Gropius Bau Giving Space

Space, both literally and metaphorically, is vital to education. The three-year-long project Gropius Bau Giving Space responds to the current demand for spaces for educational work in Berlin and aims to build long-term collaborations with partners in the city.

Within the framework of Giving Space, the Gropius Bau provides studio and exhibition spaces to art educators, independent groups or initiatives for several months at a time, the positioning of which also contributes to greater visibility for educational work in the building. In 2019/20, the project We’ll be making lots of noise by Catriona Shaw and Frèd Bigot was the first to use rooms of the Gropius Bau. The expert jury, consisting of Çağla Ilk, Julienne Lorz, Rebecca Raue, Tilo Schulz and Henry Ward, has chosen the project Body Object(s) Borders & Corners by the intercultural dance collective Grupo Oito from all submissions of this year’s Open Call. In September 2020, the collective moved into the rooms at the Gropius Bau and uses them for its educational work.

Project Consultant
Henry Ward

Selected project 2020/21

Grupo Oito: Bodies Object(s) Borders & Corners

Where do we dissolve our boundaries and where do they keep us apart? How do we negotiate responsibility and privilege in a (post)pandemic society – and what does this do to our understanding of public and private space? How can the common grow out of our differences and despite of our physical distance? These are some of the questions the educational project by Grupo Oito deals with.

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Selected project 2019/20

Catriona Shaw & Fréd Bigot: We’ll be making lots of noise

What is noise? Is it only loud, disturbing, unnecessary, even ugly? Can noise be something beautiful? Where does noise come from and how is it made? Can it be quiet, can it be gentle, can it inspire us to take action? These are some of the questions the project We’ll be making lots of noise deals with.

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