Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. With Karolina Żyniewicz and Regine Hengge
Exhibition

Signs of the Times

  1. Artistic Research
  2. Karolina Żyniewicz
Event Workshop

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies
  2. Workshop with Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Event Panel Discussion

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Panel Discussion | With Helena Nikonole, Álvaro Rodríguez, Julius Holtz, Ludmila Litvin, Margherita Pevere, Germán Joosten, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Research

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
  2. With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere

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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Welcome everyone to our next COLLOQUIUM session on Tue, 17 March 2026, at 8 pm CET with artist Dr Karolina Żyniewicz, talking about her Self Defense Project and microbiologist Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge, talking about her project Human-curated Plant-microbe Interactions in Science and Art. The session will be held online only (ZOOM). More information HERE!

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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 four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, and Margherita Pevere. The four 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.

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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 Karolina Żyniewicz and Regine Hengge
Tue, 17 March 2026 (online only)

The Colloquium (this time ONLINE only) 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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Exhibition

Signs of the Times

  1. Artistic Research
  2. Karolina Żyniewicz
25 April – 7 June 2026

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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a lake or pond surrounded by trees flasks and graduated cylinder son a table people sitting in the background
Event Workshop

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies
  2. Workshop with Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Sun, 10 May 2026, 11:00 – 18:00

Artist Margherita Pevere and anthropologist Germán Joosten invite participants to engage with the life cycles of Berlin’s ponds and small lakes. Focusing on Daphnia, a keystone grazer that shifts between clonal and sexual reproduction, the workshop explores how this organism reflects urban water health and futures. Through hands-on sessions and speculative storytelling, participants adopt a more-than-human, pond-centered perspective on Berlin’s aquatic ecosystems.

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Publication | Academic Paper
  1. How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
  2. Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
Published in October 2024
In their paper the authors reflect about the manifold and meaningful contributions of bio art in current scientific research: Bio Art challenges a number of western pre-conceptions about what art is and what art is supposed to do. By its nature ephemeral, and in a constant state of flux, the use of living materials runs contrary to centuries of art preservation and the ideal of art as eternal. But an art that goes hand in hand with science now ends two centuries in which the arts and science were seen as separate (and increasingly distant) disciplines. Moreover, Bio Art does not aim to ‘illustrate’ science (something which often confuses novice scientific collaborators) but to place the life sciences, and the organisms, cells and complex molecules studied, in a new focus. Read more
Research

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
  2. With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
April 2025 – December 2026

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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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
Research

IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. Interdisciplinary Open Work Meetings
Feb 2022 – ongoing

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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