Exhibitions

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CAPSIZE CHRONICLES

  1. Art, Science, and the Oceanic World
  2. Rachel Mayeri
27 September - 19 October 2025
Art Laboratory Berlin invites the audience to meet Los Angeles based artist Rachel Mayeri and her newest artwork R/P FLIP R.I.P., with its European premiere in this solo exhibition. Join us for the Berlin opening on Fri, 26 September at 8 pm (the artist is present). It is an experimental new video work about the R/P FLIP, which stands for Research Platform FLoating Instrument Platform (1962-2023), the world-famous nautical rarity that flips 90 degrees to become a live-in buoy for studying the ocean. The FLIP was designed for stability to study acoustics in a turbulent ocean, yet ironically the interior is fluid, built for living both in horizontal and vertical orientations. In the artwork, performers activate the FLIP’s architecture as a playground for disorientation: floors become walls, and doors become holes. Intercut with military and oceanographic films, the FLIP film becomes a platform for conceptual flips: landlubbers encountering the alien world of the ocean, and of oceanography’s shift from militarism to ecology. Commissioned for the Getty-sponsored Southern California landmark show PST Art: Art & Science Collide, created by artist Rachel Mayeri, R/P FLIP R.I P. is currently presented as a three-channel video installation at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, California. Read more
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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
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Queer Sonic Fingerprint

  1. Transdisciplinary Research
  2. Isabel Bredenbröker and Adam Pultz
20 October - 1 December 2024
How do bodies sound? And how can a group of cultural belongings in an ethnological museum collection resonate in unexpected queer kin relations? In their interactive multichannel sound installation Queer Sonic Fingerprint, sound artist Adam Pultz and anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker speculatively imagines non-normative relations around cultural belongings in ethnological museums and beyond. The installation amplifies the collection‘s materiality through sonic fingerprints—that is—the reflections of a body’s unique acoustic characteristics. In a transdisciplinary encounter with sound processing and evolutionary computing, dynamically changing fingerprints bring selected parts of museum collections to life in a multichannel sonic ecology. Read more
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Colour Topographies

  1. Artistic Research
  2. Käthe Wenzel
31 August - 6 October 2024
Site-specific colours combine colour and location, as a type of topographical perception through local colour. What colour producing plants and minerals can be found in this place, and how can they be perceived and understood through colour? Plant knowledge is knowledge of place. This project explores topics of plant blindness, urban ecology, mapping, bio-invasiveness and migration as well as Zero Waste, Queer Ecologies and Interspecies Cooperation. Read more

Archive

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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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Curators from Eastern and Central Europe III

  1. Mari Laanemets. Hier wäre das Leben leicht
  2. Kadi Estland | Anton Koovit | Tere Recarens | Sirje Runge | Florian Wüst | Killu Sukmit | Mari Laanemets
29 November 2008 - 4 January 2009

The exhibition deals with questions of design, the arrangement of environments, the formal character of surfaces, things from which lifestyles are constructed: from textiles to texts, from facades to fonts, from interiors to streets and cities.

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Curators from East and Central Europe II

  1. Elena Sorokina. Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded
  2. Yevgeny Fiks | Kent Hansen und Jo Zahn (for TV-TV) | Ana Hušman | Gulnara Kasmalieva und Muratbek Djumaliev | Franck Lebovici, Giulia di Leonarda, Armin Linke | REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT | Alexander Vaindorf | Katarina Zdjelar
24 October - 16 November 2008

In everyday language, an event is a notion that embraces two different meanings – a happening violating limits or, in the opposite, invigorating them.

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Art and Science III

  1. Failed Organisms
  2. Reiner Maria Matysik
28 August - 28 September 2008

The Berlin artist Reiner Maria Matysik works in manifold ways with concepts for future organisms. In the course of the last years he has created his own new system of post-evolutionary life forms at the borderline between art and biology.

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Art and Science II

  1. Transposed nodes
  2. Marcus Ahlers
31 May - 29 June 2008

The artworks of Marcus Ahlers functions on the borderline of visual arts and science. They explore visual metaphors for the human body in its surroundings, making reference to social and architectural space

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Art and Science I

  1. Senses Alert
  2. Dmitry Bulatov
29 March - 4 May 2008

Contemporary Art already long ago turned away from a solely anthropocentric point of view. Currently in Science Art, it is concerned, among other things, with ecological phenomena and is investigating the existence of newly emerging life forms; Art and Science have been combined.

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East and Central European Curators I

  1. Denisa Kera and Pavel Sedlak. Cosmopolitics
  2. Josef Bareš | Internet Generation | Jakub Nepraš | Jan Pfeiffer| Pavel Sterec | Pavel Tichon
26 January - 2 March 2008

The exhibition presents projects from recent years that demonstrate this playful and experimental strategy which is neither purely political nor technological.

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Art and Text III

  1. Prinzenallee A Play without Dialog
  2. Birgit Szepanski
24 November 2007 - 6 January 2008

In her installations the Berlin artist Birgit Szepanski composes an aesthetic form of urban space using word and image, in which the walls, floor, windows and doors of the exhibition space become part of the art work. Taking regular walks through urban localities…

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Art and Text II

  1. Ekphrasis
  2. Christian de Lutz
28 September - 28 October 2007

The works of the Source Code series are based on a digital collage of text and image. The appropriated texts have been HTML or Java script, or in recent works excerpts from the source code of computer viruses. The commands and syntax of these computer languages…

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