The Neue Berliner Kunstverein (English: "New Berlin Art Association"), abbreviated nbk, n.b.k. or NBK, is an art association founded in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

in 1969 that is dedicated to promoting contemporary art. The association has permanent exhibition rooms on Chausseestrasse in

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. The Artothek, which has been operated by the NBK since 1970, is an art loan library with 4,000 works of art that can be borrowed. The Video-Forum, founded in 1971, is a collection of

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

that today comprises more than 1700 works.

Bibliography

*Rosemarie Bremer, Lucie Schauer: 10 Jahre NBK: Bilanz und Rechenschaft aus Berlin. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1979. *Rosemarie Bremer, Renate Grisebach: 20 Jahre NBK: das zweite Jahrzehnt. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1989. *Marius Nefarious, Sophie Goltz, Kathrin Becker (Hrsg.): Kunst und Öffentlichkeit: 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. König, Köln 2009, (). (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the NBK from March 28 to May 10, 2009.)

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