We cordially invite you to a performative reading followed by a discussion as part of the current exhibitions by Krys Huba and Areez Katki at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
In a performative dialog, the artists explore the textual dimension underlying their respective practices. The site of the event is the historical staircase – an architectural threshold that connects the two exhibition spaces and is activated as an intermediate space. By exchanging texts and perspectives and incorporating each other’s voices, Krys Huba and Areez Katki expand the narrative levels of their works.
This will be followed by two talks: Areez Katki will speak with Lusin Reinsch, freelance curator and program manager at Zilberman | Berlin. Krys Huba exchanges ideas with the author and curator Emily Nill, who is currently doing her doctorate in art history and aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). The discussions deepen and contextualize the exhibitions, which are each based on very personal, poetic and politically situated questions.
With All of those records; tell me, bee – the second chapter of the project Becoming B, curated by Marie-Sophie Dorsch – Krys Huba turns his gaze inwards: Based on the lyrical figure bee, dey approaches questions of queer identity and affiliations within normative social structures. bee itself materializes in the exhibition only in traces that are perpetuated in paintings, poetic text fragments and sculptural objects. Through image and text, a variety of connecting lines emerge between the works, which are not fixed, but constantly merge into new formations.
Areez Katkis has constructed How to puncture the sky and hear the stones sing as a multi-layered, atmospheric experience: Top/Center/Bottom. The novel is presented here at Künstlerhaus Bethanien as an experiment, in the form of a prelude of works that manifest themselves in space, sound and text. The works reflect the micro-stories, fragments and poetic traces from which Areez Katki has been developing an experimental novel project for six years. Reflecting on concepts of embodied hybridity and (extra)ordinary affects that are carried across continents with currents and winds, Areez Katki’ s narrative instance finds the polyphony that arises when there is no solid ground to stand on.