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We Are the City. Contemporary Art and Community Participation Strategies in Berlin.

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a lecture by Thomas Koehler, Director of Berlinische Galerie, on “We Are the City. Contemporary Art & Community Participation Strategies in Berlin.”

In this lecture, Thomas Koehler will tackle questions pertaining to what defines quality of life in growing metropolises. It is becoming ever more urgent to find answers to this topical question. Berlin, like New York, is a rapidly growing metropolis and finds itself as a focal point of diverging interest in the city and its design.

This lecture will outline the different strategies proposed and developed by several groups of artists, architects, and urbanists on how to best include Berlin’s population in the decision-making process and re-appropriate the public space, and will present some of the most striking examples.

Thomas Köhler received an M.A. in Art History, Classical Archaeology, and Romance Philology at the University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1994, and obtained his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis on Donald Judd’s architectures. He was a researcher at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Curator in Residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Program Director of the program 100 Days – 100 Guests at documenta X in Kassel, acting head of the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg, and from 2008 to 2010 Deputy Director of the Berlinische Galerie with responsibility for its collections and exhibition program, until his appointment in September 2010 as Director to Berlin’s public museum of modern art, photography, and architecture. He has curated exhibitions on Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Bernard Frize, Franz Ackermann, Björn Dahlem, and Arno Brandlhuber.

Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to [email protected]. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited; please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you.











When: Fri., Apr. 7, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Where: Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
212-998-8660
Price: Free
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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a lecture by Thomas Koehler, Director of Berlinische Galerie, on “We Are the City. Contemporary Art & Community Participation Strategies in Berlin.”

In this lecture, Thomas Koehler will tackle questions pertaining to what defines quality of life in growing metropolises. It is becoming ever more urgent to find answers to this topical question. Berlin, like New York, is a rapidly growing metropolis and finds itself as a focal point of diverging interest in the city and its design.

This lecture will outline the different strategies proposed and developed by several groups of artists, architects, and urbanists on how to best include Berlin’s population in the decision-making process and re-appropriate the public space, and will present some of the most striking examples.

Thomas Köhler received an M.A. in Art History, Classical Archaeology, and Romance Philology at the University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1994, and obtained his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis on Donald Judd’s architectures. He was a researcher at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Curator in Residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Program Director of the program 100 Days – 100 Guests at documenta X in Kassel, acting head of the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg, and from 2008 to 2010 Deputy Director of the Berlinische Galerie with responsibility for its collections and exhibition program, until his appointment in September 2010 as Director to Berlin’s public museum of modern art, photography, and architecture. He has curated exhibitions on Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Bernard Frize, Franz Ackermann, Björn Dahlem, and Arno Brandlhuber.

Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to [email protected]. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited; please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you.

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