Exhibitions (selection)
In preparation
COMO is a 24-month transnational cultural and research initiative that reimagines the Mediterranean region as a dynamic cultural space shared by all. Rather than viewing the region as a periphery between Europe and Africa, COMO understands it as a continent in its own right: a vibrant, interconnected space characterised by circulation, exchange, and multi-layered narratives.
Past exhibitions
With artists Ale Hop, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Hugo Esquinca und Ibrahim Quraishi
The exhibition showcases various aspects of artistic collaboration during the pandemic. The works on display reveal the potential, impact and successes of telematic encounters, as well as the stumbling blocks they present. They explore how connections, exchange and mutual understanding can be established and sustained in the absence of physical proximity, and the circumstances in which they break down.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
29.1.-27.3.2022
Exhibition Guide
You will go away one day but I will not
Maria Theresa Alvez (BR) and Lucrecia Dalt (CO)
This spatial, immersive sound installation explores the naming of plants. Rather than using Western scientific nomenclature, it employs the vernacular names used by the Guarani people. Each plant has its own song, composed especially for the baptism ceremony. Audience members are invited to walk through the tropical greenhouse wearing headphones that track their movements. This allows them to individually explore the voices of the Guarani people, the rainforest and the names of the plants and their songs.
Botanischer Garten Berlin im Großen Tropenhaus
24.1.- 16.2..2020
Sophia Bulgakova [UA/NL], Calmspaces [NL], Pau Delgado [UY], Anke Eckardt [DE], Richard Garet [US], Dana Gingras [CA], Wesley Goatley [UK], Loïc Koutana, NSDOS & Zorka Wollny [INT], Nural Moser [INT], Krista Belle Stewart [CA], Michael Wick [DE]
The artistic works reveal different perspectives on the meaning of the spaces in between. By making these spaces visible, the artists simultaneously question the fixed nature of concrete locations. What initially seems unambiguous is revealed to be the result of social and cultural attribution — a consensus negotiated in politics, culture, and society. However, every consensus inevitably produces its counterpart in the form of grey areas, ambivalences and frictions, in which other forms of experience and meaning can unfold.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
3.2.-15.3.2020
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (PS), Vivian Caccuri (BR), Tania Candiani (MX), Ali M. Demirel (TR/DE), Kanta Horio (JP), Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP/DE), Luciana Lamothe (AR), Dorine van Meel (NL/DE), Rie Nakajima (JP/UK), Helena Nikonole (RU), Johannes Paul Raether (DE), Tabita Rezaire (FR), Jacolby Satterwhite (US), Mika Taanila & Ø [Mika Vainio] (FI), Martin Tétreault & dieb13 (CA/AT)
Society cannot be an idyll. It is a sometimes painful, sometimes joyful process that stubbornly circles the same questions while only the cast of characters changes. We are constantly driven and worn down by forces, debates, and movements, bound to traditions yet searching for progress. A Sisyphean task. The artists in this exhibition confront these Persisting Realities head-on – researching, experimenting, returning again and again to questions of power, hierarchy, and resistance to change. And they ask: how do we cultivate joy regardless? How do we find common ground?
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
27.1.-17.3.2019
Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future
Anne de Vries, Frédérick A. Belzile, Lawrence Lek, Peter Flemming, Teun Vonk, Zorka Wollny & Andrzej Wasilewski, ZULI
The CTM 2018 exhibition brings together artistic responses to the festival theme of ‘Turmoil’, which are sometimes playful but always political. Exploring themes of tension and apathy, regression and hope, the artists offer diverse perspectives on the fractures and discomforts of our present moment. Anne de Vries explores music’s ability to trigger collective emotion, while Zorka Wollny and Andrzej Wasilewski transform protest into the electric discharge of a Tesla coil. Peter Flemming sets everyday objects adrift in a haunting manner, while ZULI distils Cairo’s latent explosivity into a sonic collage. Frédérick Belzile and Lawrence Lek explore what happens when technology — be it a drone or a rogue AI satellite — develops a will of its own.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
27.1.-2.4.2018
SOL
Kurt Hentschläger
SOL is the third work in a series that circles around human perception and its psychology, following FEED (2005–06) and ZEE (2008). It explores the longing for sublime, emotional experiences that pull us out of the ordinary. Adopting an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, Hentschläger moves fluidly between audiovisual installation, performance and 3D cinema.
Halle am Berghain
28.1.-19.2.2017
Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico
Ariel Guzik, Angélica Castelló, Guillermo Galindo, Roberto Morales, Verónica Gerber, Mario de Vega, Carlos Sandoval. u.o.
This exhibition explores the history and current state of electronic music and sound art in Mexico, from the early experiments of thebeginning of the 20^(th) century to today’s vibrant scenes. It is a journey through styles and movements that reveals just how rich and layered this often overlooked tradition is, with boundary-crossing sounds.
It was curated by Carlos Prieto Acevedo, in collaboration with Oliver Baurhenn and Joanna Szlauderbach.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
28.1. – 19.3.2017
Reframing Worlds – Mobilität und Gender aus postkolonial, feministischer Perspektive
Antye Greie aka AGF, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Hasan Aksaygin & Aykan Safoglu, Maria Thereza Alves, Pauline Boudry und Renate Lorenz, Mathilde ter Heijne, Rajkamal Kahlon, Susanne Kriemann, Marisa Maza , Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro und Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Judith Raum, Katrin Winkler, Moira Zoitl
Reframing Worlds brings together works by Berlin-based artists that engage with the lives and legacies of diverse women, including Gertrude Bell, Agatha Christie, Maria Mandessi Bell Diop, Mia May, Sayyida Salme (also known as Emily Ruete) and Ida Pfeiffer. Starting from colonial modes of thinking and knowledge production, as well as the historical constructions that shaped them, the artists explore experiences of oppression, resistance and migration through travel writing, biographies and archival material. In doing so, they critically examine their own role as producers of knowledge.
nGbK & Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin
2.12.2017 – 21.2.2018
Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World
Curated by Norient with Oliver Baurhenn
various artists
“Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World” takes visitors on a journey through underground music scenes from around the world. The exhibition showcases musicians and sound artists who experiment with the potential of the internet to create counter-worlds that offer alternatives to commerce, war, cultural clichés and fixed identities. Multiperspectival and multilocal, the exhibition brings together contributions from 250 musicians, writers, radio producers and photographers from 50 countries.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
30.1. – 20.3.2016
von Pedro Reyes (MX) kuratiert von Oliver Baurhenn
This series of works serves as a reminder that living in a weapons-free environment is a fundamental human right and that we have the power to transform instruments of death into tools of life. The physical transformation of weapons into musical instruments may also bring about a psychosocial change.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
30.1. – 20.3.2016
Un Tune – Exploring Sonidc Affects
Anita Ackermann, Anke Eckardt, Emptyset, Graw Böckler, Derek Holzer, Matthijs Munnik, Nik Nowak, Konrad Smoleński, Claire Tolan, Mario de Vega, Zorka Wollny, Zimoun.
The featured artists explore how physical and mental states can be modulated through phenomena such as ASMR, flickering, sensory substitution, psychoacoustics and neo-psychedelia. They investigate acoustic alarm responses, brain synchronisation and tactile disturbances in their works. In doing so, they approach human and non-human bodies in ways that are as unsettling as they are haunting.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
24.1. – 22.2.2015
Generation Z : ReNoise – Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Music Technology in the Early 20th Century
This exhibition brings together rare, original devices from the early history of sound technology, tracing the experimental work of researchers, sonic pioneers and inventors who were active in the Soviet Union during the early twentieth century. Despite the backdrop of revolution, war and political repression, these individuals developed radical visions of a new acoustic modernity.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
25.1.-23.2.2014
THE KNOT: linking the imaginary with the existing
The Knot is a mobile platform for artistic presentation and production. It utilises various spaces within the public realm and operates as an open site for encounters, exchanges and experimentation. In 2010, The Knot travelled to Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest, spending several weeks in each city.
Curated by Raluca Voinea, Jakub Szreder, Markus Bader and Oliver Baurhenn.
Berlin – Warschau – Bukarest
2009 – 2011
