DIY Hack the Panke

Learning from the River

Documentary Exhibition with Artists and Scientists around the Collective

Fara Peluso, micsroscopic image (Diatom), DIY Hack the Panke/ Workshop Microbiodiversity, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2019/ 22

DIY Hack the Panke/ Walk & Talk, Art Laboratory Berlin, October 2021

DIY Hack the Panke/ Pankquelle, Sarah Hermanutz, Nenad Popov, Art Laboratory Berlin 2019

DIY Hack the Panke/ Microbiodiversity, Workshop, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2019

DIY Hack the Panke. Wasserpank, with Kat Austen and Nenad Popov, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2019

Science by Doing/ DIY Hack the Panke, 2019

DIY Hack the Panke/ Walk & Talk, Art Laboratory Berlin, October 2021

DIY Hack the Panke/ Microplastics, Workshop, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2018

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a documentary exhibition on the previous and ongoing research of DIY Hack the Panke. The exhibition includes documentation of the collective’s actions, as well as ongoing findings and publications of some of the members.

Founded in January 2018 the group DIY Hack the Panke consists of artists, scientists, art theoreticians, and curators applying artistic and scientific research in, at and around the river Panke together with a wider public. The group critically explores the river, which flows near by the event space of Art Laboratory Berlin in Berlin Wedding, for living organisms and its complex history of human use. For more than three years the members have offered public workshops on topics such as river flora, fauna and microbiology, plastic waste and pollutants.

We also focus on bio matter as part of artistic research, the impact of history, culture and technology on the present-day Panke. With formats such as walk & talks, art performances as well as public labs DIY Hack the Panke has also found meaningful ways to rediscover the urban environment, as well as publicly share interdisciplinary research.

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the River , This wide assortment of goods and discarded objects were found in the Panke river during the workshop “(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics” in 2018.

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the River , This wide assortment of goods and discarded objects were found in the Panke river during the workshop “(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics” in 2018.

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the River, This wide assortment of goods and discarded objects were found in the Panke river during the workshop “(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics” in 2018.

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , India Mansour/ Sybille Neumeyer: µBiospheres – Looking for Signals of Life, 2019/22, water organism samples from the Panke, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , Vinogradsky Columns. These two Vinogradsky Columns consist of Panke water and mud and show a multitude of micro-organisms, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , Fara Peluso: Diatoms, 2019, microscopic images, photographs. The photographs show different species of dia-toms living in the Panke river’s ecosystem. We can see cells around the size of 50μm of Melosira filamentous, Navicula, Pinnularia, Pennate nitzschia and Cyclotella species.

DIY Hack the Panke, Learning from the River , exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the River, This wide assortment of goods and discarded objects were found in the Panke river during the workshop “(Un)Real Ecologies. Microplastics” in 2018.

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the River, Sybille Neumeyer, India Mansour, Tuçe Erel, during the opening of the exhibition DIY Hack the Panke, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

DIY Hack the Panke. Learning from the river, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2022

The exhibition also shows current ongoing artistic experiments with living matter and materiality. Related to selected previous events the exhibition presents various art science installations by artist designer Fara Peluso, artist Sarah Hermanutz and biologist India Mansour with artist Sybille Neumeyer. Additionally there will be a wide collection of texts and recent publications by the members on view for the public.

The exhibition invites to reflect what Hybrid Art and shared knowledge through transdisciplinary research mean in times of ecological mega crisis in a posthuman era.

Sneak Peek Video

“Learning from the River” | Sneak Peek version, 8:53″, 2022
You can watch a 40 min. video documentation in the exhibition!