BERLIN.-Ami Barak, Paris, will be curating the special exhibition of the 12th Art Forum Berlin – the International Fair for Contemporary Art. “House Trip” focuses on the intimate relationship between art, architecture and design resulting from a growing artistic interest in modernism. The artists chosen for this show are dealing with the “home sweet home”, understand interior design as a personal landscape or architecture as desire and are investigating the more and more blurring boundaries between the private and the public.

Since 2002 Ami Barak is the Artistic Director of the Art Department of the City of Paris. After “M�moires du temps de l’immaturit�“, Paris 2004, and “Continental Breakfast, Memory (W)hole“ in Ljubljana in September 2005 he will, subsequently this year’s ‚trip’ to ART FORUM BERLIN, curate in 2008 „Re-Construction“ for the 3. Bucarest Biennale and „Modern Stories“ for Jerusalem.Ami Barak: “In the case of “House Trip” there is the clear will to carry out the idea of presenting the works of art in better conditions than a booth. This setting will stick close to the initial concept and will make so by a very large temporary house that is going to be built with a multitude of rooms hosting the pieces; the public will discover them through doors and windows. The visitors will not walk through alleys but corridors and will be brought to wander from one room to another.” “House Trip” will present 57 artists’ positions from 18 countries on merely 2000 square meters, in an industrial style hall adjacent to the Freestyle-Stand-Platform.

Next to room containing large scale installations there will be rooms of smaller, more intimate presentation, leading to a greater degree of internal reflection.With: Adel Abdessemed / Sa�dane Afif / Atelier van Lieshout / Maja Bajevic / Ulla von Brandenburg / Eric Brown / Mircea Cantor / Keren Cytter / Jan De Cock / Krijn de Koning / Marcelline Delbecq / G�tz Diergarten / J�rgen Drescher / Tim Eitel / Jean-Fran�ois Fourtou / Fabrice Gygi / Jitka Hanzlov� / Swetlana Heger / S�verine Hubard / Jim Isermann / Lisa Junghanss / Talia Keinan / Mark Kent / Peter Kogler / Susanne K�hn / Lamarche & Ovize / Marko Lehanka / Lucas Lenglet / Zilla Leutenegger / Anna Malagrida / Victor Man / Rita McBride / Wesley Meuris / Ivan Moudov / Shahryar Nashat / Warren Neidich / Fritz Panzer / Maria Pask / Katja Pfeiffer / Marjetica Potrč / Ricarda Roggan / RothStauffenberg / Vittorio Santoro / Yorgos Sapountzis / Bojan Šarčević / Gitte Sch�fer / Zineb Sedira / Miri Segal / Wael Shawki / Francesco Simeti / Markus Sixay / Veron Urdarianu / Els Vanden Meersch / Ina Weber / Franz West / Erwin Wurm / Joseph Zehrer.