Miriam Kilali
Miriam Kilali lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic work explores different aspects of human knowledge and questions how it can be transported across different systems. From philosophical, scientific and religious forms of communication to technological tools, her artistic work spans different notions of knowledge acquisition and transfer. The golden room HEUREKA! is a voyage […]
Samira Hodaei
Sofreh refers to an iconic Persian fabric that is spread on the ground for eating or used as a backdrop for seasonal feasts and celebrations. Over time, the term itself has taken on a larger cultural significance, referring to concepts of gathering and sharing a place for family and friends to come together. In all […]
Roland Boden
Pneumopteria, which are also referred to as cloud whales or cloud sponges, and occasionally, in scientific language, as pneumospongia, in older treatises often sky leviathans, were gigantic, cloud-like creatures that seemed to float freely in the atmosphere without movement or propulsion. They could be several hundred meters in size. Today, they must most likely be […]
Alyona Tokovenko
Traumas, memories and fetishes – for Tokovenko, these are the fundamental pillars of our human identity. In her large-format, object-sensual and yet intimate works, she focuses primarily on these aspects. Mattresses, which she closely associates with sceneries of death, violence and suffering, as well as bloody and deformed body(-parts) are recurring elements in her multimedia […]
Mahsa Aleph
If a body (container) can be made of a soul (contained), what kind of a body would it be? Mahsa Aleph presents the possibility of raising such intellectual question through a metaphor: containers that have found the same nature as their contained (the plate becoming the bread becoming the plate), bringing the audience into an […]
PHOTOGRAPHS OF AN ABANDONED ARCHIVE FROM THE FORMER UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
“Ukraine is a country of lost archives” – Oksana Zabuzhko, writer (2013) “In truth Ukraine is in a state of war not with Russia, but with the undead corpse of the USSR.” – TV Editor, Vinnitsa In the summer of 2010, German photographer and artist Burkhard von Harder traveled to central Ukraine (Volhynia-Podolia) for research, […]
Die Drushba-Trasse oder was heisst hier Freundschaft?
In 1978, the illustrated book “Die Drushba-Trasse”, published by the Central Council of the FDJ in the GDR publishing house “Neues Leben”, was published. The authors are Peter Jacobs (text) and the photographer Thomas Billhardt. The book describes and celebrates the “project of the century of the GDR”, the construction of the natural gas pipeline […]
Yana Bachynska
The Pantheon of Fleeing Spirits is a narrative conveyed through sculpture and text, aiming to foster mutual understanding and interconnectedness by exploring the immigrant and refugee experience. Rooted in the journey of displacement, it delves into the significance of clothing as the last vestige of protection amidst the loss of home. The walls of an […]
Anja Engelke
Since the beginnings of photography, the medium has been repeatedly confronted with social and humanistic issues. Today, there are programs that generate images using Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on millions of images from the internet. The exhibition Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? builds on this technology while questioning AI in its role as “photographer”. […]
Minha Park
There is always something ghostly about the characters in films by Minha Park (*1985 in Seoul, lives and works in the same city). They take shape for a brief moment, intimating that they want to pass on a message. However, they lack a voice, vocabulary, or a body. These figures are captured on camera, their […]