#moritz4all
moritz4all built a new space for identification and meetings in the public space of Neue Neustadt. On a brownfield site, through building workshops led by international artists, together with citizens, the meeting place Polidrom was built. In addition to a neighborhood table, a bus stop and multifunctional flying stages, a pop-up gallery and sporting elements were created here. In this setting, the moritz4all team regularly offered low-threshold workshops where people from different backgrounds could meet. Other milestones included the installation of a wall mural based on the motif of a Roma artist and the intercultural moritz4all festival.
- Here you can find a documentation of the work on the Polidrom and on the wall painting in English.
What did we do?
June 1, 2023
Next Stop POLIDROM — A mile of rope — an art campaign for everyone to participate in
Imagine a meadow — a meadow for everyone. What would you like to experience there? What is to be created there? What could other people also find exciting? There's room for your ideas in exactly this field, connected by a mile of rope with the ideas of others.
July 13 — August 10, 2023 - Summer vacation 2023 at POLIDROM
13.07. Open-air workshop: music & rhythm
20.07. Open-air workshop: upcycling
25.07. Kiezkino — open-air surprise film
08.08. Kiezkino — open-air surprise film
10.08. Open-air workshop: origami
August 24-26, 2023 - POLIDROM in the making — workshop and events
Together with you, we are starting to transform the wasteland into a community center.
24.—26.8. CHILL AND DRILL - construction workshop
24.8. AMARO FILMOS - Film & talk
25.8. IN SEARCH OF ELDORADO - Slideshow & Stories
26.8. POLIDROM DISCO - Music & BBQ
September 16, 2023 - World Clean Up Day and Barbecue
Joint campaign for a waste-free neighborhood followed by a get-together at the Polidrom.
26.11. & 03.12.23 and 14.01.; 21.01. & 28.01.24- Empowerment workshop for Roma and Sinti
with Estera Iordan & Gabrijela Zekić. The result was two podcast episodes about the current lifestyle of young Roma and Sinti, which you can listen to here.
March 23 & 24, 2024 - POLIDROM #frühlingsfrisch
Sping has sprung, it's time to go to work! Get involved, awaken the POLIDROM from hibernation and make it your place for exciting encounters and exchanges as well as shared experiences.
May 20-25, 2024 - moritz4all meets Bande24 (in the Schauspielhaus)
“We're taking over!“ That is the announcement from BANDE24 at the Schauspielhaus. And as an artistic laboratory together with Julia Amme from the collective Missing Dots, we are right there in the middle!
June 05, 2024 - POLIDROM #KinderKulturTage-Mobil
The KiKuTa-Mobil is rolling through our city again and will stop at POLIDROM on June 5th. Together with the PlusX collective and KJH Knast, the FIT Training Academy, Grünen Oase e.V., Hort Abenteuerwelt and other playmates from the KinderKulturTage network, this creates a unique mini playground under the motto “BegegnungsSpielPlatz”.
June 24 — June 30, 2024 - Moritz4all #dasWandgemälde
A wall painting was created in Neue Neustadt. The original motif for the wall painting within sight of the POLIDROM comes from a drawing by Damian Le Bas (1963 — 2017, UK), who is considered one of the leading artists on the contemporary art scene of Travellers and Roma. His art and the messages it conveys were part of his social commitment, with which he was present and influential throughout Europe for decades. Clouds, in which he often drew faces, are one of the frequently recurring symbols in Le Bas's work. With his drawings, in which the dark silhouette of a figure wearing a hat repeatedly appears like a shadow, he littered maps, collages, globes and other objects.
The artist Christoph Ackermann, who is known for street art in Magdeburg, was won over for the implementation. The lower part of the façade was designed on June 25 together with children and young people from the neighbourhood.
June 24 — August 3, 2024 - POLIDROM #Sommerferien & open-air workshops
During the summer holidays, we have someone from Neue Neustadt visiting every Tuesday and we have a special holiday campaign for you.
July 02 Taster course with Shotokan Karate Dojo “Kaku” Magdeburg e.V.
July 09 Beer tent set climbing with the BlocSchmiede
July 30 I Picture Art Workshop with the Villa Wertvoll
August 22 & 23, 2024 - POLIDROM #weiterwerkeln
Art & building events with ZIP group, Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremic, the FIT training academy and other artists.
August 24, 2024 — Inauguration of the mural
For the inauguration of the wall painting, we had the renowned artist Delaine De Bas as a guest, who wrote and recited a text especially for Neue Neustadt. Click here for the text.
October 25-26, 2024 - moritz4all #dasfestival
You can find the program here.
April 07 — 10, 2025 - POLIDROM #frühlingsfrisch.in.die.Osterferien
Art and building activities at POLIDROM.
May 13, 2025 - Neustadt.Raum — A kick-off workshop
8th - 29th June 2025 - POLIDROM #Sommerferien & open-air workshops
July 08 Ikuga at work & soccer action with Steven from theMoritzhof
July 15 Ikuga at work & Visual Art Workshop with Gianni
July 22 Ikuga at work & climbing benches used in beer tents with the BlocSchmiede
July 29 Ikuga at work & Open-Air Visual Art Workshop with Lilia from the Moritzhof
June 30 — July 4, 2025 - #Tabula.Rasa — A shadow theatre experiment in Neustadt
Cooperation with Puppentheater Magdeburg
July 7 — July 11, 2025 - #Tabula.Rasa — A shadow theatre experiment in Buckau
Cooperation with Puppentheater Magdeburg
July 15, 2025 - POLIDROM #U.Art-Galerie
Construction campaign with the KollektivPlusX and visual art workshop
August 25 — 30, 2025 - moritz4all #dasfestival_2.0
Since 2023, our project in Neustadt has been creating spaces for encounter, creativity and community. A fallow area became the living POLIDROM. Now the project is coming to an end — the perfect time to look back on the various stages, actions and artistic discourses and celebrate them together with the diversity of the neighborhood. With #dasfestival_2.0, we cordially invite you to be there and leave your mark on the last few meters. You can find the program here.
November 5, 2025 - MEET ME AT THE POLIDROM — exhibition opening with live music
For three years in the neighborhood, in art, in actions, in debates and in connections, we meet — in photos, in films, in conversations and in interaction — framed by live music and open questions: WHAT IF OUR CITIES CONTAIN SPACES OF PARTICIPATION? With this interactive exhibition, the Moritzhof's socio-cultural project #moritz4all bids goodbye.
November 29 — December 20, 2025 - Advent workshop — creative encounter workshops for all generations
November 29th advent decoration workshop (with artist MANA)
December 06 Creative Worlds in advent (with artist SANDRA EICHLER)
December 13th winter soap workshop (with IKUGA)
December 20th christmas clay workshop (with artist PARASTOO MAHOORI)
Who was there?
Project coordination: Juliane Barz
Artistic direction: Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremic
... designed and supported #moritz4all. The artist duo lives in Berlin and Belgrade and has been working at the interface between art and education since 2002. Their works are created as artistic research on social and political topics, which they translate into drawings, installations, public activities and interdisciplinary projects.
Building and art in public space: ZIP group
... was founded in 2009 in Krasnodar and consists of Evgeny Rimkevich, Vasily Subbotin and Stepan Subbotin. The artists currently live in Berlin and Yerevan. In their work, they address topics such as work, community and self-organization and transform their installations into utopian spaces for work, rest and interaction. The group was involved in the founding of the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (KICA) and the Krasnodar Center for Contemporary Art “Tipografija”.
Building and art in public space: KollektivPlusX
... is a collective from Leipzig and Halle. With urban interventions that see public space as a stage, they stand for a lively urban culture. They come together anew for each project, promote cooperation and focus on maximum participation in project implementation.
wall mural: Damian and Delaine Le Bas
The art of Damian Le Bas (1961 — 2017, UK) was initially often exhibited in the context of “art brut” (“outsider art”). Based on the experience of being perceived as an outsider by the environment, he refused to squeeze people into categories. Together with his wife, the artist Delaine Le Bas, he campaigned across Europe for the rights of the Roma and other people excluded from the majority society. In his art, he often used found maps, which he painted over with symbols, faces, big eyes with long eyelashes, silhouettes of people and caravans of the English Travellers. The maps show the political borders of countries, which he thus makes unrecognizable. On his maps, he unfolds the “Land of Gypsies” hidden from the general public, which is a place of humanity, freedom and diversity. With Delaine Le Bas, he developed long-term artistic projects such as “Safe European Home? “and “Gypsy Revolution,” which were shown at documenta fifteen, the Venice Biennale, in Vienna, Copenhagen, Dublin, Malmö, Essex, Thessaloniki, Berlin and London, among others.
wall mural: Christoph Ackermann
Christoph Ackermann (1979, Magdeburg)'s primary form of expression is graffiti art, which is also visible as an influence on his decades-long work in his painting, graphics, calligraphy and photography. Ackermann is one of the co-founders of the studio community “Q” in the Q.Hof in the Buckau district of Magdeburg. In 2023 he received the prize from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation.
photography: Nihad Nino Pušija
“The work of art is complete when my whereabouts change,” says photographer Nihad Nino Pušija, who was born in 1965 in Sarajevo and has lived in Berlin for 30 years. Here and there, he is a meticulous observer and chronicler using the means of photography — more precisely: portrait photography. The faces he shows are projections of events: experiences of war, migration, deportation, but also, time and again, of everyday life. Since 1994, Pušija has been working on the “Roma in Europe” cycle. The result was series of pictures from Roma families in Berlin, but also from encounters in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia — Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo. With his work, Pušija was part of the 1st and 2nd Roma pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2011.
