FREIRAUM

In the location's words:

FREIRAUM, a collaborative conception and work space for the arts and sciences, is made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund funding. Since its opening in January 2020, it has been used as an "artist run space" and operated by the Ben J. Riepe team. Located at Engelbertstraße 13 in Düsseldorf-Flingern, it is available free of charge for artists and their cooperation partners from administration, project management, dramaturgy or technology as well as scientists and advanced students with interfaces to the arts for working stays. With a co-working space with numerous workstations and a large and a smaller ATELIER, with 110 and 40 square meters, artists from the local, independent scene will find the opportunity for collaborative work in the research and conception phase as well as for the start of joint rehearsals. Smaller presentations and internal showings are also conceivable and feasible here.

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Our aim is to offer a protected co-working space for the arts, independent of a specific production, which catalyzes free encounters between the artistic genres, affiliated sciences and the various work areas with a flat hierarchical structure. In the spirit of artist empowerment, FREIRAUM is intended to be a place of opportunities to jointly pursue virulent questions of art and society: How can we overcome genre boundaries and think of new interdisciplinary concepts, how can we develop a common force and voice? How is it conceivable and feasible for art to have an impact on society? However, our collaborators are not only an active part of FREIRAUM for the intensive processing and discussion of these questions: rather, the offers made available in FREIRAUM should reflect the knowledge, ideas and visions of all participants. Everyone is invited to share their "superpower" so that the diverse skills of all participants can cross-fertilize each other and knowledge can expand within the independent scene.