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. Our research projects are developed in collaboration with universities and research institutions in Berlin and around the world, and are conducted in accordance with recognised standards of good scholarly practice.
Welcome to our bilingual web archive, offering extensive text, image, and video material on our art, science, and technology projects from the last 15 years. With full documentation of exhibitions, conferences and events, all research projects, and numerous open-access publications, this platform forms a research archive of Art Laboratory Berlin’s interdisciplinary work over the past decade and a half. We look forward to your feedback.
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+++++++ Between April 2025 and December 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the innovative research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin: Artist-in-lab residencies for internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists. The chosen artists are all well known for their outstanding artistic research at the interface of art, science, and technology. Each is highly experienced in integrating art with new technologies and collaborating with scientists in fields such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, climate science, soil ecology, and biodiversity. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovation.
The group exhibition CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS is currently on view, with new art works by Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Margherita Pevere, and Marcus Maeder. Running Time: 26 Sep – 29 Nov 2026, come and visit us – since all artworks are sound related, please bring enough time to listen.
Welcome to the CHRYSALIS Symposium. Sound, Perception, and More-than-Human Ecologies on Sat, 28 November 2026 (on-site with livestream). Art Laboratory Berlin will bring together international contributions from artistic research, philosophy, sound studies, media theory, computational studies, environmental humanities, urban and multispecies anthropology, as well as freshwater and soil ecology. +++++++
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CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
- With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Margherita Pevere, Marcus Maeder
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS presents new artistic works at the intersection of art and science, together with research outcomes from the laboratory residencies addressing soil ecology, bioacoustics, neuroscience, and urban waters. Helena Nikonole examines sound as an influence on microbial systems; Julius Holtz explores neural synchronisation through a brain-computer interface; Margherita Pevere connects pond ecologies, genomic data, and sound; and Marcus Maeder sonifies soil microclimate data.
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TOUCHING BOUNDARIES
- What Drives Art and Science Collaboration
- Panel Discussion | With Špela Petrič, Marcus Maeder, Miha Turšič, Matthias Rillig, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
The encounter of scientific research and artistic intelligence produces new ways of seeing science, art and life, creating value in labs and beyond. Join the conversation with international scientist, artists, art science mentors, and art theoreticians at this year’s Berlin Science Week at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The panel will explore how curiosity driven research in both fields has multiple forms of value both in the lab and beyond.
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CHRYSALIS Symposium.
- Sound, Perception, and More-than-Human Ecologies
Can listening transform how we understand ecological relations? How do sound and vibration intervene in living systems? How might neural feedback reshape the relationship between bodies and computational environments? The one-day symposium emerging from our CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS programme brings together international contributions from artistic research, philosophy, sound studies, media theory, computational studies, environmental humanities, urban and multispecies anthropology, as well as freshwater and soil ecology.
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Duelling Epistemologies
- How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
- Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
- With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Margherita Pevere, Marcus Maeder
ALB is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. The new project is an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories at all three universities of Berlin, the University of the Arts Berlin, and the Charité. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, and critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.
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IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Open Work Meetings
The colloquium is an integral part of the ongoing discursive programme at Art Laboratory Berlin and was conceived and initiated by Regine Rapp in early 2022. 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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