Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

Kinderhook & Caracas

2011
Kreuzbergstraße
42e
Berlin
10965

Merzbau-Garten, 2020, Foto: Joe Clark

Merzbau-Garten, Foto: Joe Clark

Art should first and foremost raise questions that are important for present and future societies. In the last decade, art has moved closer to science, technology, and society. It has become less commercialized and more diverse. We would like art to become not only illustrative and speculative, but also functional, embedding even more science and technologies within itself. This would encourage the audience to be even closer to art, perhaps more critical, diverse, ­tolerant, and creative.Kunst kann aufwecken, höher fliegen lassen, heilen, das Hamsterrad vergessen lassen, Missstände aufzeigen, sie ist über­lebensnotwendig.Ohne die Projekträume und die Spielfelder, die sie bilden, wäre die Kulturlandschaft der Stadt Berlin eine Brache.