Realty – Beyond the Traditional Blueprints of Art & Gentrification

How can the economy of land grabbing be overcome – also with the means of art? This publication provides concrete proposals for this. The impact of the pandemic on mobility represents a historic opportunity. Criticism of the art world’s extractive logic has rarely been louder. REALTY is a long-term curatorial programme by Tirdad Zolghadr (*1973), originally commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With the help of artists and experts who contributed to the project between 2017 and 2020, the reader reconsiders the contribution art can make to crucial conversations about urbanism.