2012,

berlinerpool e. V.

2012,

2005

Anton Saefkow Platz

13/801

Berlin

10369

berlinerpool.de

Foto: Sasha Pronina

Foto: Rebecca Agnes

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.Art has the power to make people think and feel differently. Art has the power to activate change.… 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.