Upcoming exhibitions

Mona Hatoum
September 15–November 13, 2022
Curator: Marius Babias
Project Manager: Krisztina Hunya
Curatorial Assistant: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein

With the exhibition Mona Hatoum, three Berlin institutions present the multifaceted work of Mona Hatoum (b. 1952 in Beirut, lives in London) in the first large-scale survey of her work in Berlin. The three-part exhibition opens in September at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (September 15–November 13, 2022), Georg Kolbe Museum (September 15, 2022–January 8, 2023) and KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art (September 18, 2022–May 14, 2023).

Mona Hatoum is considered one of the most important and influential artists of her generation. Her performances, videos, photographs, sculptures, installations and works on paper deal with issues of displacement, marginalisation, exclusion and state control—themes she examines against the backdrop of both her own biography and current societal developments. The exhibition project, including an accompanying programme and publication, brings together key works by Hatoum from the performance and video work of the 1980s to varied productions from the last two decades as well as new, site-specific sculptures and installations.

A cooperation between Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, and Georg Kolbe Museum.
Curators: Marius Babias, Kathrin Becker, Julia Wallner

Discourse program

Saturday, October 29, 2022
Symposium
With Marius Babias (Director Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Sam Bardaouil (Director Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin), Kathrin Becker (Artistic Director KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art), Tamar Garb (Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art, University College London), Natasha Ginwala (Associate Curator Gropius Bau, Berlin), Mona Hatoum (Artist, London), Polly Staple (Curator and Director of Collection, British Art, Tate, London) a. o.

In English
Venue: KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art, Maschinenhaus M0
Free admission

n.b.k. Showroom
Aristide Antonas: The Pulp of Things
September 15, 2022–November 11, 2022
Curators: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein, Krisztina Hunya

Aristide Antonas designs imaginary places in urban space that address social and environmental challenges of our time through community-oriented approaches. Combining texts, photographs, videos, and digital simulations, and with the help of archaeological processes and legal references, his works often take the form of collage-like architectural models. They are thought experiments at the juncture of theory and practice that use concrete urban situations as a starting point to examine the consequences of neoliberal market mechanisms for private and public spaces.

In his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Antonas continues his critique of the growing privatization of urban infrastructures. The starting point for his reflections is the increasingly dense network of online retailers, delivery services, and co-working facilities, which promotes the illusion of the private home as an “autonomous cell.” This sense of isolated domesticity dominates the new architectures of densification that are gradually replacing department stores, nightlife districts, and office buildings characteristic of capitalist city centers. 

n.b.k. Facade
Haris Epaminonda: VOL. XXVIII
September 15, 2022–August 31, 2023
Curator: Lidiya Anastasova

In her diverse body of work, which includes collages, installation, films, and photography, Haris Epaminonda explores the idiosyncratic inherent life of images, their power, and logic. Re-contextualized recurring motifs in Epaminonda’s oeuvre reflect her preoccupation with archetypal forms, colors, light, composition, figuration, and abstraction. Her fascination with found imagery is evident in her distinctive visual compositions, which link times and places and create new narratives.

For this year’s edition of the n.b.k. Facade project, artist Haris Epaminonda has conceived an architectural intervention that uses playful visual and conceptual shifts to subtly question entrenched social structures while suggesting possibilities for change. Extending this work is an installation at the window on the 1st floor of n.b.k., which makes further references and connections between the interior and exterior architecture.

The exhibition is supported by the Embassy and the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.

n.b.k. Billboard
Gülsün Karamustafa: Irreversible Remnants
September 15, 2022–February 26, 2023
Curator: Lidiya Anastasova

In her work, which spans different mediums and genres to include painting, film, installation, and performance, Gülsün Karamustafa explores themes of migration, exclusion, state violence, religion, urbanization, feminism, and gender. 

Starting point for Karamustafa’s new work Irreversible Remnants – especially conceived for the n.b.k. Billboard-Series –, is her fascination for the first film salons in Berlin, founded in 1913, only one year before the First World War. In addition to the billboard, a projection of the film The Suffragette (1913), starring the famous actress Asta Nielsen, will be shown at n.b.k. on the 1st floor. While the controversial film was shown in its full length in movie theaters in Berlin, it was so heavily censored in Bavaria that director Urban Gad refused to have it shown there.

The exhibition is supported by the Wall family.

Uferhallen Kunstaktien: Documentation of a Public Company
September 14–25, 2022
Exhibition venue: Uferhallen, Uferstraße 8, 13357 Berlin
Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday 2–8pm / Saturday–Sunday 12–6pm*
*On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, the exhibition will be open from Wednesday, September 14, to Sunday, September 18, 2022, from 12–10pm.
Curator: Anna Lena Seiser
Curatorial Assistant, Research: Cilia Jonda, Hansjörg Schneider

Uferhallen Kunstaktien (art shares) were over 3,000 original artworks that secured a stake in the Uferhallen, a 38,000-square-meter site formerly owned by the Berlin public transport company (BVG). Launched in 2011, the project aimed to establish a wide stakeholder base, securing the long-term existence of Uferhallen as a cultural venue. Ultimately, this unique project was unable to prevent a buyout by a major real estate investment group in 2021.

With its exhibition on the history of the Kunstaktien, n.b.k. traces the development of Uferhallen and a paradigmatic story of gentrification. Kunstaktien by all participating artists will be shown. At the same time, the exhibition On Equal Terms by Uferhallen e.V. is on view at Uferhallen, providing insight into the production processes of its resident artists. At the invitation of n.b.k. and in collaboration with On Equal Terms and the Berlin Art Week, site-specific works by Rosa Barba, Maria Eichhorn, Herta Müller, and Karin Sander will also be on display at the Uferhallen entrance gates.

A cooperation between Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Uferhallen e. V., and On Equal Terms.

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. gGmbH is funded by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Partner of Berlin Art Week 2022.