Exhibition

FERMENTING TEXTILES

  1. Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
  2. Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. With Robertina Šebjanič and Marco Barotti
Event Workshop

Politics of AI

  1. Artistic Research
  2. With Helena Nikonole
Event Talk, Visit

Hacking Networks

  1. Open Studio and Artist Talk
  2. Helena Nikonole | Winter Studio Residency

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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We are happy to mention a few upcoming projects for 2025:
Helena Nikonole is currently our winter artist-in-residency from January to March 2025. Information on open studio and other events HERE.

In spring 2025, together with the cluster of excellence Matters of Activity we will be presenting a research exhibition “FERMENTING TEXTILES. Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art“ a project in collaboration with anthropologist Laurence Douny, microbiologist Regine Hengge, and artist and designers Pauline Agustoni and Satomi Minoshima amongst others. Save the date for the opening on Fri, 16 May 2025 of this research project that is kindly supported by Humboldt Universität Berlin.

In the context of the “WasserWissen” research project by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Art Laboratory Berlin is invited to curate a WATER parcours during the weekend of 20 – 22 June 2025 with members of the art science collective DIY Hack the Panke and other scientists from Berlin universities. More information coming soon.

From April 2025 Art Laboratory Berlin will start a 20-month project “CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology” featuring four artist in laboratory residencies leading to artistic production and an exhibition in autumn 2026. This long term project is kindly supported by Lotto Stiftung Berlin, more information coming soon.

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Current

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 Robertina Šebjanič and Marco Barotti
8 April 2025, 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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Event Workshop

Politics of AI

  1. Artistic Research
  2. With Helena Nikonole
29 March 2025

WORKSHOP FULLY BOOKED /// The workshop explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as text-to-image AI systems, reproduce biases and embed political ideologies. Participants will experiment with AI-generated responses to politically charged prompts, analyze biases in text-based AI outputs, and examine how these biases extend into AI-generated imagery.

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Event Seminar, Workshop

OUT OF BALANCE

  1. Bio-Art Workshop
  2. With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
24 November – 4 December 2024

Invited by Goethe-Institut Saudi-Arabien and Alliance française d’Arabie saoudite/ Embassade francaise ALB curated Riyadh’s first BioArt Laboratory in cooperation with Gharem studio: Three hands-on workshops tought techniques of artistic work with biological organisms and five theoretical seminars units discussed intensely the history, methodologies, and biopolitics of BioArt.

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Exhibition

FERMENTING TEXTILES

  1. Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
  2. Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
16 May – 6 July 2025
Fermenting Textiles is a unique trans-disciplinary research and exhibition project that puts active matter at the center: it connects anthropology, microbiology, and art through the engagement of artisans, anthropologists, scientists, and artists, as well as more-than-human actors. Fermenting Textiles explores the fermentation of textile in mud and plant material to produce complex dyeing for various use – from traditional hunter shirts in Burkina Faso to kimono silk dyeing in Japan. In each case the process is artisanal and has fascinating traditional uses and meanings. Both cases make use of natural chemical and biological processes to create unique aesthetic and medicinal results. Read more

Publications

Publication | Academic Paper

Duelling Epistemologies

  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

Research

DIY Hack the Panke

  1. Art + Science Research Group
2018 – ongoing

The art science group DIY Hack the Panke aims to explore the Panke river for living organisms and critically examine its complex history of human use. We offer public workshops on topics such as river flora, fauna and microbiology; bio matter as artistic research; microplastics and more.

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Research

Conferences | Symposia

  1. Interdisciplinary Research at Art Laboratory Berlin
2011 – ongoing

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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