Public guided tour
on the history of KW:
KW, a hike
Tour through the streets into the past of KW with Raoul Zöllner
- 16 April 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (English)
Next dates:
- 14. May 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (German)
- Register via mediation@kw-berlin.de
Free admission. Limited number of participants.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023. Photo: Frank Sperling
In the early 1990s, KW Institute for Contemporary Art was founded in a former margarine factory. Their history is inseparably linked to that of their neighborhood, the surrounding streets and its buildings.
To understand KW’s historical entanglements, we embark on a walking tour of boarded-up buildings, underground garages, distant domes over burial chambers, communist clubhouses, and the courtyard of a collector who lives in a former nationalized factory. A view of a distant skyscraper overshadowing Soviet-era relics on Alexanderplatz marks the end of our tour of KW’s neighboring streets.