2024-05-08T17:24:07-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150166080/this-artist-trolls-investors-with-fake-real-estate-billboards Alexander Walter 2019-10-22T15:47:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/90/90d0884f17fc50e5ff310abd1264dbba.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A Berlin-based artist who put up billboards advertising fake real estate projects in protest against runaway property development received more than 200 calls from would-be investors who didn&rsquo;t get the joke. [...] At a distance, the adverts look plausible but closer inspection of the images visualising what the new properties would look like reveals odd details.</p></em><br /><br /><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8ffc64c2732e5da3fefeedae1f140032.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8ffc64c2732e5da3fefeedae1f140032.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Treptown Visions, billboard in public space, Treptow, Berlin, 2019 by Dorothea Nold. Image: Dorothea Nold/aussenwelt</figcaption></figure><p>"Citizens are not being asked for their permission when investors make <br>such drastic changes in their city, that&rsquo;s why I thought it is okay to <br>put them without permission up to give attention to this issue," Berlin-based artist Dorothea Nold, the creative mind behind the anonymous <a href="http://www.aussenwelt.net/" target="_blank">aussenwelt</a> billboards, said in a recent <a href="https://popupcity.net/in-berlin-even-fake-real-estate-now-attracts-investors/" target="_blank"><em>Pop-Up City</em> article</a>.<br></p>