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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+++++++ THE DATE: MATTER OF FLUX Festival (15 – 18 June 2023)
with panel discussions, workshops, reading groups and many other activities by and for women (FLINTA*) in arts, science and technology (PROGRAM coming soon). We have started the official registration process now – please look at the program and register here! +++++++
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MATTER OF FLUX
- Artistic Research
- WhiteFeather Hunter | Lyndsey Walsh | Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet
The exhibited artworks critically reflect about nature, matter and health of female and nonbinary bodies through artistic and scientific research – exploring the use of menstrual serum for tissue culture, proposing new modes of care within the context of female and nonbinary health and discussing both traditional forms and new possibilities of reproduction.
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MATTER OF FLUX
- Festival
- Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
The 4-day festival MATTER OF FLUX presents 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 has been generously supported by Kunstfonds’ program Neustart Kultur and is in cooperation with FEMeeting.
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PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group ULTRASOUND, with Julie Roberts
OPEN CALL for the online reading group ULTRASOUND as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 showing in the exhibition MATTER OF FLUX. Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making.
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- Program Overview
- A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
Mind the Fungi
- Book Publication | TU Berlin University Press

HACKERS, MAKERS, THINKERS
- Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting
- International Conference (hybrid | on-site and livestream)
The project discusses artistic ways of rebuilding and re-energizing damaged social relations after the pandemic. The international conference includes presentations by artists, currently on show at ALB, and guest speakers from the artistic and curatorial practice, design, biology and anthropology.
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Terra Xenobiotica or How to Belong
- Artistic Research
- Saša Spačal
During the months of October and November 2022 bio media artist Saša Spačal undertakes artistic research for her new project “Terra Xenobiotica or How to Belong” at the lab of the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin and at Art Laboratory Berlin. In her project Spačal explores artistically soil ecology.
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