Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

oqbo

raum für bild wort und ton

2008
Brunnenstraße
63
Berlin
13355

What’s love gonna do with it, Geschichte \ Erinnerung \ Öffentlicher Raum, 2020

Außer vielleicht eine Konstellation, Hommage à Giandomenico Tiepolo, 2020

Seraphina Lenz, Skizze und Salon, 2012, Lesekonzert D. Seel, R. Scheffler, A.Töpfer, Foto: K. Zimmermann

Kunst kann aufwecken, höher fliegen lassen, heilen, das Hamsterrad vergessen lassen, Missstände aufzeigen, sie ist über­lebensnotwendig.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 has the unique ability to help us expand our imagination and the way we think about the world. By bending the lines of logic and ­rational approaches, it offers a gateway to our collective unconscious and provides a terrain where everything is possible, hence pushing our thinking process forward. We see art and artists as seismographs for changes in society. There is also great freedom in art, addressing big and timeless questions that are independent of current economic and political realities and interests. Art can be a space for utopias, or for histories outside of history books. Art is important because it keeps us going through the difficult and dark times. Art keeps us alive.