Exhibitions

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VICIOUS CYCLE

  1. Artistic Research on Climate Crisis
  2. Cammack Lindsey | Gülşah Mursaloğlu | Sybille Neumeyer
3 March - 30 April 2023
In March 2022 scientific research revealed that microplastic pollution is now present in the human body. It moves around in the blood, lands in organs and passes to infants via breast milk. The exhibition title Vicious Cycle is based on this closed cycle of human disturbance of the environment and its return to the human and nonhuman body. In the exhibition the artists’ investigative and research-oriented works explore the problem of microplastics in soil, the impact of climate change and the effects of excessive agricultural activity on the water, soil, animals and wildlife. Cammack Lindsey’s Wem gehört die Welt? is a site-specific sound installation based on the artist’s ongoing research on Müggelsee Berlin that features Microcystis aeruginosa and Müggelsee water samples in amorph containers in a network inspired by colony formations of most commonly toxin producing cyanobacterium Microcystis. Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s work Devouring the Earth, in Perishable Quantities aims to underscore the entanglement within the acts of eating/ consuming/ devouring that is often promoted as choice-based as well as the points and practices of continuity between human and other agencies. souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata/ weathering data is a single-channel speculative video essay and installation by Sybille Neumeyer, that explores the entanglements of humans, weather and insects in a data-driven world in times of climate crisis. Read more
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MATTER OF FLUX

  1. Artistic Research
  2. WhiteFeather Hunter | Lyndsey Walsh | Shu Lea Cheang with Ewen Chardronnet
26 May - 9 July 2023
The exhibited artworks critically reflect about nature, matter and health of female and nonbinary bodies through artistic and scientific research – exploring the use of menstrual serum for tissue culture, proposing new modes of care within the context of female and nonbinary health and discussing both traditional forms and new possibilities of reproduction. In context of the group exhibition, Art Laboratory Berlin will also realise a festival of the same title in June 2023 that seeks to initiate a wider network of and for female and nonbinary artists, scholars and cultural players in art, science and technology. Read more
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Radyo Somatodelia

  1. Experiments in Sonic Animism
  2. Tad Ermitaño
26 August - 9 October 2022
The word “psychedelic,” coined by the psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond, comes from the words “psyche” meaning “mind” and “delos” meaning “to manifest or reveal”. “Somatodelia”, the term suggested by Tad Ermitaño, complements the psychedelic as the project of recalling the physical roots of consciousness and perception. Somatodelia grounds itself as the metaphysics distinct from the ghost of dualism conjured by Plato and Descartes. It, instead, reveals the physical roots of our mental being. Radyo (Tagalog of “radio”) Somatodelia: Experiments in Sonic Animism brings the act of looking and listening into contact with the outward surfaces and the interior voluminosity of things. Science has led humans through chaos with limited perceptibility, visited by flashes of observations and hunches. The patchy first-person viewpoint has been recasted as omniscient, with all the twists beneath the moment of Discovery surgically removed from the story. The data and facts are thus enveloped in the pristine wholeness, available for the contemplation of an all-seeing Intelligence that is the exclusive property of humans. Read more
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HACKERS, MAKERS, THINKERS

  1. Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting
  2. Irene Agrivina | Interspecifics | Pei-Ying Lin | Cammack Lindsey | Constanza Piña Pardo | Rice Brewing Sisters Club
21 May - 10 July 2022
Following two years of social distancing and isolation Art Laboratory Berlin will devote 2022 exploring what social possibilities can be thawed and revived. The project series Hackers, Makers, Thinkers proposes that Doing it With Others (DIWO) can be a way of rebuilding and re-energizing damaged social relations. After a period when most of us have been reliant on corporate technologies, Open (source) knowledge will form a basis for making and thinking. Above all we are interested in an open culture based on reciprocity, cooperation and exchange on a global level. Combining Berlin based artists and venues with guest artists from Latin America and Southeast Asia this project proposes art making as a tool for social empowerment and knowledge acquisition, collaboration, and working together. Read more

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Time & Technology/ 4

  1. Embodiment of Time
  2. Yasuhiro Sakamoto & Iñigo Giner Miranda | Dave Hebb
1 September - 14 October 2012

As part of the current exhibition series Time & Technology Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to the exhibition Embodiment of Time with new works by Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda and by Dave Hebb.

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Time & Technology/ 3

  1. Fantastic Time Machines
  2. Shlomit Lehavi | Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski
24 March - 29 April 2012

As part of the series Time & Technology the exhibition Fantastic Time Machines with new works by Shlomit Lehavi and Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski. The two contributions deal with the phenomenon of time through synchronicity, simultaneity and succession.

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Time & Technology/ 2

  1. Navigating the Everyday
  2. plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers)
28 January - 11 March 2012

Navigating the Everyday presents works by plan b, the British artist duo Daniel Belasco Rogers and Sophia New. Since 2003 and 2007 respectively, Daniel and Sophia have been recording every journey they make every day using GPS devices. Additionally all areas of their digital communication are evaluated and processed artistically.

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Time & Technology/ 1

  1. Controlling_Connectivity
  2. Gretta Louw
26 November 2011 - 15 January 2012

The exhibition project Controlling_Connectivity by Gretta Louw reflects use of the latest forms of digital communication. Her 10-day online performance (2- 12 November 2011) laid the basis for an exhibition which includes screen capture footage, photographs and an installation.

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VISIONS NYC

  1. afterthoughts
  2. Bärbel Möllmann
10 September - 16 October 2011

In VISIONS NYC – afterthoughts artist and photographer Bärbel Möllmann has gathered a series of amazing portraits and interviews with New Yorkers from Summer 2001, recording their individual plans, goals and dreams, and a year later their reactions to 9/11.

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Artists in Dialog

  1. My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain
  2. Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi
29 April - 26 June 2011

The exhibition, the third in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog, is a discoursive dialog between the Iraqi Swiss artist Al Fadhil and the Palestinian-American artist Aissa Deebi, and explores the complex ties between the personal and the political in the theme of loss.

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Sol LeWitt: Artist’s Books

22 January - 13 March 2011

The American artist Sol LeWitt was an influential figure in minimalism and is considered one of the most important representatives as well as co-founder of American conceptual art. LeWitt’s intensive artist books production was extremely versatile: he used different designs and formats as well as varied techniques from color lithography to offset printing.

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Stardust Boogie Woogie

  1. Tania Antoshina | Mo Foster | Marcela Iriarte | Christian de Lutz | Jane Mulfinger | Bob & Roberta Smith | Jessica Voorsanger
30 October - 28 November 2010

The exhibition, curated by Francesca Piovano, brings together seven artists to explore the issues of celebrity cult and modern heroes through notions of stardom and related lifestyles, socialist personality cults from the last century and current day popular culture

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Artists in Dialog

  1. Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots
  2. Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic
28 August - 26 September 2010

Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic both work on the border between art and the environmental sciences. Toland considers the project ‘habitat hacking’ and Milicevic describes the project as ‘reconstructing cross-species life worlds’.

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Artists in Dialog

  1. 2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2
  2. Heidi Hove & Jens Axel Beck
28 May - 27 June 2010

The exhibition title 2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2 is the formula for calculating the dimensions of the paper sizes in the ISO A series. Within the A series you will find the standard paper size ISO A4, which are widely used in offices all over the world today.

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OFF FENCE

  1. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border
  2. Michelle Chong | Katya Gardea Browne | Ed Gomez | Luis G. Hernandez | Camilo Ontiveros.
24 April - 22 May 2010

The exhibition, co-curated with Michelle Chong, is an artistic platform with five positions, exploring the cultural overflow, overlap and tensions in the border region of Southern California and Northwest Mexico.

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Art and Law IV

  1. Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft
  2. Azin Feizabadi | Gilbert & George | Christian de Lutz | Triple Candie
28 November 2009 - 7 February 2010

The exhibition shows four positions offering unique views on appropriation, fair use (a term defining legal use of images outside of copyright restrictions) and ‘copyleft’…

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Art and Law III

  1. Seized
  2. Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) & Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA)
3 October - 15 November 2009

The exhibition SEIZED deals with the FBI raid on the home of CAE member and art professor Steve Kurtz in Spring 2004 and the four year law case that followed.

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Art and Law II

  1. Media Reality
  2. Ztohoven
30 May - 28 June 2009

The Prague based artist collective Ztohoven use their work, often interventions in public space, to scrutinise the creditability of mass media and advertising. In their action Media Reality, which took place in June 2007, they ‘hacked’ into the Czech weather channel ČT 2 and added the image of an atomic explosion to the live image of a mountain valley.

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Art and Law I

  1. Monstration
  2. CAT
20 February - 29 March 2009

The actions of the group CAT (Contemporary Art Terrorism) founded in Novosibirsk in 2003 could be understood as interventions in urban space. These actions were supposed to reclaim urban space as a platform for artistic and political expression

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