Architecture as Cultural Exchange

Architecture as Cultural Exchange brings together an international group of early to mid-career arts organizers and curators together in intercultural dialogue, in order to promote and support professional and institutional exchange, development, and expertise between Los Angeles and Berlin-based curators working at the intersection of art and architecture.  Supported by Checkpoint Charlie, the focus of the exchange will center on the ways by which art, architecture, and design professionals are interpreting some of the most critical issues of our time: housing, migration, and climate change. Los Angeles and Berlin, twin cities in their cultivation of creative responses and innovative directions, offer a wealth of research for architecture and urbanism curators, whose interest is in understanding the shape of practice and communicating that to a larger global audience and in developing a transnational network. The knowledge- and network-building offered by this exchange is vital as part of a curator’s work, which we frame as a set of actions that go beyond selecting works for exhibition and extend into building communities.