2016,

LAGE EGAL

2016,

2012

Greifswalder Straße

34

Berlin

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lage-egal.net

Patxi Bergé, MACHEN SIE ES SICH INZWISCHEN BEQUEM, 2018, Foto: Patxi Bergé

Anja Schwörer, Klaus-Martin Treder, NOT SO A WHITE CUBE #11 – LOOPS / THINGS, 2019, Foto: Paula G. Vidal

I have never really been a friend of these kinds of networks, but from what I can see, you have done a pretty good job for the visibility of and necessity for free spaces.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.The word “project space” is almost misleading to me. Projects do not have to take place in spaces. Radio shows, Instagram takeovers, and outdoor screenings are also projects. To focus on the aspect of space itself is to take a narrow view of what could – and is – happening in Berlin at the moment. The ideal project space would come with a budget for production and overhead costs. Ideally, also the curators ought to get paid.