art prize of the haus am kleisterpark
The call for entries is associated with an exhibition at Haus am Kleistpark.
The overall theme is "FRACTURE". The term refers to ruptures and cracks, which can manifest themselves both in questions of content and in materials, implementation and technical processes. The rupture appears both as an experience and as an artistic means: as fragmentation, interruption or displacement that changes perception. Ruptures can become visible in social and cultural contexts as well as in personal realities. "FRACTURE" describes moments in which order becomes unstable - and in which new forms, meanings and relationships emerge precisely from this. Artists can explore the fragility and power of the fragile in order to make transformations visible.
The exhibition venue known as Haus am Kleistpark is considered one of the largest and most traditional municipal galleries in Berlin. Two other locations are affiliated with it: Haus am Kleistpark | Projektraum and the Galerie im Tempelhof Museum. Until 2016, it also occupied exhibition spaces in the Galerie im Rathaus Tempelhof. As non-commercial spaces for the mediation of contemporary art, the municipal galleries stand for cosmopolitanism, experimentation and artistic discoveries at a high level. Local-urban reference and intercultural exchange are combined with the inclusion of global contexts. Their tasks as municipal galleries are cultural district development, the promotion of artists, basic work for the art sector, as well as the sustainable accompaniment of current issues in discourse.