Berliner Kultur in der Haushaltskrise schützen!

Kultur darf kein Privileg für wenige sein, sondern muss allen Menschen offenstehen: den Künstler*innen und dem Publikum. Die Kürzungen sind ein Angriff auf die Grundwerte von Solidarität, Vielfalt und kulturelle Teilhabe. Wir sagen ganz klar: Das werden wir nicht hinnehmen. Wir fordern uneingeschränkte Teilhabe - jetzt und für alle! Kultur darf kein Privileg für wenige sein, sondern muss allen Menschen offenstehen: den Künstler*innen und dem Publikum. Die Kürzungen sind ein Angriff auf die Grundwerte von Solidarität, Vielfalt und kulturelle Teilhabe. Wir sagen ganz klar: Das werden wir nicht hinnehmen. Wir fordern uneingeschränkte Teilhabe - jetzt und für alle!

Zur Petition des Deutschen Bühnenverein, Landesverband Berlin

Berlin's radical off-the-grid art space

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The QA

The QA is an unconventional exhibition space in Kreuzberg that showcases underground culture.

Our free programs

29/11—2/12, 2024
Fr. 6—9pm, Mo. 3—6pm
Exhibition & Participatory Art

On Flying Afield On Walking Home

The further I go (from where?) the closer I become (to whom?) International artists present the 10th edition of ‘Open Corridor’at Fix-O-Tek with photos, prints, videos on flying afield on walking home. Bring a photo from your story album with you if you wish to participate in the tellings. With Alex Cocotas, Sara Caleffi, Antoanetta Marinov, Gaia Nieri

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FR. 27/9, 19—21pm, 2024
Book Launch

Global Protests Through Art

Join us for the launch of Global Protests Through Art: co-creation, collaboration and interconnectedness (2024) with Dr. Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk. The book is a collaborative publication between Books People Places and UdK Verlag.

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Open call 2025

We’re seeking proposals for our 2025 program. Our space has previously hosted talks, film screenings, architecture and design research, urban living experiments, art installations, and more. It serves as a test bed for innovative ideas, creative projects, and cultural work that often struggles to find support through conventional channels.

In light of the current political and cultural climate, we are particularly interested in welcoming underrepresented voices and fostering projects that challenge the status quo.

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Selected Projects

Starting in Autumn 2021, we are proud to open these arches to young, emerging, and underrepresented artists, designers, and performers with the support and funding from various cultural and environmental organizations.

Questionarch Berlin Film Festival Round Table

Shorts Under the Bridge

Screening & Discourse

Videotek Film Festival

“Shorts Under the Bridge” (SUB) is the first iteration of an experimental short film festival taking place at the Videotek. The Videotek strives to merge the worlds of architecture, performance, film and theater. The themes explored in this year’s ‘SUB’ will focus on daily struggles and life in cities, issues around urbanity and sustainability on global perspectives. SUB wants to lend our silver screen under the Görlitzer Brücke to local and emerging filmmakers, performers and artists to show their films, discuss current and future issues in Berlin and globally.

Questionarch Videotek Feminist Film Festival Posters

Feminist Short Films

Screening & Discourse

Videotek Film Festival

Based in Montréal / Tio'tia:ke, the Filministes Festival organizes screenings of cinematographic works followed by discussions on various contemporary feminist issues. We seek to increase visibility for films and filmmakers not usually represented in film festivals and create safe spaces for discussions and reflection on feminisms.

The Infopoint

XS-Architecture

Neighbourhood

The Infopoint was commissioned by the KungerKiezInitiative e.V. and acts as an interface between the public and the neighborhood initiative. It serves as an information point for events and activities as well as a place for passers-by to rest and meet. Through the principle of upcycling, two used IBC rainwater tanks were modified and converted into a solar-powered lighthouse with fold-out benches, shelves, pinboards and plants. The Infopoint can currently be found in the atrium of the Park Center Treptow.

Questionarch Berlin Exhibition

Speculative Cartographies

Art installation & Exhibition

Location Mapping

In 2022, the Questionarch has become an increasingly integral part of the neighborhood's urban landscape. Looking ahead, we plan to open up our railway arch to the broader community, transforming it into a unique "showroom" for public experiments. Our goal is to provide opportunities for young, less visible, disadvantaged, and underrepresented artists, designers, and performers. By doing so, we aim to promote and support them, creating a platform for emerging talents in the art scene.
Through these activities within the physical space of the arches, we offer a critical alternative for neglected urban areas and public spaces. We propose a new way to revitalize unused urban spaces by engaging the local community, unlocking the potential of these fascinating urban (negative) spaces that offer countless possibilities. Our reclaimed patch of urbanity has become a hub for critical thinking about urban environments and their socio-material contexts, utilizing this once-abandoned space as a catalyst for change rather than a wasteland.

Questionarch Workshop

Wow on the Road

Open Workshop

(Hacking) Public Furniture

A collaboration work with Constructlab x Baupalast Berlin

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Klima Kiez

Open Workshop

Neighbourhood

In the summer 2022, we organized a series of workshops, a series of screenings, and a festive exhibition, all focusing on the theme of climate change and the reuse of materials from the neighborhood.

The Space

Situated under the arches of the old Görlitzer railroad bridge at the southern end of Görlitzer Park, our spaces are at the heart of a vibrant and multicultural area. Görlitzer Park reflects Berlin’s dynamic, autonomous, and anti-establishment character, often being the first to experience central changes in the city. Since 2009, the Görlitzer Fix-o-tek has been a living lab and experimental space for our collective. It functions as a lab, workshop, event venue, and storage space, where we develop and display our public space installations both in Berlin and beyond.

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Videotek

It is an innovative exhibition space designed to showcase a series of films focusing on urbanism. This space offers creative perspectives on waste management and sustainability. Located in the arch of the Görlitzer Bridge, Vide-o-tek operates “off-the-grid” using solar generators and renewable energy sources. This space was constructed by the Questionarch Collective with funding and support from Draussenstadt Call for Action, Neustart Kultur, Akademie der Künste, Eco-flow, Prima-Klima, and Urbane Praxis.

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Fixotek

It is a multifunctional project space and open workshop dedicated to promoting sustainability in our neighborhoods and city. It serves as a hub for innovative thinking on reusing spaces and materials. At Fix-o-tek, we explore how to reclaim materials from construction sites and demolitions, reintegrating them into the building materials cycle. This space is pivotal in fostering discussions and actions around sustainable urban development.

Our Team

We are a collective of designers, architects, and urban practitioners based in Berlin. Over 3 years we have been operating the open workshop and exhibition spaces Fixotek and Videotek at Lohmühlenstr. 65 B, 12435 Berlin. Our mission is to cultivate creativity and sustainability through collaborative projects and exhibitions.

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The Görli Arches, South of the Görlitzer Park
Lohmühlenstr. 65B, 12435 Berlin
(Next to The Factory Berlin Görlitzer Park)

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Email: fixotek@onoff.cc
Instagram: @fixotek

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