Interdisciplinary – Discursive – Not Market-Oriented
Highlighting the Special Importance of Independent Project Spaces and Art Initiatives in Berlin

Panel discussion and presentation of the study on Project Spaces in Berlin:
Vital but Fragile Heart of the Art Scene by Séverine Marguin

17th November 2012, 7 pm
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Theatersaal)
John Foster Dulles Allee 10, Berlin Tiergarten

Programme / Schedule
Welcoming and Opening
Prof. Dr. Bernd Scherer (Managing director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
Kerstin Karge and Thomas Stuck (Berlin Network of Independent Project Spaces and Art Initiatives)

Presentation of the project spaces study:
Vital but Fragile Heart of the Art Scene, Berlin 2011
Séverine Marguin (Art-Sociologist, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, EHESS Paris)

Panel discussion:
Interdisciplinary – Discursive – Not Market-Oriented
Leonie Baumann (Rector Art Academy Weißensee, Berlin, co-initiator of Initiative Stadt Neudenken)
Jan Ketz (Curator, manager of Raum für Zweckfreiheit)
Andreas Koch (Artist, editor of the art magazine von hundert)
Heike Catherina Mertens (Director of Arts and Culture, Schering Stiftung)
Daniela Wolf (Co-project manager SYNAPSE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)

Moderation: Detlev Schneider (Theatre and culture studies researcher, curator)

Afterwards will be a possibility to get together and continue the discussion.

The presentation and discussion will be held in German.

The event is organized by the Berlin Network of Independent Project Spaces and Art Initiatives and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
in the framework of SYNAPSE – The International Curators' Network, with support of bbk berlin e. V.

Livestream of the event on the 17th November 2012, 7pm
www.projektraeume-berlin.net/livestream/
More information and press release: www.projektraeume-berlin.net

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