The Earth’s ecological balance has been destabilised. Climate change, environmental pollution and mass extinction are just some of the issues causing us anxiety. But even with the realisation that human activity is destroying the very basis of life on our planet, very few people are making lasting changes to their behaviour.
The world’s gone mad. Is our supposedly “ideal world increasingly in the process of disappearing? Social and financial power interests are threatening the functional mechanisms of nature. Plants, birds, and insects are dying out; natural habitats are disappearing. Homelands and traditions seem to be disintegrating. But at what point is a thing really gone, and when has it merely transformed into something else?
Informed by contemporary art and cultural productions created in Guatemala, “This Might Be A Place For Hummingbirds” addresses colonialism and racism, violence and trauma, gender and identity. The focus is on questions concerning women’s rights, migration, social justice, environmental protection, and the ongoing consequences of colonial history.
“The Process of Becoming” exhibition challenges classical concepts of sculpture. It raises questions about where and how the working process begins and when it ends. Who and what is involved in the process and has an active influence on it?
The project brings the print studio into Körnerpark Gallery, making a space for independent print-based communities from Berlin and beyond.
Are You Satisfied? Contemporary Art and Revolution addresses the conditions and mechanisms of revolutionary action and its consequences from a contemporary perspective. The artists establish points of departure partly in historical events and current forms of protest, bringing state regulation, representations of power, and resistance into focus.
Photographer Nihad Nino Pušija has examined the everyday lives of former Yugoslavia’s Roma people, now scattered across Europe, for over twenty years.
The ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2018 exhibition features 600 drawings by 600 anonymous international artists presented with no mention of authorship or title and offered for sale at a symbolic price of €200. The identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is sold.
Social cohesion and solidarity seem more fragile than ever at the moment. Communities across the globe are being confronted with increasingly nationalist tendencies. Public perceptions of refugee crises and migration focus primarily on the challenges facing society.
The exhibition “Eine Enzyklopädie des Zarten” (An Encyclopaedia of the Delicate) is based on Anne Brannys’s dissertation of the same name. In it the artist sheds light on the concept of “delicate” or “tender” from different perspectives, interweaving questions from the humanities, the natural sciences, and art.