The majority of people in Europe live outside the classic cities. "Zwischenstadt/Cities without Cities" is what Thomas Sieverts calls it in his world-famous book from 1997. 25 years later, we are looking again at these urbanised cultural landscapes, these sprawling messes. We consciously turn our gaze away from the metropolitan urban centres to places on the periphery where car dealerships, gravel pits, riding stables, DIY stores, caravan parks, motorway slip roads and single-family housing estates border directly on agricultural land, where donkeys graze against noise barriers and we don't know exactly where the city begins and the landscape ends.
The exhibition project Zwischenstand der Zwischenstadt, has turned its gaze to the urbanised, hybrid and fragmented landscapes between city and town, countryside and transport hubs, and asked about the economic, social, ecological, cultural and aesthetic conditions of these spaces. You can read the publication on the project here.