SPACE is a Budapest and Amsterdam-based art initiative. SPACE makes documentary theatre, interactive games, living heritage tours and installations in public space. Our projects balance on the border of fiction and reality, in which we depart from the politics of the personal. Each time we ask the question:

‘What if this happened to us, what would we do in that situation?

SPACE’s projects are immersive experiences and the participants or spectators are often the protagonists. The storytelling is spatial and sensory and dissects complex social issues such as migration, polarisation, inequality, unprocessed historical pasts and decolonized futures. SPACE states that in the safe&brave space of the imagination, a deep sense of connection can arise because we dare to imagine and share our fears and dreams. We can get a grip on reality by playing with fiction.

SPACE has made a name in the theatre, but in recent years has also presented work in collaboration with the scientific and social sectors. We believe that art can question the dominant political and historical narratives and facilitate dialogue on the most difficult issues.

 ‘…SPACE does not “rub it in”, the artists don’t make political demagoguery worse by going into theatre demagoguery, they have a vision of the world and they are looking forward to our opinion, they do not patronize us, they take us as equal partners, as adults, they go with us in dialogue, they encourage us to self-reflection and self-irony, so we come to a state where we can laugh about ourselves and think about who we are and what kind of a world we live in.’

Tamás Koltai, in Élet és irodalom (H) about SPACE

TEAM SPACE

Petra Ardai – artistic director

Sophie Leferink  projectleader, development and strategy

Board of directors:

Mascha Christine Ihwe (chair)

Ramin (Firoez) Azarhoosh (secretary)

Zinzi Stasse (trustee)

David Herman (member)

Foundation:

We Are Space

Intra-UE Vat no.: NL803230862B01

Official registration no.: 41214258

IBAN: NL17 INGB 0006 9905 04

BIC: INGBNL2A