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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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- 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]
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- 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.
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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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#migration

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

rezzan gümgüm: Goat on the Mountain, Moon in the Sky, Fish in the Water

Thu, 5.12. – Sun, 15.12.24 Type: Exhibition Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien

#ecology-and-climate #identity #migration

Wed, 13.9.23, 5.00 pm

House of Kal

Type: Opening Location: nGbK am Alex

#performance #border #migration

Fri, 1.9.23, 8.00 pm

Final evening, dinner and film evening

Type: Open Air Location: Place Internationale

#post-colonialism #workers-movement #migration #latin-america

Sat, 2.9.–3.9.23, 10.30–5.00 pm

“This Land Belongs To Us. We Belong To This Land”

Community Practice and Mural Painting with Vicky Shahjehan (CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS)

Type: Workshop Location: nGbK am Alex

#private-public #migration #gender-queer #collaboration

Work

2015 Type: Archive Matter

#workers-movement #cultural-work #migration #economy #precariousness #proletariat

Migration

2015 Type: Archive Matter

#migration #identity #precariousness #berlin #border #mobility

Vlassis Caniaris

Konkreter Realismus. Skizze einer künstlerischen Strategie, Werkverzeichnis 1952-1983

Type: Print publication

#migration #monography

Gastarbeiter 2.0

Arbeit Means Rad

Type: Print publication

#migration #labor #precariousness

Clément Moreau/Carl Meffert – Grafik für den Mitmenschen

Type: Print publication

#society #migration #fascism

Crown Jewels

Britisch-Indische und Britisch-Pakistanische Kunst aus London

Type: Print publication

#migration #media-art #post-colonialism

Duldung

zum Leben der Roma in Berlin

Type: Print publication

#berlin #photography #migration #political-function-of-art

finger. „evolutionäre zellen“

#migration #collective #activism

Homeless People

Type: Print publication

#migration #society #photography

In Other Words

The black market of translations – negotiating contemporary cultures

Type: Print publication

#migration #border #science #public-space

MOVING ON

Border Activism – Strategies for Anti-racist Actions

Type: Print publication

#political-function-of-art #migration

Nichtstun …in der Neuen Gesellschaft

Informationen aus der Tiefe des widerspenstigen Raumes. Reader zur Diskussionsreihe

Type: Print publication

#migration #economy #activism #labor #precariousness

Shared.Divided.United

Type: Print publication

#censorship #migration #war #asia #society

significans

Zwischen Kunst und Erkennungsdienst

Type: Print publication

#media-criticism #surveillance #migration

This Land is My Land

Type: Print publication

#migration #society #border #identity #critique-of-representation

Transient Spaces

The Tourist Syndrome

Type: Print publication

#migration #economy #public-space #mobility #media-criticism

Tunnel Below / Skyjacking Above

Deconstructing the Border

Type: Print publication

#berlin #migration #border #identity #war

Vlassis Caniaris: Gastarbeiter – Fremdarbeiter

Type: Print publication

#migration

Clément Moreau/Carl Meffert – Grafik für den Mitmenschen

Fri, 17.3. – Sun, 30.4.78 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation

#migration #nationalsozialismus #neue-welten #realismus

Duldung

Zum Leben der Romafamilien aus Bosnien in Berlin

Sun, 2.2. – Sun, 2.3.97 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation

#migration

evolutionäre zellen. Teil 1

selbstbeauftragtes Gestalten gesellschaftlicher Perspektiven

Sat, 13.4. – Sun, 5.5.02 Type: Wettbewerb, Ausstellung Teil 1: Infos, Kriterien und Jury, Zeitung: finger no. 10

#migration

Homeless People

Sat, 6.2. – Fri, 4.3.88 Type: Ausstellung

#migration

MOV!NG ON

Handlungen an Grenzen – Strategien zum antirassistischen Handeln

Sat, 13.8. – Sun, 11.9.05 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation, Veranstaltungsreihe

#migration

Shared.Divided.United

Deutschland-Korea: Migrationsbewegungen im Kalten Krieg

Sat, 10.10. – Sun, 15.11.09 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation

#migration

significans

Sun, 3.12. – Sat, 23.12.00 Type: Ausstellung, Archivinstallation, Veranstaltungen, Filmreihe, Zeitschrift (Ästhetik & Kommunikation, Heft 111, Dezember 2000)

#migration

THIS LAND IS MY LAND

Sat, 28.10. – Sun, 3.12.06 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation, Veranstaltungsreihe

#migration

Transient Spaces

The Tourist Syndrome

Sat, 28.8. – Sun, 10.10.10 Type: Exhibition, Publication, Event series

#migration

Vlassis Caniaris

Gastarbeiter – Fremdarbeiter

Fri, 17.1. – Wed, 12.2.75 Type: Ausstellung, Publikation

#migration