From June 8 to July 24 the temporary exhibition shows works by over 80 emerging artists based in Berlin. The site and the based in Berlin-app is at least as good as the exhibition. Work + life + Berlin = based in Berlin: from June 8 to July 24 the temporary exhibition shows works by over 80 emerging artists based in Berlin. What she all share: they work and live in Berlin. Is at least as good as the exhibition site and the based in Berlin-app: our contribution to the Berlin art scene.
Based in Berlin-website offers a comprehensive portfolio of all the artists so special: the exhibition program and artists are closely connected. So, an interaction between artists and art is already created on the site. We have taken over the programming of the website, the design comes from Owen Hoskins. based in Berlin, there are available as an app, which we have designed and implemented on behalf of cultural projects GmbH. The exhibition covers all contemporary art practices of painting and drawing, sculpture, photography, film and video, Textual works and performances to installations. An essential part of the exhibition is therefore a comprehensive programme of events with screenings, performances and live acts, workshops and debates. We want to create a spatial and temporal concentration that combine many artistic activities and made available to a wide public”, say the curators. The title based plays in Berlin on the fact, that Berlin enjoys recognition everywhere as artistic work.
Many artists have chosen to deliberately ensure here to live and work. Their exhibitions”, so Fredi Fischli (one of the curators of based in Berlin), they have but often elsewhere. It is important to visualize the artist here in the city of us.” “The selection was crucial, that the artists have their focal point in Berlin and as emerging artists” are entered only in the last five years. The five curators Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera,. Jakob Schillinger and Scott Cameron Weaver, who is responsible for the content of the concept and the selection of artists, have visited hundreds of Berlin artists in their studios since November. On this are through submissions to an open call for one by active search,”teachme. 1250 portfolios have been submitted and reviewed, some of the authors are included in the selection of artists. Where, when, what: based in Berlin June 8 to 24 July 2011 in the atelier of monbijou park opening: June 07, 2011, 18: 00 2:00 8 June is the Atelier in the monbijou Park, Oranienburgerstrasse, open daily from 12: 00 until 24:00. In addition, the exhibition at the following places will be to see: KW Institute for contemporary art, Nationalgalerie IM Hamburger Bahnhof, the new Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k.. and the Berlinische Galerie. Organizer: kulturprojekte Berlin develops and implements the projects together with the team of consultants and the five curators.