Press Release KUNSTWELT BERLIN

Founded in 1999 the non-profit organization Kunstwelt e.V. Berlin, in short KUNSTWELT BERLIN, provides public forums and hosts cultural events.
Major current activities of this organization include art projects such as THE PATH OF VISIONARIES und THE BERLIN ORACLE as well as the EUROPAFESTIVAL - BERLIN and the Neighbourhood Management at Mehringplatz, Berlin.

The activities are closely linked to social work and construction measures aimed at reviving and improving the respective areas.

KUNSTWELT BERLIN creates city spaces in a unique way. By linking together architecture, space, landscapes, light, objects, people, movement and communication, KUNSTWELT BERLIN makes use of the social and economic components of art as well as of the artistic components of social and economic activities.

Exhibitions, educational events, art projects and festivities are additions to this rural development art project.

Since 2000 KUNSTWELT BERLIN holds a permanent exhibition of the art projects on Friedrichstras-se 4 in Berlin, entitled "Place of Ideas".

Since 2005 KUNSTWELT BERLIN runs the Neighbourhood Management at Mehringplatz.
Integration projects involving local residents strengthen communication, the sense of identification and responsibility in the neighbourhood. 

Since 2006 the city art project PATH OF VISIONARIES revitalizes the southern part of Berlin's Fried-richstrasse.

Furthermore, since 2006, the EUROPAFESTIVAL - BERLIN is taking place there yearly.

In May 2008 the PATH OF VISIONARIES in conjunction with the III. EUROPAFESTIVAL - BERLIN 08, will be completed with the installation of a background lighting.

"The social dimension of culture is essential for creating European identity and for advancing the process of co-existence among Europeans."*

* Taken from the guidelines of the European Economic and Social Committee.