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
27 MAR 2025 / 17:00 / MEETING POINT: AT MOAWALD IN STADTGARTEN MOABIT (BEHIND ZK/U)
Taking Care of Moawald
Join the keeper team!
27 MAR 2025 / 7–11 PM
OPENHAUS MARCH 2025
Open studios, performance, video, installation and resident talks
04 MAY 2025 / 11 AM – 7 PM
GÜTERMARKT MAY 2025
BI-MONTHLY MARKET CONNECTING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR LOCAL GOODS AND HANDCRAFTED ITEMS
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
Bilge Emine Arslan
Grapes, Land, and Resistance – Study of Kurdish Harvesting Practices in the Context of Assimilation and Colonial Influence
Projects
Our projects are artistic, research-related, socially relevant and often international experiments that can eventually turn into ZK/U Formats.
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
ZK/U Extension
ongoing - to be completed by end of 2024
The ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics is growing!
CityToolBox
ongoing
Online-learning platform encouraging citizen-driven actions in the urban landscape – Change It Yourself!
Ständige Vertretung!
Ongoing
Produktionsort für Berliner Projekträume, Initiativen, Kollektive und Einzelakteure
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.
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Ongoing
Itinerant platform for research, discussion and sonic knowledge production
WHO CARES? - MOHA
Exploring the notion of boundaries in order to understand better where some things end and others begin.
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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