Sat 13 Dec 2025, 5 pm
with Lem TragNguyen and Nhi Dương Waves of Sound Without Shore takes “memories that refuse closure” as a conceptual point of entry, situating Vietnamese folk music within the layered histories of war, displacement and intergenerational transmission. Drawing from Nhi Dương’s archival research on folk songs across political division and the Vietnamese diaspora, the work approaches[...]
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Open drawing workshop with Quang Vinh Giang
Artist Talk with A Sông Kollektiv, Đình Bảo Châu Ngô, and Vũ Hải Nguyễn Aktivierung des Wohnblock-Spiels with Vũ Hải Nguyễn, Jochen Becker (metroZones), Michelle Howard (constructconcept) and other guests
The MiK Jugendkunstschule prize has been awarded for over 20 years with the support of the Mitte school authority, and this year it will be presented in three age groups (12–14 / 15–17 / 18–22) for the first time. With the Youth Art Prize, the MiK Jugendkunstschule aims to promote young talent from different social backgrounds
with the curators Nora Bibel, Marcus Höhn, and Veronika Witte Marcus Höhn is co-initiator and curator of the exhibition THE LINE BETWEEN US. He studied architecture in Wiesbaden and then obtained a diploma in fine arts at the Art Academy of the University of Mainz. He has been working as a freelance photographer in Berlin
Plädoyer zur Transgeschlechtlichkeit by Felizia Möhle Deadline Season with Lucy Liebe and band Felizia Möhle is the youngest member of the ZDF Television Council, which has now started its 17th term of office. She is actually a student of political science at the University of Erfurt and is an activist for the LGBTQIA* community, i.e.
with Nora Bibel, Marcus Höhn, DeLovie Kwagala moderated by Katrin Köppert Katrin Köppert is Junior Professor of Art History and Popular Cultures at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and currently holds the Chair of Media Theory at the Institute of Music and Media Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work focuses on queer
with Eray Gülay Voguing is a dance style that emerged in Harlem, New York, in the 1980s. This unique form of expression, which emerged from the POC and LGBTQIA+ community there, opened up a free space in which you can empower yourself, celebrate your own identity and question social norms. Voguing is a celebration of
with Aurora, moderated by Lotte Reimann The multi-media researching artist Lotte Reimann and the sex worker Aurora invite you to a joint evening in which they explore the power relations between people through the use of a bondage rope. FLINTA*-Persons and Friends can participate actively, passively or simply as interested spectators. Fascinated by people and
with Jo Langenhoff, Minh Duc Pham, Lotte Reimann, Vincent Wechselberger moderated by Ingo Taubhorn Ingo Taubhorn studied visual communication, photography and film in Dortmund (1980–1985) and worked as an artist and freelance exhibition organiser for the Museum Folkwang, the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) and others after completing his studies. From 2003 to 2023,
with Jeannette Petri (Beyond Binary) and Stella Deborah Traub (Mit Euren Spuren collective) How can queer identities be expressed linguistically and visually across generations? What meaning do terms and images have when it comes to showing oneself and being recognised? And how are marginalisation and inclusivity negotiated within queer communities? The protagonists invite you to
with itinerant interlude # 51: Body Electronics with Viola Yip and Abs. (7): Closing time for curatorial research Viola Yip premieres “The Ombré of Touch II”, an embodied electronic performance created especially for the exhibition and featuring her self-built inflatable instrument integrated with electronics. The work explores touch as a multifaceted interface for both listening and
of the Open Call exhibition At the end of the Open Call exhibition, we will host a reception with participating artists and interested visitors. The finissage provides an opportunity to meet and chat with the artists on site.
with Janine Pauleck
through the Open Call exhibition A tour of the exhibition provides an insight into the curatorial work and invites visitors to discuss the exhibited works.
Opening of the Open Call exhibition As part of the exhibition Artministration Part 1, an open call will be developed and published together with the public. The submitted applications will be juried by the visitors and the selected positions will be presented in an exhibition in the Office for Curatorial Research.
with Susanne Ring and Veronika Witte
with Veronika Witte
Reusable folders for mailing documents within the public authorities (“Umlaufmappen”) circulate between the Office for Curatorial Research and the administration; curated by Roger Rohrbach.
with Oliver Schübbe and Veronika Witte
with Dana Giesecke (FuturZwei) and Carina Bischoff (Fashion Revolution) Dana Gieseke and Carina Bischoff talk about the consequences of the fast fashion industry and the need for sustainable clothing consumption. What responsibility do fashion companies bear, but also we as consumers? And what innovative approaches can help to keep clothes in circulation for longer? The
6 pm Exhibition tour with Oliver Schübbe 7 pm Ausstellungen nachhaltig denken und nachhaltig produzieren Talk with Bernard Vienat and Oliver Schübbe — Oliver Schübbe is an artist and designer and part of the OS2 Designgroup, a small manufactory that has been involved in the economically and ecologically sustainable production of handmade small-series furniture, interior
by and with Markus Zimmermann, amateur player and artist Are you struggling with the world situation? Or the spring? Easter is still in your bones? You’re not in the mood or your body is feeling a bit rubbish? Then come along and let off steam with us: We’ll play table tennis on an unusual table
Open repair workshop with the Fashion Revolution Berlin action group Repair with Fashion Revolution is an interactive workshop that shows how easily and creatively clothes can be repaired and upcycled. Whether children, teenagers or adults – participants learn various techniques in a fun way to make broken or unloved items of clothing wearable again. In
with Fashion Revolution Germany In the clothes-exchange corner visitors have the opportunity to swap the clothes they have brought with them for new favourite items – without any money, but with lots of style and sustainability! This special area invites you to rediscover your own wardrobe in a creative and resource-saving way. Accompanied by information
with Veronika Witte and Franziska Hünig image: Astrid Busch
moderated by Nicola E. Petek
by Marta Smolińska
Finissage and performative lecture with Veronika Radulovic (about 45 min) The work it’s about time was created in 2014 on the occasion of a workshop at the Trondheim Art Academy in Norway and was performed at the Hanoi University of the Arts in 2015. In an art-historical presentation, 125 artists are introduced, each with an
with the filmmaker Kevin Köhrmann and Frank Momberg (NGO Fauna & Flora, South East Asia) Forest rangers roam the forests of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam. They are on the lookout for plant thieves who are illegally felling eaglewood trees. Eaglewood, oud or agarwood is on the CITES list of endangered species
The event has unfortunately been cancelled due to illness! Highlight tour with Maxime Lübke This new guided tour format attempts to approach the exhibition from a thematic or epistemological perspective, taking a closer look at one or two artistic positions. In this tour, the lacquer technique Sơn Mài and the pictorial text work Sprechen (Part
with Eva Bentcheva Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator specialising in transnational archives, conceptualism, performance and participatory art in South/Southeast Asia and Europe. She is a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden at the Chair of Image Science in a Global Context. She is also a postdoctoral researcher and publication coordinator for
with Veronika Witte
with Nguyen Vu Viet Nga, Mo Art Space Hanoi (in English) “SƠN MÀI – From Tree to Treasure: Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings from 1925 to the Present”, introduces a distinctive art form that skillfully combines innovation and tradition. This lecture will take you on a journey through the evolution of Vietnamese lacquer from the early 20th
Aus dem Koffer is a networking project involving drawing artists from four cities. Two agents travel from their own region to the other three cities with a suitcase full of drawings. There, they present the works of the various artists to an audience at selected locations. This will be accompanied by important drawing initiatives in
with Kinga Ötvös, itinerant interlude #20 Current status as of 21 October at 1 pm: 300 works of art are now gathered on 300 square metres of the RE:VISION exhibition and tell the story of 20 years of Kunstverein Tiergarten. We are overwhelmed by the response! The exhibition will continue to grow until Saturday, 26
Long Duration Live Performance by Nezaket Ekici On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Kunstverein Tiergarten, Nezaket Ekici dedicates her long duration live performance ‘O D E 1303’ to all 1303 artists who have exhibited at Galerie Nord over the past 20 years. On the stage of a gallery window, she presents three specifically
with Minh Duc Pham and others Tussie Mussie (Durational Performance, 2024) For the 20th anniversary of the Kunstverein Tiergarten, the artist Minh Duc Pham will create flower arrangements for the exhibition rooms of Galerie Nord in a durational performance. Referring to the 19th century concept of the Tussie Mussie, these are small bouquets of flowers
Keynote: Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) Discussion: Elke Gruhn (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine), Hendrike Nagel (Kunstverein Schwerin), Thibaut de Ruyter (curator), Albert Weis (artist). Moderation: Vincent Schier (curator) Increasing populism, budget cuts in culture, the recent resurgence of debates on artistic freedom and increased difficulty in accessing free spaces for art pose particular
with Vitalii Shupliak and others
The Zwanzig und Fünf project has successfully travelled through the Kunstverein Tiergarten and the Galerie Nord exhibition space. 3 project groups with a total of 40 children and young people from the 4th, 5th and 6th classes of Hansa Primary School made a short film with many animated film elements to mark the 20th anniversary
with performance by Rafael Ibarra, an artist talk with Ralf F. Hartmann, and DJ Malkriao 6 pm: Performance “Who can afford to be an art worker?” by Sophie Innmann 7 pm: Performance “Dark Mother II” by Rafael Ibarra Rafael Ibarra’s work conveys how a performative gesture, a movement of the body, comes to a standstill
by Ricoh Gerbl Ricoh Gerbl will read excerpts from her literary blog ‘Bitch-Up’ and the audience will be able to participate interactively in the reading. This time, it is the listeners who decide which texts will be read aloud. Since December 2020, Gerbl has been publishing eleven microtexts on her blog every month – always
by Sophie Innmann Thu 22 Aug, 4 pm / Fri 23 Aug, 12 noon / Sat 24 Aug, 11 am / Tue 27 Aug, 1 pm / Wed 28 Aug, 6 pm / Thu 29 Aug, 2 pm / Fri 30 Aug, 5 pm / Sat 31 Aug, 6 pm / each 1 hour Innmann
with Veronika Witte
by Ricoh Gerbl In a metropolis, most encounters with people are all-too-fleeting. Neither do we have a clue where people come from, nor why they are in this particular place or what is currently on their minds. As part of her project “Who is standing next to you?”, Gerbl pauses and speaks to people in
with Pfelder and Simone Zaugg Simone Zaugg (*1968, Bern) lives and works in Berlin and Bern. She studied art and education at the University of Bern and the Bern School of Design as well as film and visual communication at the Gesamthochschule Kassel. She has received numerous scholarships and prizes, including the Neustart Kultur Scholarship,
by Simone Zaugg The performance Aus der Zeit (Out of Time) centres on the sensually charged stopping of time and the self-imposed physical standstill that leads the artist “out of time” into an unknown vacuum. The artistic intervention in the window of the gallery – on the border between art space and public space –
With the two-year programme VOICE:over (2022/23), Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten presented a variety of phenomena related to the voice. With interdisciplinary exhibition projects, performances and a diverse mediation programme, VOICE:over explored the changing significance of the human voice in its physical and social form – from screams to speech and singing to the posthuman
by Sophie Innmann Innmann engages in her artistic practice with the connections and interactions between human behaviour and the surrounding structures in which our actions take place. In this process, the factors of time (duration), space (place) and environment (human and non-human) operate as independent agents and are thus significantly responsible for the appearance of
7 pm Curators’ Tour mit Kati Gausmann und Veronika Witte 8 pm itinerant interlude #99 Concert with Seth Josel In the spirit of approaching world, Seth Josel invites us to observe the passage of time in sound with 2 new works for guitar, voice, and electronics by Marc Sabat and Catherine Lamb. Seth Josel is
moderated by Helen Adkins Helen Adkins is a freelance art historian who has lived in Berlin since 1986. She studied at the University of Freiburg until 1984 and received her doctorate from the Braunschweig University of Art in 2008, where she taught until 2018. From 1996 to 2002, she ran the commercial gallery museumsakademie in
by Margarete Huber (vocals, composition, visuals) In Sleepless nights – Wandering shadows, singer and composer Margarete Huber embarks on a vocal journey through a wide variety of musical worlds. Like a dream, fragments ranging from baroque to experimental appear, which lose their contextuality when interwoven and give rise to free-floating, shimmering new music. Margarete Huber
with Petra Karadimas, Ute Lindner, and Karen Stuke, moderated by Wolfgang Ullrich Wolfgang Ulrich is an art historian and cultural scientist. After many years as a lecturer, visiting professor, and professor and vice-rector for research, he resigned from his professorship in 2015. Since then, he has lived as a freelance author in Leipzig and Munich.
with Albert Coers, Lukas Grundmann, and Albert Weis, moderated by Dr. Angela Lammert Angela Lammert is a private lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin at the Institute for Art and Visual History and head of the interdisciplinary special projects department at the Akademie der Künste. She researches art of the 19th–21st centuries (especially in
by Stefan Willer In view of the recent crises, the future has become something worrying, almost anxiety-ridden. Concepts such as prevention or resilience are aimed at preventing the worst or at least arming ourselves against it. The situation is different in science fiction. It not only offers dystopian visions of doom, but also scenarios of
from 2 pm Performance BLOOM: Transformella malor ikeae (4.4.6.19) Spandau Ikeality Meeting place will be announced. afterwards Performance HARVEST: Transformella malor ikeae (4.4.6.20) for Protektorama toxica (5.5.5.12) with aLifveForms (fed & cared for by JP Raether) Registration required under: 4.4.6.19@transformella.net More infos
6 pm Curator’s tour by curator Inke Arns and Veronika Witte 7:30 pm A lecture on schizophonia Audiovisual performance by Erik Bünger
documentary film by Effi & Amir, 2021, 78 min. Starting from a security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, By The Throat takes us on the exploration of a more deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one. A border that defines the sounds we can emit and the words we can
SPAWN: Protektorama toxica (5.5.5.11) for Transformella malor ikeae (4.4.6.19) with aLifveForms (fed & cared for by JP Raether) Unfortunately, the event cannot take place: Dear traveler, I’m sorry to write you today with bad news regarding our journey. I am as us an artificial entity, but I-as-artifical – still – need a fleshBody to be
moderated by Inke Arns
with the curator Inke Arns and Veronika Witte
2–6 pm: Live performance 6:30 pm: Talk with Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (in English) Mba Bikoro is a visual artist and artistic director of Nyabinghi Lab, independent curator and writer since 2005. Their textual works analyze power processes and fictions of science in historical archives that critically engage with migration and colonial memory. Their focus is
with Pınar Öğrenci (in English)
with Silvina Der Meguerditchian
Performance by Mischa Badasyan and lecture by the political theorist Dr. Veronika Zablotsky. The event will explore the interplay of art and activism in the Armenian context through the example of Mischa Badasyan’s artistic practice. Veronika Zablotsky Veronika Zablotsky holds a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin as a member of the interdisciplinary
with Lusin Reinsch
Live presentation with Martin Riches, excerpts from the film Four Voices by Hannah Bosma and talk (in English)
with the artists. Moderated by Carsten Seiffarth and Veronika Witte Foto: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Stiftung Carlfriedrich Claus-Archiv
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and his Studio N-solab present the newest infrasound-transmitted cantilevered chair seating sculpture of their MAISsCape research project. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
An Interdisciplinary Symposium with Lectures, Lecture Performances, Workshops and Performances Two days of intensive exchange with artists, researchers, scientists and musicians will take place during the symposium vocal creatures. From the perspectives of visual art, music, performance and theory, the contributions form a polyphonic interplay of physical and post-physical voices that address the relevance of
Talk with Eva Bentcheva and the composer/researcher meLê yamomo (in English) Live performance by Anjeline de Dios MeLê yamomo has lived in Manila, Seoul, Bangkok, Warwick and Munich and now lives in Amsterdam and Berlin. He studies, teaches and works in the fields of performance theatre, sound and music. In his work as an artist
with Lisa Paland (in German) Lisa Paland is an art and cultural scholar and curator. She is currently working as a research assistant in the research training group “Normativity, Critique, Change” at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is writing her dissertation on performative exhibition practices of the 1990s.
with Eva Bentcheva and Lisa Paland (in English) Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator specialising in transnational archives, conceptualism, performance and participatory art in South/Southeast Asia and Europe. She is a lecturer at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, where she is developing a research project on “Fluxus
with Gulzat Egemberdieva, moderated by Birgit Eusterschulte and Lisa Paland (in English) Gulzat Egemberdieva’s experimental documentaries Neither in the Mountain, nor in the Field (2023) and Moscowtime (2020) illustrate the importance of alternative historiography for the nomadic communities of Central Asia. Oral tradition, family recordings and personal stories are interwoven here into a poetic and
with the artists of the exhibition, moderated by Eva Bentcheva and Lisa Paland (in English) Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre (HERstory oral archive) HERstory is a compendium of oral interviews that the artist Pascal Lièvre and the curator Julie Crenn have been compiling on gender and sexuality discourses in art since 2012 and making it
with Maria Hartmann, actress In his installation “Jussuf Abbo – the homeless prince,” Said Baalbaki reconstructs the tragic biography of the Palestinian-Jewish sculptor who lived in Berlin from 1911 to 1935. In the reading, Maria Hartmann makes three stages in Jussuf Abbo’s life tangible. Poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Kerr, Moyshe Kulbak and
with Christiane Bühling-Schultz and Karin Rase The cultural scientist Christiane Bühling-Schultz and the art historian Dr Karin Rase have been jointly realising exhibition projects in different formats under the label CundK since 2012 and ran a gallery in Berlin-Mitte from 2014 to 2020. They represent contemporary German and international artists who explore the boundaries of
with Said Baalbaki and Michael Fehr, art historian
with Sultan Al-Qassemi, Hani Zaitoun, and Said Baalbaki (in Arabic) Sultan Al-Qassemi is the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative that promotes the intellectual development of the art scene in the Arab region. He currently teaches at Bard College Berlin and is completing a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Together with
with Said Baalbaki and Veronika Witte
Finissage 6 pm: Curators’ tour 7 pm: Concert performance “itinerant interlude #88 – Solo für Stimme & Objekte” Ute Wassermann, voice and object, with a DJ set afterwards by JD Zazie Multiphonic trills and yodels, loops of ululations, sudden percussive outbursts, warbling glissandi…. Ute Wassermann masks her voice with various bird and palate whistles and
6 pm: Curators’ tour The co-curator of “Eccentric 80s”, Burcu Dogramaci, offers a tour through the exhibition. 7 pm: Film evening “Nicht Mann, nicht Frau, nur Rabe” (WDR, 1984, Raganelli/Wickler) and “Live-Malaktion Alles für Deutschland” (1984, © Alex Anders (Geier)) Talk between Elfe Brandenburger and Burcu Dogramaci Rabe Perplexum was part of the Munich art
6 pm: Live interviews with HERstory and Käthe Wenzel 7:30 pm: Discussion with Julie Crenn, Pascal Lièvre, hn. lyonga (tbc), Sarnt Utamachote and Käthe Wenzel Moderation: Eva Bentcheva What does it mean to call oneself a “feminist” these days? This question has been the subject of many debates and definitions recently. From the fight against
6 pm: Curators’ tour The curatorial team of “Eccentric 80s” offers a tour through their exhibition. 7 pm: Book presentation “Eccentric 80s” (b_books, 2022) and reading with texts by Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen and Rabe perplexum Berlin launch of the exhibition publication “Eccentric 80s” with the editors Burcu Dogramaci, Ergül Cengiz, Philipp Gufler, Mareike Schwarz
6 pm: Curators’ tour The curatorial team of “Eccentric 80s” offers a tour through their exhibition. 7 pm: Panel “Women working with women. Feminist Art: 80s/Today” with Ergül Cengiz (3 Hamburger Frauen), Burcu Dogramaci, Sarah Happersberger and Marie Schleef The figure of complicity, which is central to the exhibition “Eccentric 80s”, refers to a solidary
Fashion show with the artist group STREETWARE saved item
Workshop with the artist group STREETWARE saved item
with Prof. Sebastian Feucht, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin; Dr. Claudia Banz, DesignLab, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin; Birgit Effinger, Leiterin DesignFarm, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin; Domenico Fama und Laura Muschalla, 2. prize 10. RecyclingDesignpreis The topics of sustainability and circular economies are much discussed, yet circular economies are always more than just recycling and do not require
with Oliver Schübbe (Designer OS2 Designgroup Herford) and Veronika Witte The OS2 Designgroup is a freelance design studio with an affiliated, small manufactory, which has been engaged in the economically and ecologically sustainable production of handmade small-series furniture, interior design and installations for more than 20 years. The use of old furniture and used items,
with tanatos bar (in English)
with Zhenia Stepanenko (in English) In the performance, Ukrainian artist Zhenia Stepanenko will decorate a cake while revealing her secret tips of creepy crafting and sharing personal stories as well as artistic insights. The talk will be held in a format of a cooking-themed TV talk show, moderated by Valeria Schiller, curator of the exhibition.
with Christian Falsnæs (in English) Christian Falsnæs will talk about his interaction with the audience and his methods of influencing collective behaviour during his performances, thus rethinking the notion of “success”. In 2017, Christian Falsnæs presented his work Feed at PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine, as part of the Future Generation Art Prize. In his performance, Falsnæs
with Maksym Khodak and Valeria Schiller (in English) “In my childhood, it was called “Draw your favorite fairy-tale thief’,” said a host of late night show on a 1+1 TV channel when he told the story about Maksym Khodak’s project “My favorite oligarch”. This channel is owned by Igor Kolomoyskiy, a scandalous Ukrainian oligarch. In
with the curator Valeria Schiller (in English)
On August 26 at 6.30 pm, the Kunstverein Tiergarten will once again open the Moabit art festival Ortstermin 22 in front of the Galerie Nord, Turmstraße 75. From 26 to 28 August, visitors are invited to explore current interdisciplinary art and culture based on the topic »lieber laut«. This year’s theme is “lieber laut,” and
With: Sibylle Fischer (vocals), Rafał Dziemidok (performance), Markus Zugehör (pianist) Inga Levant (direction), Dragan Matić (space), Petra Korink (costumes) Performances: Thu 11 August, 7.30 pm Sat 13 August, 7.30 pm Sun 14 August, 6 pm La Voix humaine is a mono-opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc, composed after a play by Jean Cocteau published
with Birgit Effinger and Veronika Witte
Concert Performance and Record Release with Hannelore (Catherine Lorent, Tom Früchtl)
with Ludwig Seyfarth and Veronika Witte
with PolMotion (Movement of Polish women) und guests Moderation: Berenika Partum
moderated by Marta Smolińska and Veronika Witte
by Veronika Radulovic and talk with Do Tuong Linh Karaoke bars and noisy motorbikes, AIDS and capitalism, Buddhism and homosexuality, the allure of Western brands and a country marked by war – the works of Vietnamese artists Truong Tan, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Nguyen Quang Huy and Nguyen van Cuong are unembellished and introspective, marked by
with Marta Smolińska
with Vitalii Shupliak This work belongs to a series of works where the gesture of applying the camouflage pattern on the artist’s own body was executed: the pattern of stigma which was left in the consciousness and memory of people involved in war. The image of a uniform is a simple and empty gesture with
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, lockdowns have been introduced globally and gatherings restricted. Yet there was one place that remained steadily open: the supermarket. Supermarket chains have massively increased their profits in recent years and as never before, the question arises: who bears the costs for our consumption habits? What are the possible solutions?
Opening hours: Fri 25 Mar, 6 to 9 pm Sat 26 Mar, 2 to 8 pm Sun 27 Mar, 11 am to 5 pm 30 internationally renowned book artists will present their books and prints at this year’s first Artists’ Book Fair in Berlin. After 2012, when the first edition of the fair took place
Moderation: Bruno Kuhlmann and Veronika Witte
with Tom Früchtl and Veronika Witte
with Duo Flocks (Werner Durand and Uli Hohmann) The project itinerant interludes is supported by inm – initiative neue musik Berlin e. V. and curated by Laurie Schwartz.
with Astrid Busch, Erik Göngrich [Mitkunstzentrale], Veronika Kellndorfer, Andreas Koch, Sophia Tabatadze Moderation: Lena Prents
with the films “Monument”, Igor Grubić “Alphaville MD”, Maix Mayer “Stabat Mater”, Josef Dabernig
Lecture by Wolfgang Kil Discussion with Andrea Hofmann [raumlabor], Erik Göngrich [Mitkunstzentrale], speaker N.N. [Spoiler Aktionsraum]
with Sophia Tabatadze meeting point: Lilienthalstrasse 32
with Doplgenger, Tatiana Efrussi, Fucking Good Art, Igor Grubić Moderation: Ruben Arevshatyan and Veronika Witte [in English]
Panel discussion with Doplgenger, Tatiana Efrussi, Fucking Good Art, Wolfgang Kil, Kai Vöckler Moderation: Ruben Arevshatyan und Veronika Witte [in English]
with Distruktur, Laurence Favre, Bernd Lützeler, Igor & Ivan Buharov & Sophie Watzlawick
Film screening and talk with Christian Diaz Orejarena and Madeleine Bernstorff Artist residencies have long been considered an important economic pillar, especially for emerging artists. Some works created in the context of a residency immanently or consciously reflect the challenge of integrating a site-specificity that is not always demanded. Depending on the time available, on
With Yala Juchmann and Konrad Mühe Yala Juchmann’s Gelegenheit und Praxis: Von der Hand in den Mund (2021) addresses infrastructures of artistic work. In her assemblage, framed by a screen made of construction fence elements, Juchmann presents her own works from past years, as well as the work Löffel als Genoss:innen, by the artist Cornelia
Film screening with the filmmakers Cinema Copains In Fictions and Futures #1, Gloria, the voice of the eponymous brokerage firm, introduces us to the language and logic of the financial world. From her mouth and that of her hand-picked guests, we learn about the narratives that fuel the markets, why the shortage of commodities is
SCHNEELEDERPERÜCKE Performance with Käthe Kruse and Edda Kruse Rosset IMSCHAU – FENSTER – DERWOLF Performance with Knuth Irche and Gabriele Hänel In the context of the light installation 15 Buchstaben – 101 Wörter by Penelope Wehrli, the radical contemporary adaptations of Grimm’s fairy tales from Anne Sexton’s legendary book Transformations can be experienced performatively. Anne
KGB-YOUNG workshop from 12 years with Gabriel Rossell Santillán and Clara Bausch
Performance & cooking workshop with Gabriel Rossell Santillán
with curators and artists of the exhibition
Opening: 27 August, 6 pm, in front of the Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten Welcome: Ute Müller-Tischler, Fachbereichsleiterin für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Veronika Witte, Director Galerie Nord Introduction: Alexandra Neuss, Ulrike Riebel, Artistic direction Ortstermin 21 6.30 pm: Soundperformance ‘Untitled 2021’ by Thomas Mahmoud In 2021, after a hiatus of many years, the ORTSTERMIN
21 Aug: Estrel I: MAY YOUR STARS SHINE BRIGHT, YOU PRETTY PYRAMID. (Lola Göller) & Wenn das Eigentum … (CinemaCopains). 28 Aug: Während die Sachen ihre Schatten verlieren (with Gabriel Rossell Santillán) 4 Sep: dAEP Mädchenband live in concert 11 Sep: Fronteras Visibles. Making-off eines Soundtracks (Christian Diaz Orejarena) & Wenn das Eigentum … (CinemaCopains)
Fri 20 Aug 2021, 7 pm Blues Performance by Rafał Dziemidok Sat 21 Aug 2021 Gastspiel 48h Neukölln: 4 pm To be a fish in a raki bottle Dance performance by Elvan Tekin 5 pm Thinking of feminist air in the future Dance theater with speaking parts by The No Collective 7 pm Raven and
with Oliver Kossack and artists
with Oliver Kossack, Christoph Tannert and artists
Performative reading “IMSCHAU – FENSTER – DERWOLF” by Gabriele Hänel and Knuth Irche in the panorama windows of Galerie Nord “The speaker in this case / is a middle-aged witch, me – / tangeled on my two great arms, / my face in a book / and my mouth wide, / ready to tell you
with Lusin Reinsch Please register by e-mail: info@kunstverein-tiergarten.de. You will receive a confirmation including a zoom link with the access data and further technical information in due time.
with Veronika Witte and the artists Please register by e-mail: info@kunstverein-tiergarten.de. You will receive a confirmation including a zoom link with the access data and further technical information in due time.
with catalog presentation
The project inside:OUT presents eleven internationally working artists from Berlin in three exhibitions. In collages, graphics and drawings, they show interior views, changes of perspective and dialogues between resistance and adaptation on five large-format window surfaces. Part III with works by Pharaz Azimi, Anke Becker, Peter Hock, Camila Roriz and Andreas Wolf. Curated by Lusin
The project inside:OUT presents eleven internationally working artists from Berlin in three exhibitions. In collages, graphics and drawings, they show interior views, changes of perspective and dialogues between resistance and adaptation on five large-format window surfaces. In Part II, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten will commemorate the 150th birthday of Rosa Luxemburg on 5 March,
TESTIMONIES BEYOND MARGINS A film programme curated by Can Sungu and Malve Lippmann (bi’bak) The film programme Testimonies Beyond Margins offer alternative views on Berlin by their filmmakers who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders of their subjective realities. They shed light on migrant perspectives of Berlin by listening to their subjects with an inner self-consciousness.
Burcu Doğramacı’s research on exile, migration, and flight in history and the present is dedicated to the forms of migration and the migration of forms as well as to the concepts and aesthetics of an art production of exile. Their projects and publications are understood as contributions to a cultural-scientific, interdisciplinary research on exile and
The project inside:OUT presents eleven internationally working artists from Berlin in three exhibitions. In collages, graphics and drawings on five large-format windows, they show interior views, changes of perspective and dialogues between resistance and adaptation. Part I with works by Ina Bierstedt, Albert Coers, Pauline Kraneis, Juliane Laitzsch and Martin Pfahler. Curated by Lusin Reinsch
Finissage and performance with Black on Black (Ceren Oykut, FezayaFirar) Black on Black is an audiovisual performance series based on live drawings, which is accompanied by electronic music in its creation. The surprising, archaic and at the same time untamed lines of Ceren Oykut tell stories of urban transformations, language and various creatures, which are
For decades, a variety of institutions dedicated to art, culture and further education have resided in the Brüder-Grimm-Haus. The building’s name is at the centre of artist Penelope Wehrli’s light-installation, it is the basis of poetic wordplays and thus brings the vitality of language into public consciousness. The name’s fifteen letters form the material for
Performance by Evgenija Wassilew and Peter Strickmann The performance “être vent” is dedicated to the soft voices of the wind, the crackling in the air, the potential in the calm before the storm. With a collection of different trills and alarm whistles, delicate wind sounds are acoustically recreated and performed within Marion Orfila’s fragile spatial
Performances by Rafał Dziemidok and Kacper Lipiński 5 pm The Crossing I Gerickesteg (footbridge between Moabit and S-Bahn Bellevue) 7 pm The Crossing II In front of Galerie Nord
Performative district exploration by and with Claudius Hausl Meeting point for participants: in front of the Arminiusmarkthalle
Art festival in Moabit and the Hansaviertel with exhibitions, open studios and events from 28 to 30 August 2020. We are inundated daily with hate images, fake news, defamation of dissidents and so-called catastrophe reports. As a result of digital simultaneity and informational confusion, fear, insecurity and recklessness arise in our dealings, but at the
The video screening “In between” goes into the third round with Ortstermin 20 and shines again this year deep into the Moabit nights. Nine short films by artists from all over Germany were selected from numerous valid submissions. Artistic extensions and delimitations of narrative perspective, camera work or editing techniques and the play with the
Wanderkino – Installation by Kino für Moabit and NomadicArt
with Steffi Weismann, Apartment Project and more
by Steffi Weismann and Çiğdem Üçüncü
by Chryssa Tsampazi with Thomas Pasieka and Nicolaas van Diepen. The work is a performance based on the text by Bernard-Marie Koltès: “In der Einsamkeit der Baumwollfelder”. It is about a dialogue, a strange “deal” between two people whose subject remains contested and unnamed. Is it about orders, longing, threats? Is it about the right
The festival hub in the Galerie Nord is a place for the exchange of information, for social encounters, a place for festival visitors to stay and a platform for a wide variety of events. Fri 21 Aug 2020, 5 pm Opening of the Festival hub of the Moabit Art Festival “Ortstermin 20”. Loop Table Performance
Performance by Raul Walch and opening of the festival hub of the Moabit Art festival “Ortstermin 20”
with Tom Früchtl and Catherine Lorent
Open-air concert with Käthe Kruse (voice), Myriam El Haik (piano) and Edda Kruse Rosset (drums). Limited number of visitors. Please register by e-mail to info@kunstverein-tiergarten.de. Please also note our Corona-related
Artist talk with Käthe Kruse and catalogue presentation with Hanne Loreck and Matthias Kliefoth, DISTANZ Verlag. The number of participants is limited to 20. We therefore ask you to register by e-mail at info@kunstverein-tiergarten.de.
Since 15 April, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten has been presenting a daily 90-second performative reading with Käthe Kruse on Facebook and Instagram. She reads her cycle of works 366 Days. For this cycle, Käthe Kruse extracted 25 headlines per day from a German-language daily newspaper such as Taz, Tagesspiegel or Süddeutsche Zeitung over a
As part of our screening programme “In between”, we are showing the video programme “Das Lügenmeer” by the West Berlin avant-garde trio Die Tödliche Doris, of which Käthe Kruse was a member from 1981 to 1987, as a prelude to the Käthe Kruse exhibition. It is a compilation of video clips and recordings of live
With “Moving Abstractions” Klaus W. Eisenlohr from Directors Lounge presents a series of experimental films by Berlin and international artists. The films work with abstractions, in the sense that they do not tell a story or pursue a documentary concern. Nevertheless, the images are not non-representational light paintings. Film images on the screen, mostly recorded
As part of the exhibition “incremental abstractions”, Peter Neumann reads from his new book “Jena 1800” and other texts. Jena 1800: With the ideas of the French Revolution, not only the political conditions in Europe are shaken. An entire generation of young poets and philosophers decides to rethink the world. The leading minds – among
with Dr. Jens-Ole Rey
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr/Directors Lounge “Moving Abstractions” shows a series of experimental films by Berlin and international artists. The films work with abstractions, in the sense that they do not tell a story or pursue a documentary concern. Nevertheless, the images are not non-representational light paintings. Film images on the screen, mostly recorded in
Finissage with the performance “pas du tout satisfait, plutôt …” by Magali Desbazeille. The performance is supported by: HAMMER STORE – Fitness equipment for the home, Berlin www.hammerstore.de
„Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione“: La primavera · Der Frühling L’estate · Der Sommer L’autunno · Der Herbst L’inverno · Der Winter Op. 8, RV 269 / 315 / 293 / 297 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on all four concertos of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to
with Dr. Dorothée Bauerle-Willert
L’inverno · Der Winter Op. 8, RV 297 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on the fourth concerto of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to a Baroque musical work, “The Four Seasons” (op.8, 1725), by Antonio Vivaldi, whose wear and tear through telephone
curated by Michael Freerix with the following films: Lilli Kuschel/Anna Fiedler: Tallaght (2007, 20 min.), William Raban: A 13 (1994, 12 min.), Jan Ralske: Entlassen (2018, 6 min.), Helga Fanderl: Weybridge (1997-2000, 4 min., no sound), Arata Mori: Carmino Negro (2013, 15 min.), Distruktur: La Mort d’un Investigateur (2008, 2 min.), Omilonta agalmata (2015, 3
The installation is further developed on site.
by Emmilou Rößling
Performative lecture
with Ulrike Riebel (in German)
with Christopher Weickenmeier (in English)
L’autunno · Der Herbst Op. 8, RV 293 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on the third concerto of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to a Baroque musical work, “The Four Seasons” (op.8, 1725), by Antonio Vivaldi, whose wear and tear through telephone
by YL Hsueh
with Nadja Schöllhammer and Veronika Witte
La primavera · Der Frühling L’estate · Der Sommer Op. 8, RV 269 / 315 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on the first two concertos of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to a Baroque musical work, “The Four Seasons” (op.8, 1725), by Antonio Vivaldi,
L’estate – Der Sommer Op. 8, RV 315 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on the second concerto of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to a Baroque musical work, “The Four Seasons” (op.8, 1725), by Antonio Vivaldi, whose wear and tear through telephone
Open Days at the UdK Berlin
with Veronika Witte
with a performative intervention
The installation becomes a polling station for the European elections.
A choir of refugee girls from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq takes over the installation.
with Isabelle Meiffert
La primavera – Der Frühling Op. 8, RV 269 Performance by Rafał Dziemidok on the first concerto of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Rafał Dziemidok’s solo performance project is a physical experiment on time and transience and a re-approach to a Baroque musical work, “The Four Seasons” (Op.8, 1725) by Antonio Vivaldi, whose wear and tear by
with Sophia Gräfe and the artists
Workshops with Adelheid Mers and students from Bauhaus University Weimar and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Adelheid Mers Diagrammatic Templates derive from highly compressed texts on art and culture and conversations, especially with women artists. At the same time, they contain the invitation to be unfolded performatively, experimentally and playfully in new conversations.
with Dr. Claudia Beelitz and the artists
Performative lecture by Dr. Marcus Steinweg
with the cultural scientist Dr. Kenneth Anders and the artists
with Discoteca Flaming Star, Constanze Fischbeck and Didi Cheeka Location: Savvy Contemporary
Michel Doneda (soprano saxophone) Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone and percussion) Harri Sjöström (soprano and sopranino saxophone) Introduction: Carl Wilkens The 5th concert of the series “Soundscapes & Soundportraits” is a premiere: The international trio – Michel Doneda, Emilio Gordoa, Harri Sjöström – plays for the very first time in this line-up. All three musicians are among
with the artists and the filmmaker and critic Didi Cheeka from Lagos/Nigeria
with Penelope Wehrli and Christina Landbrecht
with Penelope Wehrli and Johannes Odenthal on body, movement and space
Décoloniser les corps – Decolonisation of the body. Art nOmad is a contemporary art biennial founded in France by Clorinde Coranotto that moves nomadically from place to place. She created an art centre without walls in a custom-made truck, where exhibitions are presented and discourses are stimulated in public space by means of workshops and
At the finissage, the group TROI OI (Nhu Duong and Sung Tieu) will present their interdisciplinary project, which has been investigating the cultural consequences of Vietnamese immigration after the war in Western Europe since 2014. At the end of the exhibition, TROI OI invited NGUYỆT to transplant its flower shop from the Treptower Park S-Bahn
Film evening and talk with Matthias Leupold
with the Berlin Asian Film Network (Bafnet) and the Lê Brothers
In the performance Käthe Kruse, together with Klara Kruse-Rosset and Lina Streckwall, performatively take stock of “war” since its beginnings. The performance becomes a fast-paced musical battle of material consisting of historical data, percussion and fragments from Erich Fried’s legendary collection of poems “und Vietnam und …”.
A discussion with Gretchen Dutschke and Klaus Staeck
with the curators Veronika Radulovic and Veronika Witte
by Veronika Radulovic and Đỗ Tường Linh
Sound collage by Dirk Winkler
by Michael Freerix
by Orhan Esen, Berlin/Istanbul
City Choreography Course by Sonja Augart
with Nicole Loeser, Veronika Witte and artists
Symposium with lectures in English Friday, 18 May, 10 am – 4 pm 11:30 am Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese Homo Duplex Revisited. Embodied Simulation and the Parallel Worlds 1:30 pm Prof. Ólafur Elíasson Breathing Bubbles 3 pm Prof. Dr. Andreas Roepstorff Interacting the World – From Individual Patterns to Society Saturday, 19 May, 10 am
by Meike Rötzer, Matthes & Seitz Verlag
Video screening, curated and presented by Timo Soppela (Director of MUU Galleria, Helsinki)
Double concert with Harri Sjöström /Matthias Bauer and Hannelore (Tom Früchtl / Catherine Lorent)
in support of the work of the Kunstverein Tiergarten. On Sunday 22 October at 2 pm, the exhibition Yours faithfully at Kunstverein Tiergarten will go under the hammer! Our benefit auction is the conclusion and highlight of the exhibition and offers all art lovers the unique opportunity to purchase works of art, even on a
Claudia Kalász reads texts by Francesc Abad followed by an exhibition talk An event in the framework of the KGB Art Week “I’ve never been about producing, I work with ideas”, declared Francesc Abad (Terrassa, 1944) at the beginning of 2006 on the occasion of the opening of his retrospective block W. B. A thinking
Exhibition tour with Veronika Witte and Ralf F. Hartmann in dialogue
Opening: Friday, 30 Jun 2017, 6 pm Speakers: Sabine Weißler (District Councillor for Further Education, Culture, Environment, Nature, Streets and Green Spaces), Veronika Witte, Director Kunstverein Tiergarten, Christian Hamm (Project Management Ortstermin 17). Music: Fanny Hensel Music School, Gesunde Hunde Youth Band under the direction of Manfred Wittlich Open studios & exhibitions Friday, 30 Jun
A tour with Dr. Andreas Schallhorn (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) through the sculptural spatial drawings in the Galerie Nord
The exhibition catalogue will be presented at the finissage.
with Dr. Ralf F. Hartmann