Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

ABA

Air Berlin Alexanderplatz

2009
Haus der Statistik, Haus D
Otto-Braun-Straße
70–72
Berlin
10178

Funken zu Flammen, 10 Jahre ABA, 2020

Lisette Smits, The Applicant, The Embassy of the Netherlands, 2016

… Still nowadays, the more and more international “g-local” Berliner independent cultural scene has been able to grow, interconnect, and continue to establish strategies to be a political protagonist of this long debate, also representing an impressive cultural resource to profit from.There is probably no ideal project space, and that is exactly what is ideal about this format; the openness and the freedom that allows it to take any shape and direction. Project spaces are versatile structures that can be morphed in many different ways, reflecting the circumstances and the people that are part of the process. To us, a project space is a kind of utopia, although there is no fixed ­concept of an ideal project space. Project spaces are very much constantly evolving, changing, and adapting.Ein großes Problem stellen natürlich die steigenden Mieten und die drohende Verdrängung von nicht gewinnorientierten Räumen aus der Stadt dar. Es wäre ­schade, wenn Fördergelder zum großen Teil an Vermieter fließen.