Katharina Rohde

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.

The Video “Living Megastructures” shows Interviews with Caraqueños about the daily usage of two megastructures; the new constitution of the bolivarian Republic of Venezuela & the insurgent & informal urban planning of the historically and politically central slum 23 de Enero.

The answers of architecs, activists, government experts, artists and people living at 23 de Enero investigate the relationships between this two producing forces that form Caracas. The borders of appropriation are challenged by new spatial and social interactions that strike down the suppressing local modernity & and opens up to a greater social participation.

In collaboration with Bitter/ Weber www.lot.at