BODIES OF WATER
- Learning from the River Panke through Art, Science, and Storytelling
- Workshops, Walks, Talks, Reading Sessions, Panel Discussions, Performances
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Robertina Šebjanič and Marco Barotti
Politics of AI
- Artistic Research
- With Helena Nikonole
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Terike Haapoja
Hacking Networks
- Open Studio and Artist Talk
- Helena Nikonole | Winter Studio Residency
Guerilla Wearables | Politics of LLMs
- Winter Studio Residency 2025
- Helena Nikonole
Get-together with Printed Matter
- Books and printed matter for sale, some farewells and updates about the program of 2025 and 2026
OUT OF BALANCE
- Bio-Art Workshop
- With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
ZOOM IN!
- Current Collaborations Between Art, Biology, Music, and Anthropology
- Panel Discussion | With Isabel Bredenbröker, Adam Pultz, India Mansour, Sybille Neumeyer, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Inspired by…
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artists Isabel Bredenbröker and Adam Pultz
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Ionat Zurr
Archive


DIY Hack the Panke
- Walk & Talk
- With members of the art science collective
Members of the collective will meet for a walk along the Panke river, together with the public, to talk about their previous research on the river, its flora, fauna and ecologies. We will also give a preview of our upcoming DIY/ DIWO program for 2022.
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UNDER THE VIRAL SHADOW
- Networks in the Age of Technoscience and Infection
- International Conference (online with livestream)
The online conference (with livestream) explores various networks – biological, cybernetic, and social. It will include presentations by the artists, currently on show at ALB, and guest scholars from art and media theory, biophysics, and computer science, design and culture studies.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- NETworkshop
- Workshop | Sarah Grant & Danja Vasiliev
In this 3-day workshop participants learn low-level networking using only command-line tools and network hardware. In doing so they not only grasp how to create and manipulate computer networks, but how they can be used to manipulate us.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- Plant-to-Plant Protocols
- Workshop | Sarah Grant
The workshop is an unstable network of radios and IR sensor pairs attached to plants. It is a meditation on the aesthetics of data transmission and network disruptions caused by the natural movement of plants in response to light, wind, and other natural conditions.
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Under the Viral Shadow
- AI for Artists
- Workshop | Gene Kogan
AI for Artists Workshop | Gene Kogan Gene Kogan is an artist and a programmer who is interested in generative systems, computer science, and software for creativity and self-expression. He is a collaborator within numerous open-source software projects, and gives workshops and lectures on topics at the intersection of code and art. The workshop will…
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Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | Sofia Crespo
The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. As part of our online program the exhibiting artist Sofia Crespo will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.
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Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | Käthe Wenzel
The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. Exhibiting artist Käthe Wenzel will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.
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Swarms, Robots and Postnature
- Artist Talk | So Kanno
The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. As part of our online program the exhibiting artist So Kanno gives an insight in his artistic research and practice.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Hideo Iwasaki and Matthias Rillig
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities. In our Meeting #13 two scientists talk about art and science collaborations.
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Mind Blind Pathetic Sublime
- Online Performance Lecture
- Sarah Hermanutz
Five years since she presented the lecture-performance “Mind Blind: Therapeutic Interventions for Human/NonHuman Communications” for Transmediale | Vorspiel 2016, artist Sarah Hermanutz revisits the problems of social cognition in this time of isolation and multiple intersecting crises.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Fara Peluso and Sachiko Hirosue
Since spring 2020 Art Laboratory Berlin and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. In our 12th meeting we feature presentations by designer and bioartist Fara Peluso and Bioengineer Sachiko Hirosue
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Heather Barnett
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Heather Barnett on her art and science practice, recent collaborations in Japan, and new projects.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Walter Waldman
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Walter Waldman presenting his research on microplastics and ideas for cooperation across disciplines.
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Feminist SF
- Visions of M/otherhood & Reproduction
- Isabel de Sena
This event series as a live Talk Show format pays tribute to the powerful alternative images of mothering we’ve inherited through the pioneering work of feminist Sci-Fi writers, most notably regarding their defiance of conventions on (technological) reproduction.
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THE CAMILLE DIARIES Symposium
- Current Artistic Positions on M/otherhood, Life and Care
The symposium discusses current conditions of our world (environmental changes, gender aspects, biopolitics), an ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence. The conference brings the exhibiting artists together with researchers from the humanities and natural sciences.
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