Preview Berlin, the Berlin-based platform to boost a young generation of emerging artists presented by international galleries and projects spaces, goes into its fourth round at its successful venue, Berlin's former city airport Tempelhof.
Preview Berlin, the emerging art fair organized by galleries for galleries, is the institution to promote young artists on their way up and set up networks with art lovers and collectors. Preview Berlin additionally offers various curated presentation formats, including the successful Video Art Program, and the new formats Performance Art Day and Blue Room Series.

This year, the former Hangar2 at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport will again be transformed into the buzzing exhibition site of Berlin's most successful art fair for emerging arts.
At the time Tempelhof was built, it was the largest and most modern airport in the world. Now the striking location of Hangar2 offers more than 4,200 sqm to present 57 galleries and an additional of 600 sqm gallery space. Here in the gallery space, the Video Box and the curated Blue Room, as well as the Preview Lounge, which will be generously furnished by BoConcept (DK), are hosted. With Hangar2 at Tempelhof Airport, Preview Berlin found the perfect venue to mirror Berlin's vibrant and growing art scene as well as a long-term perspective for the fair's future.

57 galleries from 11 countries will be presented at Preview Berlin 2008. The jury's criteria for the selection of these up-and-coming galleries were two: quality, as well as the courage to take risks by early presentation of new trends.

A new generation of Berlin galleries, as well as galleries from Denmark, France, the rest of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, and the United States will prove that Preview Berlin is the platform for an emerging scene of artists and art professionals.

DENMARK: Beaver Projects, Copenhagen. Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen. LARMgalleri, Valby. FRANCE: Ilka Bree, Bordeaux. chantiers Boîte Noire, Montpellier. L.J. BEAUBOURG, Paris. GERMANY: Apply Softly, Berlin. Ard Bia Berlin, Berlin. artfinder, Hamburg. artMbassy, Berlin. ASPN, Leipzig. baer, Dresden. Nikolaus Bischoff, Lahr. DUVE, Berlin. Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe. Hartwich Rügen, Sellin. Invaliden1, Berlin. Jarmuschek und Partner, Berlin. Kaune, Sudendorf, Cologne. KOMET, Berlin. Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin. KraskaEckstein, Bremen. KUNSTAGENTEN, Berlin. KUTTNER SIEBERT, Berlin. loop - raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin. Martin Mertens, Berlin. Metro, Berlin. MyVisit, Berlin. NICE & FIT, Berlin. Emmanuel Post, Leipzig. Rasche Ripken, Berlin. RUZICSKA///WEISS, Duesseldorf. Spesshardt & Klein, Berlin. Stedefreund, Berlin. Steinle Contemporary, Munich. tinderbox, Hamburg. Emmanuel Walderdorff, Cologne. Wendt+Friedmann, Berlin. GREAT BRITAIN: Fred, London. The International 3, Manchester. GREECE: Qbox, Athens. IRELAND: Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. ISRAEL: Dollinger, Tel Aviv. TheHeder, Tel Aviv. ITALY: Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan. Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo. NETHERLANDS: Aschenbach & Hofland, Amsterdam. West, The Hague. ROMANIA: H'art, Bucharest. IVAN, Bucharest. SPAIN: DF, Santiago de Compostela. SWITZERLAND: Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern. Römerapotheke, Zurich. USA: David Castillo, Miami. Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York. Mixed Greens, New York.
(last updated: June 24, 2008)

For the first time Preview Berlin will launch Performance Art Day as a platform for young performance artists based in Berlin. Florian Feigl, curator, performance artist and initiator of "Performer Stammtisch", will present Berlin as a hub and point of transition for the international performance art scene. He has invited Jörn J. Burmester (D), Sian Robinson Davies (UK), plan b - Sophia New (UK) & Daniel Belasco Rogers (UK), Miles Chalcraft (UK), Dariusz Kostyra (PL), Henrik Vestergaard Friis (DK), Ellen Friis (DK), and Camilla Graff Junior (DK) to conceive exclusively for Preview Berlin site specific performances that will take place throughout October 30th in the grounds of Preview Berlin.

Preview Berlin wants to promote young professional curators and artists living in Berlin, one of the most active and exciting places for contemporary art production in the world. Preview Berlin - The Blue Room Series will every year invite young Berlin-based curators and artists to create an installation for a blue-painted room of 60 sqm at the gallery of Hangar2. This year's curator and art historian Lotte Møller (DK) will present the artist Søren Lose (DK). Inspired by the airports impressive architecture and tangled history, Søren Lose will create exclusively for Preview Berlin a room installation in the Blue Room based on a mix between comprehensive historical research and architectural elements from science-fiction movies. This year The Blue Room has been made possible with the generous support of Taekker Immobilienverwaltung GmbH (DK).

Preview Berlin - The Emerging Art Fair was launched in 2005 based on an initiative by Berlin gallery owners: Kristian Jarmuschek (Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner), Tobias Kuttner (KUTTNER SIEBERT), Rüdiger Lange (loop - raum für aktuelle kunst) and the artist Ralf Schmitt (MyVisit formerly Förderkoje®). The organisers objective is to present ambitious, young art, still in its early stage, to the international art scene.

Schedule:
October 30 - November 2, 2008
October 29, 2008: Opening Reception: 6 p.m.
October 30, 2008: Performance Art Day
Video Box and Blue Room: open all day