Filiale is a cooperation between Galerie Conrads (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Galerie Römerapotheke (Zürich, Switzerland). Both galleries will each show exhibitions with their respective artists, but there will also be curated shows and group shows. Furthermore, fas (Fotografie am Schiffsbauerdamm), the Berlin School of Photography, will be given time and space to present one or two photo shows per anno. Interview with the director of Galerie Conrads, Helga Weckop-Conrads. September 30, 2006. By VTV correspondent Christan Asbach. Corresponding video: Scary Tales / Inaugural exhibition at Filiale, Berlin.
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00:00 So, may I ask you to introduce yourself and to tell me about the opening we are celebrating tonight?
00:07 Yeah, sure. We are really very pleased that we are here on Brunnenstrasse,
00:13 where it's really the center of the youngest, hottest art in Berlin.
00:18 And it came up only in July that we did this cooperation with Römer Apotheke from Zurich.
00:26 And it's a perfect place for us because we have a very close relationship with the art schools in Dresden,
00:33 in Düsseldorf and in other places in Germany.
00:36 And we like to present the very youngest, hottest, newest positions in Berlin.
00:42 Of course, we continue working in Düsseldorf with our friends since a long time,
00:50 like Katharina Große or Bert Streuli or other artists we are cooperating with.
00:56 But we like to have this space to promote the newest and freshest young people.
01:03 And can you tell me a word about this cooperation here of the three different institutions that work together in this space?
01:11 In this space, Filiale? Yeah, sure. It's two things coming together.
01:18 Both Römer and we, we like to spend time in Berlin.
01:23 We are very busy in our hometowns, Düsseldorf and Zurich.
01:27 And it's a perfect way to share a space by alternating, doing alternating shows.
01:35 And only in September, when the season opens, we do a curated project.
01:40 And this time, Walter, my husband, who is trained as an artist and art historian,
01:45 he decided to do the show Scary Tales, which is about the individual in social context
01:52 and different ways to deal with it and how the people feel.
01:57 And they feel somehow strange, of course, as you can see.
02:01 But we are not scared.
02:04 Thank you very much. Happy to welcome you in Berlin.
02:07 Thanks.