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 & Communication: +49 3039882650
Residency: +49 30 39885840
Projects: +49 30 39885842

Events: As we are currently under construction, space booking for any kind of event is not possible at the moment.


Press & Communication inquiries: kommunikation(at)zku-berlin.org
Residency inquiries: residency(at)zku-berlin.org
Project inquiries: projects(at)zku-berlin.org

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ongoing

Logbuch citizenship

A 7 episodes mini-documentary with documenta fifteen

Logbuch citizenship

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:
Why and how ZK/U implements discourse

General Approach
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ZK/∩*:
*from open source to open end: 

ZK/∩*
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Haus der Statistik:
Model project for cooperative urban development

Haus der Statistik
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ZEDu:
Mutual learning lab

ZEDu
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CURATING CHAOS:
Evolutions of decentralised curatorial practices

CURATING CHAOS

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

Ludmila Pogodina

Untitled

Untitled

Marta Fumagalli Riccardo Pirovano - Jukai collective

Genius Loci

Genius Loci

Vasiliy and Stepan Subbotin (part of ZIP group)

An Ecosystem in Exile

An Ecosystem in Exile

Joud Al-Tamimi

a song for many movements, or the return of the repressed

a song for many movements, or the return of the repressed

Sibongile Oageng Msimango

Vula Kuvaliwe (open when closed)

Vula Kuvaliwe (open when closed)

SONDER - Peter Behrbohm & Anton Steenbock

ZIZ Total Earth

ZIZ Total Earth

Aarti Sunder

Nodal Narratives of the Deep Sea

Nodal Narratives of the Deep Sea

D' Andrade, Walla Capelobo

Ultra-poetry: procedural feelings

Ultra-poetry: procedural feelings

Yonatan Kunda

“Alef Bet الف-بيت אלף-בית “ \\ “The Tish”

“Alef Bet الف-بيت אלף-בית “ \\ “The Tish”

Vangjush Vellahu

What the map cuts up, the story cuts across (Fragments II)

What the map cuts up, the story cuts across (Fragments II)

Igor Ponosov

Cozy corner

Cozy corner

Formats

Our formats are established ZK/U Projects that have turned into re-occuring cultural practices, now taking place on site regularly.

OPENHAUS

Bi-monthly event

OPEN STUDIOS, PERFORMANCES, VIDEOS, INSTALLATIONS AND RESIDENT TALKS

OPENHAUS

GÜTERMARKT

paused until 2024

Monthly summer-market connects the neighbourhood and provides a platform for local goods and handcrafted items.

GÜTERMARKT

SPEISEKINO / FOOD AND FOOTAGE

paused until 2024

INDEPENDENT-MOVIES IN COMBINATION WITH FOOD

SPEISEKINO / FOOD AND FOOTAGE

FUSSBALLABALLA

paused until 2024

Turning the popular format of 'public viewing' of sports into an educational and community-building event

FUSSBALLABALLA

Projects

Our projects are artistic, research-related, socially relevant and often international experiments that can eventually turn into ZK/U Formats.

Take Care

JAN 01 - JUNE 30 2023

A call for collective care between ZK/U, the artists-in-residence and communities in Moabit and beyond.

Take Care

ClimArt

2023 - 2025

Real laboratory for increasing urban climate resilience through creative-artistic interventions

ClimArt

Beeholder - Beecoin

ongoing

decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) inspired by the idea of self-governance of non-human stakeholders

Beeholder - Beecoin

citizenship — Raise the Roof!

JUN 2 - SEP 25 2022

From Berlin to Kassel by Roof-Boat

citizenship — Raise the Roof!

Construction Explained _ Urban Stage

2021-2022

A scaled-down version of the future roof terrace on the forecourt of ZK/U Berlin.

Construction Explained _ Urban Stage

Knowledgescapes of Urban Utopias

ongoing

reflecting upon utopian narratives and transformational patterns of the two monofunctional cities Eisenhüttenstadt and Visaginas

Knowledgescapes of Urban Utopias

GüterMARX

ongoing

GÜTERMARKT at Haus der Statistik

GüterMARX

SOME CALL US BALKANS

2021 - 2023

SOME CALL US BALKANS

ZK/U Extension

Ongoing - To be completed by end of 2023

The ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics is growing!

ZK/U Extension

TURN2 RESIDENCIES

2021-2023

Curatorial Research Residencies in Berlin, Lagos, Johannesburg and Nairobi for emerging curators and cultural practitioners

TURN2 RESIDENCIES

Haus der Statistik

Ongoing

Center for refugees, social, artistic and creative activities

Haus der Statistik

RE-TURN

August - December 2021

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum 2021

RE-TURN

Objective Dialogues at Haus der Materialisierung

2021

Haus der Statistik // KMAII

Objective Dialogues at Haus der Materialisierung

CTB-Lab Rijeka: MO Hartera-kvARTera

Ongoing

Inclusive urban planning in the wake of European Capital of Culture 2020 in Rijeka

CTB-Lab Rijeka: MO Hartera-kvARTera

CETKA

ongoing

a network for art, activism and solidarity

CETKA

PERSPEKTYVY PODCAST

ongoing

Talks with artists from Belarus

PERSPEKTYVY PODCAST

KASHA TODAY

ongoing

Podcast im Rahmen des Projekts CETKA, der die Alltagskultur in Russland von vielen Blickwinkeln aus betrachtet

KASHA TODAY

Magic Carpets

2017-2021

Magic Carpets

GÜTERVERKEHR

Ongoing

Production and communication platform for cooperative forms of production

GÜTERVERKEHR

Ständige Vertretung!

Ongoing

Produktionsort für Berliner Projekträume, Initiativen, Kollektive und Einzelakteure

Ständige Vertretung!

CityToolBox

Ongoing

Online-learning platform encouraging citizen-driven actions in the urban landscape – Change It Yourself!

CityToolBox

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.

WHO CARES? - MOHA

Exploring the notion of boundaries in order to understand better where some things end and others begin.

WHO CARES? - MOHA

Threads*ZK/U

2019

Threads*ZK/U

sub_ʇxǝʇ

Ongoing

Itinerant platform for research, discussion and sonic knowledge production

sub_ʇxǝʇ

ART as/is SOCIAL

On engagement in contemporary cultural theory & practice

ART as/is SOCIAL

nomadicArt

31.12.2015 - ongoing

ZK/U+M (Zentrum für Kunst, Urbanistik und Migration)

nomadicArt

Moabees

Ongoing

A Pilots Project

Moabees

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 €

The city, the island.

Modellproject Haus der Statistik (VOL 3)

ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG

Pioneering uses

ISBN 978-3-945659-22-9
Price: free of charge

Modellproject Haus der Statistik (VOL 3)

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 2)

Model Project Haus der Statistik (Vol 1)

KOOP5

Initiative and Vision

ISBN 978-3-945659-19-9
Price: free of charge

Model Project Haus der Statistik (Vol 1)
ZK/U Aerial View, Berlin 2012

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Construction process

We remember

Martin Kaltwasser 25.09.1965 - 30.10.2022

Wir trauern um Martin Kaltwasser, der ein langjähriger Freund und Wegbegleiter von KUNSTrePUBLIK und dem ZK/U war. Als flammender Verfechter einer Kunst, die sich für eine andere, bessere Welt einsetzt, war er meist mit Akkuschrauber, Laptop, Kamera oder Megafon anzutreffen. Seine Arbeit war immer kooperativ, sowohl in der Kunstproduktion als auch in der Rezeption und Vermittlung, die weit über ein Kunstpublikum hinausging. Sein Leben und Arbeiten stand im Zeichen großer Hingabe und wundervoller Obsession, die transformativen Gesellschaftswandel erlebbar machten und initiierende Prozesse hervorbrachte. Wir erinnern uns an gemeinsame Projekte wie dem Hausbau 05 auf den Felder vor der Gropiusstadt , der Invertierung der Mauer-Aussichtsplattformen und Freilegung der Keller auf dem  Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum und gemeinsame Zeiten an fernen Orten wie Los Angeles oder dem Ruhrgebiet. Wir halten die vielen kleinen und prägenden Momente in fester Erinnerung: Seine Verzweiflung über Dinge, die er für falsch hielt, und seine Begeisterung dafür, diese zu verändern. Seine Ausdauer: Tausende von Schrauben, hunderte von Paletten, 10.000ende von Plastikbechern zu Architekturen zusammenzufügen- und dabei eine sehr grosse  Leidenschaft für die Details zu haben - aufgeben gehörte nicht in sein Repertoire. Sein Idealismus, seine radikale Konsequenz und seine Idee einer transformativen Kraft von Kunst, ohne dabei selber alles richtig machen zu müssen. 

Martin, wir tragen Dich in unseren Herzen!

 

Hier spricht Martin 2013 bei Architekturclips über Hans Stimmann, Ex Baustadtrat von Berlin, so wie er Langläufer, allerdings mit einer ganz anderen städtebaulichen Ideologie...

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