Exhibition
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Akademie der Künste, Berlin

The Great Repair

The current social and ecological crises are forcing us to rethink our practices: away from exploitation, exhaustion and waste, towards a careful approach to our living environment. The exhibition The Great Repair at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, presents over 40 positions from art and architecture as well as spatial practices in which repair becomes tangible as a new design paradigm. It starts with the exhibition building and makes visible processes and spaces of maintenance and care. Its scale ranges from everyday practices of care to examples of a building practice that relies on working with the existing instead of new construction.

The Great Repair is a project by ARCH+ gGmbH in cooperation with Akademie der Künste, Berlin, ETH Zurich Department of Architecture and the Faculté des Sciences Humaines at University of Luxembourg.

Contributors are Assemble, Kader Attia, Atelier Bow-Wow, Brenne Architekten with Jana Haibach / TU München & HfBK Dresden and the AdK Baukunstarchiv (Architecture Archives), Manuel Chavajay, Santiago del Hierro with AWAI and the Cabildo Inga de Mocoa, Kathrin Dörfler, Edit, Anna Heringer, Florian Hertweck / Master’s in Architecture, University of Luxembourg, Manuel Herz, Hans Hortig, Interboro, Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Lacaton & Vassal, Mierle Laderman Ukeles / Bettina Knaup, Silke Langenberg, Limbo Accra, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Mapping Ukraine ETH Zürich, Material Cultures, Riccardo McAvinue / Kleine Gebäudereinigung, Ana Miljački, Sarah Nichols, Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama, Marjetica Potrč, Bas Princen, Maksym Rokmaniko / Center for Spatial Technologies, Sakiya (Palestine), Alexander Stumm, Paulo Tavares, Milica Topalović / Architecture of Territory ETH Zürich, UVW-SAW, Michael Wolf, ZAS*, and others.

The Great Repair, Installation view. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view: Kader Attia, Hypomnemata, 2023. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Inga People of Columbia, Awaska Alpawoven territory, 2023. Background: Marjetica Potrč, _The Time on the Lachlan River, 2022. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Atelier Bow-Wow, Solar Garden, 2023. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Studio Anna Heringer, Dipdii Textiles, seit 2012. Background: Takhayali, Takhayali Ein Qiniya!, 2022. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Architecture of Territory, Power to the People, 2022–2023. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Cart, 2013. Background: Christine Jiayi Chen/Kristina Shatokhina/Wilhelm Gardeleone, After Parking, 2023. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Assemble, Methods of Assembly, seit 2020. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Foreground: Material Cultures, Paludiculture Construction Fragments, 2023. Background: Assemble, Methods of Assembly, seit 2020. Photograph © David von Becker.
The Great Repair, Installation view. Lidia Atanasova/Kathrin Dörfler, Diversifying Construction, 2022–2023. Photograph © David von Becker.

See also

Book

The Great Repair
ARCH+

Lecture

The Great Repair: Launch
ARCH+ #250 Editors in conversation with Marc Angélil, Silke Langenberg, Momoyo Kaijima, Bas Princen and other guests

Book

The Great Repair
ARCH+

Book

The Great Repair
ARCH+

Exhibition

Awaska Alpa_woven Territory
Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Exhibition

In the Shadow of the Palms
Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Fall 2023
Elective

Projects on Territory
Power to the People
Building a Common Model