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 30 39885850
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
Modellprojekt Haus der Statistik - Ausstellung
Modell kooperativer Stadtentwicklung
FUSSBALLABALLA // FINAL CELEBRATION AT THE GÜTERMARKT
Discourses
We direct our work along specific research themes that are meant to inspire open discussions.
Like ourselves, our discourses change over time.
№ 1
SELF-EMPOWERMENT:
SELF-EMPOWERMENT
SELF-EMPOWERMENT:
Practical Guides and Solidarity in Urban Learning
№ 2
RESETTING:
RESETTING
RESETTING:
Urban Infrastructure Revisited
№ 3
BRIDGING:
BRIDGING
BRIDGING:
Global Discourse and Local Practice
№ 4
RE-THINKING:
RE-THINKING
RE-THINKING:
Resilient Cities in Post-Migrant Societies
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
Byungseo Yoo / Yasemîn Özcan / Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez / Jan van Esch / Pablo Alboreda / Stadtfrauenküche & ZK/FU / Semâ Bekirović / Laura Yuile / Pawel Jankiewicz / Julia Grybos and Barbora Zentková / Sophia Schultz / Andrew Wilson
Formats
Our formats are established ZK/U Projects that have turned into re-occuring cultural practices, now taking place on site regularly.
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.
ZK/U Untersuchungsausschuss (Fact Finding Comitee)
2018-2019
The Berlin Fact-Finding Committee (“Untersuchungsausschuss”) at ZK/U
Haus der Statistik
Ongoing
Center for refugees, social, artistic and creative activities
Rethink open-form: 60s / 70s residential areas as settlements for micro-democracies
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
A cooperation between the ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanism (Berlin, DE) and the Open Territory Foundation (Lublin, PL)
Hacking Urban Furniture
Exploring the history, present and future of urban furniture in collaboration with artists, urban explorers, administrators, politicians, activists and researchers
Ständige Vertretung!
Ongoing
Produktionsort für Berliner Projekträume, Initiativen, Kollektive und Einzelakteure
GÜTERVERKEHR
Ongoing
Production and communication platform for cooperative forms of production
Satellites
Satelites are ZK/U initiated projects happening outside of the physical space of ZK/U, or are organized by collaborators and partners at ZK/U.
FEVALA
The FEVALA is our Cafe and Bar on site. It is open for events and from beginning of May until the end of September. Opening hours may vary.
| FEVALA opening hours: | ||
| FR. | SA. | SU. |
| 17–23 h | 12–21 h | 15–20 h |
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.
ZK/U Aerial View, Berlin 2012
Events
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News
22 Jun 2019
/////TANZWERKSTATT///// 26.06.2019, 19 Uhr Das Tanzkollektiv die-elektroschuhe öffnet die Tanzfläche im “Musterhaus der...
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VORSTELLUNG DER ARBEITEN DES OPENHAUS JUNI / Teil II Morgen Abend ist es soweit: Das OPENHAUS zeigt die...
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20 Juni 2019 | 19:00: OFFENE STUDIOS, PERFORMANCES, VIDEOS, INSTALLATIONEN, ESSEN UND GETRÄNKE Eine herzliche Einladung...
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VORSTELLUNG DER ARBEITEN DES OPENHAUS JUNI / Teil I Das OPENHAUS im Juni zeigt die multidisziplinären Praxen der im...
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Das war die Auftaktveranstaltung für FUSSBALLABALLA 2019!!! Lieben Dank an alle, die es möglich gemacht haben ⚽️❤️ Die...
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Heute Abend, 12. Juni, findet der 2. CHOR der STATISTIK statt! (//English below) Treffpunkt: um 18 Uhr in der...
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SPEISEKINO // PRIDE // morgen Abend ab 19 Uhr Es ist Sommer 1984 als Margaret Thatcher an der Macht ist und die...
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SPEISEKINO // PRIDE // diesen Donnerstag ab 19 Uhr Menü: Erbsen-Peek-Suppe und Scone Pudding mit einem Queer Twist -->... FSK Trailer = FSK ab 6 freigegeben Ab 13.03.2015 auf BD und DVD! Witzig, warmherzig, wahr! PRIDE ist einfach...
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TONIGHT AT 7 PM: SPEISEKINO // Film: Censor Must Die (2012) by Ing K und Manit Sriwanichpoom Language: Thai with...
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Letzte Woche haben wir gemeinsam mit rund 200 Künstlerinnen und Künstlern die Freiräume unserer Stadt beerdigt. rbb24... Clubsterben ist zu einer Berliner Vokabel geworden. Am Donnerstag trauerten wenige Hundert Demonstranten um verlorene...
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