Ghislaine Leung: Reproductions / Franka Hörnschemeyer: Die Ökonomen (Singspiel)

Ghislaine Leung: Reproductions
June 7–August 3, 2025

Curator: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents Berlin’s first solo exhibition by British artist Ghislaine Leung. Based on a rigorously conceptual yet deeply personal approach, Reproductions explores the administrative, financial, and infrastructural processes of exhibition-making through a series of new works. By employing strategies of withdrawal and refusal, Leung focuses on the reproductive aspects of institutional labor that decisively shape the outcome of artistic production and reception, but typically remain hidden. Reproductions foregrounds these activities, shifting attention to the many processes beyond the artist that are required to create and maintain the perceived neutrality of the contemporary exhibition format.

Discourse program

Thursday, June 26, 2025, 7pm
“Trust Issues: Exhibiting as a Practice of Trust”
Panel discussion with Layla Burger-Lichtenstein (curator, n.b.k.), David Joselit (Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge / US) and Abbas Zahedi (artist, London), moderated by Antonia Kölbl (editor-in-chief, TEXTE ZUR KUNST). 
A project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and TEXTE ZUR KUNST
 
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 7pm
Ghislaine Leung: Holdings (2015–2025) 
Book launch with Karsten Lund (Senior Curator, The Renaissance Society, Chicago) 

Free admission to all events.
Find more information on the exhibition here.

n.b.k. Showroom

Franka Hörnschemeyer: Die Ökonomen (Singspiel)
June 7–August 3, 2025

Curators: Krisztina Hunya, Anna Lena Seiser

In her work, the artist Franka Hörnschemeyer engages with architecture and space as mediums for exploring contemporary history, social structures, and specific arrangements of the visible. Her oeuvre includes expansive installations and objects, as well as works with sound, video, photography, and paper, or minimal, sitespecific interventions that prompt new perspectives on familiar places and spaces. A recurring feature of her practice is the use of materials such as plasterboard, formwork elements, and other building components—fundamental to the built environment and omnipresent in exhibition contexts, yet rarely consciously perceived. Hörnschemeyer regards material structures as both expressions and repositories of information, capable of opening up different temporal and historical associations depending on the perspective. 

For her solo exhibition Die Ökonomen (Singspiel) in the n.b.k. Showroom, Hörnschemeyer has developed a new ensemble of works conceived specifically for the space. Using found objects, materials from the context of her earlier artistic works, as well as interventions in the floor and walls, she transforms the exhibition space into a kind of stage on which visitors move among object-like characters.

Find more information on the exhibition here.