Panke Gallery

panke.gallery is a Berlin based project space that has, since its founding in 2016, established itself as one of the city's distinctive platforms for net based and digital art, operating under the organisational umbrella of panke.gallery, Verein für künstlerisch-kulturelle Bildung e.V., a registered non profit association dedicated to artistic and cultural education. The gallery's exhibition space sits within the premises of panke.club, situating its programme at the intersection of visual art and Berlin's club culture from the outset.

The gallery's founding concept centres on opening a local and international dialogue between established and emerging artists whose work emerges from the connection between digital or net based art and club culture, with particular attention to the recent history of Berlin as a formative site for these practices. This positioning reflects the city's own significance within the history of net art, a genre with deep roots in Berlin's experimental and digital art communities, and panke.gallery has become recognised as a space that continues and reflects on that lineage.

Curatorially, the gallery's programme extends beyond exhibitions to include lectures, performances and screenings, complemented by an ongoing series of editions that allow artists to produce and distribute limited works connected to the gallery's programme. Since its founding, panke.gallery has collaborated with a range of local and international initiatives and festivals, including transmediale and CTM Vorspiel, the PAF performing arts festival, Zwei Tage Wedding, and The Wrong Digital Biennale, positioning the gallery within a wider network of institutions engaged with digital and experimental art practice. This activity has been documented in a range of print and online media over the years, reflecting the gallery's sustained relevance within discussions of net art and digital culture.

The gallery's core organisational pillars rest on its exhibition programme, its discursive and performative events, its editions programme, and its role as a connector within local and international networks of digital and club culture adjacent art practice. As a non profit organisation, panke.gallery is sustained largely through the contributions of honorary and voluntary team members, alongside project based public funding. Its activities have received support from the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa through open category funding, the Lotto Stiftung Berlin, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin, supplemented by individual donations, including contributions made directly in cryptocurrency, a detail that speaks to the gallery's ongoing engagement with digital forms and infrastructures beyond the artworks themselves.

Taken together, panke.gallery offers a distinctive model within Berlin's gallery landscape, one grounded in grassroots, largely voluntary organisation and a sustained curatorial commitment to the intersections of digital art, sound and club culture, carried forward by a small team working closely with artists across generations and geographies.