Open/Occupy II

OPEN HOUSE FLUTGRABEN 2019
Exhibition Opening / Book Launch / Open Studios
September 15th 3-10pm

Open/Occupy is a direct response to the ongoing process of gentrification in Berlin. The struggle and worry of losing one’s living and working space is enhanced on a daily base. Open/Occupy believes that the city needs artists because art generates critical knowledge and creates community; art offers alternative visions of the future through experiential forms of discourse; art promotes open-mindedness towards the unknown and the potential of becoming. Together we work towards strategies of civic empowerment, motoring social change, sustaining Freiräume/open spaces and creating a new solidarity-based politics of space.

PUBLICATION: OPEN/OCCUPY
On gentrification, artists and possible futures
With: KOA, AbBA, Kunstblock & many more

EXHIBITION: BLIND DATE
Annelen Käferstein & Marta Lodola
Sharon Paz & Mikala Hyldig Dal
Stefan Klein & Alfonso Moral
André Uerba & Clement Layes
Our curatorial algorithm has paired artists that have not yet collaborated to create a joint artistic intervention

Program:
15th September
3-10 pm Open Studios & Exhibition
6 pm Book launch and exhibition opening speech
7 pm Performance/s

21st September
7-9 pm Screening
REVEAL, COMMENT AND SHOW, ARTIST SHOW!
With Laura Carvalho, Christine Diegler, Hulda Ros Gudnadottir, Paloma Schnitzer, Zhu Xiaowen, Paul Wiersbinski, Christiaan Tonnis, Johannes Bären Strauch, Karl Ingar Røys, Jos Diegel

Exhibition opening hours:
17-20th September, Wednesday-Friday 4-7pm
21-22 September, Saturday-Sunday 2-7pm

Address: Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin
Contact: open-flutgraben@gmx.de
www.flutgraben.org