event | Book Release Party
- Book Launch | With Jill Scott, Christa Sommerer, Alexandra Krawiec, Inês Montalvão, and Regine Rapp
Sat, 29 August 2026, 5 pm
Join us for the book launch of “TRANSDISCOURSE 3: Women in Art, Science and Body Politics” with transdisciplinary studies that explore the dynamic intersections of discovery, creativity, and inclusive futures from the arts and the sciences. There will be talks with Jill Scott, Christa Sommerer, Alexandra Krawiec, Inês Montalvão, with an introduction by Regine Rapp; there will be an after party with food and drinks.
event | Talk
- Artist Scientist Dialogue
- With Helena Nikonole and Alvaro Rodriguez
Thu, 2 July 2026, 7:30 pm (on-site + online)
Artist Helena Nikonole will introduce aspects of her artistic practice, including her projects Acoustic Agriculture and Speculative Species Evolution, and share some ideas behind her collaboration with Alvaro Rodriguez on microbial communities and sound. Dr Alvaro Rodriguez will introduce metagenomics, the technique he has been applying for studying microbial communities, and discuss its possible applications to understand the behaviour of the microbial communities exposed to sound stimuli.
event | Workshop
- Sonic Mind. Sound, Consciousness, and Technology
- Workshop with Julius Holtz
Sat, 27 June 2026, 11 am - 6 pm (booked out!)
In the workshop “Sonic Mind” sound artist Julius Holtz explores sound consciousness and technology through interdisciplinary research linking neuroscience and artistic practice. Participants can join embodied listening sessions and experiments with data sonification and human machine interaction. The workshop rethinks identity community attention and perception. It fosters awareness empathy and new relationships between humans and adaptive systems today.
event | Long Night of Science
- Collaborative Art Science Projects with the Rillig Lab | Ecology of Plants (FU Berlin)
Sat, 6 June 2026, 5 - 10 pm (Berlin Dahlem!)
Art Laboratory Berlin is present at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2026 (5–10 pm) with the Rillig Lab | Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 12/14. Our decade-long art-science collaboration has produced various artist residencies, the research group “DIY Hack the Panke”, festivals such as “Bodies of Water” (2025) as well as research projects like “CHRYSALIS. Artists in Labs”. Get a LNDW ticket and join us!
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Aisen Caro Chacin and Zahra Mokhtari
26 May 2026, 8 pm CET (online only)
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss projects from the fields of art, science, and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress. Artist and researcher Dr Aisen Caro Chacin will discuss a performance artwork exploring human dependency on critical care machines and our co-evolution with AI. Physicist Dr Zahra Mokhtari will discuss how groups (ants, cells, or social media users) can form coherent movements or sudden opinion shifts without a central leader.
event | Talk
- Artist Scientist Dialogue
- With Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Thu, 21 May 2026, 7:30 pm CET (on-site + online)
“Their world-building power lies in holding”: ponds and their ecology is marked by apparent stillness. In the talk artist and researcher Dr. Margherita Pevere and environmental anthropologist Dr Germán Joosten will present their exchange across art and science, share the results and observations on their recent workshop “Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies” (10 May 2026), and bring the audience into the shallow but powerful depths of Berlin small water bodies.
event | Meet up, Talk
- Research Exchange and Get-Together
- With Fara Peluso, Jemma Woolmore, and Matthias Rillig
Wed, 29 April 2026
Art Laboratory Berlin and the Rillig Lab host another Art Science Meet Up. The public session features interdisciplinary talks on soil, pollution, and global ecological change. A later brainstorming session invites artists and scientists to collaboratively design experiments, followed by group discussion and informal networking across art, science, and environmental research contexts today.
event | Workshop
- Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin's Small Water Bodies
- Workshop with Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Sun, 10 May 2026, 11:00 - 18:00
Artist Margherita Pevere and anthropologist Germán Joosten invite participants to engage with the life cycles of Berlin’s ponds and small lakes. Focusing on Daphnia, a keystone grazer that shifts between clonal and sexual reproduction, the workshop explores how this organism reflects urban water health and futures. Through hands-on sessions and speculative storytelling, participants adopt a more-than-human, pond-centered perspective on Berlin’s aquatic ecosystems.
event | Video documentation
- Video Documentation
A Year in Review 2025
A huge thank you to the ALB team, to all the artists, researchers, and contributors, to our open-minded and wonderful public, and to our cooperation partners and colleagues for sharing this year with us. Our ‘YEAR IN REVIEW 2025’ video offers a glimpse of the encounters, experiments, conversations, and collaborations that shaped our year. And heartfelt thanks to the participants of our 2025 programme and to the institutions that supported it!
event | Workshop
- Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models
- Workshop with Helena Nikonole
Fri, 12 December 2025
Focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as derivative systems like text-to-image generators, participants will investigate how AI reproduces political bias and ideological framing through language and visual representation. Through experiments with politically charged prompts, participants will analyze how these models interpret ideology, shape discourse, and amplify systemic bias.
event | Talk
- Artist Scientist Dialogue
- With Julius Holtz and Julia von Thienen
Fri, 28 November 2025, 7 pm
Julia von Thienen is a researcher, educator, and innovator at the intersection of digital engineering and collaborative creativity. Julia’s research in the field of Sonic Thinking and Neuro Design at the Hasso Plattner Institute inspired Julius Holtz’ current artistic investigations into the relationship of sound and Brain Computer Interfaces. In addition, Julius will discuss his artistic research into the interaction among participants, sound environments, the formation of (self-)consciousness, and the creation of spaces that invite active listening.
event | Panel Discussion
- Panel Discussion | With Helena Nikonole, Álvaro Rodríguez, Julius Holtz, Ludmila Litvin, Margherita Pevere, Germán Joosten, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
@ BSW Holzmarkt 25, 8 November 2025, 13-14:30
Join the presentation of our current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS at the Berlin Science Week 2025. We will give an insight into Berlin-based artists researching in Berlin science labs – with topics on neuroscience, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, and ecology! Building on Berlin’s unique status as a global centre for arts and sciences, we aim to create new synergies based on topics of current research.
event | Festival
- Learning from the River Panke through Art, Science, and Storytelling
- Workshops, Walks, Talks, Reading Sessions, Panel Discussions, Performances
21 - 22 June 2025
The festival explores themes around urban waterways, in context of the ongoing series ON WATER | PARCOURS by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). With the art science collective “DIY Hack the Panke” and scientists from the fields of eco hydrology and medicine, we will explore what forms an urban river takes and what lives in and around the Panke river. There will be events for participants of all ages.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- With Robertina Šebjanič and Marco Barotti
8 April 2025, online only
The Colloquium (this time ONLINE only) 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.
event | Meet up
- Books and printed matter for sale, some farewells and updates about the program of 2025 and 2026
15 December 2024, 4 - 9 pm
Join us for a Get-together with warm drinks and snacks with some books and printed matter for sale. Let’s come together before the seasonal break and meet on-site at Art Laboratory Berlin for some farewells and some new announcements for the coming years. In our current challenging times, we consider it very meaningful to meet in person, support one another, and express the value of art and culture production.
