stay hungry presents the final installment of its series of interventions in Berlin’s public spaces,   Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraumes - 3 Die Zukunft (On the Silicification of Urban Space – 3: The Future), featuring works by Göksu Baysal, Andrea Acosta, Ilgın Uçar, and Benjamin Zuber.
The starting point is Emmauswald in Neukölln, one of the district’s largest contiguous forested areas, created on the site of a former cemetery and embedded in an urban environment. As a multifaceted place situated at the intersection of memory, ecological niche, and current use, it exemplifies contemporary processes of negotiation surrounding urban space.
Against the backdrop of current development plans that call into question the site’s continued existence, the acutely endangered urban forest becomes the starting point for reflections on possible future developments and their social and ecological consequences. The artistic contributions develop site-specific works that engage with conceivable scenarios for the Emmauswald as well as comparable urban spaces. In doing so, questions of preservation, densification, and communal use are addressed, and different perspectives on design possibilities for future urban spaces are brought to light.
The intervention takes place around the field of ruins in the Emmauswald and is accompanied and interpreted culinarily by stay hungry through Mobile Menu #25, inviting visitors to share a meal, linger, and exchange ideas.

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The three-part intervention series On the Silicification of Urban Space examines, using three selected locations in Berlin—each representing the past, present, and future—both significant and subtle modifications of urban architecture through urban planning measures and their influence on human and non-human actors moving within it.
The concept of “silicification” refers to geological and structural processes of compaction and serves as a metaphor for social and spatial transformation processes in which urban living spaces are altered through layering and superimposition, potentially giving rise to both new forms of coexistence as well as conflicts and exclusions.

stay hungry

stay hungry was founded in 2014 by visual artists Michel Aniol and Meike Kuhnert as an independent project space with a permanent location in Berlin-Neukölln. In this non-commercial space, under the direction and curation of Aniol and Kuhnert, a multifaceted and interdisciplinary program is realized in dialogue and collaboration with a rotating cast of participants from the independent art and culture scene, providing a non-hierarchical, self-determined, and financially independent platform for exchange and experimentation, free from commercial structures.

Since 2017, stay hungry has operated as a nomadic project initiative at constantly changing locations in public and semi-public spaces, which are mostly determined by the objectives and content of the planned projects and often address these themes themselves.
In 2016, the interventionist food series Mobile Menu was launched, in which a thematic-culinary connection is established with the respective exhibition theme through a meal that usually takes place at the closing event. In this context, Mobile Menu can function as an extension, a humorous commentary, a forum for discussion, or even a disruptive element within the exhibition context.

Founded: 2014