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- Members of the art association talk about their experiences, projects, and working conditions. Why did they join—or leave? What sets the nGbK apart from other art institutions in Berlin? How have perceptions of the institution changed over time?
  Anna-Lena Wenzel, a member herself and part of the Wissensspeicher and Klassenfragen project groups, conducted six interviews with long-standing and newer members who have occupied different positions within the institution (in project groups, in the office team, as managing director, or on the steering committee). The interviews also focus on different themes, including feminism at the nGbK, joint projects with East Germany, and the art society’s image within Berlin’s cultural scene.
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- Glossary of Urban Praxis
- Who makes a city, and with what cultures and practices? How do we formulate a “right to the city” without being righteous? Berlin has long been characterized by willfully initiated buildings, self-organized spaces, and an abundant social culture. The right to the city is fought for and shaped by multitudes of people by means of the arts, design, planning, and action.
  The aim of this glossary is to sharpen the understanding of “Urban Praxis” through presenting diverse voices of the actors of Urban Praxis and thereby to elaborate key criteria and qualities of Urban Praxis. The authors provide the terms of Urban Praxis that are most important to them or critically engage with commonly employed terms. With a shadow glossary and other additional terms, this will be put online. Taken together, the entries form not only a vocabulary about contemporary urbanity and the need for urban and artistic action, but also provide a discourse on Urban Praxis as such. [more]
- Archive Matter
- The nGbK's knowledge repository Archive Matter emerged from a 2015 project that set itself the task of developing entryways into to the physical archive. This resulted in indexing and linkages that make the dense history of the nGbK accessible. Focus texts on key topics from over four decades trace different approaches to the history of the Kunstverein from 1969 onwards. Each entry also refers to selected, thematically relevant publications and archive documents.
  After the working group was dissolved, the Archive Matter was continued institutionally. Texts by various authors regularly create new thematic paths through the exhibition, event, and publication archive. The selection made by the texts is always just one of many possible excerpts from the association's collective knowledge.
  Find an extensive project description here.
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- The publications of the nGbK reflect the discourses of the respective time in the art field. Or they refer to the gaps and missing parts in it - with recurring themes such as migration, feminism and gender, city and public space, critique of capitalism, racism, social movements and ecology. The books have emerged from the exhibition and event projects of the nGbK, but also in collaborations with institutional or independent partners; either in the publishing house of the nGbK or in cooperation with other publishers and distribution partners.
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Activist Choreographies of Care: perfocraZe International Artist Residency

Sat, 29.3. – Sun, 1.6.25 Type: Exhibition Location: nGbK am Alex

#gender-queer #performance

Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method

April 2025 – Februar 2026 Type: Event series, Walk Location: in public space, nGbK

#public-space #city

PLATTENLOTUS

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần

Sat, 7.6. – Thu, 31.7.25 Type: Exhibition Location: station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf

#city #gdr #socialism #history

Thu, 15.5.25, 6.00–9.00 pm

Istanbul-Berlin Residency: Open Studio with Serpil Polat

Type: Studio visit, Talk Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien

Sat, 17.5.25, 11.00–2.00 pm

Dissident Paths: Flowing Streams: Co-develop a water themed board game

Type: Workshop Location: Rummelsburger Ufer, Lichtenberg

Sat, 17.5.25, 3.00 pm

Activist Choreographies of Care: Curatorial tour (de)

Type: Guided Tour Location: nGbK am Alex

Sat, 17.5.25, 4.00 pm

Activist Choreographies of Care: Curatorial tour (en)

Type: Guided Tour Location: nGbK am Alex

Sun, 18.5.25, 4.00–6.00 pm

Dissident Paths: What is out there? – Traces, Borders, Spaces

Type: Walk Lecture Location: Tempelhofer Feld, Neukölln, Entrance Oderstraße

Art in the Underground 2024/25: flexen, flirren, fantasieren – mapping the queer city

June–September 2025 Type: Intervention, Event series, Competition Location: in public space

#kunst-im-untergrund #oeffentlicher-raum #gender-queer #migration

Gastarbeiter 2.0

Arbeit Means Rad

Type: Print publication

#migration #labor #precariousness

On fleeting existence and uncertain happiness

The late GDR era in photography

Type: Print publication

#gdr #photography

Facade work at the nGbK am Alex

Type: Information Location: nGbK am Alex

#public-space #city #design #ecology-and-climate

News

nGbK pavilion “Classroom of the Future” on Alice-Salomon-Platz

Type: News

The Classroom of the Future pavilion is part of the location station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf. In 2024, it served as an exhibition space and …

Projects 2026

Type: News

nGbK program for 2026 selected Every year, a general assembly selects the nGbK’s program for the following year. All members may attend this event, which is …

Joint statement on the planned cuts to the cultural budget 2025

Type: News

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, n.b.k., nGbK, Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Interview with Ulrich Roloff-Momin

Type: News

For the publication marking the 40th anniversary of the nGbK in 2009, Leonie Baumann and Gabi Kellmann conducted an interview with Ulrich Roloff-Momin, who was …

Member's interview with Diedrich Diederichsen

Type: Neues

In a series of interviews, members of the Kunstverein have been reporting on their experiences at nGbK, their projects and working conditions. Diedrich …

New focus texts on activism and research

Type: News

Author and nGbK member Anna-Lena Wenzel has written two new focus texts for the nGbK’s „Wissensspeicher“/“Archive Matter“, which …