Encounter with art and artists
To enable the production of art and cultural offerings, the Flensburg Robbe & Berking Yard, with the patronage of Schleswig Holstein’s Minister for Education, Science and Culture, and Flensburg’s Mayor dedicates 1,800 m2 of exhibition space to 60 selected artists. Sculptors, painters, graphic artists, selected artisans from all disciplines will finally be able to talk to art lovers and present and sell their latest works after the lockdown due to the coronavirus.
The curators of this art exhibition, which is certainly unusual for the region, are Dr Thomas Gädeke, former director of the Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, and Oliver Berking, founder and owner of Robbe & Berking Yard. The participating artists are from Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin and the whole of Northern Germany. Some will move their studio to the shipyard and work on-site for the duration of the exhibition. With this unusually large variety of works, KUNST SCHAFFEN 2020 wants to present a small overview of northern German art, especially in Corona times. In order to document the common interest in the well-being of the North German art and culture scene, the head of the cultural office of Flensburg City Hall will move his desk to Robbe & Berking between the easels and workbenches, as will the department head for culture at the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher.
The yard’s safety and hygiene concept are also exceptional. Oliver Berking: “The primary goal of the safety and hygiene concept is, of course, to ensure that visitors and artists keep a sufficient distance from each other. We designed the entire exhibition floor like a large chessboard, in addition to many other measures, so that everyone has a feeling for the distance to the next. In addition to a face mask, each guest receives a pair of white silversmith gloves for the visit and can therefore take on any work in which they are interested. To avoid queues at the cash register, we will refrain from entering these weeks.”
