The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication, and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science, and technology.
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We are happy to mention a few upcoming projects for 2025:
Helena Nikonole is currently our winter artist-in-residency from January to March 2025. Information on open studio and other events HERE.
In spring 2025, together with the cluster of excellence Matters of Activity we will be presenting a research exhibition “FERMENTING TEXTILES. Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art“ a project in collaboration with anthropologist Laurence Douny, microbiologist Regine Hengge, and artist and designers Pauline Agustoni and Satomi Minoshima amongst others. Save the date for the opening on Fri, 16 May 2025 of this research project that is kindly supported by Humboldt Universität Berlin.
In the context of the “WasserWissen” research project by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Art Laboratory Berlin is invited to curate a WATER parcours during the weekend of 20 – 22 June 2025 with members of the art science collective DIY Hack the Panke and other scientists from Berlin universities. More information coming soon.
From April 2025 Art Laboratory Berlin will start a 20-month project “CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology” featuring four artist in laboratory residencies leading to artistic production and an exhibition in autumn 2026. This long term project is kindly supported by Lotto Stiftung Berlin, more information coming soon.
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Current
Politics of AI
- Artistic Research
- With Helena Nikonole
The workshop explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as text-to-image AI systems, reproduce biases and embed political ideologies. Participants will experiment with AI-generated responses to politically charged prompts, analyze biases in text-based AI outputs, and examine how these biases extend into AI-generated imagery.
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IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Terike Haapoja
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science, and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.
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OUT OF BALANCE
- Bio-Art Workshop
- With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Invited by Goethe-Institut Saudi-Arabien and Alliance française d’Arabie saoudite/ Embassade francaise ALB curated Riyadh’s first BioArt Laboratory in cooperation with Gharem studio: Three hands-on workshops tought techniques of artistic work with biological organisms and five theoretical seminars units discussed intensely the history, methodologies, and biopolitics of BioArt.
Read moreFERMENTING TEXTILES
- Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
- Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
Duelling Epistemologies
- How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
- Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
DIY Hack the Panke
- Art + Science Research Group
The art science group DIY Hack the Panke aims to explore the Panke river for living organisms and critically examine its complex history of human use. We offer public workshops on topics such as river flora, fauna and microbiology; bio matter as artistic research; microplastics and more.
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Conferences | Symposia
- Interdisciplinary Research at Art Laboratory Berlin
For more than ten years Art Laboratory Berlin has enhanced research based projects with international conferences and interdisciplinary symposia, as a sustainable theoretical addition next to exhibition projects, seminars and workshops.
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