Projects

Current

ZK/U Extension

Ongoing - To be completed by end of 2024

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

ZK/U Extension

Active CITY(zens)

2023 - 2024

Creating new prototypes of culture programming to rediscover unique public spaces and create new forms of vibrant short performance bites

Active CITY(zens)

ClimArt

2023 - 2025

RAISING AWARENESS AND MOBILIZING TO INCREASE URBAN CLIMATE RESILIENCE THROUGH ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS (REALLABOR)

ClimArt

Beeholder - Beecoin

ongoing

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

Beeholder - Beecoin

CityToolBox

Ongoing

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

CityToolBox

Haus der Statistik

Ongoing

Center for refugees, social, artistic and creative activities

Haus der Statistik

Ständige Vertretung!

Ongoing

Produktionsort für Berliner Projekträume, Initiativen, Kollektive und Einzelakteure

Ständige Vertretung!
Past

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

Construction Explained _ Urban Stage

2021 - 2023

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

Construction Explained _ Urban Stage

citizenship — Raise the Roof!

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From Berlin to Kassel by Roof-Boat

citizenship — Raise the Roof!

Auf den Platz, Fertig, LOS!

MAY 01 - SEP 30 2023

Once the pride of socialist urban planning, today Germany's largest urban heritage site: Eisenhüttenstadt is full of surprises

Auf den Platz, Fertig, LOS!

TURN2 RESIDENCIES

2021-2023

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

TURN2 RESIDENCIES

SOME CALL US BALKANS

2021 - 2023

Transdisciplinary inquiry and community that explores and mobilizes moments of collective production of knowledge, imagination, research and multivocal representations of the Balkans beyond borders and nationalisms

SOME CALL US BALKANS

Knowledgescapes of Urban Utopias

2021 - 2022

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

Knowledgescapes of Urban Utopias

GüterMARX

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GÜTERMARKT at Haus der Statistik

GüterMARX

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

Grounded Urban Practices

Research to conceptualise, understand, and map motivation and ideas of independent urban actors

Grounded Urban Practices

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

2019 - 2022

a network for art, activism and solidarity

CETKA

PERSPEKTYVY PODCAST

Talks with artists from Belarus

PERSPEKTYVY PODCAST

KASHA TODAY

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

KASHA TODAY

Magic Carpets

2017-2021

Magic Carpets

STATISTA

Staatskunst, Pioniernutzung, Repräsentation

STATISTA

GÜTERVERKEHR

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Production and communication platform for cooperative forms of production

GÜTERVERKEHR

ZK/U Untersuchungsausschuss (Fact Finding Comitee)

2018-2019

The Berlin Fact-Finding Committee (“Untersuchungsausschuss”) at ZK/U

ZK/U Untersuchungsausschuss (Fact Finding Comitee)

Rethink Open-Form

Mar 2018 - Oct 2019

A cooperation between ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin, DE) and MOM - Museum of Housing Estates (Lublin, PL)

Rethink Open-Form

Shared Cities Creative Momentum

Shared Cities Creative Momentum

V.I.P. BOX

Case Study I

V.I.P. BOX

Hacking Urban Furniture

Exploring the history, present and future of urban furniture in collaboration with artists, urban explorers, administrators, politicians, activists and researchers

Hacking Urban Furniture

ZUsammenKUNFT

Gemeinsame Alltagskultur von Künstlern, Initiativen, geflüchteten Neu-Berlinern und Alt-Berlinern

ZUsammenKUNFT

ARTIST DIS-PLACEMENT

Connecting artists to organizations from the non-art-sphere

ARTIST DIS-PLACEMENT

Simulizi Mijini

Urban Narratives is an academic, artistic and publishing exchange between Berlin, Germany and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Simulizi Mijini

Moabiter Mix

Trans-sectoral projects of ZK/U (Cultural Sector), Quartiersmanagement Moabit-West (Public Administration) and Studio ParaArtFormations (Private Sector)

Moabiter Mix