11. 11. 11. 1 October 24, 8 pm
        12. In Italian with English subtitles
        13. Venue: Pogo Bar
        14. Registration via pogobar@kw-berlin.de

Information on accessibility can be found below.

Monowe (2024) tells the story of a town inhabited by one person. It is an imaginary city, an urban model created for a single individual. The inhabited spaces are buildings that preserve specific functions: the house, the museum, the watchtower, the courthouse, but also abstract places, metaphors for parts of the body in which the solo inhabitant might confronts his own interiority.

In its courthouse, a trial is underway in which the lone citizen is the defendant, judge, prosecutor, lawyer, witness and victim. As the trial unfolds, their memories form different stages of the town; its catastrophic past, and the possibility of its future survival.

Monowe represents the state of isolation of the contemporary individual, the result of external dynamics and strategies of self-protection. The unfolding of the court proceedings, formulated as the inhabitant remembers hearing or seeing them, will take us through the different stages of its existence within the town of Monowe.

In her practice, Ludovica Carbotta focuses on the physical exploration of the urban space and how individuals establish connections with the environment they inhabit. In recent works, by combining installations, texts and performances, she is researching on fictional site-specificity, a form of site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places or embodies real places with fictional contexts, recovering the role of imagination as a value to construct our knowledge.

The screening of Monowe is followed by a Q&A performance between Ludovica Carbotta and KW Associate Curator Sofie Krogh Christensen.

Ludovica Carbotta (born 1982 in Torino) lives and works in Barcelona (ES). She graduated in painting from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin in 2005, and obtained her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in London in 2015. She has exhibited works at MAMbo, Bologna, the 58th Venice Biennial, MAXXI Museum, Rome; Kunstlerhaus Museum, Graz; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Dublin Contemporary; Matadero, Madrid; Swiss Institute, Rome; Les Instants Chavirés, Paris; amongst others. Carbotta is the recipient of the 5th Ariane de Rothschild Prize.

In 2016 in Bologna, as part of ON, she launched Monowe, her project about an imaginary city for a single inhabitant, as a public installation on the banks of the Parco del Cavaticcio, to be followed by further instalments. In the same year she received a special mention at the MAXXI Prize (Museo MAXXI, Rome), won the Gallarate Prize (MA*GA, Gallarate). Between 2017 and 2018 she was a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. In 2018 she was awarded the New York Prize. Monowe was previously shown at MAMbo Bologna, de Appel Amsterdam, and Gasworks London.

Information on Accessibility

Venue:

The event will take place in the exhibition spaces (4th floor) of KW. An elevator is available for visitors with limited mobility with the assistance of KW staff on site. Please contact us in advance at reservation@kw-berlin.de so that we can facilitate access.

Digital:

The event will not be recorded.

Times:

Entrance starts at 8 pm.
If necessary, we can offer you an earlier entrance from 7.45 pm so that you can familiarize yourself with the surroundings and choose your seat. Please register for this via reservation@kw-berlin.de.
Late entrance is possible.
The event might start with a delay.
The duration of the event is approx. 1.5 hours.
The event is held without breaks.

Seating:

Seating (chairs with backrests, beanbags, pillows) will be provided.

Sensory stimuli:

The event space is dark/darkened.
The event space is warm.
The event takes place in a spacious room.

Event Type:

The event is planned to be sensory friendly. This means that care is taken to reduce strong sensory stimuli in order to create a place that is as comfortable as possible for everyone. Loud noises and intense lighting effects are avoided.

Language:

The event will be mainly held in English.
The event is translated with English subtitles.

Aid:
There is free admission for assisting persons.
Assistance dogs can be brought along to the event.

Contact persons:
If you have any further questions regarding accessibility, please send an e-mail to reservation@kw-berlin.de.
If you have any questions on-site or need support, please approach the entrance staff.