BAW GARTEN

This year, BAW Garten, the festival centre of Berlin Art Week, will be a guest at Gropius Bau. Free admission and open air— the five-day programme at BAW Garten will be offering a whole range of activities. You can actively participate in workshops or dance sessions, experience performances, talks, or films screened at our open air cinema, culinary surprises, and DJ sets. BAW Garten will also provide information on tours and routes offered all across the city as well as the overall programme of Berlin Art Week’s partners—the festival centre is an ideal starting point to plan your visit, a place to meet, and end the day in a relaxed fashion.

Gropius Bau, 2023 © Luca Girardini

PROGRAMME

In collaboration with partners of Berlin Art Week

INSTALLATION

SCENOGRPAHY
A carpark becomes a picknick area, cars become restaurant tables, and machines become lamp holders—curated by the firm ›Something Fantastic‹ , in this exhibition at BAW Garten various artistic interventions are being presented that reflect on processes of change in urban space, in particular the tension in Gropius Hain between a carpark and a natural space. ›Something Fantastic‹ is a collaborative effort of the architects Leonard Streich, Julian Schubert, and Elena Schütz. Whether it’s the open design of the German Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale, their sustainable, communal residential projects in Flanders, or book design, ›Something Fantastic‹ explores questions of sustainability, social structures, and ecological aspects in their work, combining them with concepts that are well conceived and yet simple. In their installation for BAW Garten, they play out the uses of spaces and devices in a post-automobile future. This results in platforms that can be used for various events as part of Berlin Art Week or as places of encounter and discovery. Explore the work of Sam Chermayeff Office, Gustav Düsing, and other artists and architects.

COOPERATIONS

D'Frac Dance Session © Juan Saez

MOVEMENT

Get the day started with flowing movements—the D’Frac dance session invites all visitors of Berlin Art Week to explore their own bodies and their relationship with the environment and fellow dancers; to the sounds of club music, outdoors and with no equipment.

© Rohini Devasher

WORKSHOPS

This year, workshops will be held at BAW Garten in cooperation with various partner institutions. Whether working with miraculous creatures on the practice of Kerstin Brätsch, the Gropius Bau’s Artist in Residence, or with secrets and narratives of outer space in cooperation with PalaisPopulaire and the artist Rohini Devasher—the workshops are open to everyone and can be attended without registration.

Gropius Bau, 2024 © Laura Fiorio

FOOD

Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, whose solo show will be on view at Gropius Bau as part of the festival week, and Berlin Art Week are inviting Berlin’s famous ›Thaipark‹ to offer a daily
›Cooking Demonstration‹ at BAW Garten. With Khao Soi, Pad Kaphrao, Papaya Salad, and Massaman Curry, borrowing from the four regions of Thailand, you will be able to explore Thai cuisine with the food vendors from ›Thaipark‹.

BAW Garten, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2023 © Angelo Dal Bó

TALKS

Berlin Art Week will be presenting a wide-ranging programme of talks on subjects such as sustainability, politics, and pop culture together with partners from the Berlin art world. Listen to Christoph Amend and Peter Raue in collaboration with Weltkunst discuss crime and art, the Climate Talks in cooperation with Monopol Magazin, the Gallery Climate Coalition and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), and a debate on urban exodus from the perspective of culture, held in collaboration with Texte zur Kunst.

© Poncili Creación

HOSTED BY

The new format ›Hosted by‹ invites curators and partners of Berlin Art Week to present live performances and interventions at BAW Garten, interrogating the location and expanding it. Experience performances in collaboration with curator Marie-Therese Bruglacher, the project initiative Arts of the Working Class, or Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

© Jürgen Fehrmann

MUSIC

Centrally located, BAW Garten is an ideal place to end the day with a drink and good music, or even to dance a bit. The series ›Set it off!‹ hosted by nearby HAU Hebbel am Ufer, will feature various Berlin DJs performing at the location—all are welcome to participate in the dancing.

Videoart at Midnight, Babylon Berlin, 2022 © Knut Klaßen

SCREENINGS

›Videoart at Midnight‹, a Babylon Kino initiative that screens contemporary videoart each month, will be presenting a selected programme of video art at BAW Garten. A curated selection of films by Berlin artists and works from the programme of the Berlin Art Week partners will be shown, including Mariechen Danz, Bianca Kennedy, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler as well as Anna Ehrenstein and Ming Wong.

 

BAW Garten, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2023 © Angelo Dal Bó

BAW LESEGARTEN

For all those looking for inspiration for their Berlin Art Week visit, would like to take a break, or are interested in art books, BAW LeseGarten is open to all visitors. Together with partners of Berlin Art Week, this comfy library features exhibition catalogues, artist books, and magazines related to the Berlin Art Week programme.

BAW Garten, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2023 © Angelo Dal Bó

BAW POSTGARTEN

Mail art to make yourself and get creative: at BAW Garten, you can design your own individual postcards and drop them in the mailbox on site. Participants will receive a little surprise when at
home after Berlin Art Week.

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR VISIT

Adress
BAW Garten at Gropius Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7
10963 Berlin

Directions
U-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
S-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz / Anhalter Bahnhof
Bus: Abgeordnetenhaus / Anhalter Bahnhof

Opening Hours
11—13 SEP / noon—10pm
14—15 SEP / 11am—10pm

With gastronomic offer from restaurant Beba as well as extended opening hours of the exhibitions at Gropius Bau.