On their edges, these tiles reveal traces of the many layers of paint that served as backgrounds for the hanging of countless art works. When Bar Babette shut down, Maik Schierloh cut the exhibition wall into postcard-sized pieces (10.5 × 15 cm). His SECRET FRIENDS areTatjana Doll | Martin Eder | Eberhard Havekost | Gregor Hildebrandt | Andy Hope 1930 | Via Lewandowsky | Frank Nitsche | Andrea Pichl | Thomas Scheibitz | Heidi Specker | Thomas Zipp. Schierloh is now breathing new life into the spirit of Bar Babette in Wilhelmshaven. Berlin was thus stripped of one of its most original project spaces. After 15 years, the bar had to close, because the lease was not renewed. Above all, it was a place of ideas beyond commerce and art institutions. Much more than a pub, Babette was an art and cultural salon, hosting over 1,000 short-term exhibitions and concerts of all musical genres, literature, art book presentations and parties. In 2001 he co-founded the Autocenter project space, and from 2003 he turned Bar Babette, a former beauty salon on Karl-Marx-Allee, into a meeting place for artists. Born in Wilhelmshaven in 1968, Schierloh has long been an important contributor to Berlin‘s independent art scene. With SECRET FRIENDS, curator Maik Schierloh invites eleven artists to make visible an invisible network of friendships in Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven.
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