Hey, club!, CCB Magazine, Berlin

“Tom Albrecht is a Berlin veteran. He was the first environmental officer at TU Berlin in the 1990s. Today he is a curator and runs the only “Gallery for Sustainable Art” in the city. What can art contribute to the climate debate that the current discourse cannot? We paid a visit to the hotbed for sustainability issues in Berlin-Kreuzberg.”

Jury work

Award for particularly sustainable commercial gallery concepts

20.12.2022 Berliner “Galleries for Future”-AwardAktivitäten gewerblicher Galerien in Berlin für Nachhaltigkeit 2022Group Global 3000 Jurieren im Team aller open calls seit 2013

For what I perceive in the environment and society, I try to create images or express myself in action. I see gaping wounds in our development socially, economically and environmentally. The center of my life is Berlin, connected to the world. My pictures and actions are meant to critically reflect reality in a playful – often humorous – way. Human existence, its development and its diverse manifestations inspire me to create objects, installations, actions, land art, texts and photographs. The car often forces itself into my picture and I deal with it in my works.

To bring about more sustainability is my intention. Living this sustainability is my consistent experiment and means credibility to me. Today, this is called the ecological footprint.  Social development and human concepts of life are the focus of my reflections. With my works I want to contribute to create changes in the sense of sustainability and health for the next generations. My external impact is my ecological handprint. So in 2012 I founded the project space“Group global 3000 for sustainable art“. Today, July 2024, we are showing the 65th exhibition

I enter into a process in order to influence it, as I did, for example, in my work as an environmental officer at the Technical University of Berlin for many years. I see social issues, such as our use of energy and materials – both as a consumer and as a polluter – in a social, economic and ecological context, which consequently results in the demand for sustainability in my work.

I use everyday materials, like the Arte Povera (Ital. poor art), which uses common and everyday materials like willow branches, glass bottles. Our throwaway society offers me an abundance of materials. I also use technology such as electronic controls and electric motors from old appliances. My art, like the Happening and Fluxus artists, is about influencing human life, not about closing art off from life.

Dr. Peter Funken: “His art shows poetic humour. Tom Albrecht works with simple means, shows pleasure in his work. He interprets and reinterprets where he lives. His background is in idea and conceptual art.”

Tom Albrecht

Born 1948 in Düsseldorf

First artistic work 1965

Influenced by neighbour J. Beuys

Lives and works in Berlin since 1972

Engineering studies in Düsseldorf

Studies for Magister Artium in Berlin

Operating engineer commercial property management

Research assistant TU Berlin 1989 – 1991

Environmental Officer TU Berlin 1991- 2009

Objects, Installations, Landart, Actions

Exhibitions: Private, Internet, Galleries

Member Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.

Founder Project Space Group Global 3000, 2013.

Curatorial work since 2013

Coordinator of the sustainability working group in the network of independent Berlin project spaces and initiatives (I.G.)

Sustainability consulting for project spaces Berlin since 2022

Jury member Galleries for Future 2022, Berlin