Fall 2023 program

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present its Fall Program of 2023, which continues to explore the complexities of (self)representation. In her first major retrospective, Coco Fusco questions institutional infrastructures that condition the presentation, circulation, and value production of art, while Kameelah Janan Rasheed, recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, aims to bridge the gap between politics and poetry through the materiality and legibility of text. The exhibition SKIN IN THE GAME presents seminal prototypes from the personal archives of Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Andrea Zittel by focusing on the moment of professional and existential emancipation in which they threw their ‘skin in the game’, and gave their all to art.

Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024

KW presents the first major retrospective of Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, US). For more than three decades, she has been a key voice in discourses on racial representation, feminism, postcolonial theory, and institutional critique. The exhibition seeks to trace the profound influence that Fusco’s work has had on the contemporary art discourse in Germany and the world. To do so, it features a broad selection of the artist’s videos, photography, texts, and performances from the 1990s to the present day. 

To unfold Fusco’s multidisciplinary practice further, KW and ICI Berlin collaborate on a series of talks. In addition, KW has commissioned Fusco to create a new multimedia-performance, which will be staged in collaboration with Sophiensaele early December 2023. 

The exhibition is funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) is funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (German Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

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Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2022
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: in the coherence, we weep
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, US) is the 2022 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. In their work, Rasheed focuses on the materiality and legibility of text, writing, and language as well as the potential of intermedial translation. They search for methods that allow us to grasp meanings anew and explore the question of how we read and how we ourselves want to be read and understood.

The presentation of Rasheed’s artistic work at KW is their first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin. Both the exhibition and its accompanying publication interlace with Rasheed’s methodology, which explores indexical space, revision through annotation, as well as its blurring and layering of knowledge and learning.

The 2022 edition of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, which is awarded biannually to international artists by the Schering Stiftung und Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community, is the seventh time that Schering Stiftung has collaborated with KW.

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SKIN IN THE GAME
Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Andrea Zittel
September 14, 2023–January 7, 2024

Curated by Clémentine Deliss, SKIN IN THE GAME presents seminal prototypes from the personal archives of internationally acclaimed artists, dating back to the 1970s and crossing over into the present. Exhibits include experiments never previously shown, from paintings to sculptures, to banners, video performances, photographs, collages, drawings, books, and concept notes. The works focus on that moment of professional and existential emancipation when these artists threw their skin in the game, and gave their all to art. Complimenting early prototypes are new productions for the exhibition by Collier Schorr, Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga and Joëlle Tuerlinckx. The exhibition choreography is devised in collaboration with Joëlle Tuerlinckx.

The Public Program NERVES, BREATH, MUSCLES, BLOOD implements exercises and methods of the Metabolic Museum–University (MM–U), developed by Clémentine Deliss at different locations since 2015. This curatorial platform experiments with existing collections as prototypes for open-ended inquiry and transdisciplinary exercises (www.mm-u.online). The publication, SKIN IN THE GAME. Conversations with Artists on Risk and Contention (Hatje Cantz/KW) will be launched in November 2023.

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Upcoming 2023

KW Digital:
Conference Poetics of Encryption
Theater im Delphi, Berlin
October 27–28, 2023

KW on location:
School of Casablanca
Various locations in Casablanca
November 11, 2023–January 14, 2024

BPA// Berlin program for artists Exhibition 2023
Front house KW
November 25, 2023–January 7, 2024

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

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

The exhibitions and projects within the Fall Program 2023 open as part of Berlin Art Week and are in collaboration with and/or supported by: