Public guided tour
on the history of KW:
KW, a hike

 

Tour through the streets into the past of KW with Raoul Zöllner 

 

  1. 14 May 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (German)
  2. Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Meeting Point in the courtyard

 

Next dates:

  1. 14 May 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (German)
  1. 25 June 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (English)
  2. 16 July 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (German)
  3. 13 August 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (English)
  4. 10 September 2023, 11 am -12.30 pm (German)
  5.  
  6. Register via this link through Museumsdienst Berlin
    Free admission. Limited number of participants.

 

<p>KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023. Photo: Frank Sperling</p>

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.