Cooperative art strategies and the potential for participation in public spaces
From 9 to 15 October 2025, the ExRotaprint project space in Berlin-Wedding will host Citizen Art Days: Cooperative Art Strategies and Potential for Participation in Public Space, a retrospective exhibition.
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Retrospektive Citizen Art Days
The exhibition will look back on over eleven years of artistic practice developed in Berlin and other international locations between 2012 and 2023.
Combining drawings, diagrams, maps, photographs and documentary material with contributions from invited authors, the presentation takes the form of a visual and textual collage.
The focus is on a five-part publication examining various aspects of participatory art, including the use of urban spaces as stages for collective negotiation, the challenges posed by socially polarised times and new perspectives on care and perception in the context of ecological crises.
Curated by Citizen Art Days e.V., the retrospective sees itself as a reflection of, and continuation to, an open, collaborative art practice. Rather than focusing on singular events, it highlights the long-term interplay of artistic, social, and political processes. Contributions from numerous artists and authors illustrate how participatory art, comparable to democratic processes, can be understood as a dynamic relationship that must continuously be renegotiated.
The exhibition will be accompanied by guided tours and a panel discussion on the role of art in politically polarised societies. There will also be an open event. The project was funded as part of the ‘Presentations of Contemporary Visual Art’ scholarship programme by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
