Why CAA?

Marianne Esser

Seit vielen Jahren lebe ich in Berlin und engagiere mich für die zeitgenössische Kunst, mit Schwerpunkt in Berlin und Leipzig.

Insbesondere liegt mir aber die Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin am Herzen, die ich seit ihrer Entstehung begleite. Was mir an CAA besonders gefällt ist der direkte Bezug zwischen Förderern und Stipendiaten, der intensive kulturelle Austausch mit Experten und Künstlern aus dem CAA – Netzwerk und vor allem die interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung auf die vier Bereiche: Tanz, Theater, Musik und Bildende Kunst. Das vielfältige und institutionsunabhängige Programm der CAA Berlin begeistert mich und ich bin gespannt, wie sich die Künste in ihrer jeweils ganz eigenen “Sprache” und im Wechselspiel miteinander immer wieder neu profilieren.

Sunday, May 13th 2012

Cycling tour through Berlin-Mitte and discovery of its urban art scene. In recent years urban art is enjoying a growing popularity. A variety of differentiated styles and techniques has emerged. In hardly any other city you meet such a large and diverse spread of urban art like on the walls and streets of Berlin. Jan Kage, known as Yaneq, will introduce us to the work of artists such as Super Blast and XOOOOX.

October 26th: Visiting the Collection of Juerg Judin

Juerg Judin, collector and gallery owner, commissioned the architect team bfs d -bröer flachsbarth schultz and planbb brakel, to restore an old gas station and extend it with a glass facade in a part of Schöneberg, which is not exactly known as beeing very noble. There, he shows his art in a surrounding of the fifties.

Saturday, October 15th: Music Box

Dr. Katja Blomberg leads the friends and supporters through the exhibition “Music Box” by the Dutch artist-composer William Engelen at the Haus am Waldsee.

Chocolate bars, vacuum cleaner bag contents, rubber trees, diaries, stomach growling and weather data are the parameters of the compositions by William Engelen. The Dutch artist and composer designs his scores in the form of graphical notations. His work is often inspired by cultural memories of different levels of perception. They range from the “Big Bang” to chocolate dreams of everyones childhood. You use the weather data in the first decade of the early twentyfirst Century or capture the unconscious musicality of their own intestines.

About:
CAA Berlin was founded in 2007
by Dr. Loretta Würtenberger, Dieter Rosenkranz and Stephan Balzer to encourage the civil involvement in the cultural landscape of Berlin on a honorary basis. CAA Berlin is a non-profit corporation that is financed from donations by its friends and supporters.

The CAA is active in two fields:

CAA Acts support upcoming independent artists in Berlin, fast and non bureaucratically with scholarships, project promotion and mentorship.

CAA Academy offers CAAs members and supporters a cultural program structured by different disciplines to increase the dialogue with Berlins most interesting figureheads of the contemporary art scene.