This conversation highlights how works of memory and art make visible the complexities and traumas of particular places which have become sites of protest in the ‘wounded city’ (Till, 2012) of Berlin. After Karen briefly introduces the context of memory cultures in Berlin, she will host a conversation with artists to explore how their creative remappings of particular places and built environments invites the city’s inhabitants to become more aware of the legacies of state-perpetrated violence and the possibilities of more just futures. In Hour 1, we explore two works by artist Larissa Fassler – the diptych canvasses Forms of Brutality (2019), revealing the multiple realities of Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, and the sculpture Palaces/Palaces (2022), depicting multiple historic city palaces and the controversial Humboldt Forum at the Museum Island in Berlin-Mitte. We consider the artist’s use of counter-mapping practices that result in palimpsestic works that embody the legacies of power, trauma, and resistance in Berlin in present-day landscapes. In Hour 2, we continue the discussion of anticolonial memory-work. Arts producer, artist and researcher Desirée Desmarattes will provide a brief overview of the pilot project ‘Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt’ (Decolonising Memory Cultures in the City, hereafter Dekoloniale) and introduce Dekoloniale’s decentralised 2024 Festival ‘Was Bleibt?/What Remains’ held in Berlin-Mitte and Wedding. The festival’s artist in residence programme focused on ‘Colonial Ghosts – Resistant Spirits: Church, Colonialism and Beyond’. Dekoloniale artist-in-residence Tonderai Kosche will then introduce her Terra Multis project, with installations in the medieval Nikolaikirche and at the Afrikanisches Str. U-Bahn stop. In both hours, we consider how place-based artistic interventions invite urban inhabitants to become more critically aware of Berlin’s forgetful histories and become inspired by alternative imaginaries.