Studio Visit by Monika Baer at Studio Maria Anna Bierwirth, April 2016
Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Studio Talk at Studio Wolfgang Tillmans, April 2017
Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Xiaopeng Zhou, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, BPA// Exhibition 2021, Installation View, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2021.
Courtesy the artists; Photo: Frank Sperling
Videoart at Midnight, BPA// Summer Special, Babylon Kino Berlin, August 2019, Photo: Willem de Rooij
Anton Steenbock, Blühende Landschaften, exhibition view, BPA at Gropius Studios, Gropius Bau Berlin, 2020. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, SOUL, 2022. Installation view of the exhibition BPA// Exhibition 2022 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; courtesy the artist; photo: Frank Sperling
Doireann O’Malley, Prototype II: The Institute for the Enrichment of
Computer Aided Post Gendered Prototypes (2015), Installation View, BPA// Raum, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Eric Bell
Studio Visit by Monika Baer at Studio Maria Anna Bierwirth, April 2016
Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Studio Talk at Studio Wolfgang Tillmans, April 2017
Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Xiaopeng Zhou, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, BPA// Exhibition 2021, Installation View, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2021.
Courtesy the artists; Photo: Frank Sperling
Videoart at Midnight, BPA// Summer Special, Babylon Kino Berlin, August 2019, Photo: Willem de Rooij
Anton Steenbock, Blühende Landschaften, exhibition view, BPA at Gropius Studios, Gropius Bau Berlin, 2020. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Eric Bell
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, SOUL, 2022. Installation view of the exhibition BPA// Exhibition 2022 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; courtesy the artist; photo: Frank Sperling
Doireann O’Malley, Prototype II: The Institute for the Enrichment of
Computer Aided Post Gendered Prototypes (2015), Installation View, BPA// Raum, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Eric Bell
BPA// Berlin program for artists is an independent mentoring program that facilitates exchange between emerging and established Berlin-based artists. Founded in 2016 by artists Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij, BPA// organizes reciprocal studio visits, public events and exhibitions.
BPA// supports 20 emerging artists for a period of two years. Annually 10 new participations are selected by a jury of Berlin artists and other experts. Core mentors include Saâdane Afif, Yalda Afsah, Monika Baer, Mariana Castillo Deball, Bouchra Khalili, Thomas Locher, Olaf Nicolai, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Each year they are joined by by over 50 changing guest mentors.
KW and BPA// are partners since 2020. Each year they collaborate on an of BPA// participants’ works. In 2020/21 BPA// Talks, a public lecture series featuring BPA// participants and mentors took place at KW.
BPA// Berlin program for artists is funded by the Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion.