Bpigs

27/06/2024

Troubled Kinships opening this Saturday in Berlin, Germany as part of .

Come through if you are in Berlin June 27 - July 4 to meet, hear, and, maybe hold/be held by these mealworms alongside boundary-pushing, interspecies, and socially/ecologically-engaged work from several other and artists.

Special thanks to the curatorial team and
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Monte Vista is in Berlin! We are pumped to be a part of B-LA-M at

27/06/2024

Last Chance for this majestic show
Haley Mellin
Biodiversity and Betadiversity
through Saturday 29 June 2024

When painting and drawing, it is time where I can bear witness to the wondrous curiosity of nature. It is a restorative time of exploration beyond the limits of my knowing, beyond the limits of myself. I started to draw and paint outdoors when I was about thirteen, thanks to a small wooden box set of watercolors that my mom gifted me. I went outdoors to observe nature, a stone, a hilltop. During observational painting in nature, a gap opens in your mind, thought ceases for a second. For that instant the mind dissolves and becomes open to receive. It is this void that I aim to cultivate. Creativity springs from this space.

- Excerpt, Haley Mellin, Habitats (of Biodiverse Species): In Resonance / In Residence, Letters between Haley Mellin and Enuma Okoro , 2024

Images,
Haley Mellin, Sketchbook, 2023

Haley Mellin, Biodiversity and Betadiversity, Exhibition view, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, 2024

Haley Melin
Biodiversity I, 2024
Charcoal, wax and chalk on hand oil-primed linen
330 x 215 cm
Unique

BiodiversityI I, 2024
Charcoal, wax and chalk on hand oil-primed linen
330 x 215 cm
Unique

Haley Mellin, Berlin, 2024

27/06/2024

Tips this Week: Axel Obiger , in collaboration with Open Mind Art Space Los Angeles art gallery and Mexico City-based art space, Taller de Gráphica Nahual will present a group exhibition titled “triangulieren”

An opening reception for the exhibition will be held at Axel Obiger on Sunday, June 30th from 4-7pm, and the exhibition will be on view through July 12th. Roberto Martinez of Taller de Gráphica Nahual will host a print workshop at the space on Thursday, July 4th from 3-7pm.

Axel Obiger is located at Brunnenstrasse 29, 10119 Berlin, Germany - www.axelobiger.com

B-LA-M Berlin will run from July 27 - July 14, 2024. More info about the exchange and schedule of events can be found at: https://www.b-la-m.org/

Participating artists: Sergio Aguilera / Jeovan Avila / Jane Brucker / Susanne Britz / Alke Brinkmann .brinkmann / Victoria Campa / Thilo Droste .droste / Saeed Foroghi .foroghi / Fiorella Franco / Ana Garduño / Paola Gómez / Nathalie Grenzhaeuser / Harriet Groß .r.gross / Isabel Hermida / Frida Jimenez / Theresa Knopf / Gabriele Künne .kuenne / Achim Kobe / Vida Liu / Jorge Lopes / Brian Mallman / Carolyn Mason / Lauren Maryam Moradi / Luz Morales / Eduardo Morales / Matthias Moravek / Roberto Martinez / Enrico Niemann / Garen Novruzyan .eth / Alondra Pérez / Matt Allison / Andrea Ramírez / Axel Rivera / David Romano / Maja Rohwetter / Mishell Villegas / Sebastián Zapata

25/06/2024

Artist Talk this Thursday@hausamluetzowplatz „Meme, Myself and I“ with Julia Meyer-Brehm on Thursday, June 27, 7 pm
as part of the solo exhibition 𝘇𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 - 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲

On view from May 18 - July 21, 2024

Curated by


Design by ||

21/06/2024

This Saturday June 22nd at 16:00 .gallery Experience Nature's Veil through the artists' eyes

Artist Talks with Susanne Piotter & Beate Köhne. Look beyond the visual and learn more about their worlds and creative processes.

For those unable to join us in person, the Artist Talks will be streamed live via our Instagram.

Nature’s Veil - group exhibition
Artist Talks: Saturday 22. June, at 16:00 with Susanne Piotter () & Beate Köhne ()
BBA Gallery, Köpenicker Str. 96, 10179 Berlin
28.05 - 12.07
Tue - Sat, 12:00 to 18:00

21/06/2024

This Saturday June 22nd CLUB OOPSY
an album release event for Bully Fae Collins

w/ performances by Danilo Andrés, Hanako Hayakawa, Liina Magnea, Kyle Patrick, Harald Stojan, Melanie Jame Wolf

DJ sets by APKVP, Bootlicker, Salinity, Throatshow

Saturday, 22 June 2024
Doors 9pm I performances / DJs 10pm – 6am
Entry 10-20 EUR

anorak
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44 (8th floor), 12099 Berlin

CLUB OOPSY is a combination performance event and club night making its debut on June 22nd at anorak in Berlin. Throughout the night a series of performance artists will make brief interventions during DJ sets, giving us many oopsies and making us say “What the f**k is going on in here?” This is a celebration of happy accidents, laughing after the fall, and saying yes to the chaos in us all. As Nietzsche once said, “One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.” We want to dance the night away in a space between the sacred and the profane. In our epic collaborative oopsy we don’t just slip on the banana peel, we ride it like a surfboard into another dimension. Club Oopsy is a cry for levity sung by the q***r troublemakers of Berlin. At this interdisciplinary event we want to bring together a community of people who love nightlife and performance art. It is a testing ground for new ideas and an attempt to break the expectations of what a club night is. Bring every character and genre and flavor and let’s toss our salads. All aboard the Spiral-Mobile, first stop, CLUB OOPSY!!!

.jame.wolf .ludwig

* All earnings on the night will be used to pay for artistic and cultural labour, and help to maintain the anorak space and activities. If you want to support anorak long-term, consider becoming a member (yearly contributions start at EUR 35). More info: www.anorakanorak.com *

19/06/2024

Opening this Friday June 21st 6-9pm

THOMAS HARTMANN
In diesem Jahr ka**en die Störche anders

June 22 - August 24, 2024

Galerie Georg Nothelfer is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the Berlin painter Thomas Hartmann (*1950). The show includes works from the 1980s to the present day.

Thomas Hartmann's paintings paradoxically embody both a sense of order and a chaotic liveliness. Known since the 1980s for his expressive, impasto landscapes and cityscapes, his work is characterized by a meticulous attention to detail and an almost obsessive inclusion of numerous small figures and elements. The resulting effect is reminiscent of late Gothic hidden object paintings, inviting the viewer to explore the narrative richness of each individual work. Hartmann's scenes have a timeless quality, as if they dissolve the boundaries between past, present and future. This temporal ambiguity invites us to reconsider our own place in the continuum of time and space. (Text excerpt by Nicola E. Petek)

19/06/2024

Opening Thursday June 20th solo show presentation of 'Distant Pictures'

Michael Dell is presenting new paintings and drawings in his European exhibition debut.

For this series, Dell has taken significant films from New Zealand contemporary cinema as a thematic basis, creating alluring color gradients with delicately blended palettes that are rich with subtle textures and details.

Opening: Thursday, June 20 - 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: June 21 – July 25, 2024
Potsdamer Straße 91, Berlin

Artwork:
Vigil, 2024, Charcoal and contè on 640gm Arches paper, 76 x 57 cm, 29 7/8 x 22 1/2 in.

19/06/2024

This Friday June 21 Dreamers Music and Poetry Evening will take place on the pavement in front of Galerie im Turm as part of Fête de la Musique .
For the occasion presents movement art by Guadelopean multidisciplinary artist Thomias Radin, Brazilian pandeiro rhythms by beatmaker tikOgO as a reaction to the spoken and intoned word by shapeshifting time-traveler Day Eve Komet and singer-songwriter Ollà.

Hosted by Hiwot &
DJ Set by .smooth_e

Shaking up the scene since 2014, The Poetry Meets Series is a creative space for local and international artists who identify themselves in the framework of Love, Peace and Togetherness. Beyond sounds, verses as harmony, poetry as dance: across disciplines, arts, genres and languages, the platform unleashes new potentials in the interplay of poetry, music and dance.

You are warmly invited to come over.

18/06/2024

Tips this Week!! WEIRD SCULPTURE FESTIVAL
Expect to find some unusual sculptures in the hof & elsewhere, together with a film screening 🌿☀️✨

We are happy to invite you to our next open studio in Rangsdorf with friends and artists colleagues.
Join us for a casual afternoon with drinks and grill

Sunday 23rd June, 12.45-8pm
Studio Rangsdorf
Seebadallee 50, 15834, Rangsdorf.

With
Johannes Büttner
Felix Deiters
Fine Freiberg
Girl to Guerilla
Zu Kalinowska
Justina Los
Dietrich Meyer
Zoë C. Miller .c.miller
Alice Morey
Dominik Nawrocki .co
Marco Schmitt
Nina Wienagrotzki
Zwek

Looking forward X
(Please bring something to grill and drink)

11/06/2024

Artist Talk this Thursday June 13th at 19h between artist Zohar Fraiman and Wolfgang Ullrich (art historian and author) as part of the solo exhibition 𝘇𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 - 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲

On view from May 18 - July 21, 2024

Curated by

Design by ||

11/06/2024

Sign up now for a Croquet Turnier this Sunday June 16th .product Become a winner at our Croquet Tournament. The tournament takes place on the occasion of the intervention series ~Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraums~ by , as part of the Project Space Festival
You can win an original Pegasus Product sculpture!
Take part in the tournament or follow the exciting event!
The intervention will be accompanied culinary by Mobile Menu #19 - Flat Boulette and will be held in cooperation with the local café-bakery ‚Baker’s‘ in Turmstraße.
Register now via DM or email to [email protected] and enjoy the feeling. Participation is of course also possible on the day of the tournament.
Dresscode: senior freizeit

stay hungry presents

Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraumes 2 - Die Gegenwart
Pegasus Product Croquet Turnier

Sunday, 16.06.24, 2-8 pm

Location:
seating pebbles @ Kleiner Tiergarten
near to Turmstraße/ corner of Thusnelda-Allee
10551 Berlin-Moabit

For the exact location please visit www.stayhungry-projectspace.de

Kurator:innen

10/06/2024

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07/06/2024

Opening Friday, 7.6.2024, 5 – 9pm "Jinx, Nevesta!" by Catinca Malaimare with a performance at 7:30pm at the EIGEN + ART Lab.
by Brooke Wilson
Performance: 7:30pmExhibition:7.6. – 29.6.2024Sound by: : @marcosnacar@huniivarga@andreabambiniMake-up-Artist: thanks to: Helge Fischer .fisher.studioPerformance views by Johannes Kremer

07/06/2024

OPEN CALL• We are happy to announce the OPEN CALL for the super soft summer residency! This opportunity is open to artists and art collectives of all disciplines based in Berlin who are facing space constraints.

Residency period 22.7.–25.8.2024
Application deadline 23.6.2024
Announcement date 1.7.2024

🔗 All application information via link in bio.

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Wir freuen uns, den ersten OPEN CALL für die super soft summer residency bekannt zu geben! Diese Möglichkeit richtet sich an Künstler*innen und Künstler*innenkollektive aller Disziplinen, die in Berlin ansässig sind und mit Platzproblemen zu kämpfen haben.

Residency-Zeitraum 22.7.–25.8.2024
Bewerbungsschluss 23.6.2024
Bekanntgabe 1.7.2024

🔗 Alle Bewerbungsinformationen via Link in Bio.

05/06/2024

Opening this Saturday 08.06 :
Melanie Jame Wolf, Outlaw Feelings

June 9th – July 21st

Opening: June 8th, 2024, from 5 – 10 pm

6pm: Performance Burden Ballads by Melanie Jame Wolf .jame.wolf, MINQ , and Maxi Wallenhorst ✨

Over the years, Melanie Jame Wolf has moved between performance and visual art. In the solo exhibition Outlaw Feelings, she will show exclusively sculptural works. The site specific installation is part of her long-term research into the performativity of objects and materials over time in the exhibition space – in particular fabric.

Wolf’s works focus on the politics and poetics of social expectations for the containment of emotion. The artist is interested in the subversive power of outlaw feelings – feelings that leak and refuse containment such as grief, rage, dark humor, and joy that is ‘too loud’ – and the personal and societal alienation that can follow their expression. After Melanie Jame Wolf’s solo exhibition The Creep at E-Werk Luckenwalde, Outlaw Feelings is the second part of her trilogy on outlaw emotions. In cooperation with the Berlin Project Space Festival Melanie Jame Wolf presents the performance Burden Ballads on the opening night of the show.

Finissage: July 12th, 2024, 5 – 10 pm

We are very excited to see you all!

Photo: Melanie Jame Wolf, The Creep, Videostill, 2023

05/06/2024

Bpigs Tips this Week Opening Friday, June 7th, 2024, 7-10 pm
Tales from a THIRD SPACE - Chapter2: versa “Desterritorialización del Poder”
Artist Talk: June 9, 2024, 6.30 pm

Berlin / Mexico City
Arturo Hernández Alcázar / Katya Gardea Browne / Sandra Contreras / Miguel Ángel Cordera / Alejandro Moncada / Arturo Ortíz Struck / Alejandro Mondría
Opening: June 7, 2024, 7 pm

Exhibition: June 8 - June 22, 2024
Axel Obiger, Brunnenstr. 29, 10119 Berlin, Th - Sa 3–7 pm and by appointment I www.axelobiger.com




SPACE

05/06/2024

Bpigs Tips this Week@kunstverein_rlp Wera Bet + Paul DD Smith,🩸Running Hot and Cold💦

Opening : Thursday, 6 June 2024, 7 pm
wera dd.smith

04/06/2024

Another great highlight from the urban immersion festival we have been following this q***r mapping project for years! Now is your chance to experience the VR work in Berlin June 5–6 as part of the exhibition of “Urban Immersion — Society, Art and History Revisited”, a multifaceted event by .space. If you haven’t seen the work yet, this is a great chance to get the full VR experience!

Exhibition Schedule:

Wednesday, June 5 (Ticket required 16€)
18:30–21:30 Evening event with artist talks and more
(If you cannot afford a ticket, please contact me.)

Thursday, June 6 (Free, no ticket required)
14:00–18:00 Exhibition open to the public

Address:
St. Elisabeth Kirche
Invalidenstr. 3
10115 Berlin

Check out the entire public program, including free workshops, here: https://urbanimmersion.space/

.elisabeth.villaelisabeth ***rspacesberlin ***r ***rvr

03/06/2024

💥 Opportunity 💥 Join us for our interdisciplinary mini hackathon on augmented reality in public space at URBAN IMMERSION SUMMIT on 05 June in Berlin-Mitte!
The hackathon will be led by 2 colleagues and me as workshop by ’s research projects AURORA XR School for Artists () and INSPIRER!

🔥 Free thanks to funding by ERDF in the program INP-III.

More info and booking: See bio of the event’s organizer .space! 🤗

03/06/2024

Bpigs highlights this week!! Wednesday June 5th, 6pm
Public Space for Sale with Willem de Haan .

In this project, de Haan explores public space as an increasingly scarce resource in a playful (yet serious) way. He turns a parking lot, a public toilet, a cemetery and a market stall into backdrops for a ruthless struggle in the name of privatization and commercialization. At first glance, the stories that emerge seem absurd, at second glance, however, they appear like a dark prophecy: public space becomes a battlefield. Those who can’t pay will be kicked out.

Willem de Haan
Clemens Espenlaub, Friedrich Herz


As part of

29/05/2024

June is around the corner and you know what that means!! Project Space Festival gathers the events 30 self-organized art spaces in Berlin in a comprehensive program from 1-30 June. Revisiting the roots of resilience from the past two decades to the present, the festival follows the artistic and curatorial practices at self-organized art spaces throughout the history of Berlin.

(3) Day 5 will be hosted by the Gimp. The exhibition „Public Space for Sale“ by Willem de Haan examines the increasing pressure on public space.


Image: Willem de Haan, Highrise Campsite, IJsselbiënnale 2023 / Photo: the artist

(5) Tina Coupé will present the groupshow From Dusk Withdrawn in their karaoke car on Day 14, parked in a sandy area of Berlin.

(7) Vinyl-terror & -horror will perform a live turntable concert against the backdrop of Anne-Mette Schultz‘s installation at die Raum on Day 4.


(9) diffrakt presents a program of short films, curated by Nora Wölfling with works by LuYang, Lawrence Lek. SuYu Hsin, Vvzela Kook and Tang Han on Day 24.

Image: LuYang, The Self, 2020 .space

6x6 Project
ACUD Galerie
alpha nova & galerie futura
BETON Berlin
Co-Making Matters
COUNCIL+ .plus
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel
die raum
diffrakt .space
DOOM SPA
gr_und
GROTTO .berlin
Kleine Humboldt
Mehringplatz 20
Neun Kelche
NEW FEARS
Pickle Bar .berlin
SAP Space .berlin
Scherben .scherben ,
SCHNEEEULE
Solaris
SPOILER .zone
Spor Klübü
stay hungry
the Gimp
The Watch .wachturm
Tina Coupé
TROPEZ
TURBA
When You

23/05/2024

Week highlight! Matthias Beckmann, Baustelle am Berliner Dom, 2023, Aquarell und Bleistift auf Papier, 30 x 24 cm

"under construction" Matthias Beckmann | Susanne Britz | Christiane Schlosser.
The exhibition is on display until Saturday June 1st, 2024 at Axel Obiger, Brunnenstr. 29, 10119 Berlin, Th - Sa 3–7 pm and by appointment I www.axelobiger.com

In the exhibition "under construction" three practices of contemporary drawing are in conversation with one another. They deal with the theme of "construction sites" in different ways. A drawing, whether on paper or in space, reveals the process of its creation. Drawing, even when it engages with reality or draws inspiration from it, is never a mere image, but always a construction. Those who draw invent forms and imaginary spaces. Minimal means, dots, lines, surfaces, are often enough to create something new. The goal is not to create a perfect picture or an overwhelming illusion. Rather, the drawing lives from the fragmentary, the implied, the cutout-like and the fragile. The drawing is not finished. We have to add to it by looking at it.

While Matthias Beckmann stages current Berlin construction sites with clear pencil lines and watercolour accents when drawing in front of the motif, Christiane Schlosser works on the abstract image and engages with disruptions in linear-drawing systems. Susanne Britz's spatial installations consist of everyday objects that are built in the literal sense, making the fragile interweaving of different living environments visible in surreal and humorous ways, thereby transforming the exhibition space into a stage-like construction site.

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21/05/2024

Tips this Week .gallery ‘Nature’s Veil’ group exhibition opening Saturday May 25th 18-21:00

Featuring the works of five international and local artists working in painting, drawing and sculpture. These artists delve into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, where deep fascination leads to lifting nature’s metaphorical veil.

Exhibiting artists
Juheon Cho (.juheon.art)
Beate Köhne ()
Susanne Piotter ()
Oscar Contreras Rojas (.c.r)
Adonis Stoantzikis ()

Nature’s Veil - group exhibition
Opening Saturday 25. May, from 18:00 - 21:00
BBA Gallery, Köpenicker Str. 96, 10179 Berlin
28.05 - 12.07
Tue - Sat, 12:00 to 18:00

21/05/2024

Tips this Week BOOK LAUNCH⁠ of „Interpretations” by


An artist talk between Matthias Reichelt and David Krippendorff will take place to celebrate the launch of David’s ”Interpretations.” On this occasion, a selection of his films, video works and drawings will be shown.⁠

May 23, 2024, 6 pm⁠
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The standard frame rate for theatrical motion pictures is 24 images per second. This technologically manifest concatenation of pictures and its contrast with the individual image informs the oeuvre of David Krippendorff, which spans painting, drawing, video, and film. Krippendorff develops works that are shaped by his background—a dual German-American citizen, who grew up in Rome—and wrestle with subjects such as belonging, cultural assimilation, and states of being in-between and different.⁠
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The publication “Interpretations” focuses on Krippendorff’s five most recent films and works he produced in connection with them. At the center of the monograph stands the trilogy Lament, which was inspired by music and created in close collaboration with the Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass. In addition to illustrations related to the works, the book contains an interview with Krippendorff by Kathrin Becker and essays on his art by David Elliott, Mark Gisbourne, Matthias Reichelt, Andrea Scrima, and Chiara Valci Mazzara.⁠

David Krippendorff is a US-German artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.

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graphic design by

13/05/2024

On view Some shots from our current exhibition '...sondern nahm eine Schere und fing an...'
Open Sundays 13 - 18 h

Gallery Install
Alyssa De Luccia
Pim Van Huisseling
Karlheinz Deutzmann
Miriam Tölke
Islamiya Scarr
Heidi Sill
Gallery Install 2
Rachel de Joode
Opening Event, Andre Boitard in conversation with Miriam Tölke

13/05/2024

This week The Dream Society

Since ancient times, Dreams have occupied a prominent place in many different cultures and traditions: they linked the mortal and divine realms, healed the sick, predicted the future and were important sources of spiritual or divine messages that could reveal the structure of the cosmos. 
In contemporary society the role of dreaming has shifted to almost none or just a little importance, however every single person can recall at least once in their life a remarkable dream experience: nightmares, recurrent dreams, encounters with the deceased, lucid dreams, premonitory dreams, etc.

According to studies, we spend one third of our lives asleep, and although science could not yet completely explain why we sleep and why we dream, it is known that sleeping and dreaming is crucial for our health, physiological restoration, emotional processes and psychological development in general. 

But what happens in our minds during all these hours? Where do we go when we sleep and during dreaming-sleep? How is it that when we are asleep in REM state and our bodies are immobile, an innumerable amount of sensory stimuli unfold before us and appear as real as in waking life? The fascination about these questions led us to the grounding of The Dream Society to explore together the infinite realm of experiences that take place during sleep.

We will be holding a group exhibition, a Collective Dream Incubation Ritual, while offering different practices and activities open to the public related to healthy sacred sleep.

The Dream Society is proposed as a space and a practice that attempts to reclaim the function of sleep and dreaming as a vital resource of human experience, recovering its capacity to connect us with the domain of the immaterial, intuitive knowledge and expanded perception, among other things.

Carla Bertone & Eli Cornejo
2024



The Dream Society
Exhibition, practices and activities related to the topics of sleep and dreaming.

Opening day:  Friday 17th May 2024, 6 - 10 pm
Duration 18th May - 26th May 2024

Opening hours 
Fridays 4 - 7 pm
Sat & Sun 2 - 7 pm

26/04/2024

26/04/2024

Another Gallery Weekend highlight from the Bpigs editorial team .berlin PAR(I)TY WITH US – The 10 Million Euro Exhibition

aquabitArt Gallery x Janine Mackenroth x SALOON Berlin

The two gallery spaces will feature a symbiosis of international artists and a solo presentation by renowned artist Janine Mackenroth. Mackenroth will cover the floor with millions of shredded Euro banknotes, which she will „lay at the feet“, so to speak, of the works of the artists from the SALOON network. Mackenroth is currently working with the colors of the EURO banknotes, which can be found both as a nail polish edition and in her paintings. The new nail polish „ONE HUNDRED EURO GREEN“, priced at 100 euros, is being released especially for the opening.

with works by Janine Mackenroth

and 20 international artist of .network:
Nina Ansari , Sara Benninga , Anna Borgman .borgman, Manja Ebert , Aika Furukawa , Zohar Fraiman , Mariella Kerscher , Franziska King , Alex Lebus , Niina Lehtonen Braun , Markéta Magidová , Nadja Verena Marcin , Lena Oehmsen , Lisa Premke .premke, Mirae kh RHEE .kh.rhee, Johanna Smiatek , Jeanne Susplugas , Ivonne Thein , Gülce Tulçalı , Adriane Steckhan

Curated by Sarah Maske , Nina Marlene Kraus , Irina Ilieva

, Auguststrasse 35, 10119 Berlin


Opening Gallery Weekend: Friday, 26.04., 18 – 21 with music

Gallery Weekend: Saturday 27.04. / Sunday, 28.04., 12 – 19

Supported by &