Berlin Art Link

16/09/2025

As part of the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Università Iuav di Venezia presents ‘Giancarlo De Carlo: The Open Work’, an exhibition comprising documents, drawings, models and photography pertaining to the late architect and anarchist interested in how architecture can be linguistic or semiotic.

In his article, Alan Smart considers how “post-modernism” has been articulated with conceptions of architecture as language, romantic formulations of the spirit of a place, and how words can, and do, change their meanings.

Read the review:

Alan Smart reviews the exhibition ‘Giancarlo De Carlo: The Open Work’ at Università Iuav di Venezia, running alongside the Architecture Biennale

15/09/2025

Open call for the 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize, an annual juried award for emerging and mid-career artists, is now open. It recognises outstanding artists working in any media, awarding them with $10,000 grants and juror studio visits.

Apply by September 26:

Foundwork has announced the open call for its 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize, an annual juried award for emerging and mid-career artists

14/09/2025

🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟️⁠

Premiering at Monopol from September 17–21, ‘Modalities of Me’ is a new multisensory dance production by Ballet Sur_real / DANCÆ. It centres on five figures who embody different states of being – power, chaos, duplicity, fragility, and ferality. Set in a life-size environment created by Swiss-based visual collective Encor Studio, the performance explores how modern love is shaped and often distorted by the environments we move through, from digital spaces and club culture, to curated identities, and hyper-capitalist frameworks.

We have 2 x 2 tickets to giveaway to a performance of ‘Modalities of Me’ on a night of your choice. To enter the giveaway, follow Berlin Art Link on Facebook, like this post, and tag a friend in the comments. The winner will be drawn at 11am on Tuesday, September 16 and contacted via DM.⁠
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12/09/2025

“I think we’re really interested in trying to stretch people’s imaginations, make them doubt the fixities and the limits of representation and perspective.”

As the first piece in our two-month feature topic Weird, William Kherbek interviews 0rphan Drift, a collective of UK-based artists who direct research into novel ecologies. Although the collective’s form, media, and even members have been fluid over the years, 0rphan Drift has maintained the notion of receptivity being among the most powerful drivers of their works.

In the interview, 0rphan Drift and Kherbek discuss the many tentacles of an octopus, unprocessable information, and representing self as an experiment.

Read the full interview:

William Kherbek interviews members of the UK-based collective 0rphan Drift about their recent project considering octopus intelligences

11/09/2025

This Saturday, September 13, silent green presents the prologue of multi-month project ‘The Vegetable Parliament,’ a living, evolving installation and polycultural farming system, or Mesoamerican ‘Milpa.’

From 2–7pm, workshops, tastings, and a joint preparation for the final banquet are programmed, including a live mind map by José Délano, a nixtamal cooking workshop with Tlayolan Berlin and Tlaxcalli Nixtamal, and initial preservation and tastings from the milpa. This program comes in place of the banquet originally organised for this date, which has been rescheduled to October 18 as the plants need more time before harvest.

This project was initiated by artist and curator José Délano and developed in collaboration with the collective Tlayolan. ⁠For more information:

The milpa has its own timing and has let us know it is not ready for harvest. We gather in response to celebrate its growth and pay tributes to what is to come. Come and join us, on the last day of THE VEGETABLE OPERA.

09/09/2025

“The spaces she frequented were sites of disruption that laid the groundwork for community organizing today—sites of collaboration, flirtation, frustration and celebration for further generations to come.”

Schwules Museum presents ‘Burning down the Patriarchy,’ an exhibition encompassing photography by Petra Gall of the women and le***an scene of 1980s–90s Berlin. The images capture nightlife in women-run spaces, n**e parties, and even demonstrations against women being accused of witchcraft.

In her article, Olivia Noss discusses the historical context of Gall’s work, blending the personal and the political, and the images’ affirmation of feminist identity and collective feminist experience.

Read the article:

Olivia Noss reviews the exhibition ‘Burning down the Patriarchy. The Berlin women and le***ans’ scene photographed by Petra Gall’ at Schwules Museum

08/09/2025

BERLIN ART LINK x STUDIO IIII x SOKÓŁ VODKA⁠
EXHIBITION + PARTY⁠
SEPTEMBER 11⁠
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In just one week, we’re delighted to present a one-night exhibition and party at Studio IIII as part of the club’s ‘Gallery Night’ event series, coinciding with the start of Berlin Art Week. ⁠

From 7–10pm, an immersive installation of kennedy+swan’s new four-channel video, ‘The Red Queen Effect,’ will emblazon Studio IIII’s walls, shown in parallel with their eponymous exhibition at Schering Stiftung. ⁠The evening continues with a performance by Cosmica Bandida and a live DJ set by FRZNTE from 10pm.⁠ Signature cocktails by SOKÓŁ Vodka, crafted to pair with the artworks, will round out the evening. ⁠
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RSVP through Eventbrite, link below.⁠
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Thursday, Sep. 11th, 7pm⁠
Studio IIII⁠
Potsdamer Straße 96, 10785 Berlin⁠
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Immersive Installation: kennedy+swan, 7-10pm⁠
Performance: Cosmica Bandida, 10pm⁠
Live DJ Set: FRZNTE, 10pm⁠
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Berlin Art Link hosts a one-night exhibition + party at Studio IIII with kennedy+swan’s immersive 4-channel video ‘The Red Queen Effect.’