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 1989 Paris, PASSAGE began as a radical project to display art directly in public space.
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 medium agnostic curatorial platform that presents art in unexpected places.
PASSAGE is instinctive and independent. It exhibits both emerging and established artists based purely on interests, without represention in the traditional sense. This allows the freedom to collaborate with admired artists 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.
Alongside its exhibition program, PASSAGE operates a multidisciplinary art residency at Schloss Willebadessen, a former Benedictine convent founded in 1149 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Each summer, the residency hosts three cohorts of artists.
Curated by Victor Auberjonois
PASSAGE does not accept unsolicited submissions from artists.