Dessauer Strasse and other stories on emancipatory housing

6 December 2024
– 16 February 2025

Opening hours
Wed–Sun, 3–8PM

DATES AND EVENTS

Opening vernissage
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 7PM
featuring Susanne Wartzeck (President BDA), Océane Vé-Réveillac, Silja Glomb (Curatorial team) and Laura Holzberg (DAZ)

Film and talks: Gurbet artık bir ev / Gurbet is a home now
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 7PM
Film by Pınar Öğrenci; Screening und film talk featuring Pınar Öğrenci (filmmaker), Niloufar Tajeri (architect and researcher), Océane Vé-Réveillac, Silja Glomb (curators), hosted and moderated by Tarek Megahed (DAZ)

Guided Tour and Talks
Sunday, 12 January 2025, 4PM
Sunday, 19 January 2025, 4PM
Sunday, 24 January 2025, 5PM
by Océane Vé-Réveillac, Silja Glomb (curators)

The so-called Block 2 on Dessauer Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg (built 1986–93) exemplifies a housing production that implements diverse sociocultural realities both conceptually and structurally; it further represents a pursuit of planning and construction processes in which women are equally involved. Groups like the Feminist Organization of Women Planners and Architects (FOPA) have been advocating such demands since 1981. Embedded in this increasingly progressive women‘s movement in architecture and urban politics, women architects such as Zaha Hadid, Myra Warhaftig, and Christine Jachmann managed to realize their specific ideas of emancipatory housing on Dessauer Strasse, as part of the IBA Berlin 1987.

For the exhibition, the two curators, Océane Vé-Réveillac and Silja Glomb, have compiled a variety of stories of past and present stakeholders and residents of the buildings. Drawings, models, writings, and correspondence are superimposed both contextually and spatially with interviews, videos, and photography.

Thus, the Dessauer Strasse not only retraces a diverse culture of emancipatory architecture and living environments since the early 1980s but raises questions about the need and reality of affordable, pluralistic, and socially just housing production to this day.

Further featured artists and filmmakers: Pınar Öğrenci, Aline Bonvin Diarra, Sver Immel, Hanna Prenzel, Marisa Reichert, Poligonal and Rory Midhani.

PEOPLE INVOLVED

CURATORS
Océane Vé-Réveillac and Silja Glomb

SCENOGRAPHIC CONCEPT
Océane Vé-Réveillac, Silja Glomb and Tarek Megahed

CURATORIAL ASSISTANCE
Grete Akinyi Ohlendorf

DAZ TEAM
Laura Holzberg, Tarek Megahed and Daniela Jung

FEATURED ARTISTS
Aline Bonvin Diarra, Sver Immel, Hanna Prenzel Pınar Ögrenci,
Marisa Reichert and Poligonal with Rory Midhani

EXHIBITION AND CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
und.studio and Anna-Krisztina Máthé

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Studio Böreck

EXHIBITION SETUP
Kai Pfeiffer and Efgan Fahrali

Cover: Dessauer Straße 38–49 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Architect: Myra Warhaftig 1993, photographer: Tarek Megahed / DAZ 2024