nGbK Berlin, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, Berlin (2026)

05/05/2026

Open Archive for Urbanism: Frauen bauen – über Architektinnen der DDR
Vortrag und Gespräch mit Birgit Szepanski

📆 Sa, 9.5.26, 17 Uhr
🗒️ Gespräch, Vortrag
🗣️ Deutsch, Englisch
📍 station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf
🎟️ Eintritt: frei

Obwohl es in der DDR mehr Architektinnen gab als im Westen – 25% der Architekt_innen waren in der DDR weiblich, in der BRD waren es nur circa 10% – waren und sind die Männer bekannter: Star-Architekten wie Hermann Henselmann, Ulrich Müther und Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut kennen viele. Doch welche namhaften Architektinnen der DDR kennen wir und was haben sie gebaut? Die Lücke in unserem Wissen und Gedächtnis ist ein Gender-Gap. Neben ihren männlichen Kollegen sichtbar zu werden, war für Architektinnen in der DDR schwierig. Zudem trug das Bauen in Kombinaten dazu bei, dass Frauen als Architektinnen in Vergessenheit gerieten. Dabei waren sie an Großbauprojekten maßgeblich beteiligt und schufen darüber hinaus eigene, innovative Bauprojekte. Frauen bauten Siedlungen und Wohnräume, sie gestalteten Plätze und repräsentative Innenräume. Die Künstlerin und Kunstwissenschaftlerin Birgit Szepanski stellt Architektinnen der DDR, ihre Biografien und Bauwerke vor und wirft einen feministischen Blick auf die Urbanität der DDR.

Foto: Wandbild in der Carola-Neher-Straße, Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Max Reinhardt Oberschule

14/04/2026

Open Archive for Urbanism: Ausstellungseröffnung
Mit einer Performance von Susanne Soldan und Beton Berlin um 18 Uhr.

📆 Sa, 18 April 26, 19 Uhr
📍 station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf

Die Ausstellung Open Archive for Urbanism – Was ist, kann und soll Stadt? versteht Stadt als Prozess und eröffnet Möglichkeiten, Lebensraum aktiv mitzugestalten: Im Mittelpunkt steht eine modulare Bibliothek, die Besucher_innen nutzen und in ihrer Anordnung verändern können. Ausgewählte Texte, Recherchen und Publikationen zu den Themen Stadt, Wohnen, Nachbarschaften, Arbeitsmigration, Platte und Großsiedlung sowie Peripherie und Zentrum  zeigen, wie Orte, Gesellschaften und Nachbarschaften bis heute geformt werden.

Künstler_innen/Artists:Manfred Butzmann, Michele Galassi, Thierry Géhin, Sonya Schönberger, Sudden Starlings Collective, Sinta WernernGbK-Arbeitsgruppe/work group station urbaner kulturen: Juan Camilo Alfonso, Jochen Becker, Eva Hertzsch, Constanze Musterer, Adam Page, Katharina Ziemke

Bild: The Yellow Room, Katharina Ziemke, 2026, digitale Fotografie

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[EN]

Open Archive for Urbanism: Opening
Featuring a performance by Susanne Soldan and Beton Berlin at 6 pm.

Understanding the city as a process, the exhibition Open Archive for Urbanism – What is the city? What can it do? What should it do? aims to open up moments for intervention and opportunities to actively shape a place to live. It is built around a modular library that visitors can use and alter in its order. Selected texts, studies, and publications on the themes of the city, accommodation, neighborhoods, labor migration, large-scale housing projects, and
periphery/center show how places, societies, and neighborhoods are formed, up to the present.

Image: The Yellow Room, Katharina Ziemke, 2026, digital photography

26/03/2026

𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎 acted as a means to remember, reflect and reconvene. It was a celebratory coming together of the many paths walked throughout the project.

Different formats of 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎 were explored over the event including a ‘Collective Installation’, where various artists shared something from their walks. For some, this took the form of a prop, a text, or a drawing, whilst other artists responded to the walk anew.

Many thanks to all the artists who contributed to the installation: Lucía Alfaro Valencia .alfarovalencia, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi , Suelen Calonga , Mirja Busch , Carolin Genz , Jane Hwang , Pol Merchan .mer & Sarah Martinus , Pitchaya Ngamcharoen .ng, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling , Liz Rosenfeld .rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew , Lauryn Youden , Alternative Monument .monument, ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand and virgil b/g taylor )

Photos by Lucía Alfaro Valencia .alfarovalencia
Installation Design by Luise Leon Elbern
With the support of Firma Lichtgitter GmbH & Co. KG for exhibition material

24/03/2026

Reflecting on the closing of 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨 year-long program with 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎 with some insights into our event program.

Live events were another format of 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑰𝑵𝑮 across the three days. While the ‚Collective Installation‘ gathered material traces from the walks, the events activated the space through shared moments of listening, conversation and performance. Contributors shared reflections on their walks through screenprinting sessions, sound, food and other performances, film screenings, readings, workshops, conversations, a book launch for our publication 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, and of course, dancing to close with a final DJ set.

With big thanks to all those who contributed to the event program: Yasmeen Al-Qaisi , Rüzgar Buşki .buski, Esquina Caliente , Suelen Calonga , Saverio Cantoni with Dana Cermane .cermane, Mahshid Mahboubifar , Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling , Liz Rosenfeld .rosenfeld, Nour Sokhon , Alternative Monument .monument, ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand and virgil b/g taylor )

Photos by Lucía Alfaro Valencia .alfarovalencia

05/03/2026

COMING SOON : QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?
Biografien zwischen Underground und Propaganda
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28 MAR - 28 JUN 2026
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Die Ausstellung „QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?“ und das umfassende Vermittlungsprogramm beleuchten q***re Künstler:innen-Positionen aus der DDR. Anhand der wechselhaften Biografien von neun Künstler:innen und ihrer Werke zeigt die Ausstellung, wie unterschiedlich die Kunstschaffenden mit den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen ihrer Zeit umgingen.
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KVOST & nGbK
Toni Ebel, Andreas F*x, Harry Hachmeister, Jochen Hass, Dorothea von Philipsborn, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Rita „Tommy“ Thomas, Jürgen Wittdorf, Egon Wrobel
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Mitte Museum
Andreas F*x, Jürgen Wittdorf
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Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge
Egon Wrobel
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Kuratiert von Stephan Koal
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Gefördert vom Hauptstadtkulturfonds und dem Berliner Beauftragen der Aufarbeitung der SED Diktatur
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Eine begleitende Publikation erscheint im
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Weitere Kooperationspartner:
, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, , , .club &
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berlin

Ebel
F*x

Hass
von Philipsborn
Stürmer-Alex
Rita Thomas
Jürgen Wittdorf

23/02/2026

𝘋𝘢𝘺 3 𝘰𝘧 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀

Across 3-days, we will gather, reflect on and celebrate the many paths walked together last year in Berlin!

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆!
Printing for Abolition with Rüzgar Buşki

𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝗽𝗺
Crossing Paths: TRACES Walk-Throughs
Walk-throughs for children and adults through the space!

𝟭–𝟮𝗽𝗺
Wie fühlt sich Geschichte an? with Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling
In this clay workshop, participants will shape monuments from the past, present, and future.

𝟮–𝟯.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺
Mind the Gap: From Critical Thinking to Epistemic Disobedience with Suelen Calonga
The workshop questions draws on epistemic disobedience to reflect on knowledge production.

𝟯.𝟯𝟬–𝟰𝗽𝗺
Pause to Question: A Monument to Migration with Alternative Monument
A pause to reflect on monuments to migration, with lokum, tea, and coffee.

𝟰.𝟯𝟬–𝟱.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺
Conversation with the FriendsssssssssSsss with ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)
The duo shares the ideas behind their walk ‘spread (after)’, part after-party, part manifesto to friendship.

𝟱.𝟯𝟬–𝟲.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺
Crossings: a deep listening encounter with Liz Rosenfeld
The artist explores q***r s*x practices as alternative modes beyond homonormative norms.

𝟲.𝟯𝟬–𝟳.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺
Embracing The Eternal Present: Crossing Thresholds, Holding Connections with handbreastheart kollektiv
This performance turns sorrow into joy through poetry, movement, and sound.

𝟳.𝟯𝟬–𝟴𝗽𝗺
Notes from Beneath the Surface with Gabriel Francisco Lemos
The artist expands his essay Silent Networks in a performative reading about fungal ecologies.

𝟴–𝟴.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
a-mal-a-malgam with Yasmeen Al-Qaisi
Yasmeen will nourish us for the full program with various dishes.

𝟴.𝟯𝟬–𝟭𝟬𝗽𝗺
DJ Set with Esquina Caliente
Esquina Caliente reclaims diasporic sounds like reggaetón and perreo.

Design by Paula Buškevica
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Photos 1,2,4,6,11,13: Lucía Alfaro Valencia. Drawing 19: Natthapong Samakkaew

More details and access information on the nGbK website.

23/02/2026

𝘋𝘢𝘺 2 𝘰𝘧 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀

Across 3-days, we will gather, reflect on and celebrate the many paths walked together last year in Berlin!

6–7pm
𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥ü𝘇𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝘂ş𝗸𝗶
Rüzgar will live screen print 400 editions sized for the publication Walk Notations. Join them to print and slide the sheet into your copy!

7–7.30 pm
𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨: 𝙍𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗸𝗵𝗼𝗻
This performance is built from recordings of participants in Nour’s walk for Dissident Paths, whose voices and responses form rhythms and cues in real time.

7.45–8.30 pm
𝘽𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙚, 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲
In the performance, Saverio and Dana interpret spoken words and sonic improvisation into German Sign Language (DGS), while exploring sonic justice through nocturnal storytelling.

8.30–9pm
𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡-𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙖𝙢 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗹-𝗤𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶
Yasmeen will nourish us for the full program with various dishes that connect with her concept of 𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡-𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙖𝙢 – an Arabic-English word construction that stands for a mass (الملغم al-malgham, amalgam) and, a mixture of hope (أمل amal).

9–10pm
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗳𝗮𝗿
Assembled from archival footage of the 2024 Palestine protests in Berlin, this 16’ film-essay focuses on police surveillance, its historical origins, militarization, and racial targeting. Screening followed by a Q&A.

nGbK work group (Traces): Clementine Butler-Gallie, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach

Design by Paula Buškevica
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Photos: 2. Lucía Alfaro Valencia; 5. Allan Whyte; 7. Sirio Magnabosco

More details and access information on the nGbK website.

19/02/2026

𝘋𝘢𝘺 1 𝘰𝘧 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀
with Walk Notations Publication Launch, Printing for Abolition with Rüzgar Buşki and a-mal-a-malgam with Yasmeen Al-Qaisi!

After one year of walks across Berlin, at the end of February we will be returning to nGbK's space for our event 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎. Across 3-days, we will gather, reflect on and celebrate the many paths walked together.

6–7pm + 9–10pm
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥ü𝘇𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝘂ş𝗸𝗶

Rüzgar Buşki will live screen print 400 editions sized for the publication Walk Notations. Join them to print and slide the sheet into your copy, as a ritual honoring those who stood their ground against police violence in Berlin.

7–8pm
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵: 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

The curators will present the book Walk Notations, which gathers traces from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method and weaves together artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections.

8–9pm
𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡-𝙖-𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙖𝙢 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗹-𝗤𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶

Yasmeen Al-Qaisi invites us to break fast with a-mal-a-malgham, a nourishing mash of grains and stories. Through this collective meal, we honor the sweetness of flowers, fruits, and spices against purity-claiming politics, guided by the knowledge of grandmothers and grain-mothers, as guests put intention into eating together.

Contributors: Lucía Alfaro Valencia, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Elena Biserna, Mirja Busch, Rüzgâr Buşki, Suelen Calonga, Saverio Cantoni & Dana Cermane, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, Carolin Genz, Jane Hwang, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Pol Merchan & Sarah Martinus, Harun Morrison, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Minh Duc Pham, Liz Rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Nour Sokhon, Lauryn Youden, Alternative Monument, hand breast heart kollektiv, House’ it going? (Laura Margarete Bertelt & Uli Kneisl), Project In/Visibility (Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute), ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)

Design by Paula Buškevica
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Photos 1, 2 & 6: Lucía Alfaro Valencia

More details and access information on the nGbK

18/02/2026

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀

After one year of walks across Berlin, at the end of February we will be returning to nGbK's space for our event 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙎.
Across 3-days, we will gather, reflect on and celebrate the many paths walked together.

Check out our program which will include sound performances, readings, workshops, conversations and collective meals.
The space will also see a collective installation of traces by some of the artists who led walks, as well as a kid's corner, a library and a screenprinting workshop area.

You will also get a first look at our publication 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 which includes essays or interludes (drawings, sketches, scores, poems, performance scripts, notes and more) that form further traces of the project.

See you there!

Contributors: Lucía Alfaro Valencia, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Elena Biserna, Mirja Busch, Rüzgâr Buşki, Suelen Calonga, Saverio Cantoni, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, Carolin Genz, Jane Hwang, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Pol Merchan & Sarah Martinus, Harun Morrison, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Minh Duc Pham, Liz Rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Nour Sokhon, Lauryn Youden, Alternative Monument, hand breast heart kollektiv, House’ it going? (Laura Margarete Bertelt & Uli Kneisl), Project In/Visibility (Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute), ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)

nGbK work group: Clementine Butler-Gallie, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach, Sarnt Utamachote

Design by Paula Buškevica
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

More details and access information to be released on the nGbK website.

27/01/2026

Vorspiel transmediale × CTM
Symposium:
In Medias Rest — Sharing Approaches to Archive Access and Activation: Audience Outreach, Rights and Technical Issues

Im ersten Roundtable werden Initiativen vorgestellt, die experimentelle, subversive und „marginalisierte” audiovisuelle Praktiken der Vergangenheit sichtbar und zugänglich machen und gleichzeitig ein neues Publikum ansprechen oder zukünstlerischem Schaffen inspirieren. In der zweiten Sitzung werden die Herausforderungen diskutiert, die obsolete Speichermedien, eingestellte Internetplattformen und Urheberrechtsfragen darstellen, und mögliche Lösungen vorgestellt.

Gäste / Referent_innen:
Flóra Barkóczi (Central European Research Institute for Art History), Jennifer Helia DeFelice (Vašulka Kitchen Brno), Paul Klimpel (iRights.info), Malve Lippmann (Sinema Transtopia), Lucia Repašská (D’epog), Anna Schäffler (Art Doc Archive)

Bild Credits: © Krumma Films

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