When the brightly colored circles start popping up on the city’s billboards, you know three things: summer is over, it’s Berlin Art Week, and once again, you won’t be able to make up your mind: So many openings, exhibitions, launches, parties, dinners. So it comes just in time for us that the tradition of cooperation will be continued by the festival again this year. The festival’s center is the BAW Garden, which you can find in the Weddinger Uferhallen. From Wednesday through Sunday (14-18.09.2022), directly on the Panke, there will be open studios, workshops, performances, discussions, talks and, of course, free admission to the entire site. A place so unique and so typically Berlin. Putting special places on the map has always been one of the approaches of Berlin Art Week, so it’s no surprise that the Wilhelm Hallen will be featured again: under the title “Hallen #3: Reinickendorf Rules,” Alexander Levy, ChertLüdde, Nome, PSM, Soy Capitán, Sweetwater, and ten other established Berlin galleries will occupy the grounds of the former iron foundry with a large group exhibition, demonstrating not only the high quality of Berlin’s art market but also its unique capacity for collaboration. And of course, there is also plenty to discover on the other side of town.
How about a trip to Zehlendorf’s Fluentum? The non-profit platform for time-based art opens its doors for the group exhibition “Kino” – showing a wide range of films, of course, and viewing the works of Ted Fendt, Marie Karlberg, Katz Tepper, Jiajia Zhang and others. This is viewing and experiencing art as a shared cultural practice. How could it be otherwise in this year of the collective? Anyone craving a little solo time can get away to the Haus am Waldsee, where “Female Remedy,” the solo exhibition by Leila Hekmat, will be on view from September 14, which, by the way, also marks the beginning of their new artistic director Anna Gritz’s programming. Or would you prefer to visit one of the many galleries in Mitte and Charlottenburg in the more traditional way? Esper Postma’s exhibition “Doppelgänger” in the quiet courtyard of the Eigen+Art Lab, for example, or “Müde Pferde” (“Tired Horses”) by Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg at Efrimedis on Ernst-Reuther-Platz? Both are opening as early as tomorrow evening. Alas, at least one thing is clear: it’ll be impossible to decide.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: dotgain.com & Alwin Lay / Credit: Aristide Antonas
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