Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

U144 Untergrundmuseum

1995
Linienstraße
144
Berlin
10115

Gießerei Sprachraum, reale Betriebsfunktion, 1995–2000, Foto: Uwe Walter

Volxmarine Revolution 1918–2018, Performance: Rainer Görß, Foto: Anja Rudolph

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.Art is what brought me and many thousands to the city of Berlin. Berlin, and all its changes, is art.Art has the power to make people think and feel differently. Art has the power to activate change.