Berlin Art Week 2020 unveils programme’s highlights
Two days left until the opening of the 2020 edition of the Berlin Art Week, from September 9–13, involving different locations and art spaces throughout the city in a varied cultural programme. In consideration of the Covid19 regulations, all the events will allow visitors to enjoy safely contemporary art in the capital. A series of new formats have also been introduced, such as the local tours that will carry around visitors to experience the fair and the city’s neighbourhoods at their own pace. Most of all, varied digital initiatives inaugurate this year, such as the Journal, exploring the event’s behind-the-scene with articles, interviews, and photo galleries, and the Playlist, a live and on-demand platform accompanying visitors through the art week.
Thirteen private art collections will also open their doors to the public during the seven days, along twenty museum and art institutions participating in the programme. Moreover, the former Tempelhof airport will be the set of the Positions Berlin art fair, from September 10–13, while Messe in St. Agnes fair will return for its second edition to the König Galerie, with a high-profile selection of artworks.
Among this year’s highlights, the group exhibition by 100 artists living and working in Berlin organised by Studio Berlin at the Berghain club; artist Hans Haacke’s work ›We (all) are the people‹ shown on the facades of Berlin Art week’s partner institutions; the screening programme by project space bi’bak on the façade of Haus der Statistik; the new edition of the work first shown at the documenta 14 initiated by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and realised by Kulturprojekte Berlin together with partners of Berlin Art Week; and the varied exhibition programme involving a wide number of art spaces in the city.
Finally, this year the Project Space Award will be given to ten project spaces: Arts of the Working Class, bi’bak, Cashmere Radio, Crystal Ball, Display, Kunstasphalt / Galerie Maifoto, oqbo | raum für bild wort und ton, Peles Empire, The Watch, Trust.
