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.
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Between April 2025 and December 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative 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 innovations. More information HERE.
Join us for our next CHRYSALIS Dialogue on 21 May 2026, 7:30 pm CET – on-site and online (!). In the talk artist and researcher Dr. Margherita Pevere and environmental anthropologist Dr Germán Joosten will present their exchange across art and science, share the results and observations on their recent workshop “Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies” (10 May 2026), and bring the audience into the shallow but powerful depths of Berlin small water bodies. More information HERE.
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Current
Signs of the Times
- Artistic Research
- Karolina Żyniewicz
In “Signs of the Times”, artist and researcher Karolina Żyniewicz has gathered masks and memories from the COVID-19 pandemic, blending human stories with microbial traces. Developed through residencies in Berlin and Zagreb, the project explores remembrance, forgetting, and the interplay of human and nonhuman matter through performative, technological, and biological processes.
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CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Artist Scientist DIALOGUE
- With Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
“Their world-building power lies in holding”: ponds and their ecology is marked by apparent stillness. In the talk artist and researcher Dr. Margherita Pevere and environmental anthropologist Dr Germán Joosten will present their exchange across art and science, share the results and observations on their recent workshop “Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies” (10 May 2026), and bring the audience into the shallow but powerful depths of Berlin small water bodies.
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IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Aisen Caro Chacin and Zahra Mokhtari
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss projects from the fields of art, science, and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress. Artist and researcher Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin will discuss a performance artwork exploring human dependency on critical care machines and our co-evolution with AI. Physicist Dr Zahra Mokhtari will discuss how groups (ants, cells, or social media users) can form coherent movements or sudden opinion shifts without a central leader.
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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, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
ALB is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for four 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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