“This year’s festival theme clearly refers to the current situation of cultural policy in Berlin. Berlin’s visual artists are faced with the ruins of their work and cannot believe that it is they, of all people, whose raison d’être in this city is being called into question. We are watching what we have built crumble – and how it is disappearing at an alarming rate. It is breaking. It is crumbling. It is falling. Studios are closing. Spaces are becoming unaffordable. Funding and project funds are being cut. Do we carry on as if nothing has happened? Do we pretend that we can still stand on this fragile foundation? Are we becoming a backdrop for the city, are we just décor that is supposed to maintain itself while the foundations beneath us are cracking? How do we respond? With anger? With beauty? With irony? … ” (translated with www.deepl.com)
Open Studios: 3.– 4. May 2025