B-LA-M (Berlin – LA – Mexico City)
Art Festival (group show)

SCOTTY cordially invites you to the Troubled Kinships exhibition, a collaboration of international project spaces as part of the B-LA-M Festival in Berlin.
B-LA-M is a three-year art exchange created to deepen the relationships between the independent art scenes of Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. 54 art collectives will come together to develop and realize 18 joint projects in each city.

The first part will take place in Berlin from June 27 to July 14, 2024.

SCOTTY is in an exchange with the artist-run spaces Espacio Unión from Mexico City and Monte Vista Projects from Los Angeles.

The exhibition Troubled Kinships invites the observer to contemplate the diverse notions of “habitat”  that have been cultivated through the lived experiences of the artists, ranging from Mexico City, Berlin and Los Angeles.
The exhibition zooms in on the place where the Santa Monica mountains butt-up against the pavement of Los Angeles, a tamale stand on the streets of Iztapalapa, the historical Arizona Route 80 rife with folklore, a “worm space” of styrofoam-metabolizing beetle larvae and the plastic waste they inhabit and consume, sites bearing witness to the colonization of the American West, and the human body, a constant battleground for autonomy. These seemingly disparate ecosystems form rhizomatic connections- inventive kinships- which highlight the interconnectedness of environmental and social injustices, and strive towards regenerative futures. In each work, alongside the “trouble,”  one can identify propositions for alternative ecological economies. 

Participating artists from Los Angeles: Christine Atkinson, Elizabeth Folk, Kellan Barneby King, Amanda Mears, Kimberly Morris, Ashton Phillips, Michelle L. Robinson, Daniel Alejandro Trejo, Beth Waldman, Tayler Zanke

From Mexico City: José Castañeda Lepov, Mónica Figueroa, Carolina Maki Kitagawa Frisby, Miriam Salado

The Berlin contribution to this exhibition consists of a collection of A6-format works to which the nine members of SCOTTY have each invited four artists from their respective artistic networks.
Participating artists from Berlin: Carla Åhlander, Ursula Antesberger, Sabine Banovic, Charlotte Bastian, Betty Böhm, Sigrun Drapatz, Thilo Droste, Barbara Duisberg, Kiki Gebauer, Simone Häckel, Soraya Hannemann, Klara Hobza, Anne Hölck, Alexa Hoyer, Katja Hübner, Lisa Junghanss, Eunsun Ko, Pauline Kraneis, Julia Krewani, Lucille Mona Ling, Karen Linnenkohl, Sabine Linse, Oliver Möst, Jana Müller, Christine Niehoff, Isabel Pauer, Felix Pestemer, Birgit Ramsauer, Cornelia Renz, Maja Rohwetter, Carola Rümper, Janis Schroeder, Kerstin Serz, Annette Sonnewend, Zuzanna Skiba, Doris Sprengel, Anne-Katrin Ströh, Nikolas Theilgaard, Anke Völk, Marco Wachsmuth, Bettina Weiß and Juliane Zelwies.