Exhibitions

pOwer vectOrs

Ideology embeddings of LLMs
Helena Nikonole

17 January - 1 March 2026

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to the solo exhibition of Helena Nikonole with new works based on her current artistic research on LLMs. The presentation is closely connected to Helena’s ongoing research fellowship in the programme Weltoffenes Berlin, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in the extraction, production, and circulation of knowledge, it becomes necessary to remember that language is not merely a medium of communication, but an instrument through which power is exercised. This exhibition emerges from an artistic research practice approaching LLMs as opaque techno-social systems that encode political ideologies, epistemologies, and implicit visions of society and ethics. Language appears here as fragmented, tokenized, and reformatted – optimized for efficiency, engagement maximization, moderation, and profit. Join us at the opening on 16 January as well as an art science conversation with the artist and the scientist Levin Brinkmann from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development on 18 January. Read more

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Planting Futures, Sharing the Harvest

An Exhibition by the Weltacker Youth Council at Art Laboratory Berlin

5 - 9 November 2025

Food is political. What we eat and grow, who works for it, and who profits from it—all of this shows how closely our food is intertwined with issues of justice, climate, and community. With Planting Futures, Sharing the Harvest, we, the Weltacker Youth Council, present new perspectives on food justice – and how joint action can create new forms of sharing. The project will show artistic works on sustainable food and global food systems. From cyanotypes and prints to an interactive tablecloth and communal cooking, everything revolves around the questions: How can we achieve a socially just, inclusive, and sustainable food transition? What would a world look like in which food and seeds are distributed fairly and it is community that counts, not ownership? How will we feed ourselves in the future – and what are your demands for a different, more environmentally friendly food system? Read more

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CAPSIZE CHRONICLES

Art, Science, and the Oceanic World
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

Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
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

Archive

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Art and Text III

Prinzenallee A Play without Dialog
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

Ekphrasis
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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Art and Text I

Farkhondeh Shahroudi

1 September - 23 September 2007

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of book art, drawings and a digital work by Farkhondeh Shahroudi as part of the series Art and Text. Her work indeed functions like a series of hyperlinks between art and text, between tradition and technology.

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Art and Music III

Two Songs
Viktor Alimpiev

30 June - 22 July 2007

Viktor Alimpiev combines different artistic fields in his cinematic work: visual arts, music, theater and dance. In his films he has worked with the human body and more recently with song and speech.

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Art and Music II

3-ROOM-CONFERENCE. A Live Performance with an Exhibition
Tiefenrauschorchester

25 May - 17 June 2007

The performance project 3-Room-Conference is an artistic communication in three different spaces. The artists communicate with one another by means of different media in their own specific forms…

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Art and Music I

Video Works
The artist group PG

31 March - 20 May 2007

The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”.