Talks
MATTHIAS EINHOFF
From Roof to Boat: Collective Practice and the Politics of Scale
09 October 2026
This talk digs into the realities of sustaining an independent art space: a four-pillar funding model balancing public and private income, the pressures of funding cuts and the cultural lobbying required to counter them, and a deliberate refusal to let financial logic override social and cultural capital. It also turns to ZK/U’s engagement with local governance bodies (Quartiersrat, Rat der Künste) as a way of grounding artistic work in the actual needs of a neighborhood, and to public space as a site of contradiction, marginalization, and juxtaposition — one that functions differently across cultural contexts. Working at increasing scale, especially on long-term urban development projects, shifts an artist’s sense of responsibility from producing individual works toward shaping the conditions people will live in.