Florian Wüst: Berlin is Berlin?
Talks on Curatorial Practice
20 MARCH 2026 / 17:00
ZK/U BerlinSiemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin, Germany
Berlin is known for its openness, tolerance, and free spaces: a site of possibility. This reputation, which has especially attracted the international art scene, is under great pressure for some time. The city gets ever more expensive, the housing market is in crisis, migrant communities feel unwelcomed, cultural funding is cut. At the same time: Berlin is a place of permanent change. Civic resilience has been strong, and, in comparison to many other big cities, it still provides diverse safe spaces.
Florian Wüst maps and discusses the spatial and societal dynamics, ruptures and continuities of Berlin of the past decades. His reflection is set against the background of his film curatorial and writing practice, which has been dealing with the history and development of the city before and after the end of its division. Most currently on display: the exhibition Today yet, tomorrow surely. Filmic Perspectives on Berlin Around 1990 at Museum Nikolaikirche. Wüst's lecture will be complemented by a variety of images and film excerpts.
Florian Wüst is a Berlin based film curator, artist, publisher, and lecturer. From 2016 to 2020, he was the film and video curator of transmediale, and curates regularly for the Werkleitz Festival in Halle (Saale) and the Short Film Festival Hamburg. For the Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera in San Sebastián he curated two exhibitions: Zin Ex. From Abstraction to Algorithm (2020) and Zin Ex. Body and Architecture (2021). Wüst is co-founder of the Berlin Journals—On the History and Present State of the City, which address the social, cultural, and econimic changes in Berlin and other cities. He is one of the directly elected KOA members of neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, since 2022 he holds a lectureship in the Integrated Design department of the University of the Arts Bremen.