selected projects

From 2024 to 2027, the AFRIKAMERA Film Festival – with its four themes BELIEVE * CHANGE * REFLECT and CREATE – will focus on diverse, inspiring, groundbreaking and sometimes contradictory perspectives on key social and political issues facing the African continent today and in the future.

website brotlosundprovinzkind.de “We write poetry, we write drama, we write philosophy, we write magic, and perhaps even a little prose. With passion, without elitism. Romanticism is generally dismissed as kitsch these days, which we consider a fallacy, for it is precisely our jaded society that needs good romanticism. Good love poetry. Good darkness. Realism and…

Website tonspur.at Photo TONSPUR_passage on top: Kai-Uwe Rosseburg TONSPUR brings together artists from various disciplines through sound, whilst simultaneously introducing its audience to an expanded concept of art and artistic reception. In this sense, TONSPUR is aimed at a public space for all those who approach the city and art with open eyes and ears.…

Some adventures begin in the wilderness. Mine began behind the radiator, with a bombardier beetle on the kitchen table, or with grass snakes that used my bed as a stopover.

Website cyan.de The graphic design studio “cyan” was founded in Berlin in 1992 by Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler. The firm’s work focuses on visual identities for cultural and public institutions (campaigns, posters, books, magazines, websites, etc.) and visual productions for exhibitions and performances (exhibition design, stage design, multimedia works, image editing). Cyan’s work has…

Website musikwerke-bildender-kuenstler.de BERGAMA STEREO In the architectural installation with sound *Bergama Stereo*, Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek draws on the form, historical function and enduring history of reception of the Pergamon Altar, now located in Berlin, to create a reinterpretation of this significant Hellenistic monument from the 2nd century BC. The surviving fragments of…

Website madagaskar.ants-and-butterflies.de Photo and video documentation of a two-week mission by a team of paediatric and plastic surgery specialists at Loterana Hospital in Manambaro, Madagascar. The doctors and nurses have been supporting the hospital, under the leadership of Dr Heuric Rakotomalala, for more than 10 years. Manambaro is located an hour’s drive along dirt tracks…

“… for Claudia Doderer, it is always about free form: whether working on operas from the repertoire or collaborating with composers, the spatial realisation is just as important as the musical one. She composes the space, exploring and testing ways to make it tangible, for example by revealing its visual implications or translating specific perspectives and proportions into changes of position. She reappropriates every space she designs …”

Website potsalotsa.com Potsa Lotsa is the pet project of Berlin-based saxophonist Silke Eberhard, which has been performing as the large ensemble Potsa Lotsa XL since 2017. In its original line-up as the wind quartet Potsa Lotsa (4), the musicians initially devoted themselves to the compositions of the African-American multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy (1928–1964); the result of…

The Virtual Walk Tbilisi is the second project in Christina Kubisch’s ‘Virtual Electrical Walks’ series and was launched in autumn 2022.

Website julius-lessing-gesellschaft.de Friends of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin State Museums For over thirty years, the association has been committed to the long-term promotion of applied art from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as arts and crafts, design and fashion. The Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts is the oldest museum…

Website frank-coldewey.de The Carpenter effect is a phenomenon whereby observing a particular movement triggers a tendency to perform that very movement. Sometimes, merely thinking about the movement is enough to set it in motion. The practice of pendulum divination and the use of a Ouija board are, in a sense, linked to this effect. In…

Website james-geccelli.de IMAGES, OBJECTS, TEXTS “The sheet of paper before me is a blank page, and at the same time it is also a physical object in space. Just as the sheet asserts itself as a defined surface, as a single entity, so too does it elude us. Every mark on the sheet points to…

Website benoitmaubrey.com Benoît Maubrey is the director and founder of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic  clothes. Basically  these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses  (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment. In his non-mobile sculptural work he frequently uses former…

Website more-than-human.eu The Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin has launched a new platform for discourse featuring pop-up exhibitions, lectures, workshops and panel discussions, with the aim of exploring the concept of ‘more than human’ from the perspective of the creative disciplines, particularly design. In parallel, a speculative cabinet of curiosities is taking shape, which will also incorporate previously…

Website retrotopia.eu This website emerged from the collaborative research and exhibition project Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces, which explores the role and influence of design in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and the former Yugoslavia from the 1950s to the 1980s. To date, an exhibition and an archive have been realised – both…

Website toula.de cie. toula limnaios is a contemporary dance company founded in 1996 by the choreographer and dancer Toula Limnaios and the composer Ralf R. Ollertz. »nothing that is not an excerpt of the heart, finds its expression in the work of toula limnaios, whereby the originality of this artist, a perfectionist of excesses, may…

Website TONSPUR collection The sound installations in the TONSPUR Passage at the Museumsquartier in Vienna have been documented in the form of immersive panoramas. The installations’ eight sound channels are positioned within a spherical photographic panorama, thereby creating a spatial experience of sound and imagery. Verena Tscherner’s installation Passage2 is part #5 of a series…

Website robert-jacobsen.com KINETIC SCULPTURES • INSTALLATIONS • ROBOTS • MOBILES • MUSIC SKULPTURELLES THEATER (Auszug)„Meist aber sind seine Stücke zum Hören und Sehen bestimmt. Wenn er seine Skulpturen kombiniert, scheinen sie wie Akteure, schaffen ein Szenario im Raum, sind Teilnehmer eines „skulpturellen Theaters“, dessen performativer Eindruck wesentlich vom Klang mitbestimmt ist. Meist unvorhersehbar, ist er…

Website oppel.at ‘I work with sounds, noises and language. In particular, I focus on the arrangement and movement of acoustic signals within a space. In doing so, I give the almost immaterial sound a physical presence, creating synaesthetic situations. Sound and image interact not only on the visual level and in the spatial dimension, but…

Website freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. Since its foundation in 1983, Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. has been dedicated to presenting and promoting new music and music in new forms. Numerous international, German and Berlin-based artists have been invited to present their work at selected venues across the city. Most of these artists defy the…

Website mini-shop.org For children, especially children in China, mini-shops are the sites of beloved experiences of a childhood that often has few joyful memories to rival it. Most often is wondrous place between the worlds of school and home. I know this from my own experience when my parents left me to be raised by…

website lissmann.com Thoughts Beyond Words “Finally painting that thinks,” Samuel Beckett said in view of Bram van Velde’s. I feel this way looking at Christina Lissmann’s paintings, which she calls “Pearls & Bones”. Exactly that and everything else is clearly visible here, speaking for itself, without illustration, without illusion. Despite the obviousness of their allusions,…

“sonambiente berlin txl” is marking the final closure of Berlin Tegel with sound art. Created for the airport’s public address system, which comprises more than 1,000 loudspeakers.

Anouschka Renzi is the daughter of Eva Renzi and was raised primarily by her adoptive father, the actor Paul Hubschmid. With parents who were actors, her path was all but set, and she began practising her craft at an early age.

Website ausstellung.labor-beethoven-2020.de The virtual exhibition by the Berlin Academy of Arts, ‘Labor 1802–2020’, brings together scientific materials, sound and listening experiments, and views of installations, which reflect the intellectual and experimental space of the ‘Labor Beethoven’ project and make it accessible as a space for knowledge and experience. The exhibition spans historical experiments in music…

website jar-online.net Sissel Tolaas “an alphabet for the nose” featured in journal for artistic research (jar) “Smell [..] is a highly elusive phenomenon. Odours, unlike colors, for instance, cannot be named – at least not in European languages. ‘It smells like…’, we have to say when describing an odour, groping to express our smell experience by…

In Berlin Mitte, the number of educational institutions forming networks with one another is growing. From nurseries and schools to cultural institutions: all those involved are set to benefit from these partnerships and learn from one another. The website showcases the ongoing work of these educational networks through interviews with pupils, parents, teachers and artists involved, and provides a complete list of participants in the form of a network map.

Website klaus-roth.de Klaus Roth Architekten “Since our firm was founded in 1994, we have been developing technically and creatively exceptional solutions for the complex challenges of theatre construction, in collaboration with acousticians, lighting designers, stage designers and structural engineers. We have a wealth of experience in working with listed buildings and, thanks to our long-standing…

Website food.mkg-hamburg.de/ Food Revolution 5.0 addresses one of the most pressing questions of the 21st century: what does the future of our food system look like in a growth-oriented society characterised by dwindling resources? The exhibition takes a critical look at the global food industry and explores the visions that designers, architects and scientists are…

Website mfa.one manege für architektur is a new German-language architecture magazine that is dedicated, independently and with passion, to the pressing issues of our time; it offers ideas for shaping the future, explores new directions with wit and meticulousness, and brings together perspectives from around the world. manege für architektur offers writers a space for…

Website sein-antlitz-koerper.de “Driven by the question of just how atheistic, how cosmopolitan and how spiritual the German capital is, curator Alexander Ochs is currently curating no fewer than 11 exhibitions in various places of worship across Berlin. In a city where people from over 180 nations live together, where a large proportion of the population…

Website musikwerke-bildender-kuenstler.de MUSICAL WORKS BY VISUAL ARTISTSA series of events featuring performances ofmusical works and compositions by visual artists The series ‘Musical Works by Visual Artists’ presents musical works by artists who are internationally renowned as visual artists, but whose musical works and compositions are rarely heard. For the participating artists, the connection between visual art…

website heikemack.de “Heike Mack’s ongoing transformation of subtle pictorial forms is accompanied by a reflection on her own work, which is hard to surpass in terms of uncompromising nature and radicalism:As if all the artistic manifestations of her own ideas were timelessly available in her own perception, as if on a vast palette, her body…