Between 1962 and 1975, the residential city ‘Gropiusstadt’, mastermined by Walter Gropius, was built at the most Southern edge of former West Berlin. The high-rise area today houses around 40.000 people and has a questionable reputation. Famously, it is where Christiane F, the child described in ‘Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo’ grew up.

The Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt invites artists and researchers with an interest in city planning and architecture to spend a week in a Gropiusstadt apartment. Some of the research becomes a proposal for a work for the city’s public spaces.

Red, Orange, Yellow consists of a series of photographs of local election posters in Gropiusstadt. Typically featuring a portrait of each party’s candidate for the area, they contrast with the deserted and ‘faceless’ cityscape.
Each political candidate was interviewed and asked to explain the political principles of their respective parties and to defend or criticise the Gropiusstadt (as a concept) from those principles.

‘Red, orange, yellow’ refers to the campaign colours of the 4 most popular parties: SPD and PDF (red), CDU (orange) and FDP (yellow).