Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

Crystal Ball

2007
Schönleinstraße
7
Berlin
10967

Außenansicht, 2020, Foto: Lydia Karstadt

Kirsty Kross, Lost-and perhaps even possibly found, 2012

For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas ­within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and ­fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.Die Diversität des Begriffs „Projektraum“ öffnet durchaus Horizonte, führt aber auch im Gegenzug zu fachlichen Überdehnungen des Kunstbegriffs. Der vorherrschende Fördermarkt-Sozial­­­darwinismus stellt Tiefgänge infrage. Komplexe kulturelle Trans­forma­tionsprozesse lassen sich mit den oft daraus entspringenden tagespolitischen Diskursen nicht ausreichend begleiten. Im Grunde genommen entsteht so ein Ober­flächen-Projektraum-Diskurs-Impressionismus.… 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.