THE OFFICE seeks to create, facilitate and produce projects of contemporary culture. Based in Berlin, THE OFFICE does not dispose of a permanent location - neither in the city itself nor does it limit its activities to a particular place.
Rather, it occupies empty spaces throughout Berlin that it uses for some months or possibly only a week.
THE OFFICE wants flexibility and reacts to the city's changes and development, each project's specific necessities and, simply, uses opportunities to moor for a while. The goal is to re-discover the city, to channel and transmit information, and provide space for discursive thinking in constantly changing settings.

THE OFFICE explores a model of collaboration and experimentation for artists, curators, writers and other cultural producers. It is a network for receiving and developing projects, inventing and testing formats, while surrendering to the risk of failure as part of any creative process. Responding to a curatorial field that is increasingly preoccupied with institutional self-administration and maintaining bureaucratic structures,
THE OFFICE insists on independency while gathering forces to work together on temporary ventures into the arts.

Other than that, THE OFFICE also functions as a communication device for the projects made of each of its members out of THE OFFICE.

THE OFFICE are

Ellen Blumenstein
Katharina Fichtner
Maribel López
Kathrin Meyer