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Katharina Reich, Uhrengehäuse Detail

The sound works, performances, and installation pieces in the exhibition explore collecting as an artistic practice and medium of expression. They address questions regarding the politics and forms of representation inherent in collections. At the same time, they open up new ways of engaging with the objects in the display depot, which will be assembled as part of the symposium at the beginning of the project and displayed in a specially designed setup.

Sam Auinger’s site-specific sound project explores the urban surroundings of the rk-Galerie as a playground for musical listening. At the heart of the score is Rathauspark. Auinger invites visitors to contribute their own perceptions to an open archive.

In his Bibliosculptures series, Ingo Gerken deconstructs the representation of artworks in publications. His temporary object interventions take place directly in the books and interact with the artistic works depicted within them. In her multimedia installations, Julia Lübbecke explores the materialities and politics of collecting. With a feminist, post-materialist approach, she examines how prevailing infrastructures of order organise the documentation of knowledge and what is deemed worthy of preservation. In unlikely object constellations, Katharina Reich explores individual attributions of value. Resorting to her own and to other people’s collections, her installations are made of everyday objects staged as carriers of intimate or unsettling, often biographical stories.

Throughout the 2026 exhibition and educational program, the exhibition depot and artistic positions will be continually reconfigured to enter into ongoing dialogue with the audience. Thus, a collaborative, cross-media, and inclusive repository of knowledge is established, one that grows alongside the participating actors, engages various senses, and brings together diverse perspectives.

Curated by Julia Heunemann and Ulrike Riebel, Artistic Direction of Kunstverein Tiergarten

The Kunstverein Tiergarten’s 2026 exhibition and education program is realized in cooperation with the Lichtenberg District Office of Berlin, Department of Continuing Education and Culture, Division of Art and Culture.
It is supported by the Fund for Presentations of Contemporary Visual Art of the Senate Administration for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin, as well as by the Lichtenberg Cultural Promotion Fund.
itinerant interludes is supported by inm – initiative neue musik.