West Germany

A rather elusive space, that regularly changes its name and site in order to remain so, but not desiring exclusivity it seems, more so because of a few issues with the legality of the space. This is a collective of 4 artist/musicians who simply love Kreuzberg, they said, and so occupy spaces and put on exhibitions and parties. They recently went by the name Clinic, an ode to the old x-ray rooms of the doctor’s surgery below, which used to occupy this site. Their first exhibition here involved dismantling the interior x-ray cubicles, neon lighting and internal structure of the clinic and creating installations from the material. The space now looks like the excavated skeleton, funny cubic floor tracings of once walls, still partially tiled in white, dismantled, ready to be reworked. I visited between exhibitions, and it felt unprecious eager, awaiting the next stage of destruction/restructure. Which happens with each exhibition shown, band performed,party had. And it all moves via word-of-mouth and an extensive mailing list, having no website, phone number, or fixed address.