A 24-hour soft ice cream machine will be set up at GROTTO, inviting all participants of the Project Space Festival and the neighbourhood to come by for a vegan soft ice cream during the day and through the night. The hourly changing ‘ice cream dispensers’ are all artists and cultural practitioners and will be happy to talk about their individual practice in parallel to the ice cream production - questions are warmly welcome! In front of the space, there are also always individual positions to discover and the ‘performances’ taking place at different times can be attended while eating ice cream. In this way, the trivial becomes the main thing and the exchange while eating ice cream together takes centre stage. A place for dialogue and a reward after a long day - no matter when it starts or ends. 

Project Spaces are no walk in the park, this campaign is a thank you to all those who take on this task. Hard life soft ice <3

GROTTO is an independent space for contemporary art and culture in the Hansaviertel (Berlin), embedded in the listed ensemble of IBA 57, the International Building Exhibition of 1957 - a kind of Disneyland of modernity and utopian testing ground for social, cultural and ecological concepts of the post-war period. The GROTTO programme includes exhibitions, performances and readings.

The programme started with the exhibition ‘16 Hintergleisflächen’ by Stefan Marx: for the whole month of January, there were no advertisements at Hansaplatz underground station, but art on the billboards behind the tracks. Free, open around the clock, barrier-free and low-threshold - the group would like to see more of that and will continue to campaign for art in public spaces in the future.