Welcome
We are the ZK/U in Berlin: production site, artist/research-residency, program platform. In our work we connect local practice and global discourse. Get involved!
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics
Siemensstrasse 27
10551 Berlin
Germany
Contact
Events: spaces(at)zku-berlin.org
Press & Communication inquiries: kommunikation(at)zku-berlin.org / +49 3039882650
Residency inquiries: residency(at)zku-berlin.org / +49 30 39885840
Project inquiries: projects(at)zku-berlin.org / +49 30 39885842
Neighbourhood coordination: nachbarschaft(at)zku-berlin.org
11 & 12 MAY 2026
Common Grounds
A Get-Together Examining National and International Collaboration in the Independent Performing Arts
13 MAY 2026 / starting 19:00
Sharing the Harvest – Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
FOOD & FOOTAGE – Independent movies in combination with food
21 MAY 2026 / 19:00 – 23:00
OPENHAUS MAY 2026
Open studios, performance, video, installation and resident talks
26 JUNE 2026 / 10:00–18:00
Creative Shelters on a Temporary Basis
Conference of International Residency Programs
Residency
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics is an artist-led residency and production space for art and urban research in Berlin-Moabit, located near the Westhafen, Berlin’s largest inland port. Founded in 2012 in a former railway depot and recently renovated and expanded, ZK/U hosts interdisciplinary residencies of usually 2–6 months, offering living and working spaces for artists, researchers and practitioners exploring urban dynamics.
Current Fellows
Andressa Cantergiani
Symbiotic Futures: Living Sculptures and Urban Ecologies
Aine Nakamura
Conversations and Listening, Poetics and Politics of the Wounded Presence
Projects
Our projects are artistic, research-related, socially relevant and often international experiments that can eventually turn into ZK/U Formats.
Anchor Locations in Moabit-West
2024 – 2027
Together for a strong Kiez!
ClimArt
2023 - 2025
Raising awareness and mobilizing to increase urban climate resilience through artistic interventions (reallabor)
Beeholder - Beecoin
ongoing
Decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) inspired by the idea of self-governance of non-human stakeholders
Satellites
Satellites are ZK/U initiated projects happening outside of the physical space of ZK/U, or are organized by collaborators and partners at ZK/U.
ZK/U Aerial View, Berlin 2012
Support ZK/U - Donate for art and community
For over a decade, the ZK/U has been an important place for art, neighbourhood and social exchange in Berlin. But cultural work remains fragile.
Help us to remain independent and sustainable - with your donation! Every contribution helps to maintain art, encounters and low-threshold cultural programmes for everyone.
Without you: No art. No love. Donate now!
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