21.07.2022
Released in Berlin Bubble on July 21, 2022
Every week we introduce personalities from Berlin and ask them about city life, politics and culture. This week we have spoken with the lawyer Dr Pascal Decker. He offers “one-stop legal advice for the art market. This includes setting up foundations, company successions and artist market positionings. His clients include collectors, artists, galleries and museums, but also medium-sized entrepreneurs, associations and foundations.”
The ICC as a house of art – what has to happen for a good idea to become a concrete project?
There is still potential for development in many places, but only one "Gesamtkunstwerk" stands out among the places still to be developed. Not only as a lawyer for art and media law, but above all as a citizen, I am enthusiastic about a cultural reuse for the ICC in West Berlin. I have high hopes for the future from this building, which still looks futuristic and has all the possible spatial and even technical requirements. With the ICCA, a project group, Sebastian Pflum developed the concept with which the building can become a contemporary art and culture all-rounder: theatre, dance, cinema, museum, art and design exhibitions, music, restaurants... I think so great for Berlin - and it's also economically viable! The ICC is the exciting future-oriented major project for Berlin on a world level! It would offer West Berlin a new cultural center, a counterbalance to the Museumsinsel and the Humboldt Forum. So Berlin should be brave and implement the concept for the benefit of all.
What can the German art scene (artists, collectors, gallery owners, actors) do to support Ukrainian artists?
Not only in Berlin, but in many places, art enthusiasts and institutions have supported Ukrainian artists and support them in their work. I can think of numerous foundation projects that achieve incredible things. Many art associations also made their networks available and offered help in providing workshops and studios, there were special exhibitions and auctions in galleries and auction houses for the benefit of or with the participation of Ukrainian artists. There was a great wave of solidarity among the artists across countries. The big open topic is still how to protect cultural assets from war damage, so we must continue to think about how we can protect cultural treasures in the long term and prevent them from falling victim to this war on site.
What is your favorite place in town?
For me, a special place of peace and spiritual energy is the Herz Jesu church on Fehrbelliner Strasse on the border between Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Though unassuming from the outside, almost somber, this neo-Moorish-style barrel-vaulted church with mosaic lining is a resting place, an island amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city.
21.07.2022
Released in Berlin Bubble on July 21, 2022
Every week we introduce personalities from Berlin and ask them about city life, politics and culture. This week we have spoken with the lawyer Dr Pascal Decker. He offers “one-stop legal advice for the art market. This includes setting up foundations, company successions and artist market positionings. His clients include collectors, artists, galleries and museums, but also medium-sized entrepreneurs, associations and foundations.”
The ICC as a house of art – what has to happen for a good idea to become a concrete project?
There is still potential for development in many places, but only one "Gesamtkunstwerk" stands out among the places still to be developed. Not only as a lawyer for art and media law, but above all as a citizen, I am enthusiastic about a cultural reuse for the ICC in West Berlin. I have high hopes for the future from this building, which still looks futuristic and has all the possible spatial and even technical requirements. With the ICCA, a project group, Sebastian Pflum developed the concept with which the building can become a contemporary art and culture all-rounder: theatre, dance, cinema, museum, art and design exhibitions, music, restaurants... I think so great for Berlin - and it's also economically viable! The ICC is the exciting future-oriented major project for Berlin on a world level! It would offer West Berlin a new cultural center, a counterbalance to the Museumsinsel and the Humboldt Forum. So Berlin should be brave and implement the concept for the benefit of all.
What can the German art scene (artists, collectors, gallery owners, actors) do to support Ukrainian artists?
Not only in Berlin, but in many places, art enthusiasts and institutions have supported Ukrainian artists and support them in their work. I can think of numerous foundation projects that achieve incredible things. Many art associations also made their networks available and offered help in providing workshops and studios, there were special exhibitions and auctions in galleries and auction houses for the benefit of or with the participation of Ukrainian artists. There was a great wave of solidarity among the artists across countries. The big open topic is still how to protect cultural assets from war damage, so we must continue to think about how we can protect cultural treasures in the long term and prevent them from falling victim to this war on site.
What is your favorite place in town?
For me, a special place of peace and spiritual energy is the Herz Jesu church on Fehrbelliner Strasse on the border between Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Though unassuming from the outside, almost somber, this neo-Moorish-style barrel-vaulted church with mosaic lining is a resting place, an island amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city.