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Berlin – Hotspot of Contemporary Art
“based in Berlin” exhibition presents works by young avant-garde artists
Berlin, 9 June 2011 For the next six weeks, Berlin is set to be state of the art: in the true sense of the word, with the opening yesterday of “based in Berlin” – the German capital’s art event of the summer. Renowned art curators – Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, New York), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London) – have joined forces to hand-pick a team of young exhibition organisers who have put together the works of 80 emerging artists for the “based in Berlin” exhibition. All the artists exhibited live and work in the German capital.
“Berlin has become the hotbed of contemporary art,” says Burkhard Kieker, CEO of visitBerlin. “’based in Berlin’ highlights the incredible magnetic pull that Berlin has on artists from all over the world. The treasures that three of the world’s most famous curators have fished out of the sea of Berlin art are on show here.”
13-metre high Chinese all-terrain vehicles, rotating parasols, computer games turned reality – the exhibition demonstrates the amazing diversity and vibrancy of the Berlin art scene. The main exhibition venue is a studio on Oranienburger Straße that is designated for demolition. The building will be open daily from 12 p.m. – 12 a.m. until 24 June 2011; entrance is free. The KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, the Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the Berlinische Galerie (Berlin Gallery) are also involved in the event.
