Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

Neue Berliner Räume e. V.

2011
Initiative

Jodie Carey, A Room That Was Never Meant To Be, 2013, Foto: Benjamin Busch

Robert Montgomery, Echoes of Voices in the High Towers, 2018, Foto: Benjamin Busch

The Project Space Prize has not only saved many spaces and kept them alive for a longer period but basically generated a unique experimental and diverse art scene in Berlin. The Prize has also very much encouraged the founding of new spaces, fueled by the hope of receiving funding at some point. More than anything, it is an example of how much a certain public funding strategy can completely shape a local art scene.I have never really been a friend of these kinds of networks, but from what I can see, you have done a pretty good job for the visibility of and necessity for free spaces.Kunst kann aufwecken, höher fliegen lassen, heilen, das Hamsterrad vergessen lassen, Missstände aufzeigen, sie ist über­lebensnotwendig.