my Market is an exclusive one-off event offering the Berlin audience the future of flea market mixed with high fashion, lifestyle, surface and emerging producers. On Saturday 12th of May the riverside terraces of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt will transform into an eruption of economical exchange, merchandising, bergaining and a celebration of market forces.

my Market is an offer to you to participate in creating a bubbling Saturday and getting your product, enterprise, action, atmosphere, magic out there on the playground of commerce.

International Festival, invited by the curator Dorothea von Hantelmann, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt invite you to a day creative trading together with an exclusive selection of fashion brands and cultural institutions.

my Market is a D.I.Y fete and a salutation to the culture od doing business.

my Market goes digital visit our internet market where can exchange sell and buy anything humanity can imagine: products, services, glam and glitter.
The internet part of my Market will naturally be open and wireless at House of World Cultures on the 12 May. Bring your laptop and make it happen there and then.

my Market - Bring It On Again

The market as a place, and as circulation proposes particular architectures, often temporary, in order to maximize complex efficiencies. The market exists on the basis of activation and prolific social interaction, a transformational dramaturgy that constantly
negotiates transversal behavior in order to optimize exchange. The markets architecture thus function as kind of set-design and simultaneously as a performance, but instead of contemplation and introduction of aura, the market is a performance that unfolds in real time,
a choreography of exceptional complexity.

The market proposes an architecture that is violent offering permission to particular social protocols and modes of exchange. The market is to an equal extent the epitome of opportunism – efficiency rules – and of fundamental repression – efficiency rules – it’s an
architecture that underlines the unexpected and at the same time is a miniature of conventional social protocols.

International Festival in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt invites you and the world to my Market for a full day of passionate economical excange and completely crazy business proposals. You can sell you can buy, you can even steal and cheat: it's my Market.

my Market is a flee market in reverse. International Festival and Haus der Kulturen der Welt have invited top of the line fashion, urban culture and cutlural institutions to donate material to my Market. This material is divided in triple-A i.e. traditional brand with strong reputation, and double-A, a line of up-coming brands pushing fashion, cutlure and urban life, and sold in a few booths on the basis of one prize fits all. Surrounding these super booths a larger amount of singel-A booths are managed by I diverse group of marketeers. Here bargaining is wild and products exchanged in the most shadowy manners, pushing anything that has a prize.

Apart from this violent market stands there will also be installed a series of restaurants and cafés, a customizing booth and of course an internet market.

For my Market a special eight hour long soundtrack has been produced by International Festival and Big 8. The soundtrack will be available for download as mp3 but also on a DVD disc containing only sound. An eight hour compilation for shopping and doing the groove.