Exhibition

TERRA XENOBIOTICA

  1. Artistic Research
  2. Saša Spačal
Event Lecture, Talk

Permeable Bodies

  1. Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering
  2. Online-Talk | With Mary Maggic
Event Workshop

Permeable Bodies

  1. Sticking with the Trouble
  2. Workshop | With Mary Maggic (on-site!)
Event Workshop

PERMEABLE BODIES

  1. We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
  2. Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi
Event Series of Events

PERMEABLE BODIES

  1. Program Overview
  2. A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science and Humanities
  2. With Ekaterina Kormilitsyna and Tarsh Bates

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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+++++++ Thank you everyone for joining us on-site and on-line in 2023. Enjoy our 4 min video ART LABORATORY BERLIN. A YEAR REVIEW OF 2023. It presents our 2023 program on art discussing current topics of ecologies, body politics, and artificial intelligence. The video is a deep travel through this year’s events of exhibitions, workshops, festival, reading groups, colloquium sessions, and pod-casts. In 2024 we will publish our projects in various printed formats – stay tuned! +++++++


+++++++ All our gratitude goes to the fantastic international ALB team colleagues; thanks to all artists, researchers and collaborators involved; thank you to the wonderful cooperation partners near and far, and of course unlimited gratitude to our supporting funding partners – foremost the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Last but not least: endless thanks to our fantastic public, visitors, recipients, audience on-site and on-line throughout our intense long year 2023. +++++++ ALB would like to share with you an in-depth portrait on ALB in Berlin’s daily newspaper Tagesspiegel, at the RESEARCH section (print/ online). Great recognition about the work of ALB as an international art and research platform! The online text (in German) can be read here. +++++++

Current

Three soil chromatograms seen from above under red light, dark purple background. outlines of the runways on Tempelhofer Feld of an airport seen from above on a black background
Exhibition

TERRA XENOBIOTICA

  1. Artistic Research
  2. Saša Spačal
10 November – 4 February 2024

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to announce the solo show of bio media artist Saša Spačal with her newly produced artwork “Terra Xenobiotica”. It was realised through a collaborative effort with cultural theorist Ali Sperling and was supported and produced by Art Laboratory Berlin. Additional support comes from the Rillig Lab | Plant Ecologies at the Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and SKICA Berlin.

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Illustration in bright colors, a red lobster, a yellow pillow, a white tampon applicator a white vial all on a light blue background a drawing in bright colors of four small red lobsters and a Petri dish with a few smears of blood
Event Workshop

PERMEABLE BODIES

  1. We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
  2. Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi
2 – 3 December 2023

The collective 2-day experiment aims to decolonize and queer our perceptions of menstruation. Participants will be invited to share their experiences and examine the representations of menstruation and its rituals. The group will also explore how to access and make use of scientific and technological knowledge, and understand bias.

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close up of a sculpture, circles with metal mesh, yellowish cat to the photograph Trees photographed from below with a green-yellow cast to the photograph
Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science and Humanities
  2. With Ekaterina Kormilitsyna and Tarsh Bates
12 December 2023 (online)

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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Event Series of Events

PERMEABLE BODIES

  1. Program Overview
  2. A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
May – Dezember 2023
red- violet photograph of a person standing in water blue- violet photograph of a person standing in water
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our new series Permeable Bodies with artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around us. With reading groups, talks, workshops and podcasts we propose a net of narratives of permeability to encompass a poetic (post)natural history of being woman throughout 2023. The events discuss different notions of permeability approached through artistic, medical, sociopolitical and phenomenological perspectives. Read more
Event Festival, Festival

MATTER OF FLUX

  1. Festival
  2. Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
15 – 18 June 2023
The 4-day festival MATTER OF FLUX presented a rich and varied program from and for women/ FLINTA* in art, science and technology with panel discussions, lecture performances, numerous workshops, reading groups and other activities, including artist studio and lab visits. The festival was generously supported by Kunstfonds’ program Neustart Kultur and is in cooperation with FEMeeting. The multifaceted formats and events of the festival program were based on the rich outcome of several preparatory meetings earlier in 2023 with more than 40 international Berlin-based women/ FLINTA* – artists, scholars from sciences and humanities and cultural producers from both the Global North and the Global South. Please have a look at the program and many pictures of the festival. Read more

Publications

Publication | Article

Co-Existences

  1. On Human and Nonhuman Agents
  2. Article | Regine Rapp
April 2022
In her article, Regine Rapp explores selected artistic positions and current artistic research projects related to an interest in human-nonhuman concepts: “As different as their artistic strategies, formats and aesthetic criteria are, the artistic positions are united by an interest in concepts of the agency and sentience of nonhuman beings. This goes hand in hand with ideas of human-nonhuman forms of communication and a critical revision of definitions of intelligence, expanded by concepts of post-humanism and the material turn.” Read more

Research

Research

SONIC ECOLOGIES

  1. Podcast Series
May 2023 – ongoing

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to launch the new podcast channel SONIC ECOLOGIES, conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each year the podcast will have a special theme, and the subject matter of 2023 will complement the series Permeable Bodies. Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz and Tuçe Erel interview artists and scientists.

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Research

Zine Ecologies

  1. Collective Structures in Independent Publishing
  2. Kristina Stallvik
March 2023 – February 2024

Since March 2023, Art Laboratory Berlin has hosted Alexander von Humboldt Chancellor’s Fellow, Kristina Stallvik. With a background in critical and queer ecology, Stallvik draws upon non-normative understandings of kinship, interdependence, and mutualism to understand the importance of community formations created through the making and publishing of books.

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