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 „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

A large prison is located in a residential area in southern Munich, where societal harmony & societal sanctions face each other as parallel worlds. White Spots intervenes in this district with cars of the same colour which fluctuate through the streets following a secret choreography.
A collaboration at a project by raumlaborberlin on innvitation by Ortstermine06, Cultural Department of the City of Munich. www.raumlabor-berlin.de