Ronewa Art Projects My Body Is Not Your Temple – Pierre le Riche
This week we are going on an Art Opening Detox. We have dance performances, zine festivals, puppet shows, speed dating and some Words in the Wild instead. Enjoy!
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Tue Sept 16, 19h @Falschrum The Philosopher and the King
Wendy M.K. Shaw will present her new book as a shadow puppet show at the Falschrum Office. "The Philosopher and the King" recounts a 1000-year-old tale of the classical Arab philosopher, al-Farabi, in which the word prevails over the sword, and music emerges as the highest form of wisdom.
Falschrum
Donaustr. 12
12043 Berlin
Wed, 17 Sep 20:00 at Monopol Berlin Ballet Sur_real by DANCÆ presents: Modalities of Me dancaeberlin.com tickets
The new multi-sensory production reveals apertures onto deeply hidden parts of the self within an increasingly complex world. Ballet Sur_real, the signature dance ensemble of the international production company DANCÆ, presents Modalities of Me, a new work premiering at Berlin’s Monopol, the former distillery now turned cultural venue in northern Berlin. The piece unfolds around five figures who do not appear as traditional characters, but as embodiments of different states of being: power, chaos, duplicity, fragility, and ferality. Rather than following a linear storyline, these figures interact with one another, with the installation, and with the surrounding architecture. The performance takes place within a life-size environment created by Swiss-based visual collective Encor Studio, making choreography and installation inseparable.
Performance Dates:
Wed, Sept 17, 8 pm I Thu, Sept 18, 8 pm I Fri, Sept 19, 8:45 pm I Sat, Sept 20, 6pm I Sun, Sept 21, 3 pm
Tickets: 27–34 EUR
Monopol Berlin
Provinzstraße 40–44
13409 Berlin
Ballet Sur_real from DANCÆ Photo: Macha Kulch
Wednesday 17th 19h, @Casino for Social Medicine: sticking together in tough times
nat skoczylas will be in conversation with Dean Spade about his latest book “Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together”.
About how we build resilience in our movements, families and communities. How we grow more complex and nuanced bonds, and how these help us through the revolutions to come. About autopilots, respectability politics, accountability, discomfort, fucking around and fucking up the state - or who knows, we will drift somewhere together, and you are invited to help us out with the directions with your questions.
There will be books to buy and Kufa for a family in Gaza - please come hungry and with cash.
Sonnenallee 100,
Berlin 12045
Thu Sept 18th, FLYLEAF Prelude at WirWir and Casino
17:00–18:30 [at WIRWIR]
Neverending Joy of Indie Publishing
Roundtable discussion with Bored Wolves (PL), Profundo ediciones (AR/DE), Sasha Wizansky/Pencil Magazine (USA), Gura Mare (RO/DE), Ugly Duckling Presse (USA), nanay fanzin (TR/DE)
19:00 – 21:00 [Casino, Sonnenallee 100, 12045 Berlin-Neukölln]
DIRT SHEET: A Pre-Festival Salon
The performance artist, author and zine maker C. Bain (Tiresias Project) is curating an evening of poetry and performance that is also a little queer and a little insurrectionary. The line-up includes C. Bain, Muj Abdulzade & Leofrine Nøv, Teona Galgoțiu, Maria Preußmann, Sandra Hetzl and Jannis Weu.
Fri, 19 Sep 15-19h at WIRWIR (and other locations) FLYLEAF BOOK & ZINE FESTIVAL
The second edition of FLYLEAF BOOK & ZINE FESTIVAL is taking place in three independent art & publishing spaces in Berlin-Neukölln, Apartment Project, Falschrum Books and WIRWIR
Opening hours of FLYLEAF FESTIVAL:
Friday, September 19, 3-7 pm
Saturday, September 20, 1-7 pm
Sunday, September 21, 1-7 pm Admission is free!
FLYLEAF is about fostering conversations and exchange between those who make books and zines, as independent publishers or artists, as well as book lovers and collectors. The three festival locations are within walking distance of one another and relatively small in size, conducive to dialogue and personal encounters. While our spaces are cozy, there will be almost 90 (!) international publishers and artists showcasing their work in the 3 festival locations this year!
The exhibiting publishers include:
WIRWIR is hosting: Kristen Mallia (US), SoEL (DK/GB), Yehudi Villa / coatla (DE), Lafat Bordieu (ES), Muj (DE), Kaméidi Kollektiv (DE), Emotional Factory (DE), Mina Braun (DE), Rüsselhorn (DE), Hounyeh Kim (KR/DE), Jiajing Wang / Fruit Salad Press (CD/FR), vertwen (UA), Goofypress (FR), Happy Potato Press (NL), malelingue edizioni (IT/DE), Été (FR), Victoria Rodriguez (DE), Bored Wolves (PL), Ayten Pehlivan (DE), Spilenka (AU), FLORETS (DE), PENCIL Magazine (US), NIka Grigorian (DE), Azimut Collective (DE)
Ioca (DE), Moana Vonstadl (DE), Gura Mare (RO/DE) Natalia Talamagka (GR)
Join Read Wedding on September 20 at 15:00 for a gentle journey through Berlin’s urban wilderness as part of the FLYLEAF Book & Zine Festival. This is the very first poetry walk by the Re(a)d Wedding Kollektiv—a trial run for future walks in the northern neighborhoods.
We’ll wander, pause, and write together—blurring the lines between poetry, presence, and place. Along the way, we’ll explore how the city shapes our stories and what kind of community we want to create.
Meeting point: WIRWIR, Stuttgarter Straße 56, 12059 Berlin
Solidarity scale: 5€ / 10€ (includes a handmade booklet)
Max. 15 participants — sign up here to secure your spot!
Bring your words into the wild—and see what finds you.
hosted by @johannaoutside & @brookswarhier :)
Sat, 20 Sep 14-17:00 at HILDEGARD HOME TO ROOST with Jeremiah Day
"The recent cataclysm of events, tumbling over one another, whose sweeping force leaves everybody, spectators who try to reflect on it and actors who try to slow it down, equally numbed and paralyzed..." Hannah Arendt, Home To Roost
Taking inspiration from Hannah Arendt's essay from 1975, this workshop creates space for collective reflection on urgent crises, and transforms them into embodied responses. We will begin by creating a shared map of concerns and then read Arendt's text together to create a theoretical lens with which to process these issues. Finally we will translate them into collective expression through improvised performances. The aim of the gathering is to explore how to make the shift from passive consumption of news towards active meaning-making, creating a visceral and participatory form of civic dialogue.
We invited artists, collectives, and friends who work with the issue of decoloniality (not post-, but de-) in the spaces of Central and North Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. The following activities were our guiding moons: openness to collective and community-based practices, a decolonial focus, feminist perspectives, multilingualism, and OtherArchives. The most important feature is CO: COmaking, COllaboration, COthinking, COdimensionality.
The exhibition TAKE aSEAT. MAKE aSHIFT aims to bring together a series of projects targeting the discrepancy between words and deeds, the dysfunction of institutional representation, and the knowledge shortcomings. Throughout these series of Circulation-events, the logic of taking a SEAT has shifted. The analysis has moved from the idea of searching for a place to exist at the beginning, to reflecting on the act of occupying a place, where seating together, claiming the right to write one’s own story, and radical collectivity are placed on the same page.
20 Sep-18 Oct 2025
Kulturfabrik Moabit
Lehrter Str. 35
10557 Berlin
Sat Sept 20th 20:00-22:00 Fire & Flirt Speed dating Event/ Hetero edition
Languages: EN/DE I Entrance: 10€
Secure your spot! Sign up link here
Tired of online dating? We got you! Meet cute singles for a fun& flirtatious speed dating event!
Hosted by TAM @whodattam Artwork @esschmitty Tams Outfits @kleiderei_berlin
Alte Feuerwache
The old firestation of tempelhof airport activated by @torhausberlin
15.08-18.10
Tempelhofer Damm 45,
Berlin, 12101
Sun Sept 21st, 14h Skulpturverein presents ECHO ECHO A route through the urban space
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL / ULRIKA SEGERBERG – special guest matka / HILDEGARD SKOWASCH / SIMONE RUEß / YASMIN ALT / ANNA BORGMAN / GLORIA ZEIN / KYOCO TANIYAMA
ROUTE A – Meeting point: Bundesallee/Am Volkspark Wilmersdorf, 2:00 PM
ROUTE B – Meeting point: Mecklenburgische Straße / Stadtbad Wilmersdorf, 4:00 PM
Skulpturverein invites you to an artistic journey through public space. During a shared walk, the audience encounters existing sculptures that often go unnoticed in urban spaces – silent testimonies to past creative will, political narratives, or artistic positions. At each station, one of the participating artists responds to an existing sculpture with temporary works, interventions, or performances. Their contributions function as commentaries, contemporary reflections, or counterpoints to the works of art created by men in the past. They open up new perspectives on what already exists and raise questions about the representation, history, and visibility of art in public space. Moving through the city – as a collective stroll – becomes part of the experience. The journey connects the stations into a sensual and intellectual process: Art in space, art in dialogue, art in motion. ECHO ECHO is an invitation to see, think, and move forward – together, outdoors, in the heart of the city. www.stadtfindetkunst.de
Sun Sept 21st, 15:30–20:00 Green Resistance — Session 2 by @urbanepraxisberlin
Keynotes, panel discussion, dance workshop & music — exploring sustainability, urban commons, and climate justice.
Free entrance - hug a tree and come through.
Alte Feuerwache
The old firestation of tempelhof airport activated by @torhausberlin
15.08-18.10
Jenny Michel combines objects, drawings, photographs and texts in a variety of media to create complex series of works whose differentiated textual background meets an equally multi-layered material level. The works are based on a process of palimpsesting information. In a non-linear layering, arranging, collaging and decollaging of signs and texts, the works grow together to form a modular, labyrinthine overall structure. In their series-like linking, they reflect the artist's widely networked, highly analytical approach. Oscillating between science and fiction, Jenny Michel ironizes the claim to absoluteness of scientific thought and thus also exposes ideal concepts as an ambivalent phenomenon of striking social relevance.
Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Corneliusstr. 3
10787 Berlin
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nothelfer. Photo: Fred Dott
This exhibition was specifically conceived for the art association’s spaces and, with one exception, features only works created since late 2024. In reference to works by Otto Dix (1891–1969), the artist aims to intertwine our present with the political and social phenomena of the Weimar Republic a hundred years ago. The parallels are numerous and often unsettling: we find ourselves once again in a period of major upheaval, marked by economic and political crises, the resurgence of right-wing populist forces, and a growing threat of war in Europe. Ruprecht von Kaufmann paints our society on the brink of a new era.
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin
Ruprecht von Kaufmann, HERBSTABEND, 2024, Öl und Collage (Mylar) auf Linoleum / oil and collage (Mylar) on linoleum, 277 x 540 cm
Volksbühne and galleries, concept stores and Babylon, the Kunstverein and the artists who live there: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is an exception in Berlin – almost everything is different. The exhibition brings together works from the SteDi Collection alongside pieces by local actors from the square, who now encounter each other here in the Plattenbau.
On view until Nov 16 @Between Bridges Opening Sofia Reyes- Alucinación
Between Bridges is honored to present Alucinación, a solo exhibition by Bogotá-based artist Sofía Reyes. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Europe and opens as part of the Featured program of Berlin Art Week.
Alucinación by Sofía Reyes is a collage, a visual essay composed out of fragments that speak to and about the banality of events. In her own words: “This exhibition feels like many things at once, a portrait, a document, a test, a love letter, a diagnosis, a cry for help.” Reyes’ work is often created from an expanded understanding of what a self-portrait is. In Alucinación she explores the idea of individual identity being constructed through a fleeting, unstoppable stream of data, images, thoughts – all deprived of any moral or ethical mediation or consideration. Although this may sound as a cynical or nihilistic approach to reality, it is more about a particular expression of innocence: deprived of cuteness, and closer to what we could call a cold tenderness.
Between Bridges
Adalbertstr. 43
10179 Berlin
On view until Oct 25 at BBA Gallery Artistes de Temps- Artists of Our Time
A group exhibition co-curated by Art Maison Marios x Prazzle Arts, presented by BBA Gallery
“To be contemporary is, in some sense, to be out of time.” — Giorgio Agamben
The phrase “artist of our time” carries both weight and risk. It presumes a consensus on what our time is, who defines it, who represents it, and whose work is allowed to shape it. In a global art landscape still reckoning with historical erasure and structural exclusion, Artistes de Temps turns the phrase into a provocation: What does it mean to champion the living radically, unapologetically, and without delay? Artistes de Temps runs in parallel with the launch of Culture Kaleidoscope: 100 Artists of Our Time, a new annual art book initiated by Prazzle. Together, the exhibition and publication function not as documentation but as intervention. They ask: Who gets seen? Who gets supported? Who gets remembered? These artists don’t beg for entry into the dominant canon. They build parallel timelines where ancestral memory, radical imagination, and speculative futures converge. They preserve not ashes, but fire.
BBA Gallery
Köpenicker Str. 96
10179 Berlin
Kwaku Osei Achim The Goddess, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 200 cm
Hölzl’s multidisciplinary practice is defined by a sensitive yet critical engagement with the systems and materials that shape modern life. Fusing sculptural engineering with ephemerality, he explores the entangled lifecycles of aviation, energy, and ecological consciousness. At the core of PROPEL are three types of propellers—each a meditation on movement, innovation, collapse, and transformation—recalling the forms of both seed and bomb, origin and end.
Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin
DANIEL HÖLZL, FLOWERS (wilted no. six), 2025 Recycled carbon fiber, recycled paraffin wax, aluminum frame, 80 x 60 cm, Unique
On view until at Galerie P6 Ian Jones: Helios Garden
This new body of work invites viewers into Jones’s vivid inner world, where everyday encounters with people and nature—hovering between the real and the surreal—are reframed through photography, digital innovation, art-historical reverence, and personal transformation under the radiance of the sun. Helios Garden reflects the artist’s ongoing explorations of life, community, travel, and human connection.
view by appointment
12 Sep-3 Oct 2025 Galerie P6
Gossowstraße 6
10777 Berlin
On view until Oct 25th at Ronewa Art Projects My Body Is Not Your Temple – Pierre le Riche.
My Body Is Not Your Temple' – a solo exhibition by South African artist Pierre le Riche. This will be the gallery's second solo presentation of le Riche's vivid, evocative, and intimate textile works, continuing his deeply personal exploration of queer identities and belonging.
The show features a powerful new series of wall textiles that continue le Riche’s deeply personal exploration of queer identity and themes of belonging, visibility, and vulnerability. Following on from his 2024 solo exhibition In Four Places At Once, My Body Is Not Your Temple deepens le Riche’s inquiry into the body as a site of identity and contradiction. Themes of gender and sexuality remain central to le Riche’s practice.
Group Exhibition with Dana Engfer, Christoph Kilian, Lucy König, Gabriele Künne, Taiyoh Mori, Enrico Niemann, Miriam Salamander, Fiene Scharp. Curated by Cassandra Mehlhorn
The group exhibition „This is the place you told me about“ brings together ten artistic practices that touch the theme of vulnerability. In multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary ways they capture the moment when the inside and outside meet and visualize it in a reduced and gentle language. Artist Talk and Tour: Saturday, Sept 27, 2025, 4 pm Finissage on October 11, 2025, 6 - 10 pm
