20 December 2010
Identity, belonging, and the desire to escape to a new world.
Berlin provides a utopian dream, a place in which to enrich existence, a refuge for the nomad artist and non-conformist ideals. The Berlin Office is an empty space born within this seemingly utopian paradise.
The Berlin Office is a non-place. Exclusively developed for artists, you check in and you check out; your designated stay in the space controlled by a virtual calendar. This nothing space in which the artist resides provides a think tank; a neutral ground in which to impregnate with thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
Victoria Lucas, Den, 2010. Mixed Media
As The Berlin Office prepares to exist as an ordinary apartment once again, this final show presents artworks created by current members of the organisation. Based in Denmark, the USA and the UK, the artists abandon their virtual online management system and travel to the physical space of The Berlin Office, to leave one more artistic impression in the space.
What dreams do we impregnate in to these walls that we have so often imagined? What do we escape, what do we bring with us, and what do we leave behind?
Heidi Hove, Heidi was Here, 2010. Wall-text with black ink, approx. 5 x 30 cm
Fragments from The Berlin Office, catalog is available to order. The book comprises 30 pages with photographs and text from The Berlin Office apartment. Please contact Line Sandvad Mengers for more information.
Promised Land was curated by victoria Lucas and Line Sandvad Mengers, to mark the end of the The Berlin Office and its artist in residence programme. Since undertaking the residency in 2008, Victoria Lucas became a member of The Berlin Office, until the artist led organisation ended on the 1st December 2010. For more information about The Berlin Office, and the residents and members who were involved in the project, please click here.
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