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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Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes the audience to meet Los Angeles based artist Rachel Mayeri and her newest artwork R/P FLIP R.I.P., with its European premiere in her solo exhibition Capsize Chronicles: Art, Science, and the Oceanic World, opening on Fri, 26 September 2025, 8 pm. R/P FLIP R.I.P. is an experimental video work by Rachel Mayeri about the R/P FLIP, which stands for Research Platform FLoating Instrument Platform (1962-2023), the world-famous nautical rarity that flips 90 degrees to become a live-in buoy for studying the ocean. The FLIP was designed for stability to study acoustics in a turbulent ocean, yet ironically the interior is fluid, built for living both in horizontal and vertical orientations. In the artwork, performers activate the FLIP’s architecture as a playground for disorientation: floors become walls, and doors become holes. Intercut with military and oceanographic films, the FLIP film becomes a platform for conceptual flips: landlubbers encountering the alien world of the ocean, and of oceanography’s shift from militarism to ecology. Commissioned for the Getty-sponsored Southern California landmark show PST Art: Art & Science Collide, created by artist Rachel Mayeri, R/P FLIP R.I P. is presented as a three-channel video installation at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography until August 2025. More information coming soon!
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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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FERMENTING TEXTILES
- Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
- Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
The trans-disciplinary research and exhibition project Fermenting Textiles puts active matter at the center through the engagement of artisans, anthropologists, scientists, and artists, as well as more-than-human actors. Fermenting Textiles explores the fermentation of textile in mud and plant material to produce complex dyeing for various use – from traditional hunter shirts in Burkina Faso to kimono silk dyeing in Japan.
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BODIES OF WATER
- Learning from the River Panke through Art, Science, and Storytelling
- Workshops, Walks, Talks, Reading Sessions, Panel Discussions, Performances
The festival explores themes around urban waterways, in context of the ongoing series ON WATER | PARCOURS by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). With the art science collective “DIY Hack the Panke” and scientists from the fields of eco hydrology and medicine, we will explore what forms an urban river takes and what lives in and around the Panke river. There will be events for participants of all ages.
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IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Robertina Šebjanič and Marco Barotti
The Colloquium (this time ONLINE only) 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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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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