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Architecture of Storage

Exhibition at DAZ

24.03.2018 - 20.05.2018 D A Z — Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

Exhibition: 24.03.2018 – 20.05.2018, Wed – Sun 3 – 8 pm

Freeports, data centres, self-storage facilities, museum archives – all part of an ever growing landscape that tends to remain at the edge of our daily attention. Usually unspectacular, its functionalist architecture is inseparable from its content and requirements: security, accessibility, and flexibility. The motives for storage are manifold: from downsizing in response to worsening housing crisis to stowing away private high-value assets secure and tax-free. The storage of information in the form of bytes – be it the warehousing of our knowledge or the marketing of our digital identities – and with it, the notion of dematerialisation increasingly shapes the general understanding of what storage is.

The exhibition brings together artists, architects, researchers, and businesses to take a look at both shelving and shelved.

Exhibition “Architecture of Storage” at DAZ

With contributions by Atelier d’Architecture 3bm3 (Geneva), Petra Beck (Berlin), Alice Creischer (Berlin), Liam Gillick & Hollwich Kushner (New York City), Aaron Flint Jamison (Portland), Martti Kalliala (Berlin), John Kelsey (New York City), Kaspar Müller (Zurich/Berlin), MyPlace (Munich), Gili Tal (London) und Studio Christian Wassmann (New York City).

The exhibition is curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, processing by Noah Barker.
“Architecture of Storage” is supported by the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council.

Opening hours
Wed – Sun 3 – 8 pm
At the Gallery Weekend 2018, April 28 – 29, there will be special opening hours: 12 am – 8 pm. On April 28, at 4 pm there will be a tour with the curators.

Foto: Till Budde — Exhibition “Architecture of Storage” at DAZ

At the opening on March 23, 2018, Thomas Welter, General Secretary BDA, spoke along with the curators Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff and DAZ Artistic Director Matthias Böttger.

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With Laura Holzberg and Alesa Mustar, the German Architecture Center DAZ has a new curatorial and artistic direction since this year.

While Laura Holzberg has already been accompanying the DAZ for ten years, Alesa Mustar joined the team in 2020. The two of them are dedicated to social issues on a social, political and spatial level beyond architecture. Thus, the new dual leadership started in September with a series of talks dealing with socio-cultural paradigm shifts and the related questions of equitable space production. They understand the DAZ as an enabling and discursive space.

“In terms of the DAZ, I see the idea of a Support Structure as something that provides a basic structure within which potential can be released. DAZ as a place for encounter and exchange, where current social and architectural issues are negotiated.” (Holzberg, curator and space strategist)

“Interacting with the public means being in constant correlation with our target groups, which describe a wide range: From academia, politics, construction to artists, activists and designers. We take up current processes and debates and see ourselves as social researchers with a resonance space – the DAZ – which may be a platform of expression and mediator.” (Mustar, curator and urbanist)

The German Architecture Center DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects BDA. It is a laboratory of ideas, a place of exchange, mediation and debate.

The DAZ aims to feature alternative spatial practices: Humankind and the environment are placed at the center, architecture is seen in its complex social dimension and responsibility, and the city is considered as a reflection and negotiating surface for socio-cultural and political developments.

With exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and conversations, topics related to physical and social space are initiated, addressed, and discussed. Projects are developed in intensive and interdisciplinary collaborations – with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture and the urban design – to enable an expansion of knowledge and impact.

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GENERAL INQUIRIES
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -0

ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL DIRECTION
Laura Holzberg
Alesa Mustar

CURATORIAL ASSISTENCE
Tarek Megahed

PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
Daniela Jung
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -28

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DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTUR ZENTRUM DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6
2. courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

DAZ OFFICE
Entrance C, First Floor – c/o Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA

OPENING HOURS
Friday – Sunday, 3–7PM, during ongoing exhibitions

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Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6,
2nd courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
DB Ostbahnhof
S3, S5, S7, S75 (Jannowitzbrücke, Ostbahnhof)
U8 (Heinrich-Heine-Straße)
U2 (Märkisches Museum)
BUS 265 (Michaelkirchstraße)
BUS 147 (Bethaniendamm)

Foto: Till Budde

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In the middle of the strongly developing area of the river Spree between Berlin Mitte and Kreuzberg, the DAZ is located in the immediate vicinity of the Radialsystem, the Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Spreefeld and the Ostbahnhof. On the site are offices of various architecture and engineering companies, design agencies and a restaurant with an outdoor terrace.

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