Rent increases In current tenancies the landlord can increase the rent to the local comparative rent. The rent increase must remain unchanged for 12 months. The rent can only be increased by 15% over a three year period. The landlord has to justify this rent increase. Following modernisation, the landlord can increase the rental on a apartment. This rent can increase by 8% annually, only from the cost of the modernisation, but maximum 2 or 3 Euros/sqm monthly, depending rentlevel before modernisation. Special ru- les apply to rent increases for social housing. Attention: On 15.4.2021, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the Berlin rent cap unconstitutional, which was getting into force since February 23rd of 2020.

Handmade numbered edition 03/10, including an original 10 х 15 cm C-print

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Stefan Marx (*1979) is a Hamburg based artist. His T-shirt label The Lousy Livincompany is a platform for his drawings published on T-shirts. He has worked for numerous skateboard and T-shirt labels worldwide. His artist books are published by Nieves, Rollo-Press, and Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier – beside these releases he publishes regulary by himself. All Smallville Records releases are visually defined by Marx’ drawings. Smallville Records is also the label of his band The Dead Sea. He has lectured widely in Germany and taught Drawing at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

“Panoramas: everything is connected. All PANORAMAS photos were taken with iPhone 6s and 7. When I first used iPhone in 2017 I accidentally took a picture with the panorama function. Thereafter I’ve been recording panoramas of every scenery I want to remember. This book is my iPhone panorama records for the past five years. While working on this project I realized that everything was connected. Scenes and time that flow into small memories eventually connect with each others and are part of my persona.”
–Lee Hyewon

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Ryan Foerster

Set of 9 zines

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