Statista : towards a statecraft of the future : KW Institute for Contemporary Art = Staatskunst am Haus der Statistik : Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik KZ/U / editor ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik und KW Institute for Contemporay Art ; translations, Jill Denton.

Zürich. Switzerland : Park Books, [2020]
©2020

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 x 14 cm

Just a few years ago, the Haus der Statistik (HdS) at Berlin?s Alexanderplatz seemed doomed. Built by a collective of architects in the 1960s to house the German Democratic Republic?s (GDR) office of statistics, the HdS was slated to be replaced by a new commercial structure. Yet in September 2015, the Berlin Alliance of Artists? Studios Under Threat succeeded with undertaking a daring art intervention, covering most of the building?s main façade with a giant banner to announce the opening of a new center for all manners of social and cultural purposes. It was the largely symbolic first step in a story of preservation and reuse that has come to seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy: Today, the HdS is a unique, pioneering project collectively led by a broad coalition of actors in the interests of collaborative urban development.00STATISTA, one of the art projects located at the HdS, explores how a cooperative urban development guided by common welfare could work in the long term.

9783038601883 (paperback)
3038601888 (paperback)

Haus der Statistik (Berlin, Germany)
Art and state Germany Berlin.
Art, German 21st century.
Art Politique gouvernementale Allemagne Berlin.
Art and state
Art, German
Germany Berlin

Haus der Statistik (Berlin, Germany), issuing body.
ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin, Germany), issuing body, editor.
Kunst-Werke Berlin, issuing body, editor.
Statista.
Statista. German.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 308812
Cote: BIB 254143
Statut: Disponible