Weds. 28.06.2023 | 19:00-22:00
with: Joshua Zielinski
curated by: BETON Berlin
Exhibition, Installation in public space
Platz der Vereinten Nationen
10249 Berlin - Friedrichshain
An open square. A public square. A large, wide square. To have space, to have room. Spaces. Spaces that could be filled. Spaces that were full. Empty urban space.
Urban space is scarce. It’s getting denser. Space has to be made again. Empty space, empty space which could be filled. Place. Places that are blocked. Blocked in. Parking spaces. Missing. Places that are missing. Missing space. Out of place. Empty places, empty spaces. Bleak or the highest good.
For BETON Berlin 11 in cooperation with the Project Space Festival, Joshua Zielinski will engage with an area of public space in Berlin-Friedrichshain and thematize its latently existing emptiness.
His temporary intervention for this site is directly linked to a kind of palpable and imposing absence and reflects on the spatial, social and historical background of the space and the connections to current urban development in Berlin. The site serves not only as a location and basis for his intervention, but is also a discursive space between past, present and future.
Beton (concrete) is a building material that is generally associated with strength, durability, power and mass. The BETON Berlin project initiative questions precisely these general associations in the context of Berlin's urban development and turns its attention to the delicate and vulnerable structures of public space. Supposedly invisible areas of urban space, forgotten places or oppressive spatial situations become a temporary stage within the exhibition project.
Together with BETON Berlin, artists will bring new attention to these places of public space and consciously interfere in the space with their actions and open up a discourse.
The site-independent exhibition initiative acts flexibly and ephemerally. In collaboration with the artists, the aim is not only to refer to specific spatial aspects, but also to the increasing commercialisation and marketing of everything public.
BETON Berlin is an initiative following the projects ADN Pförtnerhaus, Statsion, Tacho, CNTRM, when the image is new, the world is new, and STRouX, initiated by Christof Zwiener.
Seating: Park benches
Age groups: Suitable for all ages. Parents are responsible for their children.
Languages: No language skills required
Wheelchair users | Buggies: Accessible at ground level
Hearing impaired | Deaf people: Accessible
Neurodiversity: we meet through artistic work
Blind people: Can be accompanied to feel the artwork