Katja Strunz: Future Collapses, Past Rises
March 14–May 3, 2026
Berlin 10115
Germany
Memory Is a Strange Bell
March 14–May 3, 2026 (n.b.k.)
March 20–May 17, 2026 (Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
Artists: İpek Burçak, Nadja Buttendorf, Markus Draper, Martin Eberle, Noi Fuhrer, Olga Monina, Shaun Motsi, Leonie Nagel, Ania Nowak, Niclas Riepshoff, Max Schaffer, Alina Schmuch, Antje Taubert, Sergio Zevallos
Curators: Lidiya Anastasova, Antje Weitzel
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien jointly present works by the recipients of the Berlin Senate’s 2025 visual arts work stipend. Taking place in parallel at both institutions, the exhibition brings together international artists living and working in Berlin. It underscores once again the crucial role that reliable funding structures play in the production and presentation of contemporary art. The works on view address social, political, and historical questions and critically reflect on power relations, norms, and ideologies across a wide range of aesthetic practices.
Information
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestraße 128/129, 10115 Berlin
Opening: March 13, 2026, 7pm
Duration: March 14–May 3, 2026
Artists: Nadja Buttendorf, Markus Draper, Martin Eberle, Noi Fuhrer, Shaun Motsi, Leonie Nagel
Curator: Lidiya Anastasova
Discourse and Outreach Program in collaboration with Feben Amara
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Str. 10/d, 10999 Berlin
Opening: March 19, 2026, 7pm
Duration: March 20–May 17, 2026
Artists: İpek Burçak, Olga Monina, Ania Nowak, Niclas Riepshoff, Max Schaffer, Alina Schmuch, Antje Taubert, Sergio Zevallos
Curator: Antje Weitzel
Discourse and Outreach Program at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 7pm
John Miller, Contradicting Statements, 2026
Book presentation and video screening with John Miller (artist, New York), Melanie Ohnemus (curator and editor, Vienna), and Benedikt Reichenbach (graphic designer, Berlin), moderated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum)
In English
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 7pm
Shaun Motsi, Masters, 2023
Film screening
In English
Saturday, April 25, 2026, 5 pm
Technofascism: Power and Authoritarianism in Digital Space
Panel discussion with Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Junior Professor for the Ethics of Digitization, University of Oldenburg) and Paul Feigelfeld (Professor for Digitality and Cultural Mediation, Mozarteum University Salzburg), moderated by Christine Watty (journalist, Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
In German
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 7pm
Klaus Theweleit, Filmen nach Auschwitz: Claude Lanzmann und Jean-Luc Godard (n.b.k. Discourse vol. 20)
Book presentation with Klaus Theweleit (cultural theorist, Freiburg), moderated by Katja Nicodemus (film critic and journalist, Die Zeit).
In German
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 5 pm
Film presentation
In the context of Leonie Nagel’s displayed collage series, with Berlin youth theater participants.
In German
Free admission to all events
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n.b.k. Showroom
Katja Strunz. Future Collapses, Past Rises
March 14–May 3, 2026
Curator: Michaela Richter
With Future Collapses, Past Rises, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents a new exhibition by Katja Strunz that brings together numerous approaches and techniques from the artist’s practice. The exhibition features lacquered steel sculptures referencing principles of folding and collapsing, alongside origami-like collages based on high-resolution satellite imagery showing the transformation of the Earth’s surface by human impact. Both groups of works bear witness to a balance between becoming and passing away. By highlighting the multitude of perspectives generated through the artistic process of deliberately folding material, they emphasize the potentiality of constant change. The selected works are supplemented by found objects. The n.b.k. Showroom becomes a place where different pasts arise and enter into new relationships with a continually collapsing future.
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The exhibition Memory Is a Strange Bell is a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is supported by the Kriket Foundation.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. GmbH is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
