12 Apr – 15 Jun 2024
The exhibition approaching world presents artistic strategies that explore the world using methods of field research and long-term observation, deceleration and repetition in an endeavour to understand it. It is based on sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s ideas of understanding the world as unavailable and recognising the time structures of modernity as central to alienation and a[...]
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The title of the exhibition “Mono no aware” (物の哀れ) comes from Japanese and cannot be clearly translated into other languages. The expression is often described as the “pathos of things,” an awareness of the transience of things, which leads to an increased appreciation of the moment. In particular, it is used in connection with nature,
On the occasion of the “100 Years of Greater Berlin” anniversary, three municipal galleries are showing panoramic photographs of the Spree by Götz Lemberg. The photographer thematises the Spree as a lifeline, transport route, tourism factor, natural space and leisure paradise, and in doing so he calls the river back into the collective consciousness of
The artists of the German-Nigerian project question mutual strategies of collective memory processes in two very different regions and continents. Their artistic interest lies in the connections between devastated landscapes, the erection of monuments (“usable past”) and forms of collective memory in two mining regions. In Lusatia, the gradual phase-out of lignite mining was decided
The forest is a habitat, an economically and militarily used area, but at the same time also a multiple projection surface for cultural, historical, mythical and political narratives. Without losing sight of all this, the Berlin artists Nanne Meyer, Beate Spalthoff, Andrea Zaumseil and Francis Zeischegg have walked through a concrete forest area and based