abc wants to break with the traditional art fair approach, where each gallery has their separate booth.
Instead abc provides larger open spaces that can be used by the presenting galleries to display anything from paintings or drawings to sculptures and installations.
Positions Berlin on the other hand follows a more traditional approach providing separate booths to a multitude of national and international galleries.
Similar to previous years, the Art Week attracted more than 100,000 visitors in 2016.
[3] However, there has been some speculation about a crisis of the Berlin Art Week and particularly its fairs: the abc reduced its showroom capacity in 2016 and only presented 62 galleries – instead of 100 as was originally advertised on the Art Week website still at the beginning of September.