Rooted in cultural generational trauma, the exhibition explores questions of ownership, displacement and memory in four artistic positions. In installations, videos, and sculptures, the artists devote themselves to stories beyond media and political presence in the Western context. Here, their works do not act as mere documentation or correction of narratives, but become agents for change, between past events and future possibilities.

Members of the analogue photography group of the Huttenkiez strolled through the neighbourhood in the golden summer and captured everyday moments with their cameras. Unframed, their pictures stick to the smooth surfaces of things they found on the street. Texts and collages also accompany these photographs, which were created under the instructions of flânerie researcher Mirjana Mitrović and photographer Kamel Froschmann. Silvia Morandi closes the circle and presents a recording of her performance Charta, which she performed live at Stadtschloss Moabit last year. In addition, selected artworks by other neighbours can be found at this exhibition.

The performers are on a playful exploration. Exposed, they sound out the emptiness, feel their way forward, try to understand or forget. Moving along their own borders leads again and again to crossing them and moving beyond the known. An experiment of sounds, words and movements that creates resonances. The audience imperceptibly becomes part of what happens, whether it reacts with withdrawal or encouragement.

The Bamenda Film Association trains young people in film, television, theatre and music. The school building was built in cooperation with the Reformation Campus. In the cinema, several films fade into each other on different projection screens. An impression of film work is created that welcomes young people and lets them discover their abilities by doing.

On the ground floor, paintings by Edelgard Giesbert will be shown. The artist will be present.

Evelyn Eichinger’s watercolour paintings are inspired by journeys to China, Africa and Italy. Georg Eichinger’s photos condense street impressions of Moabit and other Berlin districts.

The exhibition’s title Insights is ambiguous – on the one hand, insights into the artist’s photographic works are granted, but on the other hand, this title describes above all the photographer’s gaze specific to the selected works: from outside or inside, he looks with his camera through glass into the rooms behind. This creates reflections, plays of light, mirroring, blurring and irritation, which merge with the respective motifs to form a puzzle picture. On display are both black-and-white and colour photographs, both analogue and digital.

What happens? ALS (German: when) is understood as a link to a personal memory or narrative. If one thinks back to what all was ALS ... questions often come up. What if it had not been SO, but different? Would things be different then? How do people meet each other and themselves? Or is everything just the way it is? ALS leaves room for language and space for an encounter in an exchange about the world..

In her artistic project, ongoing since 20216, Bärbel Kosanke photographs crows in the neighbourhood according to specific rules: 1. she only works with the mobile phone camera. 2. the crow(s) should fly. 3. she may not catch the crows. 3. she is not allowed to feed the crows. The result is a series of about 1000 photos, which she presents in ‘swarms’ on plates.

The tailor’s studio opens for an interdisciplinary presentation with costumes, fabrics, painting and performance. Fabrics take centre stage here: they are worked on, reshaped, moved, changed, adapted and rearranged. Agnes Lörincz exhibits her paintings collaged with fabrics in the dressmaker’s studio Dering van Dieken. Carlotta van Dering and Marlene van Dieken create high-quality costumes and made-to-measure clothing, Agnes Lörincz is inspired by fabrics and lets them become part of her painting. Alongside older paintings, new pictures are shown in which you can find individual fabrics from the tailor’s workshop. A dialogue develops between the paintings and the pieces of clothing hung nearby, a new context. In the performance on the opening day, the fabric will also be experienced as a costume on the body of the performance artist..

The gallery closes after the Ortstermin23. For 14 years it hosted 80 exhibitions, readings and charity events. While Udo Würtenberger exhibits his own woodcuts of the last 30 years, Salome Haettenschweiler will be showing paintings, graphic art and objects.

On Sunday, 3 September at 3 pm, there will be a gallery talk. Alexander Soth will be asking Udo Würtenberger questions about his gallery and his artistic activity.

The hosts Ernst Wellnhofer and Agnes Sauter-Wellnhofer invite and present, are curators. Guest artist Merit Fakler presents a guest gift and shows new videos. Guest artist Dietmar Spiller shows L lässt grüßen (graphic).

An artistic feast will be prepared by Mo Frank-Auth (performance) with mindful tasting from bowls by Regina Klusmann and Agnes Sauter-Wellnhofer (glass and ceramics) on the first day. On the second day, slate table music by Anatol Weisse will be played to accompany the mushroom soup from the Spandauer Forst, alongside cardboard objects by Mo Frank-Auth and colour drawings by Anatol Weisse.

Concrete and abstract
Colours and forms

The painting groups have been founded five years ago. We meet to ‘make something creative’. We learn different techniques for creating pictures. We get to know each other in the creative process. We talk with each other about what we like, what fits, what doesn’t fit so well … The conversations (also) give us sociability, stimulation for everyday life. We welcome new participants! We show pictures created in the last two years.

The Treff am Ottopark is an open recreational facility for people in their mid-40s and older from the district (funding: Bezirksamt Mitte; responsible body: Moabiter Ratschlag e. V.). The meeting place offers activities, such as computer and English courses, painting groups, sports, yoga for seniors, qi gong, games afternoons, a cooking group, a sing-along group and an improv theatre group, counselling and lectures on topics that may be relevant for pensioners, joint visits to cultural events, art tours, and much more. The courses and offers are free of charge for the visitors, in some courses material costs are charged. Since March 2023, the Otto-Treff has been part of the Netzwerk der Wärme (network of warmth) and can therefore also offer opening hours outside of courses and events. Visitors can take a look at the current newspaper over a cup of coffee or tea (cost price), have nice conversations or simply relax and unwind a little.

At Café Mauerwerk, Isa Zappe and Jakob Urban show new works that deal with our relationship to the world in various media. Bigfoot, AI, queer colours and a whole lot of flowers – Isa Zappe and Jakob Urban show new works between video, painting, print and installation. Questioning the human relationship to nature and to each other, through mythical creatures or floriculture, digital media or queer life.

The plattform.moabit opened its doors in spring 2005. It is one of Moabit’s first artists’ run galleries with an interest not only in its own cause, but also in being a platform for artists and designers. The exhibition ACHTZEHN continues this journey through the years and celebrates its anniversary with all exhibitors and guests! As always, guests are very welcome!

Andrea Knobloch shows large drawings, they are excavations behind the façades. They attempt to make visible the chimeras of transformed corporeality. Behind their optimised façade, late modern humans hide an increasing bewilderment in the face of radical expansions of human scope for action.

Melting Soundscapes by Özcan Ertek are soundscapes encoded in the Thielpark in Berlin. Localised in a topography that is at the end of the last ice age and in contrast to the urban expansion of Berlin. Using the microphone as a magnifying lens, the work holds sound samples to speculate on forgotten deep ecologies or future ice age sounds.

What is our relationship to nature? – Silke Riechert invites visitors to her studio and project space. She researches the transformation processes of decay and new beginnings in compost, branches and soil, combined as compost sculptures.

Some guests stay – even though they were not invited.

At this year’s Ortstermin on the topic of ‘guest’, I will focus on plants and animals that often travel with us as stowaways and sometimes stay. If they spread almost unhindered in their new habitat, we speak of biological invasion. With advancing globalisation and the acceleration of society, the ways in which an immigrant can reach a new habitat have also changed. Natural barriers such as water, mountains or deserts now play a much smaller role for invasive species. In some places, this can increase biodiversity, but more often it has negative effects.

For the presentation at Ortstermin, I am taking a closer look at some of the invasive species that can be found in Berlin. On a large scale and on a golden background, they can unfold their sometimes bittersweet beauty without restraint.

Karen Scheper’s drawings, assemblages and objects are created on the basis of texts, written elements, multimedia images and her own photo archive. She uses conceptual drawing as a direct medium to analyse what is seen or read, as well as a means to reflect on socio-political concepts/realities. In the graphic re-contextualisation of text and image structures, complex information clusters develop, condensed into abstract sign systems. Scheper often uses the techniques of decomposition and collage, combining found footage, digital editing and various drawing techniques. For example, fragments of newspaper images meet visual material from Mars probes, whose digital image space is rewritten in drawing. This process gives rise to artificial spaces and environments in which construction and graphic gesture intertwine.

In this visual sonic spatial installation, Canadian-Haitian visual artist Stina Baudin and British, Berlin-based experimental music artist Abigail Toll, attempt to break down the objective logic of a dataset. Through a process of what theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva terms fractal thinking, they ‘de-centre time and sequentiality to identify compositional patterns that reveal the structuring grammar of our world’. Through a process spanning almost a year, the artists collected truth values from their own daily experiences and co-created their work across the six hour time difference between Germany and Canada. In a series of studies, they layer together six woven panels combined with six music movements that encapsulate six themes – etymologies, water, time/displacement, flight, wonder, and memory. The fragmented sound and illegible visual documentation calls into question not only the absence and deformations that the artists found in previous datasets, but highlights how lived experience and memories (our truth values) undergo a process of fragmentation and distortion over time.www.stinabaudin.com, www.abigailtoll.com

This exhibition is kindly supported by HOLON.

The series Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths is made possible through funding by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Roswita Baumeister’s memorial on Nazi crimes is exhibited in the shop window of the Korea Verband.

Ortstermin opens the space for the encounter with the memorial sign in memory of the women who had to perform forced sex work (installed in the Ravensbrück Memorial in 2020) and the work of the Korea Association in the Museum of Comfort Women. Roswitha Baumeister, Karin Kröll and Christine Mühlhan-Korner give an insight into their work on the memorial sign and the accompanying publication.

Roswitha Baumeister, a visual artist based in Berlin, works on the representation of women, gender as a façade, the memory of the city and the culture of remembrance.

The graphic artist Karin Kröll lives and works in Hamburg. Her artistic work focuses on visual interventions and visualisation in public space.

Product designer Christine Mühlhan-Korner works in Berlin-Reinickendorf. In her workshop she creates art and rustic objects made of glass, combined with materials such as gold, palladium or copper.

People, Faces, Stories Friends Freaks Family
In this exhibition, Kai Heimberg shows portraits from the last three years. Touching, provocative, very intimate.

Botox is a registered product name derived from botulinum toxin, one of the strongest neurotoxins that people like to have injected into their wrinkled faces to make them look like a baby’s bottom. It is the excretion of bacteria that thrive in spoiled meat. Hence the name, derived from the Latin word botulus (= sausage).

Gleb Bas and Thomas Lang have invited Jan Deyrieux and Pawel Podolak to explore the possible relationship of Botox to contemporary art in a joint exhibition.

The exhibition UnFinished2023 introduces the world of a character captivating our imagination and repulsion. Embark on a journey to explore the depths of human immorality, as we launch the enigmatic figure ‘Jack Hole’.

‘Jack Hole’ debuts in our tangible world and comes alive through the artist ‘Daniel Hemel’ who in this case is his clerk and lets him be born in an immersive room of a former house of prayer.

With his cunning intellect and twisted desires ‘Jack Hole’ depicts an embodiment of deviance and unscrupulousness, representing the essence of a profligate character leaving an indelible mark on the realms of fiction and reality.

UnFinished2023 aims not to glorify ‘Jack Hole’s’ deeds, but to examine the complexities of his hypercapitalistic psyche. Various artifacts will shed light on the multifaceted nature of ‘Jack Hole’. From his dark origins to the intricate web of deceit he wove, his attributes will make us question our own values, the fabric of our moral compass and the limits of depravity.Enter the exhibition with an open mind, ready for unsettling revelations and let ‘Jack Hole’ serve as a mirror upon the moral intricacies shaping our unfinished world.

You throw your visualisation wish into the Wishbox and the next day you can pick up the printout.
A different kind of canvas. Cardboard packaging becomes canvas. AI art on glassine paper and plastic. Special feature: the @wishbox.berlin from the HKW takes requests and presents your art the next day to take away printed on DIN A4. Framed works of art by the AI will be on display. Children paint with red or blue on cardboard..

In Verena Maria Fürst’s window gallery, art walkers can see current paintings.

The project guest.room presents photographic impressions of Moabit’s rich culture of eating and drinking

The project visualises individual experiences around being a guest and hospitality in the Moabit restaurant and pub scene. Artists and project participants deal with the question of eating and drinking culture as a communal encounter and question the effects of inflation and war in social space. The aim is to illustrate the diversity of being a guest/hospitality – a guest is not simply a guest, but is made a guest. Thus, the guest.room project represents and explores the diversity of the neighbourhood and exemplifies the culinary variety that shapes the community. guest.room is a journey that combines identity, belonging, change, the art of hosting and being a guest in a transdisciplinary interplay.

The exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen in the Kurt-Kurt project space offers many entrances/doors to diverse thematic fields such as work, art, woman, guest, Moabit. The participating artists explore the different aspects of this title, which can be read and interpreted in many ways, with their artistic strategies and media, from drawing and film to spatial installations and performance./p>

The artists successfully exhibit internationally and travel the world. London Paris New York Beijing Moscow. They appear everywhere as temporary guest workers and leave artistic works in exhibitions. They are guests with their works in museums, art associations, galleries, at biennials or they present their works in public spaces. But where are the people behind these pictures? Where and who are the artists?

A central aspect of the exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen is the the contemporary figure of the artist between migration, permanent artistic guest worker and her location at a consciously chosen fixed base here in Berlin. Working as invited guests in foreign environments is part of their profession. They know that art in exchange and in the encounter with the other and the foreign makes that which is their individual uniqueness perceptible and allows it to emerge.

In addition, the topic of female guest workers raises many questions that are currently preoccupying our society: for example, in relation to the shortage of skilled workers or climate change and the associated ‘guest workers’ such as tiger mosquitoes, ticks, etc. or temporary migration due to wars, climate catastrophes and political oppression. But art in the context of Stadtlabor Moabit also resonates in the title Gastarbeiterinnen . During the 1960s, when Germany specifically recruited skilled workers, mostly male in the public perception, especially from the southern countries of Europe and Turkey, many women also came to Moabit, lived in women’s shared flats nearby, for example on Siemensstraße, and worked at Siemens or AEG, Telefunken, DeTeWe and in many medium-sized textile companies.

The exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen discusses the complex theme oscillating between guest and work and presents six different artistic positions by Hyon-Soo Kim, Antonia Low, Anette Rose, Nicole Schuck, Andrea Stahl and Michaela Zimmer..

The installation consists of a ‘landscape’ made from thousands of pieces of soft animals sewn together, completed with fabric targets and toy guns, clusters of stuffed bunnies suspended like carnival bundles and the photos of the adventures of a giant rabbit freshly landed in Berlin like Gulliver among the Lilliputians.

In Rabbits, parallel worlds overlap and collide, successively or simultaneously contain moments of childhood, fragments of an amusement park or snippets of an erotic fantasy. The piece speaks of the refusal of reality, of places of refuge – from the matrix to immersive experiences – as an inseparable counterpart of the dissatisfaction and malaise generated by a way of life centred on consumption, but also in relation to the notion of desire as it has been developed by psychoanalysis, that is to say the quest dimension specific to human beings, this need to transform reality with the aim of satisfaction and pleasure.

(E)motion is a joint video and audio project by Marta Djourina and Jane Garbert. In combining Djourina’s film material and Garberts music composition, the mutually reinforcing effect of image and sound is examined. In the interplay between singularity and parallelism of the analogue image and sound material, the artists try to combine the momentary and the continuing, rhythm and speed.

In the video, essential references to cinema and visual art are evoked. The images are based on light traces onto photo film strips, which are then scanned and animated into a flowing movement. The sound interventions react and interpret the movement of the traces, adding a further component to the investigated subjects such as surrounding, absence, distance and interconnection.

LEFT WINTER explores the concept of this year’s theme of hospitality through the mundane yet highly powerful culture of Ping Pong. The music uses recordings of this tiny ball and subtly weaves them into a mercurial body of work to be played live. A body of work that continues his signature of ethereal sounds of layered minimalist components, orchestral parts and glitches. His music performance is accompanied by his semi-photographic study.

The artists will each have their own thematic areas on the different floors. Among other things, the history and impressions of the LebensTraum House will be presented in photos.

Be a guest in our artful caftans, which you can put on for a tour of our exhibition and change everyone's perception of the space.Be our guest at the loom and weave with us - your fearlessness in using different materials is all that counts.

S9KOLLEKTIV has developed an alternative exhibition concept contrasting the white cube to create a warm, inviting feeling for the visitors. A new art experience is made possible through the hanging concept of the works and assistance for the guests. One of the basic ideas of the collective is to make art accessible not only to people within the art world, but to anyone who is interested.

Parking bay in public space at the junction of Stephanstraße / Rathenower Straße 10559 Berlin

Part 2 in Oktober 2023
Further information and updates at: www.sylviahenrich.de

L36 is a space that offers insights to interested people and residents in everyday life: Anyone passing by the two large shop windows can catch a glimpse inside of a shared space for artistic work, where paintings and drawings hang on the walls around the desks.

On the occasion of the 2023 Ortstermin, the studio doors are open to allow visitors inside and into the green, spacious courtyard, where the various buildings on Lehrter Straße converge and which is used by the residents as a meeting place and for gardening.

The workroom becomes an exhibition space, but retains its character as a studio through deliberately chosen elements. An installation of hanging fabrics will lead guests from the forecourt into and through the space. It will thus become a passageway, inviting visitors to explore and linger.

The three artists will show works, also of a participatory nature, that illuminate the aspects of outside and inside, transition, passage and lingering. Each artist focuses her work on one of these aspects.

The Kulturfabrik Moabit e. V. is one of the few original components of Berlin street life in Moabit. The house pursues a multidimensional concept: the interweaving of art and cultural work in cooperation with local, regional and international initiatives and collectives.

Firmly established since 1991, the Kulturfabrik stands for a place of tolerance and democratic understanding and change. The Kulturfabrik is a member of the Federal Association of Social Cultural Centres and the Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband. .

While I listen to the nonsense that Borrel says: ‘We have made Europe a garden, we must beware of the jungle’. IDIOT!!!! As I continue to read this nonsensical world news, I dedicate this work to my dear Bolivia ... A work dedicated to my country Bolivia. I hope with all my heart that we work for a new Bolivia, for the Bolivia we always wanted to see, beautiful, proud, educated and above all aware of our identity, that we say, as a friend used to say, ‘History is ours and we make it.’ Perhaps some of us cannot see this awareness in its entirety, but this phrase makes it clear that after so many genocides we have been subjected to, after so many military dictatorships, after so many times our natural resources have been stolen from us, after so many attempts have been made to take away our multinational identity, we are stronger today than ever before ... All of us, all South Americans, all Central Americans and all Caribbean people, must have time to restore our continent and take care of our plurinationality. Many thanks for this to our heroes, who are not few, thanks also to our poets, to our women, to our old people, to our professionals who have known how to light the path we have had to walk. Today we see a Bolivia that is still carrying the burden of so many centuries, but with hard work and together we will make it.

Mientras escucho las idioteces que dice Borrell, " hemos hecho de europa un jardin,tenemos que tener cuidado de la jungla " IDIOTA !!! Mientras sigo leyendo estas burradas de noticias del mundo,le dedico este trabajo a mi querida Bolivia... Obra dedicada a mi País Bolivia. Espero en lo más profundo de mi ser que trabajemos por esa Bolivia nueva, por esa Bolivia que siempre hemos querido ver, linda, orgullosa educada y sobre todo consciente de nuestra identidad, Que digamos como decía un amigo, "La historia es nuestra y la hacemos nosotros" posiblemente algunos de nosotros no podremos ver en su totalidad las toma de conciencia, pero, que dejara bien claro, que después de tantos genocidios al que fuimos sometidos, que después de tantas dictaduras militares, que después de tantos robos de nuestros recursos naturales, que después de tantos intentos de quitarnos nuestra identidad plurinacional, hoy estamos presentes más fuertes que nunca… Todos los Sud americanos, todos los centro americanos y todos los caribeños, tenemos que tener tiempo para recuperar nuestro continente y de cuidar nuestra plurinacionalidad y estar agradecidos por ese gesto tan noble a nuestros héroes, que no son pocos, gracias también a nuestras poetisas, a nuestras mujeres, a nuestros viejos, nuestros profesionales, que han sabido alumbrarnos el camino que teníamos que seguir. Hoy vemos una Bolivia que todavía se está sacando el peso de tantos siglos, pero con trabajo y todos juntos unidos lo vamos a lograr. Jallalla Bolivia DOMITILA

Roxana Halls (b. 1974, Plaistow, UK) is a British figurative painter who is best known for her paintings of opinionated women who refuse to conform to society’s expectations, as well as for her wry humour and disturbing narratives. Halls dropped out of her academic art training at the age of 18 and remained largely self-taught. She lives and works in south London. The exhibition Die Augen der Roxana Halls is her first institutional exhibition.

The exhibition To be – Named is dedicated to naming and the meaning of names. It was created in response to an open call that invited artists from all over the world, regardless of their cultural backgrounds and identities, who work with digital media such as video, photography, performances, soundscapes, animation, computer games, etc., to submit their works.

As part of a larger project (hauskunstmitte.de/to-be-named), a selection was then made from numerous submissions of works to be exhibited in several locations around the world. Each exhibition venue complements the selection of ‘travelling’ artistic positions with just as many local positions – on the one hand to promote a dialogue between the participating artists and on the other hand to respond to the specific discourses on the exhibition theme in the respective countries.

With the exhibition Hülle, I invite friends to engage artistically with the concept and the term Hülle (cover, casing, shell, wrap …).

In everyday life, we encounter and use covers all the time. For protection, for transport and to keep things undamaged and fresh. In nature, a cover allows us to grow up protected. We clothe our own bodies to beautify or warm ourselves. Yet our body itself is already a cover for thoughts and organs. The body is both covered and a covering at the same time. Four artistic positions approach the theme photographically, two positions work painterly. Three-dimensionality in space is created by a sculpture, and there will be a performance at the opening.

Accompanied by soft music, a person enters the room, wearing a transparent robe similar to her skin colour. She looks around and moves lightly like a feather. Her only shell, the body, the skin that separates our existence from our consciousness, leaves her as her physical layer, her own skin, becomes transparent. In a playful dance-like manner, her body transforms into her consciousness, her shell transcends into the atmosphere, she becomes sheathless.

Nico Tobias Nitsch shows new works from the field of sound sculptures, mechanical music machines and kinetic objects. One main project is mechanical prayer machines to save the world!

The GlassConnectionBerlin e. V. gives an exciting insight into the most diverse processes and techniques of glassmaking. Venetian craftsmanship, international glass art and everyday objects, it all comes together in the GlassConnectionBerlin. They are united by a common passion for this traditional art, which decelerates the fast-paced everyday life. While glass is ubiquitous, its true value is only really revealed in the process of making it. The artists work live with the metal pipe at the 1200°C hot melting furnace and create unique glass objects from the glowing liquid material. Whether powerfully or filigree, the clarity and variety of colours of glass can be found in the exhibition. Let yourself be inspired by glass blowing and immerse yourself in this fascinating craft. Eight Berlin glass artists will be showing their glass objects. Pyrographs are also on display and the flame fountain in the courtyard invites you to linger.

For the first time, artists from the Art House Rising at Paulstraße 34 show current works together in a group exhibition and in their open studios. In addition to the art, there will also be a bar, food and music at the opening.

Since 2020, Art House Rising has been emerging and developing at Paulstraße 34. On their own initiative, artists have turned a former hostel into a house with studios, workshops, music studios, tattoo studios and an exhibition space with a regular programme.

In the shop windows made available to them by Blumen- und and garden art Tunger-Schnur for the festival, artists Elisa Canducci and Fabrizia Vanetta are exploring the possibilities offered by a space that is not accessible and can only be seen from the street offers as an exhibition space. A site-specific installation will be shown.

point of view stands for a mental standpoint from which a story is told, but also for the actual point of view that the visitor can take in front of the installation.

Heinstoldt Diaries is an ongoing video project created by two 24-year-olds. It combines techniques of photography and video to create short, ephemeral clips that represent the creators’ dreams, memories and thoughts. Each video acts like a visual diary entry. Heinstoldt Diary’s captures a range of experiences – from reality to the dream world, from past memories to future ideas. This project invites viewers to recognize their own experiences in the moments presented, to reflect and draw inspiration.

According to Goethe’s principle of the ‘Urpflanze” (original plant), the basic element from which a plant grows can be found everywhere in the plant itself. The deliberate reuse of the same elements in almost all the works creates a direct connection between the individual works.

Two young artists give an insight into their perception of reality. The different views are rendered in different media and allow the visitors to discover parallel worlds in different ways.

The photographer shares with us impressions of his long journey through Canada.

The Time to Listen festival brings together international artists who respond musically to the urgent issue of the climate and environmental crisis. Through sound, they encourage us to reflect on our relationship to the environment, technology, indigenous knowledge, climate justice and consumption in the Anthropocene. The projects highlight global perspectives and worldwide concerns and invite us to listen to the last refuges of biodiversity in rainforests, melting glaciers or drying rivers and desertification in the sub-Sahara. At the same time, we encounter the disregard for the living in global waste management, livestock farming, overfishing and soil sealing. Artists make environmental changes tangible, pose ethical questions and show ways of dealing with them, emotionally and through action. Scenarios are developed in which humans and natural ecosystems revive their symbiotic relationship, indigenous concepts of nature shine through as an option for transformation, or climate-neutral technologies bring forth sound..

Water as an indispensable, unfathomable habitat and the threat of drowning in it. In the sonority of inhaling and exhaling lies the condensation of today, in the trembling of language the audible rhythm of the power of survival. Aphrodite, the foam-born: at her instigation, it is said, ten years of war broke out. An interdisciplinary sensual performance evening with voice, language, sound, water, foam, an aquarium and hydrophones, with the voice performer and composer Ute Wassermann, the composer and writer Nina Dragičević and the writer and performer Anna Hetzer.

Ute Wassermann: Krill (2023, UA) for solo performer and aquarium
Nina Dragičević: Stop (2021) for solo performer and water bowl
Anna Hetzer: Schaum. Ein Cybertrip durch den Garten Erde (2022) Performance

The Time to Listen festival closes on a high with the world premiere of the speech choir action, MOABITER CHÖRE, by composer and sound artist Peter Ablinger. Two choirs, made up of volunteer performers, will walk on opposite sides of the street as they make their way from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin’s Hansaviertel to Ottopark in Moabit, arriving at the park’s Sustainability Booth. En route, under the direction of two choir leaders, they take turns speaking texts relating to the current climate crisis. Ablinger’s texts are located somewhere between sense and nonsense, politics and surrealism, dismay and satire. If you would like to participate, you can register at musik@adk.de until 30 July 2023.

In this workshop we will learn how to make a book out of loose papers. We will develop a concept to combine already existing* texts and images on the topic of migration in a publication. We decide on a name and a design, print it ourselves and try out a simple form of binding. At the end, each person will receive a finished copy of the jointly developed book.

*This workshop is part of Trashumantes, a publishing house that publishes in collaboration with the Latin American community in Berlin. People who have not participated in previous workshops will be admitted, but must work with material previously produced by other participants.

Registration: trashumantes.verlag@gmail.com

Built space – danced space, building body – living body: on this 90-minute walk through the Hansa Quarter, four dancers animate its special architectures in their own way. Out of the reading room of the Hansa Library and back again: a circle of danced reactions, reflections and comments that leads from literature to architecture and to the inhabitants of selected houses and their stories.

max. 20 participants with prior registration with ‘Offen für Kultur’ at: kontakt@offen-fuer-kultur.berlin. Please be at the Hansa Library reception 15 minutes before.

The text Aber Bleib Hier by Lilli Hellmons is a portrayal of the stories and perspectives of women from her family in relation to migration and origin. The readings, which take place over a period of three dates at the Hansa Library, offer an insight into life between different cultures, languages and countries. Using the feminist conversation format and autoethnographic narrative, she gives voice to the women from her family and provides important insights into the challenges and treasures of living between multiple worlds. The text and readings are particularly relevant in a time and city where migration and identity are hotly debated. As part of her artistic approach, the author will engage her unfinished text with the audience, creating an intimate and safe space for mutual exchange and influence.

The exhibition presents photographic positions that record individual realities. Realities that, documented, become memos that mark the photographer’s relationship to his or her reality. Their own experiences form the basis of the exhibited works. They remind the artist and others of personal experiences and of perceivable changes. Brought together in the exhibition, they represent the claim of a collective memory within subjective visualisation. We must pool our memos reminds us of what has happened and what we have in common: ‘note to self’ becomes ‘note to ourselves’.

The expressive realist sculptress Baerbel Dieckmann was born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Attending a “grammar school,” she was introduced at an early age to Classical literature; and its figures, stories and themes are of abiding interest to her, and strongly influence her work. The Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, in their virtues and failings, are very human: in the mythical Dieckmann sees not the distant and the strange, but the immediate and the human. In 2022 she got the official commission to portrait the former president of GDR Joachim Gauck.

Watercolors to capture memories and dreams. The beauties of nature emotionally and expressively captured on paper.

Rooted in cultural generational trauma, the exhibition explores questions of ownership, displacement and memory in four artistic positions. In installations, videos, and sculptures, the artists devote themselves to stories beyond media and political presence in the Western context. Here, their works do not act as mere documentation or correction of narratives, but become agents for change, between past events and future possibilities.

Members of the analogue photography group of the Huttenkiez strolled through the neighbourhood in the golden summer and captured everyday moments with their cameras. Unframed, their pictures stick to the smooth surfaces of things they found on the street. Texts and collages also accompany these photographs, which were created under the instructions of flânerie researcher Mirjana Mitrović and photographer Kamel Froschmann. Silvia Morandi closes the circle and presents a recording of her performance Charta, which she performed live at Stadtschloss Moabit last year. In addition, selected artworks by other neighbours can be found at this exhibition.

The performers are on a playful exploration. Exposed, they sound out the emptiness, feel their way forward, try to understand or forget. Moving along their own borders leads again and again to crossing them and moving beyond the known. An experiment of sounds, words and movements that creates resonances. The audience imperceptibly becomes part of what happens, whether it reacts with withdrawal or encouragement.

The Bamenda Film Association trains young people in film, television, theatre and music. The school building was built in cooperation with the Reformation Campus. In the cinema, several films fade into each other on different projection screens. An impression of film work is created that welcomes young people and lets them discover their abilities by doing.

On the ground floor, paintings by Edelgard Giesbert will be shown. The artist will be present.

Evelyn Eichinger’s watercolour paintings are inspired by journeys to China, Africa and Italy. Georg Eichinger’s photos condense street impressions of Moabit and other Berlin districts.

The exhibition’s title Insights is ambiguous – on the one hand, insights into the artist’s photographic works are granted, but on the other hand, this title describes above all the photographer’s gaze specific to the selected works: from outside or inside, he looks with his camera through glass into the rooms behind. This creates reflections, plays of light, mirroring, blurring and irritation, which merge with the respective motifs to form a puzzle picture. On display are both black-and-white and colour photographs, both analogue and digital.

What happens? ALS (German: when) is understood as a link to a personal memory or narrative. If one thinks back to what all was ALS ... questions often come up. What if it had not been SO, but different? Would things be different then? How do people meet each other and themselves? Or is everything just the way it is? ALS leaves room for language and space for an encounter in an exchange about the world..

In her artistic project, ongoing since 20216, Bärbel Kosanke photographs crows in the neighbourhood according to specific rules: 1. she only works with the mobile phone camera. 2. the crow(s) should fly. 3. she may not catch the crows. 3. she is not allowed to feed the crows. The result is a series of about 1000 photos, which she presents in ‘swarms’ on plates.

The tailor’s studio opens for an interdisciplinary presentation with costumes, fabrics, painting and performance. Fabrics take centre stage here: they are worked on, reshaped, moved, changed, adapted and rearranged. Agnes Lörincz exhibits her paintings collaged with fabrics in the dressmaker’s studio Dering van Dieken. Carlotta van Dering and Marlene van Dieken create high-quality costumes and made-to-measure clothing, Agnes Lörincz is inspired by fabrics and lets them become part of her painting. Alongside older paintings, new pictures are shown in which you can find individual fabrics from the tailor’s workshop. A dialogue develops between the paintings and the pieces of clothing hung nearby, a new context. In the performance on the opening day, the fabric will also be experienced as a costume on the body of the performance artist..

The gallery closes after the Ortstermin23. For 14 years it hosted 80 exhibitions, readings and charity events. While Udo Würtenberger exhibits his own woodcuts of the last 30 years, Salome Haettenschweiler will be showing paintings, graphic art and objects.

On Sunday, 3 September at 3 pm, there will be a gallery talk. Alexander Soth will be asking Udo Würtenberger questions about his gallery and his artistic activity.

The hosts Ernst Wellnhofer and Agnes Sauter-Wellnhofer invite and present, are curators. Guest artist Merit Fakler presents a guest gift and shows new videos. Guest artist Dietmar Spiller shows L lässt grüßen (graphic).

An artistic feast will be prepared by Mo Frank-Auth (performance) with mindful tasting from bowls by Regina Klusmann and Agnes Sauter-Wellnhofer (glass and ceramics) on the first day. On the second day, slate table music by Anatol Weisse will be played to accompany the mushroom soup from the Spandauer Forst, alongside cardboard objects by Mo Frank-Auth and colour drawings by Anatol Weisse.

Concrete and abstract
Colours and forms

The painting groups have been founded five years ago. We meet to ‘make something creative’. We learn different techniques for creating pictures. We get to know each other in the creative process. We talk with each other about what we like, what fits, what doesn’t fit so well … The conversations (also) give us sociability, stimulation for everyday life. We welcome new participants! We show pictures created in the last two years.

The Treff am Ottopark is an open recreational facility for people in their mid-40s and older from the district (funding: Bezirksamt Mitte; responsible body: Moabiter Ratschlag e. V.). The meeting place offers activities, such as computer and English courses, painting groups, sports, yoga for seniors, qi gong, games afternoons, a cooking group, a sing-along group and an improv theatre group, counselling and lectures on topics that may be relevant for pensioners, joint visits to cultural events, art tours, and much more. The courses and offers are free of charge for the visitors, in some courses material costs are charged. Since March 2023, the Otto-Treff has been part of the Netzwerk der Wärme (network of warmth) and can therefore also offer opening hours outside of courses and events. Visitors can take a look at the current newspaper over a cup of coffee or tea (cost price), have nice conversations or simply relax and unwind a little.

At Café Mauerwerk, Isa Zappe and Jakob Urban show new works that deal with our relationship to the world in various media. Bigfoot, AI, queer colours and a whole lot of flowers – Isa Zappe and Jakob Urban show new works between video, painting, print and installation. Questioning the human relationship to nature and to each other, through mythical creatures or floriculture, digital media or queer life.

The plattform.moabit opened its doors in spring 2005. It is one of Moabit’s first artists’ run galleries with an interest not only in its own cause, but also in being a platform for artists and designers. The exhibition ACHTZEHN continues this journey through the years and celebrates its anniversary with all exhibitors and guests! As always, guests are very welcome!

Andrea Knobloch shows large drawings, they are excavations behind the façades. They attempt to make visible the chimeras of transformed corporeality. Behind their optimised façade, late modern humans hide an increasing bewilderment in the face of radical expansions of human scope for action.

Melting Soundscapes by Özcan Ertek are soundscapes encoded in the Thielpark in Berlin. Localised in a topography that is at the end of the last ice age and in contrast to the urban expansion of Berlin. Using the microphone as a magnifying lens, the work holds sound samples to speculate on forgotten deep ecologies or future ice age sounds.

What is our relationship to nature? – Silke Riechert invites visitors to her studio and project space. She researches the transformation processes of decay and new beginnings in compost, branches and soil, combined as compost sculptures.

Some guests stay – even though they were not invited.

At this year’s Ortstermin on the topic of ‘guest’, I will focus on plants and animals that often travel with us as stowaways and sometimes stay. If they spread almost unhindered in their new habitat, we speak of biological invasion. With advancing globalisation and the acceleration of society, the ways in which an immigrant can reach a new habitat have also changed. Natural barriers such as water, mountains or deserts now play a much smaller role for invasive species. In some places, this can increase biodiversity, but more often it has negative effects.

For the presentation at Ortstermin, I am taking a closer look at some of the invasive species that can be found in Berlin. On a large scale and on a golden background, they can unfold their sometimes bittersweet beauty without restraint.

Karen Scheper’s drawings, assemblages and objects are created on the basis of texts, written elements, multimedia images and her own photo archive. She uses conceptual drawing as a direct medium to analyse what is seen or read, as well as a means to reflect on socio-political concepts/realities. In the graphic re-contextualisation of text and image structures, complex information clusters develop, condensed into abstract sign systems. Scheper often uses the techniques of decomposition and collage, combining found footage, digital editing and various drawing techniques. For example, fragments of newspaper images meet visual material from Mars probes, whose digital image space is rewritten in drawing. This process gives rise to artificial spaces and environments in which construction and graphic gesture intertwine.

In this visual sonic spatial installation, Canadian-Haitian visual artist Stina Baudin and British, Berlin-based experimental music artist Abigail Toll, attempt to break down the objective logic of a dataset. Through a process of what theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva terms fractal thinking, they ‘de-centre time and sequentiality to identify compositional patterns that reveal the structuring grammar of our world’. Through a process spanning almost a year, the artists collected truth values from their own daily experiences and co-created their work across the six hour time difference between Germany and Canada. In a series of studies, they layer together six woven panels combined with six music movements that encapsulate six themes – etymologies, water, time/displacement, flight, wonder, and memory. The fragmented sound and illegible visual documentation calls into question not only the absence and deformations that the artists found in previous datasets, but highlights how lived experience and memories (our truth values) undergo a process of fragmentation and distortion over time.www.stinabaudin.com, www.abigailtoll.com

This exhibition is kindly supported by HOLON.

The series Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths is made possible through funding by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Roswita Baumeister’s memorial on Nazi crimes is exhibited in the shop window of the Korea Verband.

Ortstermin opens the space for the encounter with the memorial sign in memory of the women who had to perform forced sex work (installed in the Ravensbrück Memorial in 2020) and the work of the Korea Association in the Museum of Comfort Women. Roswitha Baumeister, Karin Kröll and Christine Mühlhan-Korner give an insight into their work on the memorial sign and the accompanying publication.

Roswitha Baumeister, a visual artist based in Berlin, works on the representation of women, gender as a façade, the memory of the city and the culture of remembrance.

The graphic artist Karin Kröll lives and works in Hamburg. Her artistic work focuses on visual interventions and visualisation in public space.

Product designer Christine Mühlhan-Korner works in Berlin-Reinickendorf. In her workshop she creates art and rustic objects made of glass, combined with materials such as gold, palladium or copper.

People, Faces, Stories Friends Freaks Family
In this exhibition, Kai Heimberg shows portraits from the last three years. Touching, provocative, very intimate.

Botox is a registered product name derived from botulinum toxin, one of the strongest neurotoxins that people like to have injected into their wrinkled faces to make them look like a baby’s bottom. It is the excretion of bacteria that thrive in spoiled meat. Hence the name, derived from the Latin word botulus (= sausage).

Gleb Bas and Thomas Lang have invited Jan Deyrieux and Pawel Podolak to explore the possible relationship of Botox to contemporary art in a joint exhibition.

The exhibition UnFinished2023 introduces the world of a character captivating our imagination and repulsion. Embark on a journey to explore the depths of human immorality, as we launch the enigmatic figure ‘Jack Hole’.

‘Jack Hole’ debuts in our tangible world and comes alive through the artist ‘Daniel Hemel’ who in this case is his clerk and lets him be born in an immersive room of a former house of prayer.

With his cunning intellect and twisted desires ‘Jack Hole’ depicts an embodiment of deviance and unscrupulousness, representing the essence of a profligate character leaving an indelible mark on the realms of fiction and reality.

UnFinished2023 aims not to glorify ‘Jack Hole’s’ deeds, but to examine the complexities of his hypercapitalistic psyche. Various artifacts will shed light on the multifaceted nature of ‘Jack Hole’. From his dark origins to the intricate web of deceit he wove, his attributes will make us question our own values, the fabric of our moral compass and the limits of depravity.Enter the exhibition with an open mind, ready for unsettling revelations and let ‘Jack Hole’ serve as a mirror upon the moral intricacies shaping our unfinished world.

You throw your visualisation wish into the Wishbox and the next day you can pick up the printout.
A different kind of canvas. Cardboard packaging becomes canvas. AI art on glassine paper and plastic. Special feature: the @wishbox.berlin from the HKW takes requests and presents your art the next day to take away printed on DIN A4. Framed works of art by the AI will be on display. Children paint with red or blue on cardboard..

In Verena Maria Fürst’s window gallery, art walkers can see current paintings.

The project guest.room presents photographic impressions of Moabit’s rich culture of eating and drinking

The project visualises individual experiences around being a guest and hospitality in the Moabit restaurant and pub scene. Artists and project participants deal with the question of eating and drinking culture as a communal encounter and question the effects of inflation and war in social space. The aim is to illustrate the diversity of being a guest/hospitality – a guest is not simply a guest, but is made a guest. Thus, the guest.room project represents and explores the diversity of the neighbourhood and exemplifies the culinary variety that shapes the community. guest.room is a journey that combines identity, belonging, change, the art of hosting and being a guest in a transdisciplinary interplay.

The exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen in the Kurt-Kurt project space offers many entrances/doors to diverse thematic fields such as work, art, woman, guest, Moabit. The participating artists explore the different aspects of this title, which can be read and interpreted in many ways, with their artistic strategies and media, from drawing and film to spatial installations and performance./p>

The artists successfully exhibit internationally and travel the world. London Paris New York Beijing Moscow. They appear everywhere as temporary guest workers and leave artistic works in exhibitions. They are guests with their works in museums, art associations, galleries, at biennials or they present their works in public spaces. But where are the people behind these pictures? Where and who are the artists?

A central aspect of the exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen is the the contemporary figure of the artist between migration, permanent artistic guest worker and her location at a consciously chosen fixed base here in Berlin. Working as invited guests in foreign environments is part of their profession. They know that art in exchange and in the encounter with the other and the foreign makes that which is their individual uniqueness perceptible and allows it to emerge.

In addition, the topic of female guest workers raises many questions that are currently preoccupying our society: for example, in relation to the shortage of skilled workers or climate change and the associated ‘guest workers’ such as tiger mosquitoes, ticks, etc. or temporary migration due to wars, climate catastrophes and political oppression. But art in the context of Stadtlabor Moabit also resonates in the title Gastarbeiterinnen . During the 1960s, when Germany specifically recruited skilled workers, mostly male in the public perception, especially from the southern countries of Europe and Turkey, many women also came to Moabit, lived in women’s shared flats nearby, for example on Siemensstraße, and worked at Siemens or AEG, Telefunken, DeTeWe and in many medium-sized textile companies.

The exhibition Gastarbeiterinnen discusses the complex theme oscillating between guest and work and presents six different artistic positions by Hyon-Soo Kim, Antonia Low, Anette Rose, Nicole Schuck, Andrea Stahl and Michaela Zimmer..

The installation consists of a ‘landscape’ made from thousands of pieces of soft animals sewn together, completed with fabric targets and toy guns, clusters of stuffed bunnies suspended like carnival bundles and the photos of the adventures of a giant rabbit freshly landed in Berlin like Gulliver among the Lilliputians.

In Rabbits, parallel worlds overlap and collide, successively or simultaneously contain moments of childhood, fragments of an amusement park or snippets of an erotic fantasy. The piece speaks of the refusal of reality, of places of refuge – from the matrix to immersive experiences – as an inseparable counterpart of the dissatisfaction and malaise generated by a way of life centred on consumption, but also in relation to the notion of desire as it has been developed by psychoanalysis, that is to say the quest dimension specific to human beings, this need to transform reality with the aim of satisfaction and pleasure.

(E)motion is a joint video and audio project by Marta Djourina and Jane Garbert. In combining Djourina’s film material and Garberts music composition, the mutually reinforcing effect of image and sound is examined. In the interplay between singularity and parallelism of the analogue image and sound material, the artists try to combine the momentary and the continuing, rhythm and speed.

In the video, essential references to cinema and visual art are evoked. The images are based on light traces onto photo film strips, which are then scanned and animated into a flowing movement. The sound interventions react and interpret the movement of the traces, adding a further component to the investigated subjects such as surrounding, absence, distance and interconnection.

LEFT WINTER explores the concept of this year’s theme of hospitality through the mundane yet highly powerful culture of Ping Pong. The music uses recordings of this tiny ball and subtly weaves them into a mercurial body of work to be played live. A body of work that continues his signature of ethereal sounds of layered minimalist components, orchestral parts and glitches. His music performance is accompanied by his semi-photographic study.

The artists will each have their own thematic areas on the different floors. Among other things, the history and impressions of the LebensTraum House will be presented in photos.

Be a guest in our artful caftans, which you can put on for a tour of our exhibition and change everyone's perception of the space.Be our guest at the loom and weave with us - your fearlessness in using different materials is all that counts.

S9KOLLEKTIV has developed an alternative exhibition concept contrasting the white cube to create a warm, inviting feeling for the visitors. A new art experience is made possible through the hanging concept of the works and assistance for the guests. One of the basic ideas of the collective is to make art accessible not only to people within the art world, but to anyone who is interested.

Parking bay in public space at the junction of Stephanstraße / Rathenower Straße 10559 Berlin

Part 2 in Oktober 2023
Further information and updates at: www.sylviahenrich.de

L36 is a space that offers insights to interested people and residents in everyday life: Anyone passing by the two large shop windows can catch a glimpse inside of a shared space for artistic work, where paintings and drawings hang on the walls around the desks.

On the occasion of the 2023 Ortstermin, the studio doors are open to allow visitors inside and into the green, spacious courtyard, where the various buildings on Lehrter Straße converge and which is used by the residents as a meeting place and for gardening.

The workroom becomes an exhibition space, but retains its character as a studio through deliberately chosen elements. An installation of hanging fabrics will lead guests from the forecourt into and through the space. It will thus become a passageway, inviting visitors to explore and linger.

The three artists will show works, also of a participatory nature, that illuminate the aspects of outside and inside, transition, passage and lingering. Each artist focuses her work on one of these aspects.

The Kulturfabrik Moabit e. V. is one of the few original components of Berlin street life in Moabit. The house pursues a multidimensional concept: the interweaving of art and cultural work in cooperation with local, regional and international initiatives and collectives.

Firmly established since 1991, the Kulturfabrik stands for a place of tolerance and democratic understanding and change. The Kulturfabrik is a member of the Federal Association of Social Cultural Centres and the Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband. .

While I listen to the nonsense that Borrel says: ‘We have made Europe a garden, we must beware of the jungle’. IDIOT!!!! As I continue to read this nonsensical world news, I dedicate this work to my dear Bolivia ... A work dedicated to my country Bolivia. I hope with all my heart that we work for a new Bolivia, for the Bolivia we always wanted to see, beautiful, proud, educated and above all aware of our identity, that we say, as a friend used to say, ‘History is ours and we make it.’ Perhaps some of us cannot see this awareness in its entirety, but this phrase makes it clear that after so many genocides we have been subjected to, after so many military dictatorships, after so many times our natural resources have been stolen from us, after so many attempts have been made to take away our multinational identity, we are stronger today than ever before ... All of us, all South Americans, all Central Americans and all Caribbean people, must have time to restore our continent and take care of our plurinationality. Many thanks for this to our heroes, who are not few, thanks also to our poets, to our women, to our old people, to our professionals who have known how to light the path we have had to walk. Today we see a Bolivia that is still carrying the burden of so many centuries, but with hard work and together we will make it.

Mientras escucho las idioteces que dice Borrell, " hemos hecho de europa un jardin,tenemos que tener cuidado de la jungla " IDIOTA !!! Mientras sigo leyendo estas burradas de noticias del mundo,le dedico este trabajo a mi querida Bolivia... Obra dedicada a mi País Bolivia. Espero en lo más profundo de mi ser que trabajemos por esa Bolivia nueva, por esa Bolivia que siempre hemos querido ver, linda, orgullosa educada y sobre todo consciente de nuestra identidad, Que digamos como decía un amigo, "La historia es nuestra y la hacemos nosotros" posiblemente algunos de nosotros no podremos ver en su totalidad las toma de conciencia, pero, que dejara bien claro, que después de tantos genocidios al que fuimos sometidos, que después de tantas dictaduras militares, que después de tantos robos de nuestros recursos naturales, que después de tantos intentos de quitarnos nuestra identidad plurinacional, hoy estamos presentes más fuertes que nunca… Todos los Sud americanos, todos los centro americanos y todos los caribeños, tenemos que tener tiempo para recuperar nuestro continente y de cuidar nuestra plurinacionalidad y estar agradecidos por ese gesto tan noble a nuestros héroes, que no son pocos, gracias también a nuestras poetisas, a nuestras mujeres, a nuestros viejos, nuestros profesionales, que han sabido alumbrarnos el camino que teníamos que seguir. Hoy vemos una Bolivia que todavía se está sacando el peso de tantos siglos, pero con trabajo y todos juntos unidos lo vamos a lograr. Jallalla Bolivia DOMITILA

Roxana Halls (b. 1974, Plaistow, UK) is a British figurative painter who is best known for her paintings of opinionated women who refuse to conform to society’s expectations, as well as for her wry humour and disturbing narratives. Halls dropped out of her academic art training at the age of 18 and remained largely self-taught. She lives and works in south London. The exhibition Die Augen der Roxana Halls is her first institutional exhibition.

The exhibition To be – Named is dedicated to naming and the meaning of names. It was created in response to an open call that invited artists from all over the world, regardless of their cultural backgrounds and identities, who work with digital media such as video, photography, performances, soundscapes, animation, computer games, etc., to submit their works.

As part of a larger project (hauskunstmitte.de/to-be-named), a selection was then made from numerous submissions of works to be exhibited in several locations around the world. Each exhibition venue complements the selection of ‘travelling’ artistic positions with just as many local positions – on the one hand to promote a dialogue between the participating artists and on the other hand to respond to the specific discourses on the exhibition theme in the respective countries.

With the exhibition Hülle, I invite friends to engage artistically with the concept and the term Hülle (cover, casing, shell, wrap …).

In everyday life, we encounter and use covers all the time. For protection, for transport and to keep things undamaged and fresh. In nature, a cover allows us to grow up protected. We clothe our own bodies to beautify or warm ourselves. Yet our body itself is already a cover for thoughts and organs. The body is both covered and a covering at the same time. Four artistic positions approach the theme photographically, two positions work painterly. Three-dimensionality in space is created by a sculpture, and there will be a performance at the opening.

Accompanied by soft music, a person enters the room, wearing a transparent robe similar to her skin colour. She looks around and moves lightly like a feather. Her only shell, the body, the skin that separates our existence from our consciousness, leaves her as her physical layer, her own skin, becomes transparent. In a playful dance-like manner, her body transforms into her consciousness, her shell transcends into the atmosphere, she becomes sheathless.

Nico Tobias Nitsch shows new works from the field of sound sculptures, mechanical music machines and kinetic objects. One main project is mechanical prayer machines to save the world!

The GlassConnectionBerlin e. V. gives an exciting insight into the most diverse processes and techniques of glassmaking. Venetian craftsmanship, international glass art and everyday objects, it all comes together in the GlassConnectionBerlin. They are united by a common passion for this traditional art, which decelerates the fast-paced everyday life. While glass is ubiquitous, its true value is only really revealed in the process of making it. The artists work live with the metal pipe at the 1200°C hot melting furnace and create unique glass objects from the glowing liquid material. Whether powerfully or filigree, the clarity and variety of colours of glass can be found in the exhibition. Let yourself be inspired by glass blowing and immerse yourself in this fascinating craft. Eight Berlin glass artists will be showing their glass objects. Pyrographs are also on display and the flame fountain in the courtyard invites you to linger.

For the first time, artists from the Art House Rising at Paulstraße 34 show current works together in a group exhibition and in their open studios. In addition to the art, there will also be a bar, food and music at the opening.

Since 2020, Art House Rising has been emerging and developing at Paulstraße 34. On their own initiative, artists have turned a former hostel into a house with studios, workshops, music studios, tattoo studios and an exhibition space with a regular programme.

In the shop windows made available to them by Blumen- und and garden art Tunger-Schnur for the festival, artists Elisa Canducci and Fabrizia Vanetta are exploring the possibilities offered by a space that is not accessible and can only be seen from the street offers as an exhibition space. A site-specific installation will be shown.

point of view stands for a mental standpoint from which a story is told, but also for the actual point of view that the visitor can take in front of the installation.

Heinstoldt Diaries is an ongoing video project created by two 24-year-olds. It combines techniques of photography and video to create short, ephemeral clips that represent the creators’ dreams, memories and thoughts. Each video acts like a visual diary entry. Heinstoldt Diary’s captures a range of experiences – from reality to the dream world, from past memories to future ideas. This project invites viewers to recognize their own experiences in the moments presented, to reflect and draw inspiration.

According to Goethe’s principle of the ‘Urpflanze” (original plant), the basic element from which a plant grows can be found everywhere in the plant itself. The deliberate reuse of the same elements in almost all the works creates a direct connection between the individual works.

Two young artists give an insight into their perception of reality. The different views are rendered in different media and allow the visitors to discover parallel worlds in different ways.

The photographer shares with us impressions of his long journey through Canada.

The Time to Listen festival brings together international artists who respond musically to the urgent issue of the climate and environmental crisis. Through sound, they encourage us to reflect on our relationship to the environment, technology, indigenous knowledge, climate justice and consumption in the Anthropocene. The projects highlight global perspectives and worldwide concerns and invite us to listen to the last refuges of biodiversity in rainforests, melting glaciers or drying rivers and desertification in the sub-Sahara. At the same time, we encounter the disregard for the living in global waste management, livestock farming, overfishing and soil sealing. Artists make environmental changes tangible, pose ethical questions and show ways of dealing with them, emotionally and through action. Scenarios are developed in which humans and natural ecosystems revive their symbiotic relationship, indigenous concepts of nature shine through as an option for transformation, or climate-neutral technologies bring forth sound..

Water as an indispensable, unfathomable habitat and the threat of drowning in it. In the sonority of inhaling and exhaling lies the condensation of today, in the trembling of language the audible rhythm of the power of survival. Aphrodite, the foam-born: at her instigation, it is said, ten years of war broke out. An interdisciplinary sensual performance evening with voice, language, sound, water, foam, an aquarium and hydrophones, with the voice performer and composer Ute Wassermann, the composer and writer Nina Dragičević and the writer and performer Anna Hetzer.

Ute Wassermann: Krill (2023, UA) for solo performer and aquarium
Nina Dragičević: Stop (2021) for solo performer and water bowl
Anna Hetzer: Schaum. Ein Cybertrip durch den Garten Erde (2022) Performance

The Time to Listen festival closes on a high with the world premiere of the speech choir action, MOABITER CHÖRE, by composer and sound artist Peter Ablinger. Two choirs, made up of volunteer performers, will walk on opposite sides of the street as they make their way from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin’s Hansaviertel to Ottopark in Moabit, arriving at the park’s Sustainability Booth. En route, under the direction of two choir leaders, they take turns speaking texts relating to the current climate crisis. Ablinger’s texts are located somewhere between sense and nonsense, politics and surrealism, dismay and satire. If you would like to participate, you can register at musik@adk.de until 30 July 2023.

In this workshop we will learn how to make a book out of loose papers. We will develop a concept to combine already existing* texts and images on the topic of migration in a publication. We decide on a name and a design, print it ourselves and try out a simple form of binding. At the end, each person will receive a finished copy of the jointly developed book.

*This workshop is part of Trashumantes, a publishing house that publishes in collaboration with the Latin American community in Berlin. People who have not participated in previous workshops will be admitted, but must work with material previously produced by other participants.

Registration: trashumantes.verlag@gmail.com

Built space – danced space, building body – living body: on this 90-minute walk through the Hansa Quarter, four dancers animate its special architectures in their own way. Out of the reading room of the Hansa Library and back again: a circle of danced reactions, reflections and comments that leads from literature to architecture and to the inhabitants of selected houses and their stories.

max. 20 participants with prior registration with ‘Offen für Kultur’ at: kontakt@offen-fuer-kultur.berlin. Please be at the Hansa Library reception 15 minutes before.

The text Aber Bleib Hier by Lilli Hellmons is a portrayal of the stories and perspectives of women from her family in relation to migration and origin. The readings, which take place over a period of three dates at the Hansa Library, offer an insight into life between different cultures, languages and countries. Using the feminist conversation format and autoethnographic narrative, she gives voice to the women from her family and provides important insights into the challenges and treasures of living between multiple worlds. The text and readings are particularly relevant in a time and city where migration and identity are hotly debated. As part of her artistic approach, the author will engage her unfinished text with the audience, creating an intimate and safe space for mutual exchange and influence.

The exhibition presents photographic positions that record individual realities. Realities that, documented, become memos that mark the photographer’s relationship to his or her reality. Their own experiences form the basis of the exhibited works. They remind the artist and others of personal experiences and of perceivable changes. Brought together in the exhibition, they represent the claim of a collective memory within subjective visualisation. We must pool our memos reminds us of what has happened and what we have in common: ‘note to self’ becomes ‘note to ourselves’.

The expressive realist sculptress Baerbel Dieckmann was born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Attending a “grammar school,” she was introduced at an early age to Classical literature; and its figures, stories and themes are of abiding interest to her, and strongly influence her work. The Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, in their virtues and failings, are very human: in the mythical Dieckmann sees not the distant and the strange, but the immediate and the human. In 2022 she got the official commission to portrait the former president of GDR Joachim Gauck.