PASSAGE is a curatorial platform founded in May 2024 with the opening of an exhibition space inside Berlin’s Hermannplatz U-Bahn station. Inspired by Lucio Amelio’s legendary Pièce Unique gallery in Paris, PASSAGE began as a radical project to display art directly in public space. Since its inception, it has presented a new solo exhibition each month in the Hermannplatz station.
Located on the U7 platform (Gleis 2, direction Spandau), artworks are installed in a glass container embedded in the original station architecture, adjacent to the escalator connecting to the U8 platform. By activating space as a medium, PASSAGE explores the outer edges of contemporary art through site-specific presentations that engage directly with their environment.
What started as a subway-based art intervention is now evolving into a media-independent curatorial platform that presents work in unexpected places. PASSAGE is instinctive and independent. We exhibit both emerging and established artists based purely on our interests, without representing them in the traditional sense. This allows us the freedom to collaborate with artists we admire across disciplines.
Each exhibition is developed in close dialogue with the artists, with curatorial attention extending to texts, documentation, and archiving, all considered integral components of the project.
Curated by Victor Auberjonois & Konrad Biedenkopf
PASSAGE does not accept unsolicited submissions from artists.