About

CARPARK is a platform for texts, discourses, programs, and contributions – for performative practice and social interventions in public space.

CARPARK uses cars as democratic, communal spaces to question the homogeneous norms of our society in public space and everyday life. Artists and authors are repeatedly invited to engage with the car as both object and space, transforming them into sculptures, spaces of community, platforms, agents, and sites for interventions and performances.

Although cars are the subject of much criticism, cars are also mythologically charged objects that create identification. The intense individual and collective feelings surrounding their omnipresence are determined less by rationality and pragmatism than by desire. These artistic interventions target what is in many cases a normatively masculine reading and remove it from its everyday context. Cars here serve as emancipatory spaces, enabling freedom of movement and serving as loci of protection, retreat, cruising, and much more.

In 2023, CARPARK took place for the first time as a month-long exhibition across parking spaces and the Dragonerareal in Berlin, with contributions by: Dennis Dizon, Anna Ehrenstein & Rebecca Korang, EVBG (Marie Sophie Beckmann & Julie Gaspard), Luki von der Gracht, Tara Habibzadeh, Kinga Kielczynska, Nike Kühn, Göksu Kunak, and Peng Zuqiang.

On the Road presents current activities and forms a discursive and artistic platform.

Under the title Driving, Dreaming, Drifting, CARPARK is now on its way to Stuttgart, Barcelona, and Brussels.

 

CARPARK
Artistic Director: Marenka Krasomil
Curator & Project Management: Savannah Thümler
Production: Vicky Kouvaraki

CARPARK is part of the initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, funded by the Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

 

On the Road is a project by Marenka Krasomil