Climate Talks
Talks at BAW Garten in cooperation with Gallery Climate Coalition, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) and Monopol | Magazin für Kunst und Leben
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WC accessible to wheelchairs
Parking for people with disabilities
We consider accessibility crucial to the success of Berlin Art Week—all of our guests should feel comfortable and welcome. We hope we can ease your visit to BAW Garten this year with the following information. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us: [email protected]
- This year, BAW Garten will not be entirely barrier-free, since the grounds around Gropius Bau are cobblestoned.
- The following areas are equipped with anti-slide mats for wheelchairs, baby carriages, etc.: the food area, the talk stage, the workshop area, and the open air cinema.
- There are barrier-free lavatories available both inside Gropius Bau and in the outdoors area.
- If you require assistance to access the non-barrier-free parts of BAW Garten, please ask the security or the location managers at the Info Point.
- The closest barrier-free public transport stops are S+U-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz, which is reached using the lines U2, S1, S2 und S25 and the bus stops M29 (Anhalter Bahnhof) or M41 (Abgeordnetenhaus). If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact the mobility service of Deutsche Bahn, 030 65212888.
- If you arrive by car, at the Gropius Bau are a limited number of barrier-free parking spaces available.
In collaboration with partners from the Berlin art world, Berlin Art Week presents a diverse programme exploring subjects such as sustainability, art, and society. The partners will bring exciting guests from the cultural landscape to the stage. Berlin Art Week will also be presenting the Climate Talks for the fourth time this year:
WED 11 SEP, 4—5.30pm
Digital and environmentally conscious: sustainability and preservation issues in digital art
in cooperation with Gallery Climate Coalition
Today, every single search query, every streamed video and every type of cloud computing, executed billions of times, is responsible for ever-increasing global demand for energy and thus also for increasing CO₂ emissions. How is digital art and all parties involved dealing with this challenge? How can artists, collections, museums, and galleries find a sustainable approach in the production, display, and preservation of digital artworks? The GCC Berlin/Germany hosted panel at Berlin Art Week 2024 will delve into dialog surrounding digital art, weighing the potential benefits of the digital presentation of artworks against their hidden complications and impacts. Andreas Greiner, artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, pulls from his own experience traversing the often surprising impacts and considerations when creating and presenting digital art to elucidate and open up points of discussion for the panelists.
A conversation with Diane Drubay (Founder We Are Museums and Blueshift), Dr. Anna Schäffler (Art historian and preservation specialist), Clara Runge (Curator ZKM Karlsruhe), Dr. Theresa Schubert (Independent artist and researcher), Andreas Greiner (Artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel)
Moderation: Kim Kraczon (Conservator of modern materials and contemporary art, sustainability specialist (independent / Ki Culture / GCC Berlin))
in English
THU 12 SEP, 4—5.30pm
Green Flags at Art Institutions—where Does Sustainability Start?
in cooperation with neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)
Inspired by the funding programme ›Fonds Zero‹ of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes for the translocal research and exhibition project ›Salt. Clay. Rock.‹ (30 NOV 2024—9 FEB 2025), nGbK seeks to reduce their climate impact in future, exploring sustainable means of production and institutional structures. This conversation will explore challenges and goals on the way towards greater sustainability from an artistic, curatorial, and institutional perspective.
A conversation with Ana Alenso (artist nGbK exhibition ›Salt. Clay. Rock.‹), Folke Köbberling (artist nGbK façade work at their new location), Annette Maechtel (managing director nGbK), and Elie Peuvrel (climate officer nGbK), Vincent Schier (nGbK work group ›Salt. Clay. Rock.‹)
in German
FRI 13 SEP, 4—5.30pm
Green Deal for Culture. Transformation now: sustainability in practice
in cooperation with Monopol | Magazin für Kunst und Leben
The cultural sector would like to increase its resource efficiency to make its contribution to the ecological transformation of society. But is progress being made in this direction? What has been the experience of artists and institutions? What funding instruments are useful, and how can private and public programmes contribute to an ecological restructuring? This panel, featuring artist Antje Majewski, Jakob Sylvester Bilabel from the state-funded Aktionsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit, and Stephan Muschick, managing director of the E.ON Stiftung, will focus on these issues, with discussion leader Elke Buhr, editor-in-chief of Monopol.
in German