Saturday, 12 September

12 am–2 pm: Research Workshop “Working from Traces: Artistic Research and the Inaccessible” with Daria Syvakos

This two-hour workshop introduces artistic research methods for working with places that cannot be fully accessed. It starts from a practice, shaped by film, installation, maps and digital environments, with a focus on infrastructures, archives, and worldbuilding.

Participants will choose one site or research fragment and work with the material they can access: images, maps, notes, memories, public records or found documents. Through guided exercise, they will build a small research atlas, trace one change over time, mark what remains uncertain, and turn the material into a first artistic sketch.

The workshop is practice-based and intended for 10-12 participants. No technical knowledge is required.

Register here (max. 12 participants)

2–4 pm: Drawing Workshop “Taking a Line for a Walk (in my neighborhood)” with Alma Itzhaky

The workshop will guide participants in creating mental maps of significant places in their lives. Using a simple technique of guided visualization, drawing, and collage, the participants will draw individual mental maps and use them to narrate a memory connected to this

environment. The workshop invites participants to reflect on the connection between drawing and tracing a path on a surface - echoing Paul Klee’s famous saying that a line is a dot that went for a Walk.

The workshop is suitable for families with school-age children (6 and older). Children need to be accompanied by an adult.

Register here (max. 15 participants)

4–5 pm: Performative Intervention “Soil Observations” by Marie Salcedo Horn

The ceramics by Marie Salcedo Horn serve as tools for approaching the floor of the nGbK with multiple senses. The two objects are approximately 50 cm high and mounted on wheels. Visitors can embrace the objects, which resemble funnel-like toys, and push them through the space in order to listen to the floor and the site, or to observe it through a focused gaze. The aim is to explore perceptions of space through the body.

Register here (max. 10 participants)

Sunday, 13 September

5–5.30 pm: Performance “33L of Pain” by Ksti Hu & Vira Pogurskaja

How much landscape can be translated into a body?

When does temperature become political?

When does endurance become a form of translation?

Ksti Hu stands on a block of ice resting on a metal grid and reads a text about invisibility and thermal politics, accompanied by a live composition by Vira Pogurskaja. The melting of the ice forms the temporal structure of the performance and continues after its conclusion as a material process of the installation.

5.30–6 pm: Reading “Manifesto of Post-Phlegmatism” by Miriam Schmidtke

The Manifesto of Post-Phlegmatism celebrates apathy and stagnation in order to reject oppressive demands of capitalism. It’s a meditation on sleep, transforming it from a passive necessity into a political statement. It embraces rest not as a means to recharge for further labor, but as an intentional withdrawal from a system that commodifies human energy. The text draws on sleep as an initiation into a speculative cult of dreamers, a sanctuary for those who seek refuge in the liminal spaces between unconsciousness and the digital ether. Here, sleep is a mystical practice and a rebellion against the hyper- surveillance of techno-capitalism.

6–6.30 pm: Music Concert with Jane Garbert & Adriano Redoglia

Alongside her artistic practice, Jane Garbert writes and composes her own songs. During Berlin Art Week, she will give an intimate concert on the occasion of the group exhibition in touch by the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprogramm. For the first time, she will be accompanied by drummer Adriano Redoglia.

6.30–7 pm: Performance “Druzhba sent from my iPhone II” by Kristina Kusmina Dreit