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• Title: Public V Private (BERLIN) (Berlin, Germany Art Galleries)
• Author : Art Monthly
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 53 KB

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For many years it has been often been repeated that artists from all over the world came to live and work in Berlin, and that this economic migration resulted in the cultural concentration that turned the city into a globalised artists' village; space, labour and infrastructure were readily available for the production of art in a context that was physically distant from the markets for it. The sector's income was mostly earned elsewhere while Berlin was regarded as, in the words of the city's mayor, Klaus Wowereit, 'poor, but sexy!', host to an enormous creative pool that enjoys a very relaxed and comfortable lifestyle, one that draws on avant-garde myths of the pre-war era and that at the same time has generated post-wall myths of its own. This cultural migration continues, but today the cultural sector provides significant economic growth for a city that has been beset by financial difficulties ever since the generous public funding during the Cold War period ended. Art in Berlin has become a serious business. Recent gallery surveys in the city gave their number as somewhere between 'over 400' (Berlin Senate, October 2007) and 639 (Kunst Magazin Berlin, March 2008), including exhibition spaces that were dedicated to art but not museums as well as non-commercial spaces such as municipal galleries, foundations or associations, artist-run, artist-led or curated project spaces, commercial galleries and art dealers. Some of these are surely more serious in their efforts than others, some are global players, some hobbyhorses; the criteria are fluid and the fluctuation is continuous. The local consensus and international perception seem to be that Berlin currently has more galleries than any other city on the planet. It is certainly true in terms of the number of galleries per capita. Hardly a week passes without the opening of a new addition to the gallery scene. The more established and upmarket galleries currently tend to settle in the area around Checkpoint Charlie in Kreuzberg, the upcoming ones up and down Brunnenstrasse in Mitte or on Heidestrasse, behind the Hamburger Bahnhof, and the off-spaces almost anywhere else. Galleries have started to sprout in cultural wastelands, and if all of them are indicators of gentrification, then Berlin is about to change rapidly.

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