Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

okk/raum 29

Organ Kritischer Kunst

2007
Prinzenallee
27
Berlin
13359

Hyunho Park, Time Crystals, Schaufensterperformance, 2019

Marina Barsy Janer & Isil Sol Vil, Performance Corpus intersitium, 2016

Nach den Künstler*innen und Architekt*innen kamen die Designer*innen. Heute sind’s die Start-upper*innen.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.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.