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Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents Julieta Aranda

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents Julieta Aranda on 5 June–27 July 2012.

In the work Multifamiliar (2012), specially developed for the Showroom of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Julieta Aranda uses as a point of departure a social studies textbook for children, titled Living as Neighbors. The book—published in 1963—follows two families of different racial background, in a story line that revolves around one of the families moving into Starret City, the first low-income housing project in New York. These architectural solutions to urban housing problems—bulding complexes called Multifamiliares, Plattenbauten, Projects—have in common both a formal grandiosity (brutalism), as well as a patent disconnect to the realities of every day life within the constructs that they propose. Aranda’s installation establishes a dialogue between the formal determination of housing projects, and the mundane exchanges that take place within their grid.

Julieta Aranda (*1975 in Mexico-City) works and lives in New York and Berlin. She studied at School of Visual Arts, New York, and at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, New York.

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
Chausseestraße 128 / 129
10115 Berlin, Germany
www.nbk.org

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