LUCKENWALDE.- E-WERK Luckenwalde is a new Kraftwerk and Kunstzentrum in Brandenburg spanning 10,000m2.

E-WERK Luckenwalde simultaneously produces and supplies renewable Kunststrom (art power) to the national grid and presents a bi-annual contemporary art programme. As a functioning sculpture, multipurpose tool and dynamic site of production, each floor is tailored to the energy and art programme, which encompasses a first floor contemporary art centre, ground floor production site with several fully equipped workshops, and affordable artist studios on the third and fourth floors.

“After discussing environmental concerns for many years, now is the time to take action, so it is with great pleasure to make concrete change by reopening E-WERK Luckenwalde. We seek to reach beyond the contemporary art world by feeding art-powered electricity into the grid; fusing function with metaphor by connecting electricity with art. After all, energy is the purest metaphor for art there is! E-WERK Luckenwalde is a pioneering example of how cultural institutions can take action against the ecological issues of our future. We are thrilled to unveil the first bi-annual programme of E-WERK Luckenwalde, which will uniquely produce a new form of electricity and present works by some of the most exciting contemporary artists working today. ‘Kunststrom’ echoes E-WERK Luckenwalde’s desire to implement effective socio-political change through interdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation.”

Kunststrom 14 September 2019 – 28 March 2020
Kunststrom brings eleven international artists together to reflect on the utopian possibilities of energy, autonomy and production through an interdisciplinary programme of commissions, exhibitions, performances and events.

Through an active and functional programme, Kunststrom addresses certain inalienable truths of our changing industrial world with progressive optimism by identifying how culture, action and collaboration can actively build social consciousness and mobilise socio-political change. Set against the background of worldwide political turmoil in 2019 and the building’s history, which since 1913 has witnessed extreme ideological upheaval, Kunststrom unites contemporary art, industry and energy into a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ and seeks to challenge nihilism by offering a radical, international and optimistic vision of the future.