Altar Berlin

Altar Berlin is a ritual for the collective exploration of loss and memory. Altar Berlin is an interactive and participatory installation. Artists and Berliners build the Altar together. It is a point of reflection in the city on how we – the inhabitants of Berlin – deal with our losses.

History
Altar Berlin was born as a sister project of Altaar Antwerpen (Belgium). Altar Antwerp was initiated in 2011 by the Mestizo Arts Platform and is now part of the collection of the MAS | Museum aan de Stroom (Belgium) where it is constantly being developed and presented anew every year.

The idea of the altar for the cities was conceived by the dramaturg Gerardo Salinas Salinas (KVS Theater Belgium, MAP). Together with Lucila Guichon, the first Altar was developed in 2011 and built in cooperation with the Mexican Embassy. Every year artists from different disciplines are engaged and in this way new elements are added to the altar year after year.

Altar Berlin stations:

Station Michelangelo

Station Marktplatz

Station Planetarium

Station KMH

Station Pandemic Films

Station Intervention

Station Sprachcafé Polnisch

Station Rathaus Pankow