Under the title ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE, the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon brings together long-time collaborators and new voices to reflect on, reframe, and reimagine critical artistic practices, struggles, and forms of resistance from the past years in light of the present and the future, inviting audiences to engage with art as political practice, rooted in history, and reaching toward the future.
The annual Pame Kaimakli Festival aims to bring together the community of Kaimakli and to connect local and international participants through art, culture and social engagement. Our collective Stadtgewitter e.V. is excited to participate at this year's edition.
The symposium opens a space for reflection on the complex dimensions of public space and the potential of art as a medium for collaborative production, critical inquiry and societal transformation.
How can art remain resistant when critique is easily absorbed, neutralized, or censored? How does aesthetic or poetic form operate politically? Talking Poetics of Resistance is a monthly reading and discussion group exploring artistic and theoretical positions situated between aesthetics and life.
This year we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of MakeUp, an open space for creative encounters, art, and neighborhood.
Everybody is welcome to come by!
The Parasite School marks the opening week of On Parasiting, an international artistic project that tests parasitic tactics as a contemporary methodology of resistant artistic practices. It responds by deliberately operating within existing systems and experimenting from inside them: through performative adaptation and precise acts of irritation, out of the position of complicity. The parasite carves out the fragility of its host system and searches for spots of resistant artistic practice.
Grounded in the specificity of case studies, including the work of economist Jana Costas as well as two forthcoming interventions within the long-term project On Parasiting, the panel formats on Day 1 focus in particular on the aesthetic-political dimensions of irritation, disruption, and resistance, taking existing sites, resources, and infrastructures as their point of departure. Contributions by sociologist and philosopher Oliver Marchart, curator Post Brothers, activists from peng!, and artist Jakob Margit Wirth open up a space in which theory and practice intersect. The day closes with the screening of Pilvi Takala’s Movie The Stroker, which documents one of the artist’s past infiltration experiences.
On the final day, the lectures and panel discussions will focus in particular on the ethical- emancipatory dimensions of parasitic tactics and their consequences, with a specific emphasis on contributions informed by non-binary theoretical approaches. Four additional presentations on upcoming interventions within the long-term project On Parasiting will establish a shared ground for discussion. The day will conclude with an additional artistic case by Pilvi Takala.
One week of interventions in the public space around Papierstraße 11. More infos soon at https://poetics-of-resistance.net/rehearsing.
The reading group is a space to collectively engage with texts, practices and questions around resistance, solidarity and political imagination. From October onwards, the programme will also include invited guest lectures.
On 18 September, the exhibition at the Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst (ZAK) opens at the Zitadelle Spandau, bringing together a selection of Mart Stam Prize recipients from the past 30 years.
Operation Himmelblick is closing its summer season on 19 September, 3–9:30 pm, with a full afternoon and evening programme.