AWARD CEREMONY 10th September 2020
Livestream 10 SEP 2020 beginning 6 pm
On Thursday, the 10th of September 2020 the “Award for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives” will be presented by Klaus Lederer (Senator for Culture and Europe). The event is organised by the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives on behalf of the Senate Department of Culture and Europe. Coinciding with the Berlin Art Week, 10 prizewinning Berlin project spaces and initiatives will have exhibitions and events in their spaces.
This year´s 10 award recipients are:
Arts of the Working Class, bi’bak, Cashmere Radio e.V., Crystal Ball, Display, Kunstasphalt e.V. | Galerie Maifoto, oqbo | raum für bild wort und ton, Peles Empire, The Watch, Trust
MOVE-IT (by invitation only)
10 SEP 2020, beginning 8 pm
c/o KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin
MOVE-IT Exhibition
For Berlin Art Week 2020, the network of independent Berlin project spaces and initiatives is opening KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN as an information base to find out about the network and the project space scene. In addition to information material on the current award winners, the exhibition also presents video clips, a series of Agit posters as giveaways from the network, as well as documentations and archive material on the political work of the independent scene and on the current situation.
c/o KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin
Vernissage: 11 SEP 2020, 3 pm
Exhibition: 11—20 SEP.2020
Opening hours: Thu-Sun 3—7 pm
*move it – Rickshaw tours
On Thursday, 10th September 2020, the 9th award ceremony for the Award for Artistic Project Spaces and Initiatives will take place in Berlin. In 2020, ten project spaces will be awarded and receive 10.000 euros each. Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen (network of independent project spaces and initiatives) is addressing this year’s unusual pandemic situation under the motto of *move it and celebrates the award winners by doing a rally through the city. The award winners will set off in rickshaws at their respective locations. The awards will then be formally presented to the winners by Dr. Klaus Lederer, senator for Culture and Europe, after reaching the destination Kunstpunkt Berlin. The rickshaw rides will be accompanied with artistic interventions by Laura Mello. Friends and spontaneous spectators are welcome on the side of the road, along the rally, and have to comply with the distancing regulations.
The formal handover of this year’s project space award will be taking place at Kunstpunkt Berlin, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin, in compliance with the corona regulations that will be accurate at that time.
Guided bike tours to the award winners
Sa. 12th and Su. 13th September, 2—6 pm
Note: free of charge and bring your own bike.
Get to know the award-winning project spaces of 2020 by bike – two bike tours, organised by Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen make this possible. Both tours take place in the afternoons, on the weekend of Berlin Art Week, from 2 – 6 pm, and are free of charge. You must bring your own bike.
TOUR 1: Saturday, 12th September 2020, 2—6 pm
Start: The Watch, Puschkinallee 55, 12435 Berlin Alt-Treptow (at the park Schlesischer Busch)
and continues via Crystal Ball and Kunstasphalt | Galerie Maifoto to bi’bak in the Haus der Statistik.
TOUR 2: Sunday, 13th September 2020, 2—6 pm
Start: Arts of the Working Class, Lynarstraße 38, 13353 Berlin-Wedding
and continues to oqbo—raum für bild wort und ton, Trust and Display.
Both tours will be held in German and English.
We kindly ask to make a reservation until 11th September 2020
Booked out
The events around the prize ceremony held by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe are organized by the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives.
8—10 pm
Official Award Ceremony (by invitation only)
by Dr. Klaus Lederer (Senator for Culture and Europe) with a presentation of the 10 awarded spaces 2020.
Exhibitions by the award recipients during of Berlin Art Week:
(Most) Opening hours: Fr, 11.9. — Su, 13.9.2019, 1—8 pm
(Most) Vernissagen: Fr, 11.9.2020, 7 pm
*move it
10 SEP 2020 beginning 8 pm (by invitation only)
c/o KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin
*move it Exhibition
For Berlin Art Week 2020, the network of independent Berlin project spaces and initiatives is opening KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN as an information base to find out about the network of In addition to information material on the current award winners, the exhibition also presents video clips, a series of Agit posters as giveaways from the network, as well as documentations and archive material on the political work of the independent scene and on the current situation.
c/o KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin
Vernissage: 11 SEP 2020, 3 pm
Exhibition: 11—20 SEP 2020
Opening hours: Thu-Sun 3—7 pm
Download:
Flyer
Folder
Press release
NW-Youtube Channel
Livestream
Documentation (pdf)