Art in Berlin: Berlin Art Week and the germ cells of the art city – Tagesspiegel

00:00 clock Nicola Kuhn

Berlin has so many art fairs and theme weeks that all have long since lost track. Is the Art Week Art a week too much? No, it is not. A comment.

Berlin Art Week, Gallery Weekend, Fashion Week, which moves constantly, the Music Week, which is now called pop culture – look through someone else? Berlin needs all these theme weeks? Is the everyday offerings of the city as too weak, too weak? No, the opposite is the case. The Berlin Art Week witnessed on Friday with many exhibition openings peaked. But here every week Art Week

The bundling all of their activities could be, with so many artists, galleries, museums in the city. Annually, with the art fairs to kick off the fall season, demonstrates just overlooked the potential inserted in the art city of Berlin. A city where art districts whole neighborhood can revamp – as now the Exhibition Centre converted Kindl brewery in Neukölln. And although itself has little money, but attracts wealthy collectors from around the world.

The Art Week is more than show, it is a necessity. Three years ago, the economy Senate gave the impetus to leave the country’s own art fair Art Forum follow a more attractive offer. Only after the death knell for the unloved Mass was clear which meaning has as Berlin art market place. Now Guido Beermann and Tim Renner demonstrate unity. The Secretaries of the economic and cultural administration have realized how much they need each other. Art needs capital, business needs creativity. Renner, who was previously a music producer, unites the opposites in his person. How many jobs are in the creative and tourism sector? 400 000 What is the percentage of tourists who come here for the art? This figure has ready Renner: 75 percent

culture has the greatest attraction, even for companies that want to establish themselves.. Their highly trained staff wants more than just work at the new location. The international experts Artfinance conference that just took place in the Tagesspiegel building, Berlin attested excellent cultural infrastructure, but warned to not to underestimate the importance of the market for the relationship network of public institutions and private initiatives.

25 years after the fall of the Wall that the professional youth art scene has grown up. The pioneer of the 90 galleries have been established, they have survived the crisis years, many of those young artists have arrived at the museum. Gallery owners and artists know what they owe to the city – as a play area, as a testing ground for the next generation. Therefore, the Art Week draws attention also to the production, the off spaces and municipal galleries – the germ cells of the art city

The mutual insurance, how important is each player, is not enough.. Nor is it sufficient, the Art Week to present as a collection of exhibitions and events. 2013, the large houses set a theme, the future of painting. This time lacks a substantive orientation. When the Art Week to be more than a party date in the international art calendar, then they must, just in diskutierfreudigen Berlin, also organize the debate. How should we deal with the flood of images? What about the beauty, the shapes, the attitude of art? How she keeps them with the policy? As a place of art makers of Berlin is established. As a forum for their thinkers, the city should have charisma. Straight to the Art Week.