00:00We are at the booth of Förderkurie. Now Ralf Schmidt, the owner of Förderkurie, will explain what does it mean, Förderkurie.
00:11Well, Förderkurie relates to a very small space in our private flat.
00:18And from 1998 till 2005 it was a very small space inside the private flat where we were living.
00:24And also we were organizing exhibitions and through this connection of living and exhibiting a kind of semi-public space came into being.
00:33And it was a quite familiar atmosphere inside this private flat.
00:40So the sometimes alienated gallery hopper could hardly escape and found him or herself at our kitchen table just for a talk.
00:47So it was a, comparing to Mauricio Catalan's project, the wrong gallery, it wasn't the wrong gallery, it was more a factory edel gallery in the center of Berlin.
00:56And then we moved out of the flat and I was thinking how to continue the project.
01:02And I decided, okay, now I make it inverse. I started to organize so-called home visits. You know, one home visit was also in Basel.
01:14That means that I now go inside private flats and together with the host of the Förderkurie and with a third person,
01:25we work out a specific presentation and also organize this presentation.
01:31And for example, in this booth, some of the artists I choose for home visits are on display.
01:40For example, Manfred Schneider with this big drawing and also there's a big drawing outside of the booth.
01:47And also Astrid Stricker, they took part in home visit number two, which happened at GLU in Berlin.
01:56Another example, which is a current example, is Kai Teichert with these paintings with these chips.
02:08He is currently on display in Vienna on home visit number four, which is still ongoing till the end of October.
02:17And also outside there is a large painting of my booth.
02:26It was quite funny because I had a German text and I took it to a translator and she suggested to say nurturing birth,
02:35but it's very, of course, very specific because I took it from the Art Cologne.
02:40And there was a description of this small situation in the private flat, so it's hard to translate it.
02:47But she suggested to say nurturing birth.
02:50You have a little bit more space here.
02:52A little bit, yes.
02:54Of course, it's not limited to the space.
02:59When I went out of the flat in Berlin from the old location of the Föder Quark,
03:05I was thinking about re-imitating this small space.
03:10But this is, of course, nonsense because it's not so much linked to the space.
03:14It's more linked to this specific situation, which I try to continue to produce.
03:20So it can be very large, of course, too.
03:23But...
