On selected dates, experienced art educators invite various discussion partners to KW in order to deepen the content of the exhibitions together with the visitors. The exchange in dialogue and with the group creates multi-layered approaches and opens up new perspectives on the exhibitions for the visitors.

Coco Fusco – Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island:

531 years later

with Raoul Zöllner and Chloe Stead

18 October 23, 5 pm

In English

Meeting Point: KW Counter

Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

Participation included in the exhibition ticket

Limited capacity

In 1492 tides and currents carried plankton onto the shores of a thousand islands across the Atlantic. 531 years later, plankton is still getting flushed onto shores, but most of these islands have radically transformed. They are trafficked with garbage trucks which dispose trash on dumping grounds and dotted with supermarkets which accept cashless payment. Tomorrow, I will become an Island is the first major retrospective of Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco. In order to share insights into her artistic practice and highlight the significance of the past 531 years, Raoul Zoellner invites Chloe Stead, a Berlin-based art critic and assistant editor of frieze, for a conversational tour through the exhibition.

Chloe Stead is a Berlin-based art critic and assistant editor of frieze. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artnet, frieze, frieze d/e, Mousse and Spike Art Magazine. She also regularly contributes to artist monographs and has taken part in or moderated talks at Damien & the Love Guru, Brussels; Vienna Contemporary; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; and Migros Museum, Zurich.

Raoul Zöllner grew up in Berlin, studied at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and is Director of the Boros Foundation. He explores various forms of art mediation and has been working in this field for KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the 12th Berlin Biennale.

SKIN IN THE GAME

Wendepunkte – Ein Redekreis über Prototypen und Scheitern

with Thesea Rigou and Nine Budde

19 November 23, 2 pm

In English

Meeting Point: KW Counter

Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

Participation included in the exhibition ticket

Limited capacity

Artist Nine Budde and KW Art-Mediator Thesea Rigou invite people within and outside the field of art world to explore the role of prototypes and their failure in personal and artistic development in the exhibition “SKIN IN THE GAME”.

Inspired by the staging of the exhibition we ask participants to bring their own questions, ideas, texts and artworks (max A4 size) to discuss in the group.

The main language of the event will be English, reflections and questions in German can be considered.

Nine Budde (*1975, Freiburg i.Br.) finished her MFA for public art and new artistic strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She produces social- and site-specific as well as surreal photographies, videos, performances and installations since the late 90’s. The artist won numerous residencies and art prices, such as MAK-Schindler Residency in Los Angeles and Villa Romana Price in Florence. Her work is nationally and internationally shown. 

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

In 1Klang – Texte (ver)weben

with Sarah Steiner

3 December 23, 12 pm

In German

Meeting Point: KW Counter

Registration via mediation@kw-berlin.de

Part of Museum Sunday Berlin

Free admission

Limited capacity

Based on Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s concept of hypertext, we will explore the exhibition together. We break with our usual perception of text as a linear construct and understand it as a net-like, dynamic structure in which we move, follow cross-references, interweave words and sentences and weave new texts. We will also explore the exhibition independently with pen and paper. In a collective discussion we will explore the questions of how contexts shape understanding and how our personal archives weave stories and set footnotes, how language becomes a tool of possibilities and impossibilities and how we as learners try to understand.

Alice Escher is an art educator and artist. Her cultural practice focuses on language, humor and working conditions in the art world.

Sarah Steiner is an artist. In her artistic practice she explores concepts of emptiness and silence, relationship, language and intimacy, body, space and time, and where the self ends and the alter begins.