Neuer Berliner Kunstverein/ KINDL â Centre for Contemporary Art
Berlin
Deutschland
Caught in a Landslide
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Duration: March 2 â May 4, 2025)
KINDL â Centre for Contemporary Art (March 2 â July 6, 2025)
With the exhibition Caught in a Landslide, n.b.k. and the KINDL present recent works by international artists based in Berlin who received the Berlin Senateâs 2024 visual arts work stipend. Spanning two venues, the exhibition showcases current developments in Berlinâs art scene and explores contemporary artistic themes through video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Central to many of the works is an engagement with states of ambivalence and uncertainty â both societal and personal. The artists explore internal processes, emotional landscapes, and imaginations sparked by radical change â be it migration, the collapse of a political system, or the onset of puberty.
Several artists render these unconscious and hidden processes perceptible through speculative visualizations or by activating alternative sensory modalities, such as touch and hearing. Fragile moments of contact and transference emerge in the representation and staging of bodies and body parts. Incorporating themes of individual and collective memory or repression, several works investigate and reinterpret places of transit and encounter, as well as historical architecture in Berlin. With sensitivity to the details and nuances of societal processes, the artists create new forms of expression and visual languages that emphasize ambiguity and transformation.
The title Caught in a Landslide reflects the exploration of psychological, physical, and social thresholds that unify the works in the exhibition. Borrowed from a line in the song Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) by the British rock band Queen, it also alludes to the landslide-like restructuring of Berlinâs cultural landscape and the uncertainty facing many artists as they look to the future.
Exhibitions
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Duration: March 2 â May 4, 2025
ChausseestraĂe 128/129, 10115 Berlin
Artists: Ăzlem Altın, Alex BaczynÌski-Jenkins, Stephanie Comilang, Kristina Paustian, Babette Semmer, Jasmin Werner
Curators: Feben Amara, Krisztina Hunya
KINDL â Centre for Contemporary Art
Duration: March 2 â July 6, 2025
Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin
Artists: virgil b/g taylor, Christopher Kline, Luzie Meyer, Nguyá» n + Transitory and Bussaraporn Thongchai, Andrea Pichl, Neda Saeedi, Melanie Jame WolfÂ
Curator: Sadaf Vasaei
