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In 2023, the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) again presents the results of the international art competition “Art in the Underground,” this year under the title New Urban Publics. The six selected artistic positions, which will be on display from June 8 through August 10 in public locations, connect Berlin’s subway system with urban spaces above ground, while covering the entire network via the in-train info screens. |
nGbK work group: Lorena Juan, Marenka Krasomil, Isabelle Meiffert, Mirko Winkel, Sandra Teitge. Assistance: Manon Frugier
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Art in the Underground 2022/23: New Urban Publics
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Interventions and event in public space
June 8 – August 10, 2023
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On June 8, 2023, Art in the Underground 2022/23: New Urban Publics opens with a wrestling performance at Berlin’s town hall, the Rotes Rathaus.
Artists:
Irene Fernández Arcas
Sunny Pfalzer
Julieta Ortiz de Latierro
image-shift
Liminal Beast of Prey
Chargé (Sinzo Aanza, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Falonne Mambu, Nada Tshibwabwa, Ralf Wendt and Elsa Westreicher)
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Thu, June 8, 2023
20:00–22:00 (en) |
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Core of Genesis
Wrestling Match by Liminal Beast of Prey
Location: Square in front of Rotes Rathaus, corner Karl-Liebknecht-Straße / Spandauer Straße |
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Fri, June 9, 2023
18:30 (de/en) |
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Performance Collaboration
by Franka Marlene Foth and Irene Fernández Arcas (as part the work Inner Care in Public Spaces)
followed by a Get-together at Südblock (from 19:00)
Location: Exit U Kottbusser Tor opposite to Südblock |
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Sat, June 10, 2023
16:00 (de/en) |
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Scores for Fake Authenticity
Performance by Sunny Pfalzer
Location: U Strausberger Platz, Meeting point: Exit C, Karl-Marx-Allee / Lebuser Straße |
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Thu, June 15, 2023
20:00 (de/en) |
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Collective Listening
Audio tour with Irene Fernández Arcas (as part of the work Inner Care in Public Spaces)
Location: Kottbusser Tor, on the platform of U1
Please bring a smartphone and headphones. |
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Fri, June 16, 2023
16:00 (de/en) |
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Scores for Fake Authenticity
Walk + Talk Performance by Sunny Pfalzer with Fadescha
Location: U-Bhf Strausberger Platz, Meeting point: Exit C, Karl-Marx-Allee / Lebuser Straße |
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Sat, June 17, 2023
16:00 (de/en) |
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Scores for Fake Authenticity
Performance by Sunny Pfalzer
Location: U-Bhf Strausberger Platz, Meeting point: Exit C, Karl-Marx-Allee / Lebuser Straße |
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Sat, July 8, 2023
15:00 (de/fr/en)
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Sat, July 8, 2023
16:00 (de/fr/en) |
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Chargé
Performance in public space
Location: Strausberger Platz, details after announcement |
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Sat, July 8, 2023
18:00 (de/en/ar/tr)
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Workshop – with registration
with Julieta Ortiz de Latierro
Location: blog_huette at Kottbusser Tor (Courtyard 87, accessible via Admiralstraße 37 or Kottbusser Straße 6, at the Elefantenspielplatz) |
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Tue, July 11, 2023
20:30 (de/en) |
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Film ScreeningsGurbet artık bir ev / Gurbet is a home (2021; 63 min.) by Pınar Öğrenci Miete Essen Seele Auf (2015; 54 min.) by Angelika Levi
Location: fsk - Kino am Oranienplatz |
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Fri, July 14, 2023
16:00 (de/fr/en) |
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Chargé
Performance in public space
Location: Strausberger Platz, details after announcement |
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Fri, July 14, 2023
19:00 (de)
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Sat, July 15, 2023
18:00 (de)
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Guided walk
with Sandy Kaltenborn
Meeting point: Gecekondu (wooden house next to Südblock at Kottbusser Tor)
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Based on the idea of the square as a place of public interest, as a meeting point, and discursive arena, three Berlin squares and their subway stations serve as a starting point for performances and interventions. The Kottbusser Tor, the Strausberger Platz and the square in front of the Rotes Rathaus are architecturally striking and extremely different, partly cut by streets or spanned by bridges and elevated railways, partly classically symmetrical with a fountain as the central element. This urban and public space is used in various ways and for different means: traffic, consumption, play, communication, or recreation. The selected artistic works question or reinforce these uses.
Irene Fernández Arcas is interested in the healing potential of art; focusing on the neoliberal exploitation of self-care, body, and mind, her work examines the desire to achieve intimacy and make connections in urban settings.
A digital project by the collective image-shift from Sandy Kaltenborn, Athena Javanmardi and Paco Camberlin counters the oversimplified media image of Kottbusser Tor as a problem zone with a view of its many-layered social fabric.
Julieta Ortiz de Latierro’s three-part project consists of a photographic intervention at Kottbusser Tor subway station, a one-day workshop in a nearby park, and a video produced as part of Art in the Underground and shown on in-train info-screens throughout Berlin’s public transport network.
In Sunny Pfalzer’s durational performance at Strausberger Platz, three performers explore the tensions between gender diversity and the binary gaze with which queer bodies are confronted in public space.
For the project Chargé, six artists (Sinzo Aanza, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Falonne Mambu, Nada Tshibwabwa, Ralf Wendt, and Elsa Westreicher) from Germany and the Democratic Republic of Congo, come to Strausberger Platz with performances, literature, sound works, and graphics that criticize exploitation and consumerism.
Core of Genesis is an artistic wrestling performance that addresses current global political concerns. With the help of humor, storytelling, choreography, and combat tricks, the collective Liminal Beast of Prey creates an unconventional show chock-full of energy that provides space for often-invisible narratives, celebrates queer identities and expresses post-capitalist desires. |
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Historical development of the “Art in the Underground” competition
Originally called “Art Instead of Advertising,” the competition was first held in East Berlin in 1958, with entrants asked to submit posters for peace. The works were shown on platform billboards at Alexanderplatz subway station. Whereas many East German institutions were dissolved or renamed after 1989, this competition survived in its original form. Since the early 1990s, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) has been realizing projects in cooperation with Berlin’s Senate Office for Culture under the title “Art in the Underground” with artworks in or near subway stations. |
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Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community |
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