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18/11/2025

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18/11/2025

“I feel this moment approach as I glance up and see a poster mapping the lineage of distinguished electronic female artists. I smile, knowing she is one of them, as Pramuk finishes playing.”

Lyra Pramuk is an American, Berlin-based composer who understands music as a form of devotion, as ritual and as a tether to the divine. Grounded in her personal histories singing in a church choir, then engaging in experimental classical music, and eventually rave culture, Pramuk is interested in the induced trance states music can create and the ritual of gathering in space.

Kim Budd visited Lyra Pramuk to discuss her musical practice, including Pramuk’s ability to synthesize and translate knowledge, honoring indigenous musical cultures, and new narratives of self-liberation and collectivity. Pramuk will perform this Thursday, November 20, at 7pm at Zenner in Berlin. The link for tickets is also included in the article.

Photos by Kim Budd

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Kim Budd visits Lyra Pramuk in her apartment studio in Berlin Schöneberg to talk about her latest album ‘Hymnal’

16/11/2025

Ballhaus Ost presents performance ‘None of my Business,’ exploring climate (in)justice and the disparity between those fuelling climate change, and its catastrophic effects on those who have contributed the least.

The performance, presented by Filet collective in collaboration with activists, takes the occupation of Shell and Chevron offices in the oil-rich Niger Delta by a group of 600 women as its starting point. Through the course of the show, it investigates what resistance in this world system can feel like, personally, politically, and physically, underlining how climate justice is not only an ecological issue, but above all a political and social one.

For more information on the performance, premiering on November 20 and running each night until November 23:

In »None of my Business«, Filet + Friends, in collaboration with activists, explore climate (in)justice: the gap between responsibility for climate change and its effects on those who have contributed the least. The starting point is the uprising of 600 women in the Niger Delta—one of Africa’s...

14/11/2025

“The future still existed when he arrived in America, his children come of age in a country mourning a spectral future that never came, one that feeds into the ravines of loss already inscribed in their lives.”

Last month, the Barbican’s Pit Theatre in London performed ‘Prayers for a Hungry Ghost,’ a drama by Elisabeth Gunawan following a family from Hong Kong whose patriarch is dragged off to the spirit realm as the play opens. Given the opportunity to look back on his life, the father reflects on raising his children, overconsumption, and the self.

As part of our feature topic Ghosts, William Kherbek writes on hauntology, the self understood as a ghost, and the permanence of haunting.

Read the full review:

William Kherbek reviews the theater play ‘Prayers for a Hungry Ghost’ performed at Barbican Theatre in London

14/11/2025

This November, Performa Biennial celebrates its 20th anniversary, presenting live commissions across NYC from November 1–23.

Amongst the Biennial highlights is ‘Lithuanian Pavilion Without Walls,’ a program building on the historic links between Lithuania and New York’s experimental scene, notably when Fluxus founder George Maciunas and filmmaker Jonas Mekas shaped the city’s downtown aesthetic. Highlighting a new generation of artists in their wake, the program features Vilnius- and London-based composer and visual artist Lina Lapelytė whose performance presents 100 children shifting from words to primal sounds, and Pakui Hardware’s ‘Spores’ which stages a dialog between a human patient and an artificial-intelligence therapist.

For more information on the program, read our preview article by Eve Rogers:

Eve Rogers previews the highlights of Performa’s Lithuanian Pavilion Without Walls program to showcase Lithuanian artists in New York

13/11/2025

Our top picks for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠
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𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶è𝗿𝗲: ‘𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿’
Exhibition opening @ Dittrich Schlechtriem
Saturday, Nov. 15; 6–8pm

Transforming the gallery into a sonic vault, the artist occupies the space with the roar of underwater volcanoes, the hiss of hydrothermal vents, the rumble of collapsing slopes, and the molten surge of magmatic currents, holding open this sensory threshold.

𝗔𝘆𝗻𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗼ğ𝗮𝗻
Concert @ Maxim Gorki Theater
Saturday, Nov. 15; 8:30pm
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Held in memory of Seyit Rıza, executed in 1937 as a Kurdish-Alevi leader in Dersim for his resistance against state repression, Aynur Doğan combines the centuries-old tradition of Kurdish folk music with contemporary Western sounds as part of the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE.
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‘𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗭𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘇𝗲𝗮𝗻’
Group exhibition opening @ Schloss Biesdorf
Sunday, Nov. 16; 6pm⁠
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Seeking to make time tangible, twelve artists present work around the Zapotec idea that time is an ocean; constantly in motion with its waves, tides, and currents, yet itself not moving as a whole.
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See the full list of events for this weekend:

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including KW, Futurium, C/O Berlin, Schloss Biesdorf, AdK, and more

13/11/2025

Addressing the social and ethical issues raised by the increasing use of AI in medicine, kennedy+swan’s exhibition ‘The Red Queen Effect’ problematises understanding AI as a neutral cure-all.

On view at Schering Stiftung for a further month until December 12, the installation consists of two parts – a four-channel video work presenting fictional health-care startup ALICE, and a series of twelve watercolor ‘Lung Portraits’ exploring an AI model specialized in recognizing lung cancer from tissue scans. Together, the works engage with our individual and collective expectations, fears, and imaginations around our health, and the insidious effects an AI future of medicine could ensure.

For more information on the exhibition:

Installation views of the exhibition "The Red Queen Effect" at the project room of the Schering Stiftung, BerlinPhoto: kennedy+swan

11/11/2025

“Fame assumes the character of a new religion: notoriety as resurrection, legacy as salvation.”

Presented by LAS Art Foundation, Christelle Oyiri’s audio-visual installation ‘Dead God Flow’ engaged with the figure of the rapper as both martyr and gladiator. Oscillating between elegy and critique, in Oyiri’s words, the show understood that “death is not an ending but a loop, a broken god’s beat still pulsing.”

As the first article published as part of our feature topic Ghosts, Eve Rogers writes on ‘Dead God Flow,’ discussing inheritance, welcome hauntings, and how music can become the site of a viable and resonant afterlife.

Read the full article:

Eve Rogers reviews Christelle Oyiri’s exhibition ‘Dead God Flow,’ presented by LAS Art Foundation, as part of our featured topic, Ghosts

11/11/2025

Opening this Thursday, November 13, Akademie der Künste presents group exhibition and festival ‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson.’

Grounded in words exclaimed by civil rights activists Eslanda and Paul Robeson in 1937, the program asks what it means to align art with action. It brings together twelve international artists, including Sonya Clark, Masimba Hwati, Patricia Kaersenhout, and Ariel Orah, alongside archival footage of the Robesons. Through sculpture, film, performance, and installation, the program navigates histories of resistance and their contemporary reverberations.

To read more about ‘Every Artist Must Take Sides,’ including information on the performances and activations taking place at the opening reception, read our preview article by Eve Rogers:

Eve Rogers previews the exhibition and festival ‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’ at the Akademie der Künste

07/11/2025

“The works conjure a strange and uncomfortable intimacy as digital and corporeal selves merge, memory and technology folding into one another.”

PalaisPopulaire presents ‘Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take,’ an exhibition by Charmaine Poh, the 2025 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year. In the essence of both a pilgrimage and a dream, Poh transforms the gallery into a passage inward: a choreography of reflection, philosophy and fluidity.

Eve Rogers writes on the exhibition, discussing aquatic rooms, the Ma Jie, a community of migrant women from southern China who served as domestic workers in Singapore, and snails as unlikely emblems of queerness.

Read the full review:

Eve Rogers reviews the solo exhibition of Charmaine Poh ‘Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take’ at PalaisPopulaire

07/11/2025

Introducing our new feature topic for November and December, Ghosts. ⁠

In the shadow of Halloween and Dia de los Mu***os, upcoming feature topic articles delve into the spectral. While the supernatural seems to be having a resurgence in art circles right now, Derridean “hauntology” populating press releases, we also want to look at the ways in which history—whether collective or personal—leaves traces that persist despite attempts to bury or forget them.

Over the coming months, pieces consider the internet as a repository of memories that can be exorcised through Mark Leckey’s ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ at Julia Stoschek Foundation, histories of racial violence that haunt the present through Ligia Lewis’s exhibition at Gropius Bau, and art’s interest in ghostly figures over the past 250 years through the group show ‘Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural’ at Kunstmuseum Basel.
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Read the full Letter from the Editor, including previews on further upcoming articles, by Alison Hugill:

Editor-in-Chief Alison Hugill introduces the new featured topic, Ghosts, and some of the upcoming contributions in November and December