What is shown in this exhibition is art engaged in certain processes in cities and city districts, with urban development and participation in these processes. It may take on the form of art documenting and analyzing the status quo, or of art creating clear images for at times highly complex processes and contexts, or, last but not least, of some sort of “art that seeks us out”, an art that comes to the people and involves them in the artwork.
But what is it that art can achieve in the urban space? Especially if what we have is an area that is faced with permanent changes or, partly, even massive transformations, city districts which are characterized by a more and more diversified population where business life, cultural life and the institutional landscape show a dynamics that is prone to redefine all traditional conceptions of a European city. What art can do is communicate things and raise awareness. It can unveil otherwise invisible existing structures and form new networks. And it can make those people heard who otherwise often remain unheard.

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