SUPER BIEN!

A GREENHOUSE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

Is this Berlin’s smallest gallery? Probably not, but surely one of the most iconic and exceptional: super bien! is a project space constructed from an ordinary greenhouse, that was initiated in 2006.

Situated in an open backyard in a residential street in Berlin, 24-hour public access allows projects to be viewed both day and night, its transparent walls are the sensitive skin of a fragile space. It offers the opportunity to explore how an artwork communicates with the environment in which it is exhibited.

Should the gallery be defined as a hermetically sealed space, separated from the everyday or should it engage directly with the world? The project aims to occupy the gray area between the notion of an enclosed museum and a concept of exhibition that allows and encourages public intervention. In this way, super bien! treats the architectural construction of the greenhouse gallery itself as an ideological framework which artists either embrace or negate. 

Currently shown at the super bien! greenhouse for contemporary art is the exhibition series ‘Related to Time’.