Galerie Parterre has been showing changing exhibitions of contemporary artists since 1993. It offers exhibition opportunities for artists who can already look back on a career spanning several decades and who have been shaping the district’s independent art scene for decades, as well as those who are just starting out. The gallery has been cooperating with various institutions and associations for several decades, including the Mart Stam Gesellschaft of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and fair share! – for women artists. The gallery’s program incorporates current social discourse and aims to do justice to the responsibility of cultural institutions to promote democracy and cohesion.
In terms of personnel and space, the gallery is closely linked to the Pankow Art Collection, which comprises around 4,000 works by around 650 artists. The collection focuses on works on paper that have been purchased directly from artists by East Berlin districts since the 1960s.