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Chant Your Euro Song

In Sonsbeek KR aspires to create a juxtaposition of the idyllic beauty of the Sonsbeek park and the current human crisis at the southern borders of Europe by installing a ‚parliament‘ built from the most prominent object and symbol of migration over water: the life vest. This...


Oracle of Uljanovsk (2015)

Interactive Installation at ‚Park Druschba‘ - the former park representing the friendship of Soviet republics.

In the former park of friendship in the city of Uljanovsk (the city of birth of Wladimir Lenin,) KUNSTrePUBLIK builds an oracle.Placed in the compound of the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, KUNSTrePUBLIK is using the existing decaying structure of the former pavilion and...


Tor des Westens

Portalwaschanlage

An der Autobahn A40, der wichtigsten Verkehrsader durch das Ruhrgebiet wendet sich KUNSTrePUBLIK an die fahrende Bevölkerung.  Das Waschportal „Tor des Westens“ dient als Begrüßungsportal für diejenigen, die aus fernen Ländern nach Deutschland kommen, um mit uns weiter am...


S E N E N

Jakarta Biennale 2013

Senen Market is one of the oldest markets in the center of Jakarta.  The diversity of tradtional and contemporary products and services is overwhelming.  The informal character of the market makes it difficult for authorities to control and regulate the activities. Therefor...


Fountains of D.C.

Public Art Commission, March 21 – April 30 2012, Washington D.C., USA

A mobile replica of the Temperance Fountain located in Penn Quarter is touring D.C. as a tool of protest. KUNSTrePUBLIK’s work is inspired by the relationships of two significant periods in DC’s history – the 19th century Temperance Movement and the 20th century Straight Edge...


Arc de Gorg

June 04–05 2011 ARC DE GORG at the German Week in Barcelona

Where the housing market suffer, trade sputters, and weeds flourish, we introduce the Arc de Gorg!In September 2011, a new landmark will be erected on the stalled development of the Badalona port:  a grand archway uniting the area’s history with its future. The new monument will...


Halle alle

KUNSTrePUBLIK project, Werkleitz Festival 2010, Angst in Form

The highest point in a place is generally a sacred building that marks the centre of a local community: a church or a pinnacle of commerce – whereby these are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Halle in central Germany, it is the Red Tower: a bell tower that still, five...


Solares Santos

Realised in May 8–15, 2010 as part of MuchosMasMayo Festival, Cartagena, Spain

The downtown of the Spanish port city, Cartagena, has been undergoing dramatic transformations and development. Quarters formerly inhabited by families and migrant workers were torn down in order to give the city a makeover. Many of these buildings were partially protected for...


Land's End

Wunderland exhibition series, January 24 – February 14, 2010

During this frigid winter month, six burnt-out and charred luxury cars line a vacant lot, which is advertised to become the future neighborhood of La Dolce Vita. Melodic sounds and voices emanate from inside the wrecked and blackened cars penetrating the cold air. The cars enact...


Sky Limit Walled City

November 2008

Platform for Public Art in Old Town (Walled City), Lahore, Pakistan KUNSTrePUBLIK rented a rooftop and loft space for the production, exhibition, and viewing of public art and discourse. Sky Limit Walled city sits peacefully above the hectic and dense market of Lahore’s...


Landreform exhibition series

November 2008 - March 2009

The land of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is in a state urban transformation. With the recent economic downturn notwithstanding, development is on the horizon. Both municipal authorities and private investors have been drawing up plans for this downtown wasteland, which was once...


Carousel

5th berlin biennial – Skulpturenpark night event on June 10, 2008

In 1918, Irving Berlin penned the patriotic, "God Bless America". Twenty two years later and considering Berlin’s lyrics unrealistic and complacent, Woody Guthrie wrote his own American anthem, "This Land Is Your Land". The song celebrated the country’s land while protesting its...


Bestandsaufnahme

November 12, 2006

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum GRAND OPENING In November 2006, Skulpturenpark had officially appropriated two city blocks for a sculpture park in downtown Berlin. Altogether the blocks contained 62 vacant lots for prospective real estate. The park has since grown to include...