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Andrea Pichel, CNTRM 2, 2018, Foto: Christof Zwiener

Sonya Schönberger feat. Julius Heise, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal, 2015, Foto: Christof Zwiener

Art has the power to make people think and feel differently. Art has the power to activate change.Wenn die Stadt verkauft ist, erübrigen sich alle weiteren Fragen.For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.