Tuesday 29 April 2008

Day Five - Saturday 31 May 2008

Our final meeting for the trip was with Mari Brelloch from Kunstwerk am Flutgraben a complex of artists’ studios situated along the former Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg. He gave us a tour around the studios and onto the roof which was once patrolled by the boarder guards.

view from the roof of the studios

He then told us about his project Produkt und Vision: An experiment set-up between artists and businesses. Artists, consultants and scholars were brought together for a 6 month period with a business in an attempt to tease out some of the ways in which they could learn or adopt each others’ working models. These points for discussion and findings were brought together in an exhibition held at Kunstwerk am Flutgraben.

Afterwards we lunched and three of the curators returned to Liverpool.

On Saturday evening those of us left in Berlin went to the Berlin Biennial Night event hosted by Goshka Macuga. Jazz in the Garden was a re-enactment of a legendary jazz concert series held in the Sculpture Garden at Neue Nationalgalarie from the 1960’s to the 1990’s.

And so ended the Berlin Curatorial Development Trip. We would like to thank all of the artists and curators we met with in Berlin for their time and generosity!

3 comments:

Sumit Sarkar said...

this is not a test

Sumit Sarkar said...

this is not a test

Anonymous said...

I guess this is more a general comment on the night programme of events. We only managed to attend a couple whilst we were there, but I think it was quite an amazing feat to realise a continual series of live events, different each night, for the duration of the whole biennial. This alternative programme i thought used the city and its nostalgic spaces to its advantage. Looking through the catalogue at the list of venues used,i think it gave the whole event a real mobility, a liveness and sense of participation.