Three construction signs that announce the development of fictional buildings with utopian architecture are installed in several public parks and greens of the borough of Gesundbrunnen. Autarkic skyscrapers shall be “built”, making a luxurious and “safe” life with integrated social infrastructures (shopping malls, parks etc.) in the metropolis possible. These chimerical buildings caricature the representative buildings and city quarters developed by the private business sector that increasingly shape the cityscape of Berlin. This artwork deals with the growing gentrification of traditional working class boroughs in the former eastern part of the city by transferring them to the poor area of Gesundbrunnen. It is an ironic comment on the changing relationship between public and private space.

Site
Ackerstraße 81, Ackerstraße 83-84

Time
April 15 to May 6, 2007
Niklas Goldbach will give an Artist Talk (in German) at the uib headquarters on April 19 at 7 pm where he will present Refugiå – new ways of living and other works. At 8.30 pm he will present a screening of selected video works.

Photo credit: Niklas Goldbach

Photo credit: Daniela Friebel

Niklas Goldbach (DE)
Niklas Goldbach was born in Witten in 1973. He studied photography, experimental media art and integrative media art. His main focus is on video art. Since 2001, his works have been shown frequently in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Niklas Goldbach currently lives and works in Berlin.
www.niklasgoldbach.de

Photo credit: Daniela Friebel

Thanks to the Gewerbesiedlungsgesellschaft (GSG).