Poetics of Encryption, Luiz Roque, Pia Arke, Jimmy DeSana & Paul P., James Richards & Billy Bultheel
KW Institute for Contemporary Art is proud to announce its program for 2024, including the group exhibition Poetics of Encryption as well as exhibitions and projects by Luiz Roque, Pia Arke, Jimmy DeSana & Paul P. and James Richards & Billy Bultheel.
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Poetics of Encryption
February 17–May 26, 2024
Though we rely on digital tools for many things, we rarely understand how they work. Moreover, due to the proprietary nature of much corporate tech, even the most curious among us cannot gain deeper insight. What symptoms of this personal and political drama register in the cultural field? What moods, symbols, or narrative frames capture the aesthetics and politics of exclusion, occlusion, secrecy, and speculation concerning technology’s inside? This extensive group exhibition at KW spans analogue and digital media featuring both historic and newly commissioned work by more than 40 international artists. More
Pause: James Richards & Billy Bultheel
Workers in Song
June 7–9, 2024
Workers in Song is a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, who find one another through the expanded approach towards their discipline. Bringing together new music, archival film and performative text, the performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook-ups, fandom, and Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. More
Luiz Roque: Estufa
July 6–October 20, 2024
KW presents the first mid-career survey of the artist Luiz Roque, whose practice inhabits a space between expanded cinema, visual art and critical theory. His artistic methodology fuses his interest in the legacies of modernism, pop culture, queer (bio) politics, and science fiction as he narrates the challenges of various—predominantly Brazilian—subcultures and marginalized voices, and as he imagines alternative realities. More
Pia Arke: Arctic Hysteria
July 6–October 20, 2024
KW, in collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK), presents the first exhibition of artist Pia Arke (1958–2007) to be shown outside of Kalaallit Nunaat, also known as Greenland, and the Nordic countries. Arctic Hysteria takes its title from an influential work series by Pia Arke and brings together her photographic, sculptural, performative and written work, as well as her work on paper. It aims to shed light on the narratives enclosing the colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark, as seen through Arke’s works, and to open it up to a discussion of continuing colonial structures at large. More
Jimmy DeSana & Paul P.: Ruins of Rooms
July 6–October 20, 2024
Ruins of Rooms looks at the notion of portraiture through the lens of Jimmy DeSana and Paul P. Jimmy DeSana was a photographer whose portrayal of New York’s East Village scene in the early 1970s would prove to be highly influential later in terms of sensibility, playfulness and storytelling. Paul P. is an artist, known since the early 2000s for his melancholy drawings and paintings and, in recent years, for sculptures in the form of furniture. Ruins of Rooms presents works that span the entirety of both oeuvres, bringing them into dialogue for the first time. More
BPA// Exhibition 2024
November–December 2024
KW and BPA// Berlin program for artists founded their partnership in 2020. BPA// is a two-year independent mentoring program that fosters exchange between emerging and established Berlin-based artists. BPA// Exhibition 2024 at KW will show works by the artists of the final year produced over the course of their participation in BPA//. More
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Press contact
Marie Kube & Anna Falck-Ytter, press [at] kw-berlin.de
KW is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Community, Berlin.
The exhibitions and projects within the program of 2024 are in collaboration with and/or supported by:
