Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst - NGBK
Location: Berlin
Year founded: 1969
Address:
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst e.V.
Oranienstrasse 25
10999 Berlin
Contact details:
Tel: 0049 30 616 513 0
Email: koordination@ngbk.de
Website: ngbk.de
Indicative opening times:
Every day 12 - 19:00 (Friday and Saturday until 20:00)
Current staff:
Managing Director (until 1. April 2011) Leonie Baumann
Project Coordinator Wibke Behrens
Member services / Exchange of publications Katja Hübner
Press work / Public Relations Benita Piechaczek
Accounts Department Kati Guhle
Archiv / Documentation Gabi Kellmann
The New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK) – an art society with 850 members, people with different professions and ambitions and project-related decisions are taken at grass-roots level and realized jointly.
Each year, project groups made up of members submit proposals for exhibitions, which are then introduced, discussed and voted on at the general meeting. In this way, each member has the opportunity of actively shaping the programme in cooperation with at least four other members. The project teams work independently and are supported by the small team of permanent staff. It is this organisational structure which makes the NGBK a unique institution, not only on the German art scene but internationally.
Since 2008 the NGBK offers a unique stipend to one individual to conceive and run the outreach programme for a maximum of 2 years. Experimental forms of art education have always been promoted and researched at NGBK and this opportunity is indicitive of the associations stance towards this field. The artist Catriona Shaw is recipient for 2010-2012 and is responsible for the Kombiticket outreach program currently running there.
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Showing at Trajector:
Berlin-based Scottish artist Catriona Shaw is the recipient of the NGBK's art education stipend from August 2010 - August 2012. During this time she has developed various outreach workshops under the general title of "Kombiticket", a kind of metaphysical club aimed at anyone interested in current themes of contemporary art, in particular those dealt with at the NGBK. One project that she is developing over the entire period of her stipend is "Clubroom", an attempt to give the metaphysical space of Kombiticket a tangible room, albeit one that is constantly under construction. Trajector Art Fair will host the third edition of Clubroom, to be developed by Catriona Shaw, this time in collaboration with the Berlin-based German/Costa-Rican architect, Christian Sommer. Elements from the previous clubroom editions will be on show, along with reinterpretations and physical and architectonic versions of the blueprints/ideas collected during the initial Clubroom presentation at the NGBK in January 2011.
Collaborator: Architect Christian Sommer (DE/CR).
Clubroom is an ongoing part of the Kombiticket audience outreach programme at the NGBK.
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