About

BPA facilitates exchange between emerging and experienced Berlin-based artists, through coordinated studio visits and meetings.

BPA does not have a fixed location – activity is concentrated in the studios of the artists involved with the program. Participants meet with a core group of mentors and a wider group of guest mentors. Twice a month participants present their work in concentrated one-on-one visits in their own studios, followed by a group discussion in a mentor’s studio. A participation cycle lasts two years, always from January to December. The program initiates several public-facing events per year. BPA does not charge fees to participants, and offers them a grant to produce new work.

For BPA 2020 marks the beginning of partnerships with KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Gropius Bau. From February 2020 on KW hosts BPA Talks: three afternoons of public presentations by participants and mentors. In April 2021 a group exhibition in the series BPA Exhibitions will be staged at KW.  In the fall of 2020 BPA at Gropius Studios enables BPA participants to test and present their work during a three month working period at Martin-Gropius-Bau.