KUNSTrePUBLIK (Germany)

The artist collective KUNSTrePUBLIK has been working in the public sphere for more than 10 years. Through tangible projects they have been exploring the potentials and limitations of art for citizens to freely express or to be represented by the action and physical outcome of KUNSTrePUBLIK’s work.
KUNSTrePUBLIK’S approach is driven by the site and crosses architectural, artistic and political means of creating projects:
KUNSTrePUBLIK has been creating an oracle that allows citizens to anonymously pose and answer unwanted and otherwise censored questions in Uljanovsk, Russia, it has build a mobile 'protest-fountain' in Washington D.C., it created a huge advertising cube for unrepresented vendors in a market district of Jakarta and created an opera in burned cars, to withstand upcoming gentrification.
KUNSTrePUBLIK’s approach includes curatorial work to capture a broader social picture: the collective has initiated ‚Archipel Invest‘ - a series of projects to outline micro-economical futures of the post-industrial Ruhr-area, it was running the ‚Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum‘, an inner-city wasteland, that served as a venue for discussing urban dynamics with subversive means and has created a series of projects named ‚Angst in Form‘ revealing human fears in Halle/Saale.
KUNSTrePUBLIK is the organization behind ZK/U - Center for Arts and Urbanistics - exploring urban communication structures and implementing experiments and projects that foster the conversation between diverse stakeholders in the urban arena.
The ZK/U is located in a neighborhood with various conflicts, that are due to the polarity of backgrounds: more established ‘middle-class’ citizens, precarious 1st and 2nd generation migrants and newly arriving groups of refugees. Therefor ZK/U particularly aims at (re)activating the social and spatial relationship between individuals and groups, that are divided by differences of education, income, gender and ethnic background.
KUNSTrePUBLIK is a founding member of the initiative ‚Haus der Statistik‘, which aims at activating an abandoned building in the centre of Berlin, to be used for integration of artists, refugees and social initiatives.

Members of the artist collective KUNSTrePUBLIK are
Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst and Harry Sachs

www.kunstrepublik.de
www.zku-berlin.org
www.skulpturenpark.org
www.archipel-invest.eu
www.hausderstatistik.org