Katharina Rohde

Katharina Rohde has been commissioned to conceptualize and curate Experimental Urban Landscapes, a series of public interventions in collaboration with artists, architects and city planners for the celebration´s of the 50th anniversary of Gropiusstadt in August 2012!

Berlin’s´ oldest Satellite town by Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012. Built to quickly respond to the lack of housing in Post- war Berlin, the Gropiusstadt has been an architecture icon of modernity until today. An urban experiment not without controversies but also potentials. read more »

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Working with Urban Management students from the Planning Laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin, Katharina Rohde investigates urban strategies for culturally diverse neighborhoods. Using the example of Karl- Marx- Straße in Berlin Neukölln, participatory approaches are developed to device ideas and wishes of people of different cultural backgrounds in the area for the urban redevelopment of the street. In collaboration with local actors and students various urban interventions are developed that propose ways of re- using space or simply create moments of conceivable future scenarios.

Contributions to Paradise has been selected as Highlights for the 48 hours Arts and Culture festival happening from 15th to 17th June 2012. Four of the developed urban interventions will be realized for the festival. To find out more please visit: www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Contributions to Paradise is funded by the Cultural Office Neukölln.

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In cooperation with young women originating from Lebanon, Palestine and Turkey, Katharina Rohde develops guided city tours for Berlin Neukölln. Focussing on the aspects of the Village and the Metropole that co- exist in the area, the tours explore the impact of the ethnic village in the neighborhood. read more »

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An Exhibition curated by Katharina Rohde

Featuring works by artists:
Buhlebezwe Siwani
Keabetswe Mokwena & Reatile Mokwena
Claire Rousell, Sipho Charles Gwala

The exhibition Just do it! Creative strategies of Survival shows site-specific interventions that deal with the phenomena of local small scale enterprises like Spaza shops, highlighting the challenges, struggles & opportunities that come with informal entrepreneurship. Five emerging South African Artists have been engaging with Spaza Shops in Alexandra in order to learn more about this small scale entrepreneurship. Investigating daily activities, marketing strategies, social interaction & alternative business models the artists in collaboration with shop owners, customers & the greater community have developed creative outcomes for the show.Art works will be presented in & around the participating Spaza Shops!

exhibition website: http://apexart.org/exhibitions/rohde.php

photos of the opening: apexart, Vusi Khosa

review on JHB live! Art on Alex Street

Summit TV Business and Arts South Africa

artists_curator info

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Das Projekt SlangWorX_Sprache in Bewegung beschäftigt sich mit Sprache und Kommunikation von Jugendliche im interkulturellen Kontext. Mimik, Gestik, Körpersprache, Slang wurden erforscht, untersucht und in Bewegung übersetzt.

Ein Projekt von Katharina Rohde in Zusammenarbeit mit Diane Busuttil & Jan Burkhardt.

Doku: http://vimeo.com/34406450

Projektblog http://slangworx.tumblr.com/

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Katharina Rohde has been invited for the interdisciplinary realization competition launched by the Contemporary Opera Berlin in April 2011. 40 professionally experienced participants of different disciplines will meet in a Workshop, taking place at the Radialsystem Berlin, in order to get to know each other with exactly what they bring along: their experience, their work so far and their ideas for projects to develop for which they may be searching for partners or simple inspiration.

As part of ohrenstrand.net Berlins Netwerk for curious listening. Funded by the New Music Network, a sponsoring program of the German Cultural Foundation and the Cultural Administration of Berlin.

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Katharina Rohde has been invited for the Rialto residency program of Studio 468 in Dublin in 2012. Participating in the Rialto residency program she aims to engage with people with different backgrounds and develop modes of communication about culture, life and work within the neighborhood. Proposing various artistic approaches and working with local (artist) groups site- specific interventions within private and semi- private spaces will be developed that the public audience can visit over a certain period of time.

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As part of the Workshop series aiming for participation of local youth into the urban upgrading program “Karl- Marx- Straße” (KMS) in Berlin Neukölln, a student magazine was developed.

Given the task to approach a shop along KMS, 21 students of Sankt Marien School went out as reporters in order to search for stories, telling backgrounds and circumstances of business owners but further more pointing out existing potentials and visions of the mostly ethnic economies for the local urban development.

Read more www.katharina-rohde.com/lang/de/kms
The realization was made possible with the support of [Aktion! Karl-Marx-Straße], the Cultural Office Neukölln and Sankt Marien School Neukölln.

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Borriolah Gha Magazine African Artzine
Concept & Publisher: Spunk Seipel
with contributions about and from:

/+=X, Yinka Akingbade, Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Grace Atuhaire, Nicaise Balou, Angelika Böck, Johannes Buss, Dan Halter, Falko Henning, Mooimark Show, Gabi Ncobo, Orokie Okoth, Samuel Olow, Oliver Ressler, Katharina Rohde, Sylvie Rodriguez, Royalafrican.org, Anna Schneider, Birgit Anna Schumacher, Spunk Seipel, Robert Sloon, Gudrun F. Widlok.

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A film about the design and appropriation of public space in Soweto, Johannesburg. This film developed as a competition entry for the Moving Spaces Competition and was awarded for its realization. “Touching benches” was screened as part of the Architect Africa Film Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Link to Video: http://www.vimeo.com/15355273

Special thanks to Thiresh Govender from urban works, architecture & urbanism.

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