General Meeting in the Academie Lounge | Köthener Str. 44

Plakat rundbrief 11-2024

To the members of the bbk berlin: Save the date - 2024/11/06, 6 pm

Location: Academie Lounge
Köthener Str. 44, 10963 Berlin

Dear artists

The bbk berlin Board cordially invites you to this year's second general meeting on November 6. Severe budget cuts, and particularly drastic cuts to the cultural budget, are dominating public discourse in Berlin and the republic. We will report on the Board's work over the past few months, which has been very intensive, in the members' magazine. The new Board members have also attended already many meetings.

Please save the date!

We propose the following agenda:

Agenda

Intro:           Keynote speech by Phương Thúy Nguyễn

  • Item 1: Opening and welcome
  • Item 2: Determination of the quorum in accordance with § 9 of the statutes of the association
  • Item 3: Election of a meeting chair and a recorder
  • Item 4: Report of the Board
  • Item 5: Discussion of item 4
  • Item 6: Approval of the appointment of Wibke Behrens as Managing Director 
  • Item 7: Proposal ‘Realisation of an annual exhibition opportunity’ by Peter Berresheim 
  • Item 8: Aob / Miscellaneous

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Keynote speech by Phương Thúy Nguyễn

Who is here? Who is missing? Why? Who can be an artist, who can't? If this space, if art is a mirror of society, what do they reflect to us?

In the keynote speech, Phương Thúy Nguyễn (she/ - ) will present working approaches and different formats that encourage us to critically reflect on our positions and involvement in social power relations. Based on her own work in the anti-discrimination and diversity-oriented educational landscape, Thúy will present concrete offers for individuals, groups and organisations. These include, for example, workshops, training courses as well as process and organisational development, which invite participants to engage in self-reflection and exchange, develop a critical attitude and take away impulses for action for everyday life and their own practice. Attendees will get a taste of this on site.

Phương Thúy Nguyễn (she/ - ) is a freelance researcher, educational counsellor, artist and cultural worker with East German-Vietnamese connections. Phương Thúy Nguyễn co-founded 
the Werdauer Initiative against Racism (W.I.R.) in 2016. She is also part of the film and media collective ‘Spill the Ts’.

As a political educator, she works for LAG pokubi Sachsen, ufuq, mediale pfade etc. and has, for example, organised a multi-part workshop on the oral history project Archiv der Flucht (Archive 
of Flight) in collaboration with the HKW with a school class. Thúy also worked on the online archive and exhibition De-Zentralbild in 2022-23. With which she curated, organised and implemented the event series Ostdeutsche Migrationsgeschichte(n) (East German Migration History(ies)) in four East German cities in 2023-24 in cooperation with the bpb. As a community organiser and researcher, Thúy was also involved in the HKW exhibition Echos der Bruderländer (Echoes of the Brother Countries).

Phương Thúy Nguyễn lives and works in Berlin and East Germany.

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Item 7: Proposal to the General Meeting

The realisation of an annual exhibition opportunity where the artists in the bbk berlin can present one of their works. 

  1. Proposal for a vote: The ‘early’ realisation of an annual exhibition opportunity, if possible, in which the artists in the bbk berlin can present one of their works.
  2. Proposal for a vote: If the first proposal is accepted, a short survey (possibly by e-mail) should be sent to all 3,000 members in the hope that the broad base of members will give the Board strong support.
  3. Proposal for a vote: To provide support, a working group is to be formed in the near future to formulate the many basic principles and procedures together with the Board.

Explanation:

  1. How many of the 3,000 are economically well provided by galleries and other artistic activities and therefore have no interest in this?
  2. Isn't it finally time to organise an annual exhibition opportunity for the many others, where at least some of the artists in the bbk berlin are presented? 
  3. Wouldn't a short survey to all 3,000 be a good start in order to clarify this topic and to find an entry point in the first place, or why is our Board repeatedly afraid to tackle this topic?  Referring to the communal galleries as exhibition opportunities is too transparent. 

Applicant: Peter Berresheim