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” 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. More information coming soon.
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. 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
Guerilla Wearables | Politics of LLMs
- Winter Studio Residency 2025
- Helena Nikonole
Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce that Helena Nikonole has joined ALB’s residency program. Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator whose work explores the intersection of art and technology. Her fields of interest include bio-semiotics, hacktivism, and Artificial Intelligence, a subject she has been exploring since 2016, developing critical and artistic approaches to this rapidly evolving field.
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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.
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- Current Collaborations Between Art, Biology, Music, and Anthropology
- Panel Discussion | With Isabel Bredenbröker, Adam Pultz, India Mansour, Sybille Neumeyer, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
MATTER OF FLUX
- Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care
- Book Publication | Art Laboratory Berlin
SONIC ECOLOGIES
- Podcast Series
Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to have produced the Podcast Channel SONIC ECOLOGIES in 2023 and 2024. The podcast series was conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each curatorial team member – Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel – interviewed artists and scientists.
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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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