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  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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  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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Municipal Kitchens

Sat, 29.6. – Sun, 18.8.24 Type: Ausstellung, Veranstaltungsreihe

Sun, 28.7.24, 1.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Rural Undercurrents:

Communal Meal

Type: Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Fri, 12.7.24, 6.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: The Milpa is a Pluriversal Language: Celebration

Type: Gathering, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Sat, 27.7.24, 11.00 am

Municipal Kitchens: Rural Undercurrents:

Day Trip

Type: Field trip, Communal meal

Fri, 5.7.24, 5.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: The Choice is Yours

Type: Discussion, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Wed, 24.7.24, 5.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Guided tour with translation into German Sign Language

Type: Guided Tour Location: nGbK am Alex

Sat, 3.8.24, 4.30–7.30 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Papitas Tarpuy-cha – Earthing Potatoes and Healing with Herbs 1

Type: Workshop Location: Hevrin Xelef Garten

Sat, 10.8.24, 1.00–7.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Papitas Tarpuy-cha – Earthing Potatoes and Healing with Herbs 2

Type: Workshop, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Thu, 25.7.24, 5.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Pierogi Dreams

Type: Workshop, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Sat, 20.7.24, 3.00 pm

Municipal Kitchens: Cooking Palm

Type: Workshop, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Sun, 18.8.24, 2.30 pm

Finissage Municipal Kitchens: Küfa (Küche für alle/Kitchen for all)

Type: Finissage, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

Fri, 28.6.24, 7.00 pm

Opening: Municipal Kitchens Launch!

Type: Opening, Communal meal Location: nGbK am Alex

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New releases 2025/2026

Type: Preview

Die Pampa lebt

Die Pampa lebt [The Pampa lives]. Hellersdorf as a large housing estate yesterday, today and tomorrow

Sun, 1.9.19 – Wed, 31.3.21 Type: Research, Exhibition, Publication, Event series

KREISE ZIEHEN 3

GOING OUT OF CIRCLES 3. Housing estates and the production of images of themselves

Fri, 14.6. – Sat, 17.8.19 Type: Event series

Other Possible Worlds

Proposals on this Side of Utopia

Sat, 30.4. – Mon, 13.6.11 Type: Exhibition, Publication, Event series

Gemeinsame Räume offenhalten – Kartierungen am Cotti, am Kotti und am Hermannplatz

Sun, 29.8. – Wed, 8.9.21 Type: Exhibition

Klausurtagung und Call for Action 2021

Sun, 1.8. – Fri, 31.12.21 Type: Invididual Production

Kunst im Untergrund 2014/15: Was ist draußen?

Art in the Underground 2014-15: What is outside? between Hönow and Tierpark

Fri, 1.8.14 – Sat, 28.2.15 Type: Competition, Intervention, Publication

Kunst im Untergrund 2016/17: Mitte in der Pampa

Art in the Underground 2016/17: The Middle in Nowhere

Fri, 1.9. – Tue, 31.10.17 Type: Competition, Exhibition, Intervention, Publication

Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower Pavilion

Ortsbezogene Fotoarbeiten

Sat, 27.7. – Sun, 8.9.24 Type: Ausstellung

nGbK-Lectures 2025

Wed, 1.1. – Wed, 31.12.25 Type: Talks, Conversations

X Properties – Zur De-/Finanzialisierung der Stadt

Sun, 11.9. – Thu, 15.12.22 Type: Event series, Publication

Curating Conflict without Carewashing? (CCC)

Do we have to like each other to care for one another? (CCC)

Cooperation

2021 Type: Glossary

More Park(ing) Spaces!

2021 Type: Glossary

Quartier

2021 Type: Glossary

Interim Uses

2021 Type: Glossary

Beatrice E. Stammer and Anna Voswinckel

“It was about a community of like-minded people, it was about professionalization and communication.”

27.10.21 Type: Interview

#realismusstudio #cultural-work #institution #feminism #eastern-art #art-society

Matthias Reichelt and Josefine Geier

“For me, the nGbK and the principle of learning-by-doing were very important. Without this organization, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

15.11.21 Type: Interview

#institution #art-society #berlin #university-politics

National Socialism

2015 Type: Archive Matter

#national-socialism #history #society #fascism #war #political-function-of-art

Urban Praxis

ongoing Type: Initiative Location: in public space

#commons #berlin #public-space #city #cultural-work

Fri, 18.7.25, 6.00–8.00 pm

Dissident Paths: Walking the Walls: A Protest in Motion Against Berlin's Housing Crisis

Type: Performance, Protest Location: Mediaspree, Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg

Fri, 14.2.25, 7.00 pm

nGbK Lecture: Verbund – A conversation about common perspectives for art associations

with Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz and Klaus Fischer

Type: nGbK Lecture Location: Stadtwerkstatt

Berlin Journals – On the History and Present State of the City #5

Zur Verfassung. Recherchen, Dokumente 1989–2017

Type: Print publication, PDF, E-Pub

#commons #revolution #history