photo: Klub7
Every year the Berlin Festival not only brings a top notch line-up and an international crowd celebrating for two days at the former Tempelhof Airport. Representing Berlin’s spirit at its best the initiator of the Berlin Festival, Conny Opper, wanted to include urban art in the context of the music festival. This is why on a big part of the festival area every year an Art Village emerges with several kinds of highlights to give the music lovers a good time between their favourite bands. As we hear from the curator of the Art Village himself, Jan ‘Yaneq’ Kage also known for organising Party Arty ( read a whole interview over here), this edition will be even more colorful with more installations and an even more diverse art display than in previous years.
Airport Tempelhof will see a church, a pub, a circus tent for poets, a market square where art will be sold, a dance arena, as well as a swimming pool equipped with a sauna in between the hangars, The art part itself will be contributed by some of our favourite street artists from Berlin like Nomad, Various &Gold, Klub7, Bosso Fataka, Clemens Behr and many more. But to bring a fresh vibe to the creative output an open call ran before the festival to animate young artists to submit their ideas. Apart from all kinds of different street artists some very nice contemporary dancers round up the program with their perfomances. We think the Art Village is a wonderful way for Berliners and visitors to get to know the artistic subculture of this city a little better. So don’t just hang out in line for drinks and fries in between your favourite gigs or during music breaks but take your time to discover the Art Village. Photos of last year’s edition after the jump.
photos above: iHeartBerlin
last photo: Tape Over
