Cross-over Generations | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Cross-over Generations | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

This is the way art exhibitions should be, right? The perfect meeting place of artwork, guestlists, free alcohol-laced booze (this time in the form of frozen vodka shots), gallerists, artists, collectors all milling around drunk, sore legged, a mammoth walk to the toilet, desultory talk of sales trends, art trends, what-openings-were-good...

This is the hugely successful Forgotten Bar Project. During the summer months the artist Tjorg Beer and his counterpart Maike Cruse, formerly of Kunst-Werke, Berlin got together and worked out of the Galerie im Regierungsviertel on the momentous project: ’62 Days, 58 Shows, 212 Artists’. All this number munching effort happening in the tiny space of a blocked-off sliver of a room on Schönleinstrasse in Kreuzberg. One would turn up and join the huddle of artists and other art-goers blocking the footpath, step inside, via a big, makeshift step, into the narrow bar. A counter, some booze, some art on the walls…Here, during July and August they held the mammoth series of exhibitions – an opening every night – the place serving as much as a meeting place for the city’s countless artists as well as a freestyle space allowing a programme of new work.

Tonight Cross-over Generations at The Forgotten Bar the evening is hosted by Nabuurs&VanDoorn who invited Lior Shamriz, Sebastian Bodirsky, Donna Huanca, Maria Chavez, and Roy Minten to join them.