Artini 2023–2025, an art bar as a vacancy format
A repeatable format with a fixed sequence that municipalities and property owners can commission directly.
Background
Vacant town-centre spaces need tested concepts for new use. Changing locations were to be temporarily reactivated in parallel with art Karlsruhe.
Brief and approach
An interdisciplinary team of curators, spatial planners and artists developed the temporary art bar artini several times, each running alongside art Karlsruhe. In 2023 in a former Covid testing station near Karlsruhe Central Station, in 2024 in a three-storey shop unit in the Karlsruhe pedestrian zone, in 2025 in a listed building in Rheinstetten.
Outcome
A meeting place for art audiences and the wider public. The 2025 edition presented more than 20 artistic positions in a site-specific exhibition with a wide-ranging supporting programme and involved local actors such as the Kunstverein.
- Client
- Stadt Rheinstetten (2025)
- Location
- Karlsruhe Central Station (2023), Karlsruhe pedestrian zone (2024), Rheinstetten (2025)
- Period
- in February 2023, 2024 and 2025
- Curatorial lead
- Norina Quinte
- Co-curation
- Sabine Adler, Anna-Lina Helsen, Carolin Heel