This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. French feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva opens her 1980 essay on abjection, entitled ‘Powers of Horrors,’ as follows: “There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside.” Going on to describe the slippery…
Open Call for KVOST Residency and Claus Michaletz Preis
The Kunstverein Ost is announcing this year’s KVOST Stipendium, awarded in combination with the Claus Michaletz Preis since 2022. Kunstverein Ost (KVOST) was established in 2018 and is dedicated to promoting artists from Central and Eastern Europe whose life or work are shaped by the former Eastern Bloc. The €10,000 prize is established in memory of Claus Michaletz, the publisher and founder of…
Lyrical Vitality: Graciela Iturbide at C/O Berlin
The opening image of Graciela Iturbide’s retrospective ‘Eyes to Fly With’ at C/O Berlin is a poetic visualization of the title itself. It features a self-portrait of the artist holding two dead birds delicately over her eyes, their small spherical heads placed just above each eyelid. The bird in her left hand lies upside down, its beak open and its bones visible—a death cry—while the other bird…
The Week Mar. 2–8, 2026
John Smith: ‘Being John Smith’ Screening: Mar. 2–8, 2026 Part of: ‘Uglier, Louder, Taller, Weirder – Hearing the Weeds grow’ galerie-im-turm.net/weeds Frankfurter Tor 1, 10243 Berlin, click here for map John Smith: ‘Being John Smith’ Konstantino Dregos: ‘Countless Dependencies’ Opening Reception: Tuesday, Mar. 3; 6-8pm Exhibition: Mar. 13–May 31, 2026 noahklink.com Kulmer Straße…
Featured Exhibitions & Events March
Fasanenstraße 68, 10719 Berlin +4930889225890 68projects.com Opening Hours: Tuesday–Saturday; 11am–6pm Exhibition Sunjeong Hwang & Wonhae Hwang Opening Reception: Friday, Mar. 6; 6–9pm Mar. 6–Apr. 18, 2026 68projects.com/hwang-hwang Auguststraße 75, 10117 Berlin aestiftung.de Opening Hours: Tuesday–Sunday; 11am–6pm Exhibition Arno Schidlowski: ‘Jasmund | Der Sonne Mond’ Jan.
Dance For Your Life: Joko Anwar’s ‘Ghost in the Cell’
Gore, slapstick, political commentary and impromptu dance all find their way into Indonesian director Joko Anwar’s new feature film, ‘Ghost in the Cell’ (Hantu Dalam Penjara). Anwar’s 12th film, but by no means his first horror film, ‘Ghost in the Cell’ recently premiered at the 76th annual Berlinale film festival in the Forum section. While it could have arguably been featured in the Panorama…
Jerszy Seymour
Our suffering amidst the trash heap of contemporary life often feels sealed and inevitable. As Michael Marder says, our alienation is being alienated. Countering the passive consumption of today’s social, political, ecological and informational debacle, artist and designer Jerszy Seymour proposes a necessarily utopian alternative, grounded in cooperative creativity.
Open Call for Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowships 2027
Artists from the fields of literature, visual arts and composition, as well as academics with a research project on Romanticism or relating to the previously divided Germany, are invited to apply to the three-month residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf. Hosted in the historical baroque manor house built in 1735 in Brandenburg, the residency welcomes fellows from Germany and abroad.
The Art of Translation: ‘Glitch in a Garden of Whispers’ at Aedes
Unlike many future-oriented AI art exhibitions, ‘Glitch in a Garden of Whispers’ approaches the topic through the exploration of something much older—the art of translation. Mirroring the functions of artificial intelligence, Nicole L’Huillier and Ana Maria Caballero take a refreshingly material and poetic approach to examining how language and meaning transform and degrade as they move through…
Cosmic Rhythms: Béla Pablo Janssen at NAK
This article is part of our feature topic Wellness. Béla Pablo Janssen’s ‘Theater der Sonnenzuwendung’ is, on just about every level, an invitation—not only to see, but to inhabit. Filling out both floors as well as the stairwells of Aachen’s Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Janssen’s constellation of assemblages, drawings, installations, détourned posters, mixed-media and sound works welcomes…