Our Tasks

Initiating art competitions and advising artists, public administrations, clients and architects are the core tasks of the Office for Art in Public Space.

The Office

• lobbies for artists' professional interests.
• advocates democratic art competitions and transparent decision-making procedures. 
• supports and advises the public administrations of the State of Berlin and its districts in the implementation of the Anweisung Bau für Kunst am Bau und im Stadtraum (Construction directive for art in architecture and urban space).
• is an integral part and initiator of projects being realised by the district committees for art in public space, the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, and the Senate Department for Urban Development.
• is an expert for procedural questions, and supervises all art competitions.
• qualifies awarders for the implementation of art competitions.
• qualifies artists to take part in art competitions and to carry out coordination, preliminary examination and jury work in competitions.
• advises and supports artists with their projects for art in architecture and urban space.
• operates the "KiöR artists database" with portfolios/reference materials and an online database of artists currently comprising around 650 artists and teams available for competitions which are not open.
• is in charge of the specialist commission for art in public space at the bbk berlin, which develops proposals for restricted competitions and artistic projects on the basis of the KiöR artists' database.
• publishes the specialist journal kunststadt/stadtkunst, which reports on competition procedures, discusses international projects and discourses on art in public space, and deals with cultural policy issues.

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