Waiting Rooms, event series (2024)

Co-Organiser

Atelierhaus Adalbertstrasse 9 and FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin (DE)

Adalbertstraße 9 is an established studio location at Kottbusser Tor, Berlin that has grown over the past decades and is an integral part of the neighbourhood network. At the same time, it is a space with an uncertain future whose continued artistic and cultural use is at risk. Since the protest exhibition Speculative Properties ( 2023), the association Adalbert Neun bleibt e.V. has been campaigning for the state of Berlin to save and secure this Kreuzberg cultural location in the long term. The initiative has received support at municipal level from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district and from the Senate’s Assembly of Representatives. So far, however, there has been a lack of political commitment to implement a forward-looking solution for the permanent use of the building complex by artists and cultural professionals.

With the Waiting Rooms series we aim to once again raise awareness, reignite momentum, and remind everyone of the urgent need to take action in securing the future of Adalbertstraße 9 as a crucial space for art and culture in Kreuzberg. By transforming the passive waiting posture into an active space for action through exhibition making, several talks, listening sessions and other actions, ideas and food for thought have been exchanged and artistic strategies discussed and tested in order to meet the challenges of the increasingly precarious working situation of artists. 

With the support of the Kulturförderung project fund of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Department of Culture and History, Berlin.

Details and updates here.