Berlin is a city that can look back on a rich history of artistic spaces that has developed over decades. In the program of this year's edition on June 15th, BETON Berlin will take a site-specific journey through time, making special reference to project spaces of the past. BETON Berlin is an initiative that deals with changes in the city and artistically accompanies social processes. The initiative, founded by artist Christof Zwiener, invites artists to engage with unused and converted spaces, including large-scale, seemingly unreal projects such as the A100. On the occasion of the Project Space Festival on June 15, BETON Berlin, together with the artist, publicist and curator Andreas Koch, will present an exhibition in the former space of the Capri Project Space in Brunnenstraße, which is now an insurance company's customer service center. In his exhibition STADT in 2002, Andreas Koch presented a walk-in architectural landscape, a "city in the size of a room", which will now be recalled in the same place, more than twenty years later. 

On June 20, ACUD Galerie will focus on the colonial occupation of Siberia and the tensions between the state and the Sakha Republic. The presence of indigenous peoples in Russia remains unnoticed in the global agenda, and with the ongoing war and the sanctions imposed, the looming isolation of the Arctic becomes clear. These conditions emphasize the need to bring a very niche historical content into a transferable and aesthetically pleasing form.
The project imagines the autonomous space that "Sakha Rap" represents and at the same time looks at the forms it has taken over the years. How did it develop - what influenced it? Sakha rap is used as a form and as a space. Sakha rap is used as a form and material to formulate the past, present, and possible future of Yakutia. How can the dynamics of its emergence be located in the current "time-space" context? 

Svetlana Romanova will share with the audience the results of her research on the post-colonial reality of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia. Afterwards, an anonymous artist will continue with a video performance, deconstructing some lyrical aspects of the main songs/artists' works and drawing parallels with the political events in the Republic of Sakha.