![]() In particular, I like watching an idea become reality and the questions that emerge while I’m making art. I wanted to deal with incarnation and began to study art and philosophy. Having said this – we send artworks on a journey around the globe, create a web page and produce a catalogue to welcome more traveling spectators, and create even more documentation.Īfter I had worked as a blacksmith for several years, I wanted to go further. Mass-production, mass-documentation and constant acceleration seem to have resulted in artworks of poorer quality, disorientation, and even frustration in contemporary Berlin. What is Contemporary art?, New York: Sternberg Press, 2010, p. (See Boris Groys: Comrades of Time, in e-flux journal. He goes on to identify modern society as a 'society of spectacles' and describes the spectators as travelers who are always on the move. In his essay Comrades of Time, Boris Groys raises the question of how a contemporary artist can survive the popular success of contemporary art today. In spite of –or perhaps due to– the mass artistic production, artists have a hard time earning a living even though there are over six hundred galleries in Berlin today. Major cultural events such as biennales or art fairs might attract an international audience and boost the city’s economy, but the benefit to local artists is minimal. The recent exhibition project based in Berlin, initiated by the mayor of Berlin, stands as a prime example of this. Berlin’s creative class has become a ‘strategy of soft power’. The visual arts and all the creative industries have been used by politicians for the international marketing of the city. The so-called sub-cultural core in the heart of the city turned into a commercial strip. Art auction houses, collectors, and art fairs further developed the art market in Berlin. Within only a few years the city had become one of the leading production sites for contemporary art in Europe and the world. ![]() The low buildings, narrow streets and 'Eastern flair' of the city, along with its party scene, makeshift bars, underground clubs in basements, and artistic backyard ruins inspired action and fostered a new, emerging subculture. Driven by this new generation of galleries in Berlin-Mitte, (the former city centre of East Berlin) a new art scene developed, marking the beginning of a time of great change. The liberating atmosphere, affordable housing and reasonable cost of living made Berlin attractive to young artists and galleries, offering new opportunities and niches alongside previously established ones. ![]() The reunification of Berlin drew many artists to the city. ![]() Kynaston McShine, BERLINART–Eine Einführung In a sense, Berlin stands for any place in the modern world, for each vulnerable city.ĭespite a threatening future, it is a symbol of freedom, even in art. ![]()
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