2013,

uqbar

Gesellschaft für Representationsforschung e.V.

2013,

2007

Schwedenstraße

16a

Berlin

13357

uqbar-ev.de

Diana Artus, Ausstellungsansicht, 2015, Foto: Diana Artus

Dig Where You Stand, Ausstellungsansicht, 2016

I wish that politicians would realize how important funding structures are and how much these can shape an art scene – shape a city.Art has the unique ability to help us expand our imagination and the way we think about the world. By bending the lines of logic and rational approaches, it offers a gateway to our collective unconscious and provides a terrain where everything is possible, hence pushing our thinking process forward. We see art and artists as seismographs for changes in society. There is also great freedom in art, addressing big and timeless questions that are independent of current economic and political realities and interests. Art can be a space for utopias, or for histories outside of history books. Art is important because it keeps us going through the difficult and dark times. Art keeps us alive.… 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.