SALON POPULAIRE
BÜLOWSTRASSE 90 • 10783 BERLIN
U1 KURFÜRSTENSTRASSE • U2 BÜLOWSTRASSE • U7 YORCKSTRASSE
OPENING • 09 APRIL 2011 • 8 pm
EXHIBITION • 10 APRIL 2011 • 2-7 pm
MASA BERLIN is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
MASA SPREAD YOURSELF! Masa is the Turkish word for table and simultaneously provides the title for the mobile and independent exhibition space MASA BERLIN. It is an alterable table vitrine, which appeared for the first time in 2006. Its origins lie in Istanbul, where it was initiated by artist Vahit Tuna as a space for contemporary art. Tuna’s MASA has to this date presented appr. 40 independent exhibitions at always changing locations in Istanbul. In 2011, MASA multiplied and starting from April its offspring will invade Berlin’s artistic and urban landscape. Accommodated by self-organized non-profit art spaces, bookshops and theaters, MASA BERLIN will also occupy the street, public and semi-public spaces. In-between-space itself, MASA – a table set with art – will appear in in-between-spaces, attest them, open up a dialogue and simply embody the notion of hospitality.
MASA BERLIN - BEING HOSTED AS THE HOST To invite has a twofold meaning in Hebrew and means additional to its conventional use also »to make time«. The notion of double hospitality, triggered via its peregrination and its halt at the most different locations, will be framed by a condensed and focused two-day exhibition format.