{"id":49215,"date":"2026-01-02T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanien.de\/exhibitions\/memory-is-a-strange-bell\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:24:23","slug":"memory-is-a-strange-bell","status":"publish","type":"kb_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bethanien.de\/en\/exhibitions\/memory-is-a-strange-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Is a Strange Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien jointly present works by the recipients of the Berlin Senate\u2019s 2025 Visual Arts Work Grant. Staged in parallel across both venues, the exhibition gathers international positions from artists living and working in Berlin. The show once again highlights the vital role that reliable funding structures play in the production and dissemination of contemporary art.  <\/p>\n<p>United by an engagement with societal, political, and historical questions, the artists critically reflect on power dynamics, norms, and ideologies. Spanning a broad spectrum of aesthetic approaches and media \u2013 including video, sound, photography, painting, drawing, installation, and performance\u2013the works negotiate diverse, and at times contradictory, realms of experience and reality. They address the visible and invisible power structures that govern individual and collective perception in physical and digital space alike, and determine how knowledge and cultural expression are canonized.  <\/p>\n<p>Other works revolve around the phenomenon of memory \u2013 its processual nature, its fragility, and its inherent ambivalence. This concern is echoed in the exhibition title, which borrows a line from a letter by American poet Emily Dickinson (1830\u20131886) to her sister: \u201cMemory is a strange Bell \u2013 Jubilee, and Knell.\u201d Through the metaphor of a ringing bell, signaling both joy and loss, memory is framed as an ambivalent, dynamic process \u2013 not a static state, but a continuous, complex movement. At the same time, the quote evokes a present defined by paradoxical tensions, a perpetual oscillation between multiple crises and the pursuit of progress and growth.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Str. 10, 10999 Berlin<br \/>\nOpening: 19.03 2026, 7 p.m.<br \/>\nDuration: 20.03.2026 \u2013 17.05.2026<br \/>\nArtists: \u0130pek Bur\u00e7ak, Olga Monina, Ania Nowak, Niclas Riepshoff, Max Schaffer, Alina Schmuch, Antje Taubert, Sergio Zevallos<br \/>\nCurator: Antje Weitzel<\/p>\n<p>Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestra\u00dfe 128\/129, 10115 Berlin<br \/>\nOpening: 13.03.2026, 7 p.m.<br \/>\nDuration: 14.03.2026 \u2013 03.05.2026<br \/>\nArtists: Nadja Buttendorf, Markus Draper, Martin Eberle, Noi Fuhrer, Shaun Motsi, Leonie Nagel<br \/>\nCurator: Lidiya Anastasova<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbk.org\/de\/ausstellungen\/memory-is-a-strange-bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nbk.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is sponsored by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 21.03.2026<br \/>\nExhibition tour with the artists<br \/>\n3 p.m. &#8211; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestra\u00dfe 128\/129, 10115 Berlin<br \/>\n5 p.m. &#8211; K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Stra\u00dfe 41-43, 10999 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: German and English<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, 16.04.2026, 7 p.m.<br \/>\nShaun Motsi, <em>Masters<\/em>, 2023<br \/>\nFilm screening<br \/>\nVenue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestra\u00dfe 128\/129, 10115 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: English<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 25.04.2026, 5 p.m.<br \/>\n<em>Techfascism. Power and authoritarianism in the digital space <\/em><br \/>\nPanel discussion with Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Junior Professor for Ethics of Digitalization, University of Oldenburg) and Paul Feigelfeld (Professor for Digitality and Cultural Mediation, Mozarteum University Salzburg), moderated by Christine Watty (Journalist, Deutschlandfunk Kultur)<br \/>\nLocation: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestra\u00dfe 128\/129, 10115 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: German<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 02.05.2026, 5 \u2013 9 p.m.<br \/>\nPerformances by \u0130pek Bur\u00e7ak, Ania Nowak, Sergio Zevallos and guests<br \/>\nOpen Studios<br \/>\nLocation: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Stra\u00dfe 41-43, 10999 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: English<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 03.05.2026, 5 p.m.<br \/>\nFilm presentation by Leonie Nagel<br \/>\nLocation: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestra\u00dfe 128\/129, 10115 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: German<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 17.05.2026, 4 p.m.<br \/>\nTour with artists* from the exhibition<br \/>\nLocation: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Stra\u00dfe 41-43, 10999 Berlin<br \/>\nLanguage: German and English<\/p>\n<p>No registration required<br \/>\nFree admission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-49215","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":49536,"article_image_bu_de":"Martin Eberle, o.T., aus der Serie \u201eHi Schatz!\u201c, 2003, Inkjet-Druck","article_image_bu_en":"Martin Eberle, untitles, from the series \"Hi Schatz!\", 2003, inkjet print","datum_suche":"2026-03-20 00:00:00"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Memory Is a Strange Bell - Bethanien %<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bethanien.de\/en\/exhibitions\/memory-is-a-strange-bell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Memory Is a Strange Bell - Bethanien %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien jointly present works by the recipients of the Berlin Senate\u2019s 2025 Visual Arts Work Grant. 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