4 Apr – 31 May 2025
The Recycling Design Award is one of the most important platforms for sustainable, innovative design and has been honouring creative approaches that develop new, functional and aesthetic objects from supposed waste for over a decade. With over 400 international submissions, this year’s Open Call for the 11th edition of the competition once again impressively demonstrates[...]
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Current exhibition
The exhibition presents four artists who – starting from their own family history – investigate the aftermath of generational traumas of displacement and suppression. In video, sculpture, and installation, they shed light on experiences of marginalized communities as well as forms of survival, memory, and resistance: Chan Sook Choi’s extensive field research spans from the
The first institutional solo exhibition of the Lebanese-German artist Said Baalbaki shows a cross-section of his artistic work since he moved to Berlin-Moabit twenty years ago. Baalbaki combines painting and conceptual art with a focus on the exploration of mechanisms of establishing truths and the construction of history. With the title Gestern wie heute (As
How can design bring about a sustainable future? What is the visionary potential of re- and upcycling ideas? Imaginative designs and ideas in the fields of transformation design, material research, circular economy and social design are awarded in the 10th RecyclingDesignprize, an international prize by the Arbeitskreis Recycling e. V., Herford, in cooperation with the Museum
Humans are social and political beings and their voices are essential as the physical site of the social realm (Dieter Mersch) The voice is never just a tool of articulation, but is always linked to action. It becomes political in institutionalised practices like the right to vote, voting and the counting of votes. People gain
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,
As a prelude to the Moabit art festival Ortstermin 20, the exhibition bis hierher und nicht weiter . this far and no further calls for a critical engagement with developments in contemporary society, politics, culture, and ecology. The exhibition features work by artists and performers who explore physical and geopolitical borders, investigate the dynamics of
The interdisciplinary art exhibition and conference Watch Your Bubble! deals with bubbles as knowledge formations and metaphorics for phenomena of self-identity on an individual and social level. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, social psychology, neuroscience and aesthetics, the project considers the complex emergence mechanisms of social and personal identities as constitutive processes of demarcation
Since the early 1980s, Cologne-born Astrid Klein (*1951) has been one of Germany’s defining artistic personalities and has received numerous important awards for her innovative works. Significant for her extensive oeuvre, which has been presented in numerous national and international exhibitions, are large-format photo collages, paintings, sculptures and monumental installations. The focus is always on