General Public was run by a group of cultural workers (visual artists, curators, among others) based in Berlin and hosted by DISK e.V. Founded in Fall 2005, the space produced a large number of exhibitions, artist presentations, discussions, film screenings, and performances until its closure in 2014, many of those in collaboration with other organisations and individuals and occasionally playing host to related external activities and projects.
General Public's aim was to install and uphold a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, spatial experiments, transdisciplinary approach and the reflection on contemporary visual and auditive culture. Allthough operating within an international network, General Public's activities were informed by and related to its local context and situation. In December 2012 General Public was among seven local spaces awarded the first Berlin award for art project spaces.
General Public was located in the studio house Inn.to in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg.