KOLLAPS PLAZA ( *2018, Cologne ) is an ongoing complaint about the privatisation of public space. Through site specific installation and collaboration, we test possible reactions to privatised spaces that pretend to be public, and to those
remaining public spaces that are only meant to function efficiently and thereby negate their local character. In doing so, we do not forget that the current development is only a temporary stop in an unprecedented land grab, for which
serfs were already evicted from their lands and commons in the 17th century. Although the effects and manifestations of this scarcity of communal land are becoming more abstract, we are noticing the consequences in a very concrete way.
Our everyday lives consist so much of navigating privatised spaces - virtual or physical - that we have all become experts with our own techniques and strategies of refusal. Kollaps Plaza is a nomadic initiative founded by Moritz Englebert
and Pitt Wenninger. Their installations and exhibition projects deal with interfaces of public and private spaces. The role that process and collectivity plays in the work is just as important as the architectural intervention.
Artists and collectives we collaborated with:
Container NY, Tim Diedrich, Rosa Aiello, Julia Scher, Sophie Lee, FAUN TV (François Pisapia), greater form, Cittipunkt Teens, FLUK, Shirin Sabahi
Press:
Alex Turgeon in C magazine #156, 2023