Artini 2024 & 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. A vacant shop unit and a listed building were to be given temporary new life.
Brief and approach
An interdisciplinary team from the city, curation and artists developed the temporary art bar artini as a repeatable format. In 2024 it took over a three-storey shop unit in the Karlsruhe pedestrian zone, in 2025 a listed building in Rheinstetten, each running alongside art Karlsruhe.
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.
- Client
- Stadt Rheinstetten (2025)
- Location
- Karlsruhe pedestrian zone (2024), Rheinstetten (2025)
- Period
- 21 to 24 February 2024 & 19 to 23 February 2025
- Curation
- Sabine Adler, Norina Quinte