Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

Spoiler Aktionsraum

2018
Quitzowstraße
108a
Berlin
10551

Außenansicht, 2020

Lena Marie Emrich, a total burnout, 2019, Foto: André Wunstorf

It just makes my heart sing. Despite all that, I believe in art, but I guess it is about time to find new ways (again).Art should first and foremost raise questions that are important for present and future societies. In the last decade, art has moved closer to science, technology, and society. It has become less commercialized and more diverse. We would like art to become not only illustrative and speculative, but also functional, embedding even more science and technologies within itself. This would encourage the audience to be even closer to art, perhaps more critical, diverse, ­tolerant, and creative.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.