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Praxen der Umverteilung

Panel discussion (de) with Verena Issel, Mareice Kaiser, Martina Witte, and a contribution by Jelka Plate

Moderation: Jacqueline Saki Aslan
Venue: Berlinische Galerie Auditorium

Within the field of art, precariously living artists meet rich collectors, and artists with an educated, bourgeois background meet those from working-class families. At the same time, individual backgrounds are rarely discussed, since it is ostensibly only the quality of the art that should count. Yet the fact remains that who has access to funding, who inherits, or who has attained cultural capital decidedly affects the conditions under which one works and how or whether someone becomes visible.

The event will begin with a contribution by Jelka Plate: in her work etwas verdienen [earning something], she describes how coming into the privilege of inheritance disturbed her own self-understanding as an artist. Afterwards, the question of how privilege can be redistributed will be discussed. Guests include the artist Verena Issel, who demands more transparency in financial matters; Mareice Kaiser, who in her current book writes about people with very little money, people with a lot of money, and people who fall somewhere in between; as well as Martina Witte, who instigated a redistribution account within the autonomous “Prololesben” [Prole-Lesbian] initiative in the 1990s.