The “Think positive!” exhibition by Saeed Foroghi and Thilo Droste is a challenge not just to the spirit, but also to looking. And to being looked at. Pessimism has become part of the artistic program here rather than a signifier of any spiritual failing.
The works presented in the exhibition ask about freedom and control in public space: Does movement mean freedom or is there an (in) arbitrary choreography, a restriction of urban movement space through repression, structural obstacles, political, social and economic processes? Different artistic approaches show the physical presence in urban space and its aesthetic expression from a variety of perspectives.
By instinctively ingesting material and spiritual food, which is essential for survival, and chewing it, humans internalize and assimilate the outside world. An elaborate transformation process takes place in which new material is broken down and processed.
Ina Wudtke takes the 100th anniversary of the German November Revolution as an opportunity to focus on artistic methods of working-class culture.
After producing work on Cairo and Berlin, Claudia von Funcke imagines in this exhibition a fictional urban development of London, whereby she shows its disruptive totality and constant vibration. With a walk-in video installation, photographs and “spatial folds” in metal and paper, the artist explores new approaches to urbanization and reflects the city as a utopian montage space.
Robert Stokowy erschafft eine radikal ortsspezifische, mehrkanalige Klanginstallation, welche auf Hörstudien im ganzen Berliner Stadtgebiet basiert.
The fine line that separates reality from dreams and the real from the impossible resembles a boundary. This can be crossed with daring but also with joy. In her drawings, the artist Helena Hernández humorously engages in this play with the obvious and the enigmatic.
The exhibition focuses on contemporary stories of flight and displacement.
The artist collective Quadrature experiments with the contradictory and ambiguous nature of our civilization’s reference to space and its expansion into the (un)known universe.