›Post-Cool Berlin?‹ A Spike Roundtable hosted by the Julia Stoschek Foundation

In the 2020s, Berlin’s status as a global cultural capital seems cast into doubt by a number of factors, among them political renationalization, budget cuts across the cultural sector, and rising tensions between the international creative class’s self-image and the needs of locals.

Was the idea of the city as a hub for artists from around the world merely a fiction of the last two decades? More still, are there viable alternatives to nostalgia for the poor but sexy Berlin, or is the city doomed to decay in ever-shorter cycles of memetic self-commodification?

Concluding Berlin Art Week, forthcoming Volksbühne intendant Matthias Lilienthal, artist Henrike Naumann, and Berlin Biennale director Axel Wieder will unpack the end of Berlin as a cosmopolitan nowhere and what comes after, moderated by critic Pablo Larios.