Introducing NEWEAST at BAW Garten

17.09.2023 . 1pm
BAW Garten at the Neuen Nationalgalerie

Presentation of the Neweast Network for Central and Eastern European Art and the digital platform

www.neweast.art

www.berlinartweek.de

On its digital platform NEWEAST features exhibition houses, project spaces and cultural institutions and mainly focuses on two aspects. On the one hand, the digital platform contains an interactive map of cultural locations that is linked to a newsfeed in which the members of the network can independently advertise events and grants. On the other hand, there is a blog in which Neweast continuously publishes interviews with artists and cultural actors around the topic of Eastern Europe.
Introducing NEWEAST at BAW Garten

Introducing NEWEAST : Panel Discussion & Launch

15.09. 2023 . 4 pm
at KVOST

www.neweast.art

For the launch of the NEWEAST platform, a panel discussion will explore the situation of art spaces in Eastern Europe. The participants will talk about the art scene in Eastern Europe and address the question of what motivates artists today to take matters into their own hands.

NEWEAST is a network that aims to connect cultural institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and increase their visibility.

Participants:
Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, curatorial team focusing on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Germany / Boyana Dzhikova (curator), Vikenti Komitski (artist), founder Punta and Postaspace in Sofia, Bulgaria / Yane Calovski (artist), founder press to exit in Skopje, Northern Macedonia / Marija Petrovic, KVOST and NEWEAST in Berlin, Germany
Introducing NEWEAST : Panel Discussion & Launch

Leipziger Strasse Openings . 13.09.2023 . 7pm

For the first time, six art spaces on Leipziger Strasse are opening their exhibitions at the same time. In addition to the galleries Galerie Thomas Schulte, Sweetwater and Shahin Zarinbal, the private collection Julia Stoschek Foundation, the project space Scherben and the Kunstverein KVOST are participating. 

In recent years, a neighborhood of art venues has settled around Leipziger Strasse. As a historically significant junction, it offers a unique context for the art exhibited here.

Visitors can enjoy proximity to locations and experience a variety of artworks over the course of one evening celebrating Berlin Art Week 2023.
Leipziger Strasse Openings . 13.09.2023 . 7pm

Nomination

KVOST is nominated for the
ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations 2023
17 art associations have been nominated this year

www.kunstvereine.de
Nomination

TALK : CLARA MOSCH

Thomas Ranft & Stephan Koal
26.07.2023 . 7 pm
Registration . post@kvost.de

KVOST is pleased to announce the artist talk with Thomas Ranft, member of the group and the curator Stephan Koal as part of the exhibition CLARA MOSCH and early art actions in the GDR.

Thomas Ranft (*1945 in Königsee) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1967-1972 and was co-founder and the name giver of the producers’ gallery Clara Mosch in 1977. Ranft, who was also known internally as “Obermosch,” was instrumental in the gallery’s program and the planning of numerous plein airs and actions.

The talk will be in German.
TALK : CLARA MOSCH