28.8.22 – 5.2.23


Forming Communities: Berliner Wege – 道法柏林, 而游于外 (Dào fǎ bólín, ér yóu yú wài)

Maschinenhaus M1

 

aaajiao 徐文恺, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Cao Kefei 曹克 非, Isaac Chong Wai, Chun Shu 春树, Fan Popo 范坡坡, Han Feng 韩锋, He Xiangyu 何翔宇, Benno Hinkes, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Liao Wenfeng 廖文峰, Elizabeth Ravn, Tobias Spichtig, Young-jun Tak 탁영준 卓永俊, Bignia Wehrli 宾雅, Regina Weiss, Yi Ke 伊可, Yi Li 一子

Forming Communities shows examples of the connections between artists from China, across Asia, and other parts of the world who are internationally active and based in Berlin. The result is a picture of an artistic landscape of diversity around a group of artists from Asia, which conveys the closeness and distance of the people involved on all semantic and sociological levels. The exhibition works with formats of invitation and networking; this includes regular meetings with the participating artists during the exhibition, which are open to all visitors.

Curators: Thomas Eller 艾墨思, Li Zhenhua 李振华

Discursive Programme

7.9., 19:00
Building communities – how to live and work in Berlin.
With artists and the curators of the exhibition Forming Communities: Berliner Wege – 道法柏林, 而游于外
In English
Free admission
Livestream

21.9., 19:00
Women After the Cultural Revolution
A conversation between Wang Ge (Philosopher, Berlin) and Cao Kefei (Theater director, Berlin) on the repressed and forgotten
In English and German
Free admission

19.10., 19:00
I Was Dead on the Internet
Thomas Eller (Curator, Berlin) in conversation with aaajiao (Artist, Berlin)
In English
Free admission

2.11., 19:00
Constructing Self and Realities in China, Reflexions on Egology
Thomas Eller (Curator, Berlin) in conversation with Wang Ge (Philosopher, Berlin)
In English and German
Free admission

9.11., 19:00
Chun Shu – Beijing Doll and Other Poetic Moments
A poetry reading and a conversation between Zhang Deng (PhD in philosophy, Berlin) and Chun Shu (Poet and writer, Berlin)
In German and Chinese
Free admission

16.11., 19:00
Momentuous Moments – a cross-section of a decade introducing time-based art from China to Berlin
With Rachel Rits-Volloch (Founding director at Momentum, Berlin) and David Elliot (Curator, Oxford / Berlin)
In English
Free admission

9.12., midnight
Videoart at Midnight #126
Fan Popo 范坡坡
Babylon Berlin-Mitte

11.1., 19:00
而游于外 – Contesting art and therapy: Art therapy practices in open fields
Conversation with Yi Ke (Artist and art therapist, Berlin) and Zhou Tingting (PhD candidate in anthropology, Berlin)
In English
Free admission

1.2., 19:00
Food, Faith and Feelings – Queer Asia
Conversation with Young-jun Tak (Artist, Berlin), Isaac Chong Wai (Artist, Berlin), and Fan Popo (Filmmaker, Berlin)
In English
Free admission