Event Workshop

Politics of AI

  1. Artistic Research
  2. With Helena Nikonole
Exhibition

FERMENTING TEXTILES

  1. Weaving together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
  2. Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. With Terike Haapoja
Event Seminar, Workshop

OUT OF BALANCE

  1. Bio-Art Workshop
  2. With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz

The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication, and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science, and technology.

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We are happy to mention a few upcoming projects for 2025:
Helena Nikonole is currently our winter artist-in-residency from January to March 2025. Information on open studio and other event
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In spring 2025, together with the cluster of excellence Matters of Activity we will be presenting a research exhibition “Fermenting Textiles” a project in collaboration with anthropologist Laurence Douny, microbiologist Regine Hengge, and artist and designers Pauline Agustoni and Satomi Minoshima amongst others. Save the date for the opening on Fri, 16 May 2025 of this research project that is kindly supported by Humboldt Universität Berlin. More information coming soon.

In the context of the “WasserWissen” research project by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Art Laboratory Berlin is invited to curate a WATER parcours during the weekend of 20-22 June 2025 with members of the art science collective DIY Hack the Panke. More information coming soon.

From April 2025 Art Laboratory Berlin will start a 20-month project “CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology” featuring four artist in laboratory residencies leading to artistic production and an exhibition in autumn 2026. This long term project is kindly supported by Lotto Stiftung Berlin, more information coming soon.

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Current

Event Workshop

Politics of AI

  1. Artistic Research
  2. With Helena Nikonole
29 March 2025

The workshop explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as text-to-image AI systems, reproduce biases and embed political ideologies. Participants will experiment with AI-generated responses to politically charged prompts, analyze biases in text-based AI outputs, and examine how these biases extend into AI-generated imagery.

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close up of a sculpture, circles with metal mesh, yellowish cat to the photograph Trees photographed from below with a green-yellow cast to the photograph
Event Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. With Terike Haapoja
18 February 2025 (online + on-site)

The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science, and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.

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Event Seminar, Workshop

OUT OF BALANCE

  1. Bio-Art Workshop
  2. With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
24 November – 4 December 2024

Invited by Goethe-Institut Saudi-Arabien and Alliance française d’Arabie saoudite/ Embassade francaise ALB curated Riyadh’s first BioArt Laboratory in cooperation with Gharem studio: Three hands-on workshops tought techniques of artistic work with biological organisms and five theoretical seminars units discussed intensely the history, methodologies, and biopolitics of BioArt.

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Exhibition

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
Publication | Anthology
  1. Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care
  2. Book Publication | Art Laboratory Berlin
March 2024
This publication presents a sustainable insight into the research project MATTER OF FLUX at Art Laboratory Berlin. It is a part of a group exhibition on art, body biopolitics, and feminist technoscience, as well as a network and a festival from and for international Berlin-based FLINTA* in art, science, and technology. The book assembles essays and statements along with documentation in text and images by around 50 authors from art, design, filmmaking, curatorial practice, dramaturgy, music, art history, media theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, feminist history of science, microbiology, plant ecology, biotechnology, neuroscience, and physical science. Read more
Research

SONIC ECOLOGIES

  1. Podcast Series
May 2023 – December 2024

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to have produced the Podcast Channel SONIC ECOLOGIES in 2023 and 2024. The podcast series was conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each curatorial team member – Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel – interviewed artists and scientists.

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Research

Conferences | Symposia

  1. Interdisciplinary Research at Art Laboratory Berlin
2011 – ongoing

For more than ten years Art Laboratory Berlin has enhanced research based projects with international conferences and interdisciplinary symposia, as a sustainable theoretical addition next to exhibition projects, seminars and workshops.

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