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Yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s projects spaces and the people behind them? Have You Met… will be introducing them to you, one by one…

Have You Met… Stedefreund (text and pictures by Maria Santos)

On the occasion of one of the most exciting re-openings of this season, I met director Anne Fäser and artist Kerstin Gottschalk from the collective that comprises the artist-run space Stedefreund.

If there is something that can certainly define the spirit of this group is their passion for space-hopping. Now celebrating their fifth anniversary, they are coming back after a little break with a new group show at their brand new space, housed in a former garage from the DDR near Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

The group was originally founded by twenty artists, mostly students from the art school Berlin Weißensee, but the number of members disminished over the years to the current amount of eight. Right after graduating, the idea of promptly starting to exhibit triggered these eager young artists to find a place for Stedefreund.

However Anne comes from a different background. After completing studies in Art History and Art Pedagogy, she works as Kunstvermittlerin, what we could call an “art mediator”. Other artists names involved in this project would include: Stefka Ammon, Astrid Busch, Nicole Degenhardt, Anne Gathmann, Surya Gied, Kerstin Gottschalk, Marlena Kudlicka, Rebecca Michaelis, Julia Prezewowsky, Marcel Prüfert, Katja Pudor, Alexandra Schumacher and Julia Staszak, who besides of being active Stedefreunde, also carry on with their parallel works and exhibitions for other galleries.

Their address change every 2 to 2,5 years, what means that they have been already located in several places, including Rosenthaler Platz (whose grey walls were sort of a trade mark), as well as in Dorotheenstraße, and now in the courtyards of Saarbrückerstraße 6-8, where they are getting ready for the big opening of the groupshow Space Release #1 tonight at 19.00.

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