1971, Stuttgart. Berlin’de yasiyorlar. | 1971, Stuttgart. Live in Berlin.

The works of Wieder and Fezer are based on socio-historical research about the city of Berlin. Their project, exhibited in the Garanti Bank building, a typical example of commercial office design from the 1960s – focuses specifically on the changes the city went through after the Federal Republic of Germany took over the capital of the German Democratic Republic in the 1990s. It takes the form of models and texts that both observe and critically examine this period, careful to try and preserve a memory of a city under transformation.
The artists, who were trained in Architecture and Art History, present their research on issues such as: the reflection of social and cultural power relationships in architecture and city planning;  the transition from one system to the other with the unification of the two sides of the wall; the redefinition of public and private spaces during this transition and which minority groups live in which parts of the city.
3-D models mapping out the social history of Berlin are exhibited and interwoven with a series of special editions of various magazines.
Presenting these models and exhibiting their research on such topics as ‘How and where did night clubs move in Berlin between 1989-2003’ suggests new ways of reading rapidly transformed environments in such an amnesiac city as Istanbul. In Wieder and Fezer’s work, preserving memory and identifying differences become ways to rethink urban development
as a whole.

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GARANTİ BUILDING