Description
DISKURS Berlin (Project space & residency program) is place for presentation of an international program of exhibitions and discussion platform.
DISKURS Berlin focuses on international curatorial exchange program, collaborates with public and private institutions, managing projects, and offers training opportunities, research program for international curators.
We work with partner art organizations and offer various programs to serve curators and artists from Asia. The guest curators and an artists will have the opportunity to work and research the wider artistic context as well as to establish networks and dialogues with other local and international art scene.
DISKURS Berlin, which is based in the German capital, initiates, arranges, and develops an international network of contacts between the contemporary art scenes in Germany and Korea. DISKURS Berlin focuses primarily on advising public and private institutions, managing projects, and arranging contacts with up-and-coming artists and curators. Many factors have changed the global art world and shifts have taken place. Economic growth in Asia and the accompanying rise of a significant number of art collectors and buyers has expedited dynamically the globalisation of the art world. The presence of art from Korea, and Asia in general, has increased tremendously in recent years and this art is much in demand. Yet the contemporary art scene, as well as private collections in Asia, are still relatively new phenomena, and there is often insufficient access to the Western art scene, which hinders fruitful exchanges and debate. And on the other hand the Western art world seeks access to the new and developing art scenes in Asia to reach the buyers and collectors there. However, this is frequently unsuccessful because the appropriate contacts are lacking.
DISKURS Berlin has such contacts and acts as a liaison between institutions, artists, curators, and collectors in Germany and Asia, particularly in Korea. For some years now major biennials have been organised in Korea; the Gwangju Biennial, the Busan Biennial, and the Mediacity Seoul. These are not only regarded as important events in Asia, but also in the Western art world. In addition, there is a growing interest in Korea in creating museums of contemporary art, off-space galleries, and artist residency programs in the larger cities. Since the end of the crisis in the world economy the outlook for realising such projects is better than ever before.
As negotiator and facilitator between Germany and Korea, DISKURS Berlin’s mission is to achieve structural improvements within the art scene, and to organise contacts and establish a network of artists, curators, art theorists, and art scholars.
