Wed, 21 Jun 19h at transmediale studio opening of Shira Wachsmann: The Moment Before
As part of the exhibition series Speaking to Ancestors, curated by Pauline Doutreluingne & Keumhwa Kim — www.speakingtoancestors.de

Shira Wachsmann is showing her solo exhibition The Moment Before in the transmediale studio and outdoor space at silent green in Berlin-Wedding.  In her work, Wachsmann explores trauma and its influence on creating knowledge production and reality. She presents trauma as a multi-temporal, non-linear network involving multiple human and non-human actors. She shows how memories, fears, narratives, identity, and politics shape scars that appear in bodies and in languages as emerging landscapes. At the center of the exhibition is a video trilogy (2020-23) in which Wachsmann engages with three actors that have been and are being used to actively shape and reshape Israeli-Palestinian as well as German narratives and history: a cactus (Sabra), a tank (SabraM60T), and a “Trümmerfrauen” monument.

on view until July 9th

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Urnenfriedhof
Gerichtsstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Fri, 23 Jun 16-21h at Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer opening of Oliver Thie: Schwarzraum / Gelbzeit
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The starting point of Oliver Thie's artistic practice is the attempt to deepen the perception of natural phenomena.  To this end, he explores hand drawing as an artistic research tool and develops specific forms of translation that extend the classical means of drawing. The exhibition "Schwarzraum / Gelbzeit" brings together pieces from two groups of works: On the one hand, drawings that deal with shadow images via the removal of specially produced layers of soot, and on the other hand, watercolors and wire weavings that have emerged from the intensive observation of the withering of forsythia. Both unite his examination of the connections between knowledge of the world and the ambiguity of graphic traces.

Special Events and Dates:
Sat, July 8 from 3 pm -5 pm Live drawing ritual: Was die Schatten werfen
Registration and information: nothelfer@galerie-nothelfer.de

SUMMER BREAK July 31 – August 12
ON VIEW 24 Jun-2 Sep 2023

Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Grolmanstraße 28
10623 Berlin

Fri, 23 Jun 17:00 at the Gimp opening of Bianca Pedrina: patina
@piancabedrina  @thegimp_importexport
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For the last exhibition before the summer break @thegimp_importexport have invited Bianca Pedrina from Basel. In her photographic installations, Pedrina deals with architecture and urban development in a way that is as subtle as it is playful. Unlike traditional architectural photography, she does not seek the untouched and well-planned, but rather that which has been improperly transformed by man and nature. Where most see only a loss of quality, Pedrina discovers the possibility of anarchy, higher justice, and humor. For her, the patina appears not as a flaw that must be repaired to uncover what is intrinsic but as a trace that gives things their very reality and truthfulness.

open Sat 2–6 pm and by appointment
ON VIEW 23 Jun-14 Jul 2023

the Gimp
Wilhelm-Kabus-Str. 28-Haus 3.3
10829 Berlin
www.thegimp.eu

Fri, 23 Jun 18h at SOX opening of May I sit?
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with Klara Fischer, Charlotte Genser, Kristina Hajduchova, Chiara Hofmann, Marthe Lallemand, Felix Lorenz, Colin St. Mary, Merlin Rainer, SON, Nathanael Uhlig, Darija Zubakova.
Klasse für Malerei und Grafik von Kerstin Drechsel, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

The white seat. The empty chair. A form that looks blank and incomplete without the human being. It adapts to the human body - entirely. The cheaper the chair, the more reduced. The monobloc in its universality, expends all its substance (2kg) to support the human body. Uncompromising in terms of aesthetics and sustainability. Without the body it carries it lacks in function. In our group exhibition we try to fill the void -as artists from Leipzig- we face the absence of our bodies.
@klassedrechsel @manu.kirsch @marlenezoeburz @bjorn_streeck

ON VIEW 24 Jun-5 Aug 2023
SOX
Oranienstrasse 175
10999 Berlin

Fri, 23 Jun 18-22h at ACUD Gallery Opening of world not my oyster
with Anna-Marie Berdychová, Max Bezucha, Laura Fernández Antolín, Bianka Chladek, Jake Kent & Dudley Dream

lots of
shiny stickers

a shared system

stars made of ice

antidote to

a plump body

alienated me

coated by you

being lost is something to strive for

The exhibition works with the notion that we are not alienated (production-oriented working) units and closed systems in the capitalist status quo but we are connected, interdependent and also done and un-done by each other. Curated by: Alžběta Čermáková

ON VIEW 23 Jun-16 Jul 2023 — Add to my map
ACUD Gallery
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 Berlin Berlin

Fri, 23 Jun 19h at Galerie im Turm- Workshop Decolonizing Sexual Health
with Ahmed Awadalla
From the global distribution of resources to our most intimate interactions with our partners, colonization’s impacts can still be felt and observed in the lives of people around the world. What does decolonization mean in the context of sexuality and sexual health? What are the ways colonization has created damage with regard to sexual health?
How does such damage unequally impact specific communities more than others? What strategies can communities develop to address such disparities? These questions will be addressed in a space led by Ahmed Awadalla (Madi).

Open to all—priority to queer, trans, and nonbinary BIPOC people.

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Frankfurter Tor 1
10243 Berlin

Fri, 23 Jun 19h at SCOTTY opening of MATERIAL: THE STUFF OUR TIME IS MADE OF

with Michel Aniol, Joanna Buchowska, Andreas Burger, Birgit Cauer, Nina Doege, Tom Früchtl, Jens Hanke, Angelika Heinke, Helena Kauppila, Catherine Lorent, Susanne Kutter, Olivia Moore, Bodo Niggemann, Mirka Pawlik, Myriam Perrot, Lars Preisser, Alketa Ramaj, Adrian Schiesser, Susanne Specht, Juliane Tübke, Tilman Wendland, Markus Willeke, Beate Maria Wörz, Markus Wüste, Pomona Zipser
There is something archaic about material. Unformed, raw and unshaped: It seems to be that from which all life emerges and into which it returns. An eternal cycle in which the material changes, takes on new forms, colors and shapes, never remains the same and never perishes. Today we simply redevelop materials, depending on the context of use, and use the existing and technologically produced new for our purposes. The material is supposed to fit: If it does not, it is bent, heated and modified until it makes sense in our order. But we do not always succeed in making the material compliant. Material is unruly, contradictory. Thoughts and dreams, for example, are materials that have a life of their own, that surprise us and force us to new interpretations. Depending on how one composes files, images or texts, what is simply present subsequently gains a different meaning, reveals a new depth, a new level, creates an unexpected connection. Material always holds its own history. It is archived time, sedimented development and layered meaning. Each new access to the material brings forth something different.  (Text: Anna Krewani)

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Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin
image:  ©Nina Doege, Production 1, mix media, 2022

Sun, 25 Jun 15h at Oyoun Ghetto Wrestling

Ghetto Wrestling is about fun - not fighting! Fully unprofessional; it's a queer comedy show where creativity in costume and character is more important than wrestling ability. 

Tickets: Free admission- Language: English
Rules and more: ghettowrestling.com
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Oyoun
Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32
12049 Berlin

LAST CHANCE! Until June 24th at Ronewa Art Projects Tashi Brauen: Cover the Blank Spots

Brauen has long held an interest in the hard-edge geometric abstraction and color-field painting of the 1960s. “When I look at my earlier photographic work, I see an approach to the questions that the artists from that era were pursuing.” His photographs of objects flattened perspective and eliminated the subject to the point of near abstraction. His more recent Crack paintings emphasized surface and materiality by imposing folds and tears into the structure of the pliable cardboard material.

For this exhibition of paintings on canvas, Brauen has chosen two size formats and applied a consistent compositional framework across all of the works - a further exercise in reduction. Bold rectangular color fields lay hard against one another, their point of contact creating the tension that one imagines his cardboard surfaces held moments before they cracked.

Ronewa Art Projects — Add to my map
Potsdamer Str. 91
10785 Berlin

On view through 1. July at Dittrich & Schlechtriem: Andrej Dúbravský Anxiety of Subimago
We undeniably live in the age of anxiety; teenage angst that sticks like treacly honey that produces viscous filaments between your fingers after you had grabbed a honey glass that is cram-full and sticky when you touch it. I had to stop mixing my daily wheat grass shot with ashwagandha powder—a natural remedy, which reduces stress and calms the brain—because it messed with my probiotics. It seems like we have entered a cultural time zone where anxiety is just always there; it does not leave once you pass a certain age, and you stop being a cringe and awkward teenager, it is just always there.
- excerpt, The Age of Anxiety by Claire Koron Elat, 2023. @claireoua
 

Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin

pictured: Minding my own business 2023 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 50 cm

Until July 9th Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings, Akademie der Künste 

The exhibition “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” is a presentation of ten new installations by JUNGE AKADEMIE fellows whose artistic research examines artificial intelligence. These speculative and experimental practices question and materialise how power and ethics are dealt with in the context of AI. With the fellows: Sarah Ciston, Sara Culmann, D’Andrade & Walla Capelobo, Petja Ivanova, Pedro Oliveira, Sahej Rahal, Aarti Sunder, SONDER (Peter Behrbohm und Anton Steenbock), Natasha Tontey, Tin Wilke & Laura Fong Prosper
Curators’ Tours with Artists: Tuesday and Thursday 5 pm
20. June: Aarti Sunder
22. June: Petja Ivanova

Until July 9th at Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst Opening Artefakt und Interferenz
Harriet Groß | Susanne Piotter

Disorder as stimulation. The small sculptures in Susanne Piotter's Artefakt series evoke an impression of architecture, reminiscent of building shells and architectural failures without function. As autonomous objects, they are a plea for imperfection. Harriet Groß's installation Interferenz records phenomena of amplification and extinction. Like waves hitting obstacles, competing ideas set the space into rhythmic oscillations and turn into strings of an instrument.

Finissage: Sunday, 9 July, 4-7 pm

Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

pictured: Susanne Piotter, Artefakt No. 39, 2022, Beton . Foto: Susanne Piotter

Until July 22nd The Bureau of Melodramatic Research High Heel Communism  at L40

High Heel Communism will be the first large-scale presentation of the work of the Romanian duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research in Germany. The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (BMR) was founded in 2009 in Bucharest by artists Irina Gheorghe (b. 1981) and Alina Popa (1982-2019) as an institution whose aim is to investigate the role of emotions, as key elements of melodrama, in a wider social context. For the exhibition at the Kunstverein, the project was developed into a mixed media installation including photographs, mannequins, costumes, prints, performances, as well as a newly produced 16mm film. The film starts from existing footage from the shooting of the titular photograph and the opening performance at the exhibition Heart Beat Detection Systems in Bucharest 2022. From there it expands into a wider reflection on ideas of social equality, gender representation and the role of the high heel as a symbolic instrument of subversion.

A new performance was developed in connection with the film. Premiere with  Irina Gheorghe and Silvia Costin on 7 July 2023, 20h.

L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

Call for applications for the funding years 2024/25 — deadline July 31st

The Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme awards thirteen grants every two years to artists conducting research in the fields of fine art, film/video, literature, music, dance and theatre, as well as transdisciplinary work. Each grant consists of an annual sum of 30,000 euros and will be disbursed from January 2024 to December 2025 in monthly instalments of 2,500 euros (subject to approval of funds by the Berlin Senate).
find out more information here