With Neco Çelik, Abuzer Güler, Claudia Hummel and Mehrangis Montazami-Dabui
Building on the exhibition *Kreuzberg: Art and Migration since 1960*, the discussion series *Growing Up in Kreuzberg* brings together artists and contemporary witnesses. The focus is on the political and artistic practices of self-determination that shaped Kreuzberg and West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s.
Image gallery
Neco Çelik, Abuzer Güler, Mehrangis Montazami-Dabui and Claudia Hummel © Sven Serkis / Abuzer Güler / Gropius Bau / ZHdK-Guillaume Musset
The presence of migrant children on the streets of Kreuzberg was already influencing artists’ perspectives on the neighbourhood as early as the 1970s. Works with titles such as *Sanierungsspielplatz* (1974), *Analphabeten in zwei Sprachen* (1975) and *Kinderwünsche* (1979) addressed the difficult circumstances faced by children who were not catered for within the system of so-called ‘guest labour’.
The discussion will explore how childhood and youth in Kreuzberg are artistically portrayed, as well as the emergence of youth initiatives that played a formative role in the development of new artistic forms of expression.
- As part of Berlin Art Week.
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Dates
September 2026
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