The project Neuköllner Geschäfte unites artists and shop owners and aims to discover what it means to do business in Neukölln. 5 shops will be in focus of 5 artists and art works will be produced within the shops and the shop windows.
´89 Pupils View reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. In a three days workshop more than 100 learners from the Linden High School in Johannesburg designed various bricks for „the Wall“, re- interpreted the Brandenburger Gate with African fabrics, questioned what was typical for East, and typical for West Germany, and demonstrated the re- united country. In collaboration with the South African Filmmaker Maciek Kwiecinski, some of the learners produced a Video Love Story between a woman in East Berlin, and a man in West Berlin, their despaired longing for one another, and the final unification after the Fall of the Wall.
´89 Pupils View is realized as part of the Project Cracking Walls by the Goethe Institute Johannesburg. Opening 28th Nov. 2009 at the Goethe Institute Johannesburg. Exhibition 29th Nov.- 4th Dec.
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In a world wide research, various names for the well known “polypropylene bags” have been discovered. According to those , affiliations and interpretations become clear that get even more obvious through the stories behind the bags. The names´ collection is an ongoing project. The KULTUR / BEUTEL is an implement by and for travelers, and provides space for ”collecting cultures”.
The KULTUR / BEUTEL is for sale in the Musenstube, Tellstr. 2 and in the Gallery R31, Reuterstr.31 in Berlin Neukölln.
Design: Miriam Engel & Katharina Rohde
TEK-STIL Project researches existing potentials of Berlin based young and innovative Fashion Designers and Berlin based women with migrant background that are experienced in Fashion Design, and have knowledge in the Fashion Industry generally. The Project develops ideas on how to connect those potentials, and to activate them for the upgrading of the local economical environment, which in this case is Berlin Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In Workshops and cooperations FashionEXPERTS are working together on topics like “Veiling“, “African Winter“, “Origami“, “Urban Safari“ etc. On the development of TEK-STIL products. The objects combine cultural peculiarities, and make the attempt to approximate a common identity through fashion.
funded by the German Cultural Foundation in the Fonds “Work in Future”
Exhibition from 11.01.- 03.03.2008 in the Saalbau Gallery, Berlin- Neukölln
The exhibition Desde Calí á Caracas reflects the art and creativity of people from Colombia and Venezuela to construct something out of necessity. We discuss objects and actions with an emphasis on „architecture of the moment“ ,which is indepedent from how long this moment might last. Improvisation and the provisional take over the most important part. In the architecture of improvisation all materials imagineable are being used and are creatively transformed in opposition to their original meaning.
In this exhibition one can visit a house made of various disposable materials and further photographs from the cities of Calí and Caracas.
Exhibition: 15.10.- 15.12.2007 in the Projectroom Berlin- Neukölln. In cooperation with INTRANSITos.
ABSOLUTER AUSVERKAUF!
TÜTE de LUXE entsteht aus dem Material der Taschen, die immer automatisch mit MigranntInnen in Zusammenhang gebracht werden. Die Taschen werden immer nach der Bevölkerungsgruppe benannt, die sie scheinbar am meisten nutzt; so heissen sie bei uns Türkentaschen, in der Türkei wiederum Polenkoffer. TÜTE de LUXE nutzt die Materialität und die Geschichte der Tasche als Identifikationsmerkmal und schafft durch innovatives lokales Design eine neue Identität.
Die TÜTE de LUXE ist in der Galerie R31 in der Reuterstr. 31, Berlin Neukölln im Handel erhältlich.
LAST Tüte de Luxe ON SALE!
TÜTE DE LUXE is a product made of a material that is automatically related to migrant communities. The bags are named according to those communities –or so it seems that are using them the most; therefore in Germany they are called “Turkish bags”, whereas in Turkey they are called “Polish Suitcases”. TÜTE DE LUXE uses the materiality and the story of the bag as an identification feature and creates a new identity through innovative Design.
TÜTE de LUXE is on stock in the Galerie R31, Reuterstr. 31, Berlin Neukölln.
On micro scale, the „Laboratory of Ideas Neukölln“ investigates different city patterns of the northern part of Neukölln (Berlin), tries to understand its different relationships, and uses the existing spatial, social, cultural and economical potentials as a pool of ideas from where Habitat can be newly defined, activated, and designed. Four groups of students work on four different sites on the topic of: „Local identity“, „Habitat“, „Ethnic Economies“, and „Micro- activism“. Based on the analysis, scenarios are choreographed that show discovered possibilities.
The „Laboratory of Ideas Neukölln“ develops in cooperation with Astrid Ley & Studenten of the Habitat Unit of the Technical University of Berlin
The „Hermannplatz“ is a central space occupied by different users. Upon closer examination it is clear, that those do not know about, and are hardly aiming or willing to approach each other. Three days a week the plaza transforms into a market area, which limits the possibilities of usages; homeless people e.g. are displaced. Habitat „Hermannplatz“ collects statements of different user groups regarding spatial arrangements of the market stalls that inhabit the displacement. Using a „working model“ of the plaza, different options of spatial possibilities are visualized that include the different interests and needs of the users for the „Habitat Hermannplatz“.
in cooperation with Astrid Ley & Studenten of the Habitat Unit of the Technical University of Berlin
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