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Easy Transport, 12. 06. - 10. 09. 2006

Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia

Museum für Zeitgenössischer Kunst Skopje, Makedonien

The coordinator of Easy Transport at the Museum of Contemporary Art is Ph.Dr. Rolph Kültz-Mackenzie . who, as a friend of the “Kolonie Wedding” and the gallery Prima Center Berlin, made the selection of the following artists and artworks for this exhibition:

Archi Galentz Tim Deussen Wadim Rakowski

The Berlin art scene has reached a substantial level, yet it is still growing. One of the essential changes is the spontaneous decentralization and its expansion to the other parts of the city. While in the past the points of all kinds of art events were focused on the center of Berlin, since recently the art, especially the alternative one, is being relocated around Berlin Mitte: Kreutzberg, Prentzlauer Berg, Fridrichhein, Tiergarten and of course Wedding offer cultural and artistic programs of every kind.

Michaela Strumberger Mihail Molohnikov

Ivona Borkowska & Lucyna Viale Jovan Balov

Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier Armin Kauker Barbara Klinker

The carriers of the artistic and cultural events in Wedding are the members of the “Wedding Colony” - “Kolonie Wedding”, an association of art galleries and ateliers. The idea for this association was born out of the necessity to revive culturally this part of Berlin.
The initiative to found a cultural association in Wedding was dated from 2001 and the idea of the artists was to start a temporary cultural project. With a substantial support from the European Funds, the governmental and local political authorities, non-governmental organizations an the association for residential and business facilities (DEGEWO) that provided the finance and offered appropriate facilities for ateliers and galleries, the “Wedding Colony” grew into a real artistic institution that soon became a constituent part of the Berlin alternative art scene.

Maciej Diczkowski Frank Pieperhoff Marina Gertsovskaya

Marina G. M. Lyubaskina Christoph Faulhaber Heiko Daxl

The number of the Colony’s members is growing and the cooperation and exchange with artists from abroad is also rising. In the past two years it has promoted projects with artists from the Czech Republic, France, Croatia and Poland, and for next year it plans and exchange with Belgium. The present exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art is also part of the concept of presenting the “colonists” abroad and developing a long term and productive cooperation and exchange with the Macedonian artists and cultural institutions.

The gallery Prima Center Berlin has been a member of the association “Wedding Colony” since 2004. Jovan Balov, an artists and the founder of this gallery, says: “It is a gallery, an institution, a space for the art”. PCB is open both for renown artists and for the “unknown” ones, while as an institution it functions as a promoter of artistic and cultural projects in Berlin and abroad.

The very position of the Center - on the one hand a member of the Berlin art association “Kolonie Wedding”, and on the other hand a partner of Prima Center Skopje - points to its function as a mediator between cultures. The primary objective of PCB is to make a long term exchange platform between the German artists and the artists from the Balkan countries and to present their works both to the art experts and to the art lovers in each of the countries. The other objective of PCB is to present the works by foreign artists who live and work in Germany.

Elizabeta Lindner

Photo: Michaela Strumberger and Jovan Balov

KOLONIE WEDDING BERLIN:

Armin Kauker; Mathias Mayer aka Mo Magic; Michaela Strumberger; Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier; Frank Pieperhoff; Christoph Faulhaber; Jovan Balov; Ivona Borkowska; Lucyna Viale; Maciej Diczkowski; Gertsovskaya Marina; Barbara Klinker; Marina G. M. Lyubaskina; Mihail Molohnikov.

PRIMA CENTER BERLIN:

Heiko Daxl; Christian de Lutz; Tim Deussen; Archi Galentz; Sybille Hoessler; Peter Kees; Otjörg A.C.; Wadim Rakowski.

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