GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse

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GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse (2011)

The GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse was founded in 2008 as a non-commercial and independently working exhibition and project space in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The initiators are the artist and author Elisa Asenbaum , who comes from Vienna , and the Austrian musician and artistic self-taught Thomas Maximilian Stuck, who have been working together artistically as Graphic Art Sound since 1990 . The GAS-station Berlin is dedicated to contemporary art. In addition to works of visual and digital art, performative, literary and scientific works are presented in thematic contexts and accompanied by events, lectures, film screenings, readings and discussions. Events are free of charge.

The GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse has been an active member of the network of free Berlin project spaces and initiatives since 2011 and shares its principles and self-image. The project space supports the independent and non-commercial free art scene in Berlin.

Artistic focus

The focus of the artistic concept of the GAS-station Berlin is on interdisciplinary, topic-specific exhibition projects that are openly advertised and curated and in which not only artists from all fields but also scientists in particular present their positions on the topic in an artistic context. Since it was founded, the GAS-station Berlin has presented around 30 exhibitions with more than 350 contributors from art and science. Formats are visual arts, digital and performing arts , photography , film , literature and science . The interdisciplinary exhibition projects include musical installations and performances , readings and specialist lectures as well as thematic tours through the exhibitions.

GAS-station Berlin sees itself as an experimental platform to try out new artistic exhibition formats and forms of presentation. It is important to stimulate participatory, artistic collaboration across borders. From 2014 Elisa Asenbaum and Thomas Maximilian Stuck have tried out and enabled specially developed concepts for process-based, cross-disciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists. The results of this collaborative artistic working method and interdisciplinary collaboration were presented in the exhibitions Augustina dreams - in progressius (2015–2016) and Schein und Spiegelung, a relational position project (2017–2019).

In addition to interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary exhibitions, there are shorter exhibition series such as Das Fenster or x | y | z: RAUMPROJEKT , an experimental format for visual arts and new media , in which artists develop and present thematic installations specifically for the space.

Exhibitions, events (extract)

Chaos extended, 2010
Between Freedom and Dictatorship - The Wall (2019/2020)
  • 2008/2009 exhibition eMOTION
  • 2009/2010 exhibition CHAOS
  • 2010 exhibition CHAOS extended
  • 2010/2011 exhibition Das DING
  • 2011 Exhibition 100 + 5 Pictures - Take away
  • 2011/2012 exhibition No TIME.
  • 2012 3WEEKS: 4 space projects
  • 2012/2013 exhibition NOTHING. Nothing is prettier! Reflections above and below nothing.
  • 2013 International Short and Feature Film Video Days
  • 2013/2014 exhibition The Perfectness and the Error.
  • 2014 x | y | z: RAUMPROJEKT - # 7 Jungle Concrete - Burchard Vossmann
  • 2015 International Short and Feature Film Video Days
  • 2015 OpenProcessTag Augustina dreams.
  • 2015/2016 exhibition Augustina dreams - in progressius. Positions from art and science in the context of literary text.
  • 2016 GAS-station event at MUSA Vienna
  • 2016 International Short and Feature Film Video Days
  • 2017 x | y | z: RAUMPROJEKT - # 12 IF ONLY - Ulli Klepalski
  • 2017 event A journey through AUGUSTINA itself.
  • 2017/2018 exhibition Schein und Spiegelung, presentation rounds 1-4
  • 2018/2019 exhibition Schein und Spiegelung, a relational position project.
  • 2019/2020 exhibition Between Freedom and Dictatorship | The wall

reception

GAS-station Berlin exhibitions, with their interdisciplinary and topic-specific approaches, in which works from art, philosophy and science correspond with each other, have received criticism and attention in internationally recognized art publications.

Participants in exhibition projects (selection)

Thomas Born , photography; Časlav Brukner , quantum physics; Ellen Fellmann , film; Florian Grond, installation; Wolfgang Grossmann , literary performance; Stephan Groß, visual arts; Jochen Höller , visual arts; Elfriede Jelinek , literature; Ulli Klepalski , painting; Anouk Kruithof , photography; Anna-Maria Kursawe, visual arts; Albert Markert, visual arts; Wolfgang Neipl, video; Jerzy Olek, visual arts; Oliver Orthuber, installation; Herbert Pietschmann , quantum physics; Michael H. Rohde , photography; Hartmut Rosa , Sociology; James A. Shapiro, Science; Christiane Spatt , photography; Ralf Tekaat , painting and drawing; Burchard Vossmann , Shretart; Gisela Weimann , visual arts; Whathappensnext Ensemble Berlin , music

Awards

For its artistic work, GAS-station Berlin received the award of 30,000 euros for artistic project spaces and initiatives from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin in 2015 and 2017 .

From the statement by State Secretary Dr. Thorsten Wöhlert on September 14, 2017: “With their ideas, their cooperative and participatory working methods, the award winners challenge a new artistic practice that finds its public without being market-oriented. They often look for and find not only improvised locations or unusual formats, but also special topics, contexts and addressees. The award for this special cultural effort, the appreciation of the aesthetic power and diversity of the project spaces and initiatives should have a motivating effect on all those involved and thus help maintain diversity and creativity. "

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ projektraeume-berlin.net
  2. ^ Marina Gärtner: Spaces. Free art spaces in Germany . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-422-07310-4 .
  3. ^ The governing mayor of Berlin (ed.): Freedom of Space . argobooks, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942700-77-1 .
  4. ↑ Séverine Marguin: Project Rooms: Vital but fragile heart of the art scene. In: from one hundred. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Project rooms in the Berlin art field. IG Kultur, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Peter Funken: Schein und Spiegelung. In: Volume 254. KUNSTFORUM International, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ The window. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  8. ^ Peter Funken: Project Spaces - Artists' Dreams. November 1, 2013, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 3WEEKS 4 space projects. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Burchard Vossmann: Jungle Concrete. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ulli Klepalski: IF ONLY. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Peter Funken: The thing - object and / or individual. 65 positions from art, science and literature. In: Review. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  13. ^ Tilmann Baumgärtel: But not shredded club culture. taz, August 29, 2014, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Book presentation and art project presentation. MUSA, November 15, 2016, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Peter Funken: Schein und Spiegelung. In: Volume 254. Kunstforum International, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Peter Funken: The thing - object and / or individual. In: Volume 206. KUNSTFORUM International, 2010, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Peter Funken: The perfectness and the error. In: Volume 224. KUNSTFORUM International, 2013, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Funding results for the fine arts. Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  19. ^ Lost in space. Network of free Berlin project spaces and initiatives, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  20. ↑ mind the space. Network of free Berlin project spaces and initiatives, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Award for artistic project spaces as part of the Berlin Art Week. Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, accessed on December 6, 2018 .