Videostill Problem Property - chapter I, 2024, © Johannes Büttner & Martin Sulzer

For the third FIXTURES event on March, 17th, 2025 Martin Sulzer is our guest and will talk about artificiality as a central element in his artistic work, be it 3D rendering, synthesizers or artificial intelligence.

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen digitalisiert Videos von Henning Christiansen in der Medienwerkstatt | Fotocredits: © Rachel Dagnall

For the second FIXTURES event on February, 24, 2025 Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen are our guests. They will present a selection of video and sound recordings from the archive of the Danish FLUXUS artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) that have just been digitized since beginning of February in the Media Workshop.

Videostill: Toquio Grua aus Sequences 22 (2021-2022) | Fotocredits: © Sérgio Taborda

With the start of the new year 2025, we are glad to launch the FIXTURES event series in the Media Lab of the Medienwerkstatt. For the first event on January, 27th, we have invited the Portuguese artist and researcher Sérgio Taborda.

The Druckwerkstatt cordially invites you to celebrate this great anniversary with all employees, users and friends of the workshops and facilities in the Kulturwerk of the bbk berlin!

© Berlin Global Village

From November 15, the decolonial memorial Earth Nest by The Lockward Collective (Jeannette Ehlers, Rolando Vázquez and Patricia Kaersenhout) will be accessible in front of the Berlin Global Village.

The professional journal kunststadt/stadtkunst is published annually by the Office for Art in Public Space (Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im kulturwerk des bbk berlin). It provides information on the latest developments in art in public spaces in Berlin and ensures transparency with regard to state commissions for art in public spaces in the state of Berlin and its districts.

The first event in the “Rumors of Noise” series took place on 15.08.2024 in the Medienlabor/Kesselhaus of the Medienwerkstatt. Frauke Boggasch and Manfred Miersch hosted the pilot event as the start of a new lecture series. In loose succession, such lecture events as part of Media and Music Talks will invite people to listen to (loud) music together in a real space, which is thus temporarily

The MEDIA WORKSHOP / kulturwerk bbk berlin / invites you to an exhibition dedicated to the material aspects of media art. Opening // 16.05.2024 // 5 pm in the Rooms of Druckwerkstatt, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, 1st floor

In 2025, the print workshop at the bbk berlin's kulturwerk will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. It has been a vibrant place of artistic productio for half a century. We call for participation in the preparations for this great anniversary!

The Day of Printmaking on March 15 will be celebrated at the exhibition finissage with the participating artists: Viola Bendzko, Carsten Borck, Christoph Damm, Helmut Gutbrod, Claudia Hartwig, Jase Kala, Patrick Kaufmann, Carmen McPherson, Helga Ntephe, Deborah S. Phillips, Matthias Taube und Ila Wingen. Please join us!

The Team of Global Village would like to invite you to the first public event of the project Decolonial Memorial at the Berlin Global Village on October 31st 2023 at 4pm: a large thematic symposium around decolonization and art. There will be exciting discussion panels, live painting, performances and much more. We hope you will come by!

Die Fachzeitschrift kunststadt/stadtkunst wird jährlich vom Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im kulturwerk des bbk berlin herausgegeben. Sie informiert über die neuesten Entwicklungen der Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Berlin und sorgt für Transparenz rund um das staatliche Auftragsgeschehen für Kunst am Bau und Kunst im Stadtraum im Land Berlin und in den Berliner Bezirken.

© Lioba von den Driesch

The Media Workshop celebrates the farewell of Lioba von den Driesch, the contact to the Japanese artist Yasuto Yura, organizer of the independent film festival "VIDEO PARTY", and the new media lab with a screening and an exhibition. On display will be a wealth of animations of various kinds from Japan and Berlin.

© Lioba von den Driesch

The Media Workshop celebrates the farewell of Lioba von den Driesch, the contact to the Japanese artist Yasuto Yura, organizer of the independent film festival "VIDEO PARTY", and the new media lab with a screening and an exhibition. On display will be a wealth of animations of various kinds from Japan and Berlin.

The Uferhallen in Moabit, a place for alternative art and culture, is facing a major upheaval. The entire area is to be rebuilt and surrounded by flats. The artists now fear for their prospects - because in other districts of the city, art locations have already irretrievably disappeared. In conversation: Martin Schwegmann, Studio Commissioner for Berlin. A contribution by Christian Titze.

© Martin Zellerhoff

Parking at the sculpture workshop is possible only with restrictions.

We are pleased to inform you that the new subsidy directive for the studio rental programme came into force on 1 November 2021. The guideline was agreed between the Studio Office in the Kulturwerk of the bbk berlin and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and replaces the previous guideline from 1993.

PM | 07.04.2020 | Aufgrund der Ausgangsbeschränkungen des Landes Berlin zur Eindämmung der Covid-19-Pandemie und der Unmöglichkeit Sitzungen abzuhalten, entwickelte das Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum einen ersten Leitfaden zur digitalen Durchführung von Wettbewerben für Kunst am Bau und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum.

PM | 17.01.2020 | 2019 hat das Büro mit großer Anstrengung und Freude seinen bisherigen Arbeitshöhepunkt erreicht und damit 47 Wettbewerbe für Kunst am Bau und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum begleitet. Das ist der absolute Rekord seit Existenz des Büros.

Besides concrete guidelines (master plans, white papers,...) for politics and planning of politics and administrations, we need a) a resilient civil society and b) trend-setting pilot projects in order to create sustainable structures beyond the political business cycle - this is the quintessence of my lecture in Bristol in October this year. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JV0MngSJCGs&feature=emb