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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]
- 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.
  You can purchase the more than 170 publications still available here. In addition, you will find information on out-of-print publications from over 40 years of institutional history.
  
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Publishing

Since it was founded, the nGbK has been publishing books – since 1987 mainly through its own publishing house. A total of over 450 titles have come out from this context, of which more than 170 are still available today. The common thread of nGbK’s projects is the question of what political function art can and should take on. Consequently, the publishing program reflects artistic debates on migration, feminism and gender, the city and public space, critique of capitalism and racism, social movements and ecology.

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The publications – including exhibition catalogs, readers, collections of materials and experimental artists’ books – are conceived and co-edited by the members of the work groups. From the various decentralized contexts, the projects thus come together in the overall framework of a publishing program. For the last few years, the nGbK has also been publishing books that are not the result of its own projects but are closely tied to its ideas.

Members of the Kunstverein are also involved in the publications task force AK Publikationen where they discuss the strategic direction of the publishing house. The production of the books is coordinated and supported by the nGbK office.

The history of publishing in the nGbK regularly becomes an explicit research topic within the Kunstverein: The section Archive Matter, for instance, researches the exhibition and publication archive and makes these results accessible via short focus texts. By commissioning essays by changing authors, the nGbK actively participates in a debate on left-wing publishing practice. And furthermore, the two publishing directories published to date list the nGbK’s entire publication archive and provide an index to its discourse space.

Information on individual publications and ordering options can be found here.

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