6 December 2024
– 16 February 2025
Opening hours
Wed–Sun, 3–8PM
OPENING VERNISSAGE
Thursday, 5 December 2024
7PM
featuring Susanne Wartzeck (President BDA), Océane Vé-Réveillac, Silja Glomb (Curatorial team) and Laura Holzberg (DAZ)
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.
FURTHER DATES AND EVENTS
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
7PM
Gurbet artık bir ev / Gurbet is a home now
Film by Pınar Öğrenci. Screening und talks with Niloufar Tajeri and Pınar Öğrenci
Cover: Dessauer Straße 38–49 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Architect: Myra Warhaftig 1993, photographer: Tarek Megahed / DAZ 2024
This project is funded by the Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte and kindly supported by Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin, Department of Art, Culture and History.
