art-based commoning

10th semester - Febuary 2022
group seminar

“Spatial interdependence between cultural and urban policy
using the example of Berlin project spaces”
Prof. Dagmar Pelger, Prof. Séverine Marguin
Universität der Künste Berlin + Technische Universität Berlin

“Self-managed art, culture, and project spaces in Berlin have always been, and are again increasingly, part of an—often resistant—urban development from below. Threatened by the pressure of financialization, precarization, displacement, and appropriation, these spaces are also places of an urban subsistence economy (...) Until the mid-2010s, there were still around 150 project spaces in Berlin (...), which represented a unique situation worldwide, and which also became an important resource for Berlin’s city marketing. (...) Today, (...), the availability of spaces has decreased significantly in the wake of the exponential rent increases and the space situation has become much more acute for artists and cultural workers”

aus der Veröffentlichung in OnCurating / Issue 54, Nov 2022