Positions Berlin Art Fair

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The POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair is an international art fair that takes place annually since 2014 as part of the Berlin Art Week.

Concept of the fair

The exhibitors at POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair are internationally operating galleries and art dealers. There are also individual special projects and collection presentations. A focus of the artistic positions shown is in the field of contemporary art , but also art of classical modernism and the post-war period and is presented by the exhibitors. With the aim of being able to relate positions from different eras and styles to one another, the fair deliberately refrained from separating them in the form of sections.

Characteristic of the formal appearance of the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair is the architecture consisting of white exhibition booths for presentations by up to 4 artists and walls for individual presentations. The stand concept designed by the Frankfurt company Leise Design is complemented by a design concept for exhibition furniture made of cardboard honeycomb panels.

History and venues

The first Positions Berlin Art Fair was opened in September 2014 on the three lower floors of the Jandorf department store, which had been largely empty until then and is located next to Volkspark am Weinberg in the Mitte district of Berlin. For the second edition, the fair moved to the much larger hall of the Arena Berlin in Berlin-Treptow. With a consistently high number of participants, the third POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2016 took place in the Postbahnhof at Ostbahnhof and came back to the Arena Berlin for its 4th edition in 2017. In 2018 the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will open for the first time in the former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. The fair has been a permanent partner of Berlin Art Week since it was founded.

Supporting program

As part of the supporting program of POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, numerous guided tours, award ceremonies, artist talks, performances, special exhibitions and presentations of video art take place every year.

Berlin Hyp sponsorship award

In cooperation with Berlin Hyp , the fair awards the Berlin Hyp Prize to young artists each year, whose work is shown in a solo exhibition the following year.

Winner of the Berlin Hyp Promotion Prize

  • 2014:
    • Angelika Arendt
    • Olrik Kohlhoff
  • 2016:
    • Peter Ruehle
  • 2017:
    • Carolin Gasse
    • Marion Eichmann

Art education

In cooperation with the further education center (WBZ) of the Free University of Berlin "TAKE UP POSITION!", POSITIONS Berlin has been organizing a regular seminar at the fair since 2014, in which prospective collectors and interested buyers can discuss their personal perspectives on buying and buying strategies , Exchange and inform the quality and value of art.

Special presentations

In addition to booths such as those of the Stiftung Telefonseelsorge Berlin, the Peter-Christian Schlüschen Foundation and the Marke.6 with the winners of the Grafe Creative Prize at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, there are also regular larger exhibitions as special presentations :

  • 2015 "Katzengold" (for the 20th anniversary of the State Association of Berlin Galleries (lvbg))
  • 2015 "Pararrayos - Contemporary Art from Mexico" (in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy Berlin )
  • 2017 "Selected Positions"

organizer

Managing director and director of POSITIONS Berlin is Kristian Jarmuschek. From 2005 to 2013 he was co-director of the Preview Berlin trade fair, which he co-founded. In 2012 Kristian Jarmuschek co-initiated the Berlin Art Week. Heinrich Carstens is co-director of POSITIONS Berlin.

The permanent organization team of Positions Berlin, which has existed since the fair was founded, also has the events and advertising campaigns “26 Positions” (April / May 2015) and “XPositions” as well as the special exhibitions “Academy Positions” (September 2017) and “Paper Positions” in bikini -House in Berlin (April / May 2016) realized. At the same location, paper positions 2017 opened for the first time as an independent trade fair in Berlin and also premiered in Munich in autumn 2017. In 2018 the paper positions will be held in Berlin (April), Basel (June) and Munich (October).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For a handful of copper . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Tobias Timm: Berlin Art Week: Trust your taste! In: The time . September 18, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Let yourself be surprised - by quality and versatility . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  4. ^ Art in a concentrated form . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Berlin Hyp Förderpreis - Berlin Hyp. Accessed June 1, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ Perspective art market. September 5, 2016, accessed June 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Berlin Galleries |. Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
  8. ↑ To the beginning . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  9. ↑ BIKINI BERLIN: EXHIBITIONS / BIKINI BERLIN. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ archive. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 1, 2017 (American English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.paperpositions.com  
  11. ↑ Gabriela Walde: Gateway drug for young collectors . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  12. ^ Paper and porcelain . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  13. ^ Brita Sachs: Munich Trade Fairs: Munich likes to be in a frenzy of art . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  14. ^ Brita Sachs: Fair Paper Positions in Basel: Lucifer, dead bears and the interest in teeth . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 3, 2018]).