BERLIN! THIS IS THE TIME TO STEP UP.  The more unofficial help Ukraine can get, the better, so this doesn't end up into a governments pissing war and we all go down in flames. Three ways to help.
1. Drive supplies to the Polish borders: If you have a car the best way to help is pack it with supplies, gasoline, medicine, water and drive to the Polish border to pass it on. You can bring refugees with you on the way back.
2. Get supplies for people who are driving: Nils Petersen @no.pet from @dittrichschlechtriem is collecting supplies at the gallery this week during opening hours ( I heard Klaus Jörres work looks excellent with some added existential threat) . You can msg Nils on insta for any questions ( private profile but he checks msgs). This is what they need:
Water canisters
Gasoline canisters
Medicine (ask your doctor to buy it)
Kids Medicine
Medical equipment
Matches, lighter, candles,
batteries, flashlights
3. You can also go to Hauptbahnhof to collect a family and offer them housing - contact @j_boobie
We have been escorting refugees off trains to match them with private hosts one by one. This has been a self-organized initiative gaining momentum every day this week. Link tree for arrival team volunteer info.  @_z___u
No war is acceptable. Ever. This a link tree with ways to offer and accept help ( in Ukrainian too)
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Speaking of No War Ever – Germany is ramping up her military budget in a major shift in policy. This was obviously a premeditated decision ( that is no way gonna be in time to help in the current escalation) being passed on as a reaction to the Russia invasion. Regressive move putting our future in jeopardy. You know the future we should be fighting climate change for to even have? That one. We cant afford having a country as big and important as Germany regress like that.  

THIS WEEK

Opening March 10, 19h at thxagain OPEN ENCOUNTERS
with Abdullah Qureshi, Tasnim Bagdadi, Sara Khan, Syowia Kyambi, Natasha Jozi and Gloria Zein
Through painting, filmmaking, and cultural production, Toronto-based artist Abdullah Qureshi deals with personal and collective histories, traumatic pasts, and sexuality. Drawing on the autobiography, as well as curatorial and collaborative approaches, Qureshi‘s recent work examines formations of queer identity and resistance in Muslim migratory contexts. The show takes both the artist‘s work and on-going research as a starting point for a visual dialogue with other artists, theorists and cultural producers that are invited to participate with their works. In a rather personal 1:1 setting, Abdullah will meet old and recent companions that he met on his way from Pakistan via Europe to Canada and discuss engaged collaborations, representation and collective memories. Artistic practice as a conversation around urgent social discourses and cultural phenomena.
also this week:
MARCH 11, 6 pm - 6.45 pm
MEETING KASPALE
With Syowia Kyambi, Abdullah is discussing biographical histories and artistic developments in context of the politics of the time as well as its legacy today. What is remembered, what is archived, and how do we see the world anew, questions Kyambi who is visually interrogating our histories, the representation of identity and the nuances in our relationships to each other and the world we live in.

MARCH 13, 4 pm - 4.45 pm
THE IDENTITY OF SCULPTURES
Abdullah and Gloria Zein met eleven years back while studying Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. They both share a generous approach to scale and color allowing the artworks a spontanous, almost performative, character. Through a dialogue about texture, density and structure, both their artworks press pause on personal developments and suggest a new - temporary - form of reality.

MARCH 13, 5.30 pm - 6.15 pm
THE POLITICS OF THE HUMAN TOUCH
The body as an important canvas for physical trauma and external projections, plays a central role in Natasha Jozi’s work. With political and social movements such as MeToo and Black Lives Matter, where the human body is navigating, redefining and fighting to protect the boundaries and sanctity of its space, her performance also explores the politics of the human touch.

10 Mar 2022 – 23 Apr 2022
thx again
Frobenstr. 1
10783 Berlin

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Book presentation and opening Mar 10, 17-21h: Katie Armstrong: Grandma’s Hair Is Sick @eigenart_lab  - show will run until 12.03
An artistic children’s book about parting, grief and hope—a child’s love letter to their Grandma. One day, Grandma is looking different than usual, and the family’s everyday life is turned upside down. Writing from a child’s point of view, author Astrid Hamm touches on fears and worries, but also shows the shared moments between grandchild and grandmother that grow into treasured memories. This is a heartwarming storybook about change in life, meant to be read together. Lovingly illustrated by New York artist Katie Armstrong, the book creates a space for children to share all the questions they might have. For everybody who has had to face last goodbyes in life.

Exhibition: March 10 - 12, 2022
EIGEN + ART Lab
Torstraße 220
10115 Berlin

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Opening March 10, 19h VICTORIA ROSENMAN: CONCEPT OF MITIGATION
CURATED BY: IRINA RUSINOVICH
Victoria Rosenman's work is aimed at exploring her own identity, searching for a fragile, elusive balance, to engage in an internal dialogue  with ourselves and interpersonal relationships. The main questions that the artist explores in her works: Who are you? Who am I? What do others see in me? Who am I for you? Who am I without you? The thin edge between the artist and her emotional twin, her muse, with which she has a dialogue, clearly shows the viewers how fragile and unstable the inner world of each of us is.

Duration: 11 Mar 2022 – 26 Mar 2022
HAZE GALLERY
Bulowstrasse 11
10789 Berlin