INSERTIONS – Interventions in the Public Space

What happens when resistance enters existing circuits of work and life? Artistic action can inhabit everyday life to confront and slip under oppressions, without becoming slogan, spectacle, or moral instruction.

Insertions gathers a series of artistic interventions unfolding in and around Papierstraße. Inspired by the poetics of resistance and drawing from practices of subtle infiltration, the programme explores public space as a site of encounter, friction, humour, and unexpected power to act. Six invited artists work with performance, material interjections and new community alliances to stir critical and joyful momentum on the streets– insertions into the social and material routines of everyday life.

The interventions emerge through neighbourhood relations and local rhythms, on overlooked infrastructures and situated forms of attention. Between poetic displacement and tactical precision, INSERTIONS asks how resistance may circulate through life experience itself.

Opening
17 July 2026, 18h00

Talking Poetics of Resistance
Reading & Discussion Circle
21 July 2026, 18h30

Whistling in the Dark: Dispatches from the Imperial Core

Talk with Nick Wiley and Jason Lazarus on art & politics in the USA

23 July 2026, 18h00

Closing gathering
25 July 2026

with works by Ceren Saner, Christina Stark, Katharina Lüdicke, Kayla Elrod and Mark Ballyk, Marie Berlovitz and Elsa Cuissard, Sara Manfredi, Viviana Druga

concept by 

Jakob Margit Wirth and Marina Resende Santos

More details on the website.