2016,

ZWITSCHERMASCHINE/ Kulturpark 3000 e. V.

2016,

2013

Potsdamer Straße

161

Berlin

10783

zwitschermaschine-berlin.de

Justyna Dryl, Light Container, 2016, Foto: Karol Komorowski

Every hour one puts into the project will be missed in your own practice. Project spaces are significant to counter the institutions and their market-oriented curated productions. They still have the capacity to foster artistic practices and communities, but also to be resistant to general tendencies and trends. Perhaps project spaces are now what once were the underground and the avant-garde.Art has the power to make people think and feel differently. Art has the power to activate change.The Project Space Prize has not only saved many spaces and kept them alive for a longer period but basically generated a unique experimental and diverse art scene in Berlin. The Prize has also very much encouraged the founding of new spaces, fueled by the hope of receiving funding at some point. More than anything, it is an example of how much a certain public funding strategy can completely shape a local art scene.