr I Lauren Reid
press@projectspacefestival-berlin.com
Different venues - Berlin