Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

SCHAU FENSTER

2010
Lobeckstraße
30–35
Berlin
10969

Offbeat, 2018, Foto: Anna Wasilewski

Offbeat, 2018, Foto: Anna Wasilewski

For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas ­within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and ­fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.I wish that politicians would ­realize how important funding structures are and how much these can shape an art scene – shape a city.Prinzipiell ist unsere Haltung heute, dass wir honorierte Arbeit − ob nun für die Infrastruktur oder ­einzelne Inhalte und ­Formate, ob für uns oder Dritte, mit denen wir arbeiten − als Prinzip anstreben.