neue Gesellschaft
für bildende Kunst

Von Karl zu Cotti
Meeting point: Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, 10178 Berlin
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The walk starts at the new location of the nGbK in Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse and leads via the subway line U5 to the station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf at Cottbusser Platz.

The nGbK's location in Hellersdorf was initiated by members who have been active in this late-GDR housing project since 2014. Over time, it has become an exhibition and event space, and a place for artists and local residents to work together, with activities including forms of urban practice as well as open-air events and exhibitions in the nearby green land, known as Place Internationale.

Using the programme title "Utopian", the station urbaner kulturen focuses in 2023 on the question of how we can think about the day after tomorrow in the face of the crises and dystopias of today. To start the year, the station will be transformed into a work and presentation space focusing on the theme "School of the Future« (until 27.5.). Here, a working group consisting of residents, artists, educators, urbanists and academics is exploring concepts for the future of education in Hellersdorf. This working process is complimented by three large photo panels by the artists Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber (Vancouver/Vienna). These photographic “diagrams” have been specially conceived for the workspace and show campuses, learning spaces, libraries, pavilions, schools and modernist university architecture, taken mainly from the artists' own archive. They focus on education as a societal infrastructure, a formal language and as an architecture in social use. The workspace will also be used to plan an "outdoor classroom" for the neighbouring green land called Place Internationale on Maxie-Wander-Strasse. For this purpose, a former Dresdner Bank trade fair pavilion built in 1971 by Heinz Scheid (ABB Architekten) will be renovated and erected with local school pupils from May 2023.