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The exhibition Our Place / ExRotaprint Berlin – Urban Activism as Artistic Practice kicks-off a series of events dedicated to alternative bottom-up planning, namely in the field of creative culture, and participatory urban rehabilitation projects. ExRotaprint, an abandoned manufacturing site in the former working-class district Berlin Wedding, is initiated and driven by artists Les Schliesser and Daniela Brahm; a redevelopment project created from the viewpoint of art.

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As a social sculpture, it links the potential of its spectacular architecture with the local needs of a socially marginalized area, devoting aesthetic quality into socio-political activities. Over the past few years, the collaborative work on ExRotaprint has expanded into the artistic practice of Daniela Brahm and Les Schliesser. Within our exhibition, they transform the urban redevelopment project into a monumental installation, encompassing wall drawings, film and sculptural interventions.

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“A building is just a building” Labour politician Rigmor Aasrud, then Minister of Government Administration and Church Affairs, categorically stated a few months after the terrorist attack of July 22. She was talking about the heavily damaged Høyblokka, the actual target of the assault. And indeed, until the attack, Erling Viksjø’s 1958 Høyblokka, the vertical axis of Oslo’s government district, and his elegantly curved 1969 Y-Blokka, were largely perceived as regular office buildings; they not even were listed as heritage monuments.

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Even given the reservation that late modernist buildings are met with all over the world, Aasrud’s misreading of Viksjø’s edifices is remarkable. The building ensemble is not only one of Viksjøs masterpieces, a Gesamtkunstwerk carefully embedding artworks as an integral part of its structure; it is also a pivotal architectural image signifying Norway’s post-war social democracy, the epitome of the Labour party’s short-lived alliance with the avant-garde. It is all the more surprising that a Labour-led government was willing to dismiss this significant complex as “just a building”.

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