Events

ABA

Club der Polnischen Versager e. V.

COVEN BERLIN

Creamcake

diffrakt

Directors Lounge

Liebig12

NOrthEurope

Spoiler Aktionsraum

U144 Untergrundmuseum

I wish that politicians would realize how important funding structures are and how much these can shape an art scene – shape a city.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.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.