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
Press: +49 3039882650
Residency: +49 30 39885840
Projects: +49 30 39885842
Fax: +49 30 39885841
Events: Please send us event and space enquiries exclusively by e-mail: events(at)zku-berlin.org
General inquiries: info(at)zku-berlin.org
Press inquiries: presse(at)zku-berlin.org
Residency inquiries: residency(at)zku-berlin.org
Project inquiries: projects(at)zku-berlin.org
Discourses
We direct our work along specific research themes that are meant to inspire open discussions.
Like ourselves, our discourses change over time.
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General Approach:
General Approach
General Approach:
Why and how ZK/U implements discourse
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ZK/∩*:
ZK/∩*
ZK/∩*:
*from open source to open end:
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Haus der Statistik:
Haus der Statistik
Haus der Statistik:
Model project for cooperative urban development
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ZEDu:
ZEDu
ZEDu:
Mutual learning lab
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CURATING CHAOS:
CURATING CHAOS
CURATING CHAOS:
Evolutions of decentralised curatorial practices
Residency
A new, innovative venue offering artistic and research residencies of 2–12 months duration for art production at the interface of urban research opened its doors in summer 2012 in the district of Moabit in Berlin-Mitte, on the edges of Berlin‘s largest inland port, Westhafen.
Current Fellows
Jan van Esch
Community Curator with KUNSTrePUBLIK for documenta fifteen
Elham Khattab
Between the growth of Digital Art in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Diaspora in the time of the pandemic.
Formats
Our formats are established ZK/U Projects that have turned into re-occuring cultural practices, now taking place on site regularly.
OPENHAUS
Every other month
Open studios, performances, videos, installations and resident talks
GÜTERMARKT
Once a month during summer
Monthly summer-market connects the neighbourhood and provides a platform for local goods and handcrafted items.
SPEISEKINO / FOOD AND FOOTAGE
May to October
INDEPENDENT-MOVIES IN COMBINATION WITH FOOD
FUSSBALLABALLA
During major football events
Turning the popular format of 'public viewing' of sports into an educational and community-building event
Projects
Our projects are artistic, research-related, socially relevant and often international experiments that can eventually turn into ZK/U Formats.
citizenship — Raise the Roof!
JUN 2 - SEP 25 2022
From Berlin to Kassel by Roof-Boat
Construction Explained _ Urban Stage
2021-2022
A scaled-down version of the future roof terrace on the forecourt of ZK/U Berlin.
Knowledgescapes of Urban Utopias
ongoing
reflecting upon utopian narratives and transformational patterns of the two monofunctional cities Eisenhüttenstadt and Visaginas
ZK/U Extension
Ongoing - To be completed by summer 2022
The ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics is growing!
TURN2 RESIDENCIES
2021-2022
Curatorial Research Residencies in Berlin, Lagos, Johannesburg and Nairobi for emerging curators and cultural practitioners
Haus der Statistik
Ongoing
Center for refugees, social, artistic and creative activities
Objective Dialogues at Haus der Materialisierung
2021
Haus der Statistik // KMAII
CTB-Lab Rijeka: MO Hartera-kvARTera
Ongoing
Inclusive urban planning in the wake of European Capital of Culture 2020 in Rijeka
KASHA TODAY
ongoing
Podcast im Rahmen des Projekts CETKA, der die Alltagskultur in Russland von vielen Blickwinkeln aus betrachtet
GÜTERVERKEHR
Ongoing
Production and communication platform for cooperative forms of production
Ständige Vertretung!
Ongoing
Produktionsort für Berliner Projekträume, Initiativen, Kollektive und Einzelakteure
CityToolBox
Ongoing
Online-learning platform encouraging citizen-driven actions in the urban landscape – Change It Yourself!
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.
sub_ʇxǝʇ
Ongoing
Itinerant platform for research, discussion and sonic knowledge production
Publishing
ZK/U Press is a division of ZK/U, focused on publishing critical content on urban issues. It is giving artists, architects and researchers a forum to discuss, archive, documenting their work.
The city, the island.
Alice Pedroletti
ATRII / Berlin.
ISBN 978-3-945659-24-3
Price: 20 €
Modellproject Haus der Statistik (VOL 3)
ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG
Pioneering uses
ISBN 978-3-945659-22-9
Price: free of charge
Model Project Haus der Statistik (Vol 2)
KOOP5
The integrated workshop procedure
ISBN 978-3-945659-20-5
Price: free of charge
Model Project Haus der Statistik (Vol 1)
KOOP5
Initiative and Vision
ISBN 978-3-945659-19-9
Price: free of charge
ZK/U Aerial View, Berlin 2012
ZK/U Berlin is deeply concerned by the events happening on the territory of Ukraine.
We stand in solidarity against imperialism and militarism, we stand for peace.
Solidarity against war! Solidarity with Ukraine!
Read here our
full statement ►
and help us supporting the work of our partners - artists, curators and collectives - from Mariupol, Dnipro, Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Kherson and Kyiv:
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