ART LABORATORY BERLIN, a non-profit organisation, was founded in Autumn 2006 as Art Laboratory Berlin e.V, .by an international team of art historians and artists. As a non-commercial art space, ART LABORATORY BERLIN was established as a platform for projects concentrating on the border between visual arts and related artistic and scholarly fields.

The main focus of interest is the exhibition and placement of contemporary visual art that interacts with other creative areas, which has already been realized in such exhibition series as "Art and Music", "Art and Text", "Art and Science" and "Art and Law". Each of these points of interaction is represented by a series of three or four diverse exhibitions. Our goal is to explore the manifold approaches of interaction and interconnection between genres. Our current and upcoming series are 'Time and Technology' and 'Synaesthesia'.

ART LABORATORY BERLIN is also interested in supporting contact between artists and the public as part of our exhibitions. To improve a better understanding of emerging and experimental art, we include public discussions with artists and curators. Additionally our program provides lectures, film screenings, curator's talks, and workshops.

Currently ART LABORATORY BERLIN is run by Christian de Lutz and Regine Rapp.
For more information please contact presse@artlaboratory-berlin.org.

The current team of Art Laboratory Berlin includes:

Christian de Lutz, Christian de Lutz is a visual artist and curator, from New York, working in photography, new media, video and installation. His artworks deal with social, political and cultural themes, with an emphasis on technology, migration and cultural borderlines. He has collaborated with artists and institutions in Germany, Spain and Southeast Europe as well as exhibiting in Europe, the USA and Japan. His curatorial work concentrates on the interface of art, science and technology in the 21st century.

Regine Rapp, art historian, is writing her PhD thesis in the spatial aesthetics of Installation Art of the 1990s at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She is an Assistant Professor at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle, where she teaches Art History and curatorial practice. Further fields of specialisation include image and text as well as Russian modern and contemporary art. She has worked in a number of museums worldwide, and currently gives lectures and tours at the Berlin State Museums. She is a member of the International Association on Word and Image Studies (IAWIS).

Olga Shmakova studied Art History at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow and is currently an MA candidate at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She previously studied at the Humboldt University in 2008-2009 as part of her project "The Search for an Ideal Artistic Language in the Russian Avant-garde and the German Bauhaus." In her studies she has been researching theater experiments of the sculptural avant-garde of the 1920s in Russia and Germany. She worked as an intern at Art Laboratory Berlin from August - October 2010, and returned to our team in October 2011 as assistant curator.

Kerstin Karge studied architecture at the Art Academy Berlin Weißensee. Since 2003 she has worked in the field of cultural management for Eigen + Art Berlin, forabilidi, arttransponder und Art Laboratory Berlin among others. She is a co-founder of BIOS (Bürgerinitiative Oderberger Straße) und co-initiator and coordinatior of the Network of Berlin Art Project Spaces and Initiatives.

Filipa Rolaça studied Marketing and Advertising at School of Communication and Media Studies, Lisbon, and she is studying Artistic Studies: Compared Arts and Cultures at the Lisbon University. She has worked as cultural management assistant at La Morue Noire and Escale du Livre, in Bordeaux. She has also collaborated with ControversasIdeias, an artistic association based in Portugal. She attended a Cultural Management workshop at Circulo de Bellas Artes, in Madrid. At Art Laboratory Berlin she is currently working in fundraising for 2012 projects.

Rola Khayyat is a visual artist from Lebanon, working in photography and painting, and now living in Berlin. She studied History at the American University of Beirut and figurative art at the Florence Academy of Art, as well as contemporary art at Metafora in Barcelona. She is currently developing a body of work on war-child memory and nostalgia, as well as assisting ongoing projects at Art Laboratory Berlin.

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