2021,

NOrthEurope

(the same GLEICHSCHALTUNGSMATRIX formerly known as..) WestGermany Büro für postpostmoderne Kommunikation

2021, 2012,

2005

Skalitzer Straße

133

Berlin

10999

westgermany.eu

KNICK-KNACK TO THE FUTURE Concept Store Performance von copy & waste, 2015, Foto: Stephan Kallage

„White Wash“, mit Astrid Busch, Alexandra Schumacher, Kym Ward, 2014, Foto: Stephan Kallage

Foto: NOrthEurope/WestGermany, Stephan Kallage

Foto: NOrthEurope/WestGermany, Stephan Kallage

Every hour one puts into the project will be missed in your own practice. Project spaces are significant to counter the institutions and their market-oriented curated productions. They still have the capacity to foster artistic practices and communities, but also to be resistant to general tendencies and trends. Perhaps project spaces are now what once were the underground and the avant-garde.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.It always feels quite special when an institution catches the zeitgeist of a moment. Project spaces have a lot more freedom in this sense, and they can truly, sincerely, reflect a moment or a movement as it is happening. They are essential to a critically active arts scene. Perhaps the orientation of project spaces has been forced to shift towards something more self-sustainable – but that might not be a bad thing.