Vernissage

Opening of the exhibition Weirder, Louder, Taller, Uglier - For Weeds to Rewild / Unkraut zur Verwilderung with performances

Welcome
Janine Wolter, District Councilor for Education, Culture, and Sport, Neukölln
Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa, Gallery Director
Anaïs Senli, Lorena Juan, Sonia Fernández Pan, Sylvia Sadzinski, curators of the exhibition

Performances / Sprouts

7 pm Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky - What does photosynthesis taste like? / Wild Ice Cream Parlour
Opening event featuring a sorbet tasting made from frozen wild plants

Building on an artistic exploration of photosynthesis as a sensory experience, wild plants collected on site — particularly weeds — are transformed into sorbets and served within a homemade structure that invites direct engagement with visitors. In this way, the conversion of light into sugar — a fundamental process underlying all life — becomes tangible through a form of “edible storytelling” that brings together taste, conversation, and situated knowledge. By turning wild plants into ice cream, the work creates an abstraction that opens up unexpected ways of relating to the vegetal world.

9 pm Sasha Amaya - Circe, still ready, 2026
Performance

In this performative action, artist Sasha Amaya activates images from stories and paintings to explore the relationship between balance and disruption, and our ideas about how nature and the feminine are perceived. In juxtaposing notions of the classical with reality and form
with unpredictability, we are invited into a game of chance, judgement, humour, beauty, and context

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The German word for weed, Unkraut, carries a dismissive connotation — naming plants that are deemed undesirable and usually removed. Yet many of these so-called Beikräuter are ecologically valuable, nourish insects, strengthen soil, and are edible or even medicinal for humans. Weeds remind us that what is outside conventional order often participates in rich and
complex inner ecologies.

Weeds appear in the exhibition not only as subjects of study or metaphor, but as active principles.
Through various artistic positions that are unruly in their structure or message , the question is raised as to when something, an action or a state, is weedy? What does it mean to be weed — to unsettle, to permeate, to transgress —within art, institutions, language, and everyday life? Weeds demonstrate that disruption is not merely destructive, but generative — dissolving rigid boundaries and reopening space for alternative formations of identity, meaning, and practice.