INTERIORS TO BEING
 
A month of public happenings throughout Berlin in July 2019
 
interiorstobeing.org
 
Artistic Director: Pauline Doutreluingne
Managing Director: April Gertler
Curators: Conny Becker, Pauline Doutreluingne, April Gertler, Kaetha (hannah goldstein and Katja Haustein), Teena Lange, Lotte Møller
 
Contributing artists and curators: Uli Aigner, Courtney Asztalos, Bill Berger, Cynthia Bittenfield, Lemia Bodden, Lucile Bouvard, Marcus Brownlow, Andrew J. Burford, Nati Canto, Amanda Coimbra, Valentina Culley-Foster, Mark Curran, Jeremiah Day, Hannah Dougherty, Övül Durmusoglu, Catherine Evans, Fernanda Figueiredo, Elise Gardella, Ayala Gazit, Surya Gied, Rhys Himsworth, Brittney Hollinger, Kerstin Honeit, Ng Hui Hsien, Melanie Irwin, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Charlie Jouvet, Jesi Khadivi, Susanne Kohler, Teena Lange, Nancy McCormack, Lotte Møller, Bonaventure Ndikung, Hester Oerlemans, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Heiko Pfreundt, Piotr Pietrus, Ana Catarina Pinho, Lucy Powell, Fabiana Sala, Adrian Schiesser, Joachim Schmid, Aleks Slota, Sydney Southam, Stevie Southard, Henrik Strömberg, Emma Wolf-Haugh, Ilyn Wong, Grant Yarolin, Ella Ziegler
 
Graphic design: Basics09
 
Generously funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds / Creative Capital Fund.

INTERIORS TO BEING takes visitors and invited artists into an intimate encounter within the homes, gardens and streets of Berlin as well as the lives of strangers.
INTERIORS TO BEING spans time and space as a collective happening through the cityscape of Berlin. Six curators from Berlin have developed formats around the specifics of the work of a total of 51 artists and curators. The chosen formats range from traditional exhibitions, walks, salons and discussions to gatherings and performances.
The project unfolds over the course of the month of July in six chapters that flow into one another, occasionally overlapping. INTERIORS TO BEING expands radically outwards, realizing half of its projects in Berlin’s public space.
 
The city of Berlin is a partner of INTERIORS TO BEING as any curator or participating artists in the program would be. The cityscape functions anthropomorphically–with the city’s growth and continual change impacting the way artists move within it. INTERIORS TO BEING internalizes these changes through the framework of its community. All contributors to INTERIORS TO BEING are part of the extensive creative network of PICTURE BERLIN (founded in 2009, a not-for-profit artist initiated hybrid residency/art academy), which is a community made up of more than two hundred international artists and curators, two-thirds of whom are based in Berlin.
 
The red thread running through all events is the dérive, a term devised by Situationist Guy Debord to describe an aimless wandering through different urban environments that leads to the development of a psycho-geographical awareness. This concept beautifully sums up the way INTERIORS TO BEING works as a project in the city of Berlin.