Program 2023

KW Institute for Contemporary Art announces its program for 2023, including exhibitions by Martin Wong, Enrico David, Coco Fusco, Win McCarthy, Karen Lamassonne, Emily Wardill, Hervé Guibert, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed amongst others as well as projects by Alexis Blake, The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group, and the Metabolic Museum-University.

Pause: Alexis Blake
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve
January 27–29, 2023
With the performance Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve Alexis Blake brings together visual art, dance and performance with her multidisciplinary practice. More.

Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
February 25–May 14, 2023
KW presents the first extensive European exhibition tour of Martin Wong. The exhibition displays a selection of over 100 of Wong’s works between 1960s and his premature death in 1999. More.

Win McCarthy: Innenportrait
February 25–May 14, 2023
The first institutional solo exhibition by Win McCarthy explores the dialectical relationship between subjects like city and citizen, friend and stranger, or past and present. More.

Karen Lamassonne: Ruido / Noise
February 25–May 14, 2023
Ruido / Noise is the first solo exhibition by Karen Lamassonne in Europe. The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, collages as well as videos that Lamassonne created between 1974 and today. More.

Enrico David: Destroyed Men Come and Go
June 10–August 20, 2023
The exhibition by Enrico David will be devoted solely to his sculptural practice. The sculptures will be exhibited in a spatial arrangement without walls, touching upon the concept of nothingness, and setting the scene for a silent non-space. More.

KW Production Series: Emily Wardill
June 10–August 20, 2023
As part of KW Production Series, the artist Emily Wardill presents a new immersive installation. Splitting, sampling and proliferating sound and image, Wardill’s commission reflects upon the idea of expansion through ‘expanded cinema’. More.

Hervé Guibert: This & More
June 10–August 20, 2023
The exhibition features a selection of photographs by the late French artist, writer, and activist Hervé Guibert. The exhibition explores what lies beyond the grasp of photography. More.

Pause: Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group
August 25–27, 2023
The Chamber Dance Group was founded by dancer and artist Noa Eshkol in 1954 for performing her compositions. The Dance performances are made up of the basic material of all dance styles: the movement of the human body. More.

Coco Fusco: Tomorrow…I will become an Island
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024
This major retrospective of Coco Fusco seeks to trace the profound influence that the artists work has had on the contemporary art discourse in Germany and the world. More.

Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2022:
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is the 2022 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. Her work focuses on the materiality and legibility of text, writing and language as well as the potential of intermedial translation. More.

Metabolic Museum-University
Skin in the Game
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024
The exhhibition presents seminal works from the personal archives of internationally acclaimed women artists, dating back to the 1970s and early 1980s. Exhibits shall include experiments that were never previously shown. More.

BPA// Berlin program for artists Exhibition
December 6, 2023–January 7, 2024
The BPA// Exhibition at KW will show works by the artists of the final year produced over the course of their participation in the BPA// mentoring program. More.

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Press contact
Marie Kube & Anna Falck-Ytter, press [​at​] kw-berlin.de

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.
The exhibitions and projects within the program of 2023 are in collaboration with and/or supported by: