Kulturpark
About
In June 2012, Kulturpark will investigate an abandoned amusement park located in the sprawling Treptow Park in Berlin. Kulturpark will be a creative investigation of these recent ruins that will embrace histories, illuminate presences, and imagine cultural futures. Kulturpark will activate this site as a place for creative exchange, site- specific art, urban design, historic memory, social connection, and public imagination. Extended collaborations with US and German universities and institutions will foster lasting global inspirations and exchanges, including the Dupont Underground redevelopment initiative in Washington DC.
History
Built along the Spree River in the Treptow Park forest, Kulturpark Plänterwald was an idyllic and unusual site for leisure built by the GDR in 1969. After the fall of the wall, the park was privatized as Spreepark, and ran until financial collapse in 2001. The surrounding Treptow District contains a complex history including the site of the 1896 Berlin Trade Exhibition, the Archenhold Observatory where Einstein first lectured on relativity, and the Soviet War Memorial with its Stalinist architectures and cold war ceremonies. The Plänterwald landscape inspires reflections on public memory, resistance, leisure, amusement, ceremony, commerce, and technology.
The Kulturpark Team is a group of four artitst-curators composed of Elsewhere directors George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman, Argentinean artist Agustina Woodgate, curator Anthony Spinello of Spinello Projects
FOLLOW THE TRACKS AT
kulturpark.org
musementpark.tumblr.com
In June 2012, Kulturpark will investigate an abandoned amusement park located in the sprawling Treptow Park in Berlin. Kulturpark will be a creative investigation of these recent ruins that will embrace histories, illuminate presences, and imagine cultural futures. Kulturpark will activate this site as a place for creative exchange, site- specific art, urban design, historic memory, social connection, and public imagination. Extended collaborations with US and German universities and institutions will foster lasting global inspirations and exchanges, including the Dupont Underground redevelopment initiative in Washington DC.
History
Built along the Spree River in the Treptow Park forest, Kulturpark Plänterwald was an idyllic and unusual site for leisure built by the GDR in 1969. After the fall of the wall, the park was privatized as Spreepark, and ran until financial collapse in 2001. The surrounding Treptow District contains a complex history including the site of the 1896 Berlin Trade Exhibition, the Archenhold Observatory where Einstein first lectured on relativity, and the Soviet War Memorial with its Stalinist architectures and cold war ceremonies. The Plänterwald landscape inspires reflections on public memory, resistance, leisure, amusement, ceremony, commerce, and technology.
The Kulturpark Team is a group of four artitst-curators composed of Elsewhere directors George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman, Argentinean artist Agustina Woodgate, curator Anthony Spinello of Spinello Projects
FOLLOW THE TRACKS AT
kulturpark.org
musementpark.tumblr.com