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KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present its fall 2025 program and is happy to announce its new visual identity and upcoming website relaunch.
“KW’s fall program centers on process- and research-driven practices, with a strong emphasis on making in and with the Berlin community, whether with art handlers, students, the general public, or organized groups. The program is shaped by themes such as of digital practices and a critical reexamination of art historical discourse, alongside a continued exploration of the body in relation to both the making and experiencing of art.” —Emma Enderby
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: Starmirror
October 31, 2025–January 18, 2026
Holly Herndon (b. 1980, US) and Mat Dryhurst (b. 1984, UK) are internationally recognized for their work at the intersection of art, music, machine learning, and experimental organization.
The exhibition spaces of KW are transformed into a training ground for collaborative art and music production between humans and AI. In collaboration with the design and architecture studio sub, the artists have created an immersive sound installation that draws on recordings from earlier collective singing projects and simultaneously provides a live environment for new work at KW. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate in regular public vocal recording sessions, alongside local community choirs. The singers will perform from a songbook specifically developed by the artists for the project, submitting data for a public choral model. It is based on Ordo Virtutum, a 12th-century medieval morality play by Hildegard von Bingen.
If Hildegard von Bingen was concerned with angelic orders, Herndon and Dryhurst are concerned with the hierarchies of technical protocols and their invisible role in shaping the world around us. The exhibition addresses a critical gap in the public perception of artificial intelligence, offering a direct and participatory experience of the human labor and interaction at its core. Here, the complexity of AI becomes a collective, embodied process.
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Kazuko Miyamoto: String Constructions
October 31, 2025–January 18, 2026
The exhibition is the first institutional solo presentation devoted to the Japanese-American artist Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942, Japan) in Germany, a leading figure in the post-minimal and feminist movements in New York.
String Constructions focuses on Miyamoto’s eponymous sculpture series from the 1970s and 1980s, and traces the shifts in her methodology. The seminal works, two- and three-dimensional waves of hundreds of knotted, nailed strings are borrowed works are produced onsite by the KW team and will be cut when the exhibition ends. The sculptural constructions interweave the notion of collectivity, liveness, sustainability, as well as the ephemeral or temporary into their conceptual framework.
As part of a seminar in cooperation with the Berlin University of the Arts, students reconstruct Miyamoto's Bridge works, which are suspended between trees and buildings in KW’s courtyard for the duration of the exhibition.
The exhibition’s public program will highlight the role of collaboration, performance, and feminism in Miyamoto’s work and the city of Berlin. A publication will be published in collaboration with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
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New visual identity and website relaunch
October 2025
Design: Correspondence
Font-Design: Dinamo Typefaces
Web Development: Systemantics
The new visual identity, developed with the design studio Correspondence, redefines the institution’s presence while remaining rooted in its history. Its new design opens space for sketches, notes, and interventions sourced from KW’s archive, the public and invited artists. This approach reflects KW’s ethos of learning by doing—valuing practice as much as ideas and growing not only through reflection but through active participation and experience. A central element of the visual identity is KW Grotesk, a bespoke typeface. Following the research and visual concept by Correspondence, it was developed in collaboration with Berlin-based studio Dinamo.
Dynamic, participatory, and practice-oriented – the new visual identity of KW ensures clarity of voice while remaining open to all.
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Press contact
Anna Falck-Ytter, Head of Communication and Marketing, Marie Kube
Head of Communication and Press: press@kw-berlin.de
KW is institutionally supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
The exhibitions and projects within the Fall Program 2025 are in collaboration with and/or supported by:
The development of Choral AI presented at Starmirror builds on The Call (2024–25), an R&D and exhibition partnership between Serpentine Arts Technologies, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
