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Participating artists:
A project in the nGbK project group: Joerg Franzbecker, Jana Gebauer, Naomi Hennig, Ines Schaber, Florian Wüst

Venue:
nGbK am Alex
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13
10178 Berlin


Berlin is changing. Gentrification and displacement in the course of Berlin's real estate boom have long been a topic and cause for a broad rental policy movement that demands the right to the city for all. But what about the question of the new property ownership? What enables the new landlords - real estate corporations, investment funds, and countless anonymous owners and shell companies - to gain access to the social good of housing? Who are the real actors behind the economic exploitation of urban space? And how can we politically and socially contain, control and thwart their actions?
The nGbK research project X Properties addresses the urban changes in the course of financialization, i.e. the increasing presence and importance of financial capital in the Berlin real estate market. This is contrasted with a collectively developed perspective on a desirable city. A practice of collective learning with workshops, moderated city tours, talks and artistic contributions combines research and wish production. An issue of the Berliner Hefte on the city's history and present will be published as an accompanying booklet.