Olivia Noss reviews photographer Graciela Iturbide’s retrospective ‘Eyes to Fly With’ at C/O Berlin, which "reveals an artist who has an equal fascination with both life and death."
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Olivia Noss reviews photographer Graciela Iturbide’s retrospective ‘Eyes to Fly With’ at C/O Berlin, which "reveals an artist who has an equal fascination with both life and death."
Read more at the link below:
Highlights across Berlin this week focus on material practice and exhibition-making.
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Gore, slapstick, political commentary and impromptu dance all find their way into Indonesian director Joko Anwar’s new feature film, ‘Ghost in the Cell’ (Hantu Dalam Penjara), which recently premiered at the 76th Berlinale.
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Rodney LaTourelle visited Jerszy Seymour in his studio in Neukölln, Berlin. The artist and designer was in the midst of preparations for the concluding exhibition, ‘Muutogenesis,’ which will run from March 5 to May 3, 2026, at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin.
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Artists from the fields of literature, visual arts and composition, as well as academics with a research project on Romanticism or relating to the previously divided Germany, are invited to apply for the three-month residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg. Learn more here:
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Béla Pablo Janssen’s ‘Theater der Sonnenzuwendung’ at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein is organized around the theme of the sun, which the artist mobilizes to activate a host of overlapping associations: astrological, energetic, astronomical, vitalistic.
Click below for Jeffrey Grunthaner's review:
Unlike many future-oriented AI art exhibitions, Nicole L’Huillier and Ana María Caballero’s ‘Glitch in a Garden of Whispers’ at Aedes in Berlin approaches the topic by exploring something much older—the art of translation.
Read more in Carolina Sculti’s review:
Our feature topic Wellness considers personal wellbeing + how it relates to spheres we inhabit daily. Pieces consider how longing for healing defines human experience + how it can carry the scars of extractive human activity:
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Highlights across Berlin this week include the screening of ‘Los Tres Puntos’ by Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong presented at Galerie im Turm, an exhibition at Berlinische Galerie, by Stephanie Comilang, and more.
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Dörte Eißfeldt’s photography is grounded in the experience of seeing. At C/O Berlin, ‘Archipelago’ brings together Eißfeldt’s images + materials surrounding their making. Johanna Siegler interviews Eißfeldt, discussing the physical presence of her photographs:
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Opening Sunday at ChertLüdde, ‘After Totality’ presents works by Monia Ben Hamouda. Noushin Afzali interviews Hamouda, discussing how ‘After Totality’ is an attempt to investigate what happens cognitively and sensorially when orientation collapses:
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Tabita Rezaire’s art practice explores how healing defines the human experience. As part of Wellness, William Kherbek interviews Rezaire, discussing bodies holding the memory of our whole lineage + initiation processes into deeper levels of knowledge:
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HTW Berlin has launched IUNO–Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Cultural Scene, a new EU-funded research project supporting artists in developing projects combining AI and XR tech.
More info + apply by March 31:
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Presented at Galerie im Turm, ‘Uglier, Louder, Taller, Weirder – Hearing the Weeds Grow’ is an exhibition and program asking when can something be considered “weedy?”
This week, the exhibition presents the short experimental film ‘Makahiya’ by Crystal Z Campbell:
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Opening this week, Monia Ben Hamouda’s exhibition ‘After Totality’ responds to this uncertain moment of emerging after a state of darkness.
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Titled 'MUSCLE' and centered on a community of bodybuilders in Lagos, Karimah Ashadu’s latest film arrives at silent green on February 15 & 16 as part of Berlinale Forum Expanded. Ahead of its Berlin premiere, Adela Lovric spoke with the artist:
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Artist and filmmaker Viv Li presents ‘Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest,’ premiering at the 2026 Berlinale.
Mia Butter interviews Li, who discusses her happenstance “landing” in Berlin, feeling tomboyish and seeing Beijing's beauty through the camera lens:
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Opening in Berlin this week, Susanne Kühn’s exhibition ‘Cockaigne’ at Nina Horvitz Galerie exemplifies the artist’s ongoing exploration of composition and painterly language.
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‘Not I’ is a group exhibition presented by Capitain Petzel that borrows its name from a Samuel Beckket play. Jesse Slater discusses repetition, twitching caught somehow on the works’ surfaces, and that difficult thing to look at in the corner of your eye:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/02/06/n...
As part of the 76th Berlinale, Forum Expanded presents an experimental series of films, video installations, exhibitions and performances at silent green aimed at broadening understandings of cinema from Feb 12–22.
Carolina Sculti writes on our top picks:
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Nina Kintsurashvili’s show ‘Creature, Creatures’ presents works inspired by the medieval frescoes she visited as a child in her native Georgia. Chris Erik Thomas interviews Kintsurashvili about the inaugural exhibition at Bukia Vakhania's Berlin outpost:
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Egill Sæbjörnsson is an artist whose practice bridges visual art, music, performance and architectural interventions. Carolina Sculti interviews, discussing art as a species and staring at the world directly to see it as something neither dead or alive:
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The 6th edition of the Kochi Biennale, India’s first and largest exhibition of contemporary art, is now underway. Titled ‘For the Time Being,’ it's grounded in the world constantly shifting.
Incl. in Top International Exhibitions January to March list:
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This week in Berlin, three exhibitions open at C/O Berlin including the first major retrospective of Graciela Iturbide in Berlin, presenting over five decades of work exploring the often intimate relationships between identity, ritual, and society in Mexico.
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Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:
𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹: ‘𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀’
Exhibition opening @ Centrum
Friday, Jan. 30; 6–9:30pm
‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺: 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗼 & 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮’
Performance @ Callie's
Saturday, Jan. 31; 8pm
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At Galerie im Turm, Jamila Barakat’s ‘Hoffnung أمل’ presents works by the German-Palestinian interdisciplinary artist exploring the search for belonging.
Carolina Sculti discusses home being rooted in the land we share + the universal insistence to rise again:
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Callie’s presents sound performance series ‘The Third Room’ inviting pioneering composers Agnese Menguzzato, Hyunhye Angela Seo, Aida Shirazi, and Mariam Rezaei to present new and in-process works.
Join for the first performance by Agnese Menguzzato January 29—31:
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Schirin Kretschmann’s ‘TEN BY ONE’ is on display at PEAC Museum for a further 2 weeks until February 8.
Among the most extensive of the artist's career, the exhibition questions the characteristics of given situations and spaces, and what leads to their definition:
www.peac.digital/en/tenbyone
In Berlin this week, the premiere of ‘MoonJar’ takes the stage at HAU2, inspired by ancient creation myths and the materiality of clay.
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Tragicomic dance solo ‘Did4luv’ by Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey invites its audience to take a closer look at “love” in the context of labor.
As part of Wellness, Carolina Sculti discusses reinvention and the pressure to capital-E Entertain:
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