13.30 – 14.30: Listening session with Mizi Lee (Goldrausch 2024)
Mizi Lee, founder of the band Horizontaler Gentransfer (HGT), presents the songs that inspired her, from Georg Kreisler, Udo Jürgens, and Goldene Zitronen to Aespa and BTS.
In German.
15.00 – 16.30: Exhibition tour with Tomke Braun, curator and author, and Leonie Kellein, Mizi Lee, Marei Loellmann, Evelina Reiter and Sofiia Yesakova. In German.
16.30: Pop-up sorbet tasting with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (Goldrausch 2024)

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky serves sorbet made from fresh beech leaves that she collected in a forest on the outskirts of Berlin. Beech-Leaf Sorbet (2024) is part of the Vernal Unfolding project presented in the exhibition, which features Kovacovsky’s work with common beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica).

17.00 – 19.00: Reading group with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (Goldrausch 2024) and Sina Ribak, researcher in ecology and art
#51 session of Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club: A leaf is a platter of pigment strung with vascular lace

After the sorbet tasting, we continue with the collective reading with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (Goldrausch 2024) and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts. The extinction of both known and unknown species is a terrible loss. Attuning our collective reading practice to the Goldrausch 2024 exhibition, I only work with lost and found, we turn to the worldmaking of plants. In an ongoing cycle of change the elements of sunlight, air, and water never get lost but are transformed into new forms of life. Inspired by geobiochemist Hope Jahren, we gather to shine a light on the alchemy of photosynthesis and to find relationships and knowledge. She reminds us that “a leaf is a platter of pigment strung with vascular lace”. We invite you to join us as we explore this life-giving process, where nothing is truly new but constantly transformed.

Between Us and Nature is an ongoing reading club that chooses texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism and the (post)anthropocene from a eco-feminist perspective. Attendees read passages together out loud, and share experiences and thoughts about the nature they live in. Looking beyond disciplines, the group creates a space to learn from and with bacteria, algae, fungi, soil and multinaturalist narratives.

How: RSVP is mandatory: office@goldrausch.org
What: The Reading Club is in English language When: Sunday 13th of October, 2024 at 16:30 (sharp) Where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin.
Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur and Goldrausch Reference: Hope Jahren, Lab Girl - A story of trees, science and love, Fleet, UK, 2016.
In English.