Supporting Program 2024

Zilkens Best Booth Award

In cooperation with our partner Zilkens Fine Art Switzerland, we will be presenting again the Zilkens Best Booth Award this year. This prize is awarded annually by a jury for the best presentation by a gallery at the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair Berlin. 

Winner 2024:
Galerie Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen
KodlContemporary, Prague

VBKI-PRIZE BERLIN GALLERIES 2024

An expert jury selected three galleries from the numerous applications for the VBKI Prize BERLINER GALERIEN, which was awarded this year for the eighth time by the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists (VBKI) and the Berlin Gallery Association (lvbg) and is endowed with 10,000 euros. The competition is generously supported by the Senate Department for Economics, Energy, and Public Enterprises.

Award Ceremony: Friday, 13 September, 4:45 pm
Plaza Hangar 6

HEUSSEN Perspectives Award

Award of the HEUSSEN Perspectives Young Artist Prize in cooperation with CAA Berlin to three young artists from the Academy POSITIONS programme.

Stand S08, Hangar 7

Award Ceremony: Saturday, 14 September, 12 noon
Stand S08, Hangar 7

Berlin Hyp Award

POSITIONS Berlin awards artists exhibiting at the fair to present their works in a solo show in cooperation with BERLIN HYP. 
In 2024, we will showcase new works by last year's award winner Anna Zachariades and Katia Lina Sternel in a special presentation.

Stand S09, Hangar 7

Award Ceremony: Saturday, 14 September, 2 pm
Plaza Hangar 6

Talks

Saturday, 14 September, 4 pm

Talk with the fair directors Heinrich Carstens and Kristian Jarmuschek with Jinhee Choi (Choi & Choi, Seoul/Cologne) about the art world in South Korea and Germany.

Hangar 6, Talk Lounge (behind Stand A01)

Spotlight on South Korea

As part of our focus on galleries from South Korea this year, we are presenting a curated special exhibition featuring works by four young and exceptional South Korean artists living in Germany. 

With works by Suah Im, Jeiryung Lee, Jaeyun Moon und Sol Namgung.

Stand S01, Hangar 6

Lal Batman

In a special exhibition, we are showcasing new works and an installation by the young Turkish artist Lal Batman (*2001, Bursa) in collaboration with the Anna Laudel Gallery (Düsseldorf, Istanbul, Bodrum).

Stand S03, Hangar 6

Academy POSITIONS by Berlin Hyp

POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair presents young contemporary artistic positions by graduates and students of German art academies. 

With Laura Mercedes Arndt, Sören Arp, Margareta Bartelmeß, David Behrens, Eric Beier, Fynn Bornemeier, Lorin Brockhaus, Lauriana Daphne Carl, Alanna Dongowski, Georges, Fabian Hiller, Louisa Marie Kaftan, Yoongyung Kang, Yena Kim, Daiki Kimoto, Sojeong Lee, Jonas Liesaus, Anne Pruy, Julia Roth, Daphne Schüttkemper, Gemma Sola Sotos, Laura Theurich, Rio Usui, Kurt von Bley, Maria Fabricius-Wendt, and Mio Zajac.

Stand S07, Hangar 7 

Selected POSITIONS / SOFACOMPANY-Lounge

With Selected POSITIONS at our SOFACOMPANY-Lounge we want to offer new collectors a start into the art market. With the slogan "Start Collecting with Positions", we present artworks that are in the lower price segment in a curated exhibition.

Stand S06, Hangar 7

NFT POSITIONS by Upframe

With the kind support of Upframe and in collaboration with Galerie Greulich and Ratata Gallery, Frankfurt we present selected works of digital art in this curated exhibition.

Stand S02, Hangar 6

Fashion POSITIONS

With this special project, we present selected Berlin fashion designers who, at the interface between art and fashion, stage the aesthetic signature of their labels in the context of and in exchange with art. 

Hangar 7

Artima POSITIONS

Mannheimer Versicherung AG is committed to artists who are worth rediscovering or seeing anew. This year, in cooperation with mianki.Gallery, Berlin, we present the artist HALFA (Detlef Halfa, 1950-2006) in a special exhibition.

Stand S04, Hangar 7