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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+++++++ On Friday, 28 June 2024, the public was invited to visit the temporary bookshop and temporary editorial office between 5 and 9 pm. Art Laboratory Berlin hosted Publishing Matters, a small temporary bookshop with editions by Occulto, Art Laboratory Berlin, and a selection of publishers, artists, and cultural projects from Berlin and beyond. Margherita Pevere, Karolina Żyniewicz and Theresa Schubert, Sina Ribak, Chiara Garbellotto, Selen Solak and Para Journal are among the confirmed guests, and more will be announced. See here for more information. +++++++ Our new publication MATTER OF FLUX. Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care brings together essays and statements as well as text and image documentation by around 50 authors from the fields of art, design, film, curatorial work, dramaturgy, music, art history, media theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, feminist history of science, microbiology, plant ecology, biotechnology, neuroscience and physics. More information HERE. +++++++
+++++++ 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 events of exhibitions, workshops, festival, reading groups, colloquium sessions, and pod-casts of 2023. +++++++
Current
Colour Topographies
- Artistic Research
- Käthe Wenzel
Site-specific colours combine colour and location, as a type of topographical perception through local colour. What colour producing plants and minerals can be found in this place, and how can they be perceived and understood through colour? Plant knowledge is knowledge of place. The project explores topics of plant blindness, urban ecology, mapping, bio-invasiveness, and migration as well as Zero Waste, Queer Ecologies, and Interspecies Cooperation.
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Hidden Colours
- Inkmaking with Plants in Urban Space
- Käthe Wenzel
Workshop on urban ink and dye extraction from plants, soil and waste. 90% of modern paints are made from petrochemical products. Until the 20th century, the local and more environmentally friendly production of natural paints was commonplace as a technology both in the studio and in the home. Even today, inks and paints can be made from materials collected in urban areas
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Sending Occulto 8 to Print
- A Temporary Editorial Office as Performance, Organic Exhibition, and Non-systematic Archive
- Editorial Residency with Alice Cannavà
Occulto’s publisher Alice Cannavà will be in residence at Art Laboratory Berlin from 10 May until 7 July 2024 editing and designing the upcoming issue Occulto 8: Photographic, to be released in July. The temporary editorial studio at ALB offers the opportunity to open up and make visible the work behind the birth of a magazine, uncovering its performative potential and the richness of its byproducts and side-effects.
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- Festival
- Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
MATTER OF FLUX
- Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care
- Book Publication | Art Laboratory Berlin
SONIC ECOLOGIES
- Podcast Series
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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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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