2018,

Sonntag

2012

Initiative

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Sonntag ist eine regelmäßig in Berlin veranstaltete soziale Plas- tik. Von den Künstler*innen April Gertler und Adrian Schiesser im September 2012 ins Leben gerufen, findet die Kunstveranstal- tung jeden 3. Sonntag im Monat in wechselnden privaten Berliner Wohnungen statt. Sonntag sieht sich als eine Plattform für internationale in Berlin lebende Künstler*innen zur Weiterent- wicklung ihrer künstlerischen Aktivitäten. Als einen Ort, um zeit- genössische Kunst einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren, verknüpft mit der deutschen Tradition des Beisammenseins bei Kaffee und Kuchen an einem Sonntagnachmittag. Sonntag lädt einen/eine Künstler*in ein, bei Kaffee und Kuchen Arbeiten in ei- ner privaten Wohnung zu zeigen. Durch diese soziale Erfahrung findet ein Austausch statt, der eine Verbindung zwischen dem/ der jeweiligen Künstler*in und den Betrachter*innen herstellt.

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english text

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.The engagement and support from the Network has been vitally important to our growth and sustainability, and also our learning and understanding of the wider Berlin art scene beyond our micro-communities. For one thing, we have learned so much about the plurality of spaces and creative discourses in Berlin. But the open discussion that the Network allows with the Berlin Senate and one another has been really important in order to understand our needs as unique nodes in the artistic landscape of Berlin, and creative mutual goals for the sustainability and vitality of the community as a whole.Delegate. Delegate. Delegate. It is absolutely necessary to delegate bureaucratic paperwork to those who are professionally trained in these tasks. Running a project space with all its paperwork baggage is taking a toll on creative output: it slows us down. However, we cannot get away from this bureaucratic burden since we lack the financial resources for professional assistance in these matters.