Urban Spree
| Art and culture house | |
|---|---|
| place | Berlin-Friedrichshain |
| address | Revaler Strasse 99 (corner of Warschauer Strasse), 10245 Berlin |
| surface | 1700 m² |
| website | www.urbanspree.com |
| activities | Exhibitions, concerts, artist residencies, DIY workshops |
| particularities | |
| Interdisciplinary house for urban cultures | |
The Urban Spree is an art and culture house on the RAW site in Berlin-Friedrichshain , which is dedicated to urban culture with exhibitions, artist residencies , events and DIY workshops. The 1700 m² area also includes an art store and a beer garden.
history
The Urban Spree was founded by the French Pascal Feucher and the German-French Kolja Ulbrich and officially opened on June 21, 2012. Pascal Feucher, born in 1970, was previously managing director of the private equity department at the private bank Sal. Oppenheim in Paris, and Kolja Ulbrich, born in 1975, previously an EMI France artist. After the opening, Nicolas Defawe - co-founder of the Berlin club HBC began in Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. - to actively participate in the further development of the Urban Spree, which he has been leading with Pascal Feucher since the resignation of Kolja Ulbrich at the end of September 2013. The site of today's Urban Spree was previously used as an underground techno club, but then stood empty for several years.
gallery
In the Urban Spree Galerie there are monthly curated exhibitions, which often also include the outdoor spaces. An eye-catcher is the Artist Wall - a 15 m long and 8 m high external facade facing Warschauer Strasse , which is one of Berlin's most important traffic arteries. The artists who designed this wall include Above, Klone, Zevs, Broken Fingaz Crew, Twoone, Low Bros, Nychos, 1UP Crew, The Grifters, Peachbeach, Rylsee, m-city, Johannes Mundinger and many more
Artist residencies
The artist residences are part of the Urban Spree's infrastructure. There are both permanent and temporary studios and guest studios that were set up to promote artists and are intended to help create art directly in and on the Urban Spree. In return for the residences, the sponsored artists are involved in the design of the house and give workshops in which the Urban Spree audience can get creative themselves, such as a sign painting workshop. The following artists currently have long-term residencies: Andrea Wan, Rylsee, Tavar Zawacki / Above, Johannes Mundinger, Tine Fetz and Billy. There is also Dolly Demoratti's mother printer screen printing workshop.
In addition to the artist residencies, there is the format of the Urban Spree Art Residency at irregular intervals , in which the guests of the Urban Spree are granted direct insight into the artistic process over a certain period of time, thereby enabling them to participate in the end product. The Urban Spree Art Residency ends with the opening of the exhibition and lives from the softening of the boundaries between public and private, inside and outside.
Beer garden
The outdoor area of the Urban Spree functions primarily as a beer garden when the outside temperature is appropriate, but also for special events and festivals. In addition to serving local and national craft beers and soft drinks, permanent street food containers and changing providers provide guests with international dishes. In addition, the Urban Spree Summer Sessions take place in the beer garden every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening during the summer months , during which live acoustic music is played by local bands. The Amor de Madre tattoo studio also has its place in the beer garden area .
Art Store
In the gallery building is the Urban Spree bookstore, which has graffiti, street art and photography titles, the common bracket of which is a vision of cities and post-industrial, dilapidated spaces. The integrated art store offers a wide range of screen-printed works by local and international artists who work permanently or temporarily with the Urban Spree. T-shirts can also be purchased, which are designed on site and then screen- printed. In 2016 Urban Spree founded a publishing house to promote its own publications.
Since May 2017 the Smallest Record Store in the World has been part of the Urban Spree Art Store, which primarily sells records by bands that have already performed in the Urban Spree and which is curated by changing local labels and promoters.
Others
The Urban Spree is the venue for various festivals such as the Pictoplasma Festival, the Krake Festival, the ComicinvasionBerlin, the Berlin Seafood Festival, the Amaze Berlin, the Midsommar Festival, the Druck Berlin Festival or the Berlin Graphic Days. In addition, there are occasional film screenings, dinner events and food festivals. The first Urban Spree Festival took place abroad in 2016. German and French artists from the Urban Spree area were presented at the La Station art house in Paris.
For the 3rd anniversary in December 2015, Urban Spree launched the vegan hot drink Winterspree in cooperation with the beverage manufacturer Ostmost . The Berlin company Ostmost produces juices, spritzers and cider from apples from regional orchards. Winterspree consists of a mixture of organic apple juices from Ostmost, combined with organic vodka and winter spices. Nine individual labels for the drink were designed by artists.
literature
- Sarah Pauls, Rolf G. Wackenberg: Urban Spree - Zeitgeist Berlin . In: Sarah Pauls, Rolf G. Wackenberg (eds.): KING KOOL CITY BERLIN - From Hiphop to Graffiti . Elsengold, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944594-57-6 , pp. 129-133 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://bln.fm/2013/02/urban-spree/
- ↑ Jens Uthoff: Not just the next club. November 13, 2014, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Jens Uthoff: Not just the next club. November 13, 2014, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ^ Frank R. Schröder: Shaping our City: Nicolas Defawe from the Urban Spree. November 1, 2016, accessed May 23, 2017 .
- ^ Angie Kordic: Representing Street Art Painters - Interview with Pascal Feucher of Urban Spree Gallery. September 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Sign Painting: MYOS Workshops are back. February 25, 2017, accessed May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ About Urban Spree. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
- ^ Urban Spree Art Residency with Twoone. June 30, 2016, accessed May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ About Urban Spree. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
- ^ "Wild" - first publication of Urban Spree Books. Retrieved May 23, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Ask Helmut Berlin. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ About Urban Spree. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ^ Les Inrockuptibles Paris. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Jessica Tomala: Berlin, but oho - Ostmost. January 19, 2016, accessed May 24, 2017 .
- ^ Urban Spree announces the launch of Winterspree. November 29, 2015, accessed May 24, 2017 .