Dagmara Genda

Schirin Kretschmann who works in the field of expanded painting, each exhibition venue acting as an extended picture plane whose borders are blurred and remade. Dagmara Genda visits Kretschmann in her studio ahead of her exhibition 'Ten By One’ at PEAC Museum:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/09/19/s...

Knappe Ateliers in Berlin: Kunst braucht Raum Eine Initiative mahnt das Land Berlin zur Sicherung öffentlich geförderter Atelierräume. Ein Blick auf die Zahlen zeigt, wie weit Angebot und Nachfrage auseinanderliegen - und der Druck auf dem Markt ...

Monopol has covered the drastic culture cuts planned for the new year. Cutting culture is a sure way of cutting dissenting views-- it's very political. Please sign the petition. The link is in my timeline and also in the Monopol article.

Here's two pictures of one of my works at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge in Lichtenberg. These iron stairs, now a sculptural remnant, were the perfect stage for my steel sculptures, combined in this case with cut fibre-reinforced vinyl. I'm there this Saturday from 2-6. Come for a visit!

Petition · #SaveOurStudiosBerlin – Ateliers sichern und die Lebendigkeit und Vielfalt der Berliner Kunstszene erhalten! · innn.it Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Künstler:innen der akut bedrohten bbk-Ateliers unterstützen!

The 2nd round of culture cuts are coming in Berlin! Over 300 artists, myself included, are slated to lose their studios. In my neighbourhood many artists have already been forced out. Yoga studios and trendy health food manufacturers have moved in. Sign the petition against the gutting of culture.

Poster for exhibition opening at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge in Berlin

List of names in the exhibition

I am in a group show at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge--a late 19th century steam powerplant used to heat the Königin Elisabeth Herzberge Hospital. We will be exhibiting among these industrial machines: www.museumkesselhaus.de/kesseltechni... and the opening is on September 13th at 6pm!

When I simply say I don't use Amazon, people actually hear "you are a bad person for ordering on Amazon." I get treated to narrowed eyes, "only someone who doesn't have kids has that privilege," or "consumer activism won't change the world." Why do you use Amazon? What would happen if you didn't?

So the acoustics of a people-filled thoroughfare at the Akademie der Künste wasn't perfect, but it was still thrilling to hear Arnold Dreyblatt on electro and Werner Durand on self-made wind instruments last night.

Oh the Sisyphean loop of art.

Was den Steuerzahler die Palantir-Software für die Polizei kostet Beim Kauf einer Daten-Software für die Polizei droht den Steuerzahlern in Baden-Württemberg ein Millionenverlust. Es handelt sich um ein Produkt des umstrittenen Anbieters Palantir.

Und einige Bundesländer haben die Software schon gekauft. So machen wir Peter Thiel reicher und schwächen eine sowieso unter Druck geratene Demokratie.

Nein zum Palantir-Deal – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen Die Polizei könnte die US-Überwachungssoftware Palantir bekommen. Stopp den Deal mit dem Trump-Vertrauten Peter Thiel.

Sign to voice your opposition to this megalomaniac's Lord of the Rings inspired spyware:

Online Course THE HOME OF ART AND ART IN THE HOME: The Domestic as Public Space by Dagmara Genda - Online Courses BERLIN ART INSTITUTE Photo Credit Courtesy of Emily Hunt & Dagmara Genda.Photo: Aleks Słota. Enroll now as seats are limited:Min. seats: 5 | Max. seats: 30 | Language: English Participants will learn about artists, curato...

Ever since the show I curated in my apartment (from which I was then evicted) in 2019, I have been interested in the function of art in private settings, and the home itself as art object. Now I am teaching a course on the topic at the @berlinartinstitute.bsky.social and it starts in November:

An Interview with Susan Schuppli | Berlin Art Link Dagmara Genda interviews artist and author Susan Schuppli about her practice and her concept of the “material witness”

I interviewed Susan Schuppli about the "legal imagination" in her work for @berlinartlink.bsky.social. Apart from the limits and possibilites of law as a practice of justice, we talked about her use of materials as an artist. A curiosity-driven interaction with matter is also a type of witnessing.

On Friday I finished a one-week intensive Master Class about drawing beyond the self @berlinartinstitute.bsky.social : drawing not as self-expression, but self-(un)definition, self-extension and dissolution. I don't exagerrate when I say that I also learn a lot from the participants.

Last night was the opening of "Godspeed in 4/4 Time," a show by artist/composer William Engelen, in which we also have a collaborative video. Tomorrow at 7:30 pm an hour-long concert in the St. Matthäus Kirche, Berlin, with Robyn Schulkowsky, Evi Filippou (pictured in the photos), and Marius Wankel.

Every year I have the pleasure of reviewing Maerzmusik, a festival for new music, for @berlinartlink.bsky.social .

The entire team of transmediale is appalled by the deportation decision made public earlier this week, targeting our former coworker Kasia Wlaszczyk and three other activists in Berlin, Cooper Longbottom, Shane O’Bien, and Roberta Murray.

A photograph of a woman behind a large, contour, cut out if a hand with other cut out line drawings in the background.

Drawing is not self-expression but can push beyond the self and redefine one's boundaries as an artist and also as a person. Lines and threads can always be redrawn!This is what my one-week intensive is about at @berlinartinstitute.bsky.social this June, who just joined blue sky. Welcome!

"Theo Bros": Wie junge radikale Christen einen Gottesstaat errichten wollen In den USA formiert sich eine Generation, die von einem weißen christlichen Gottesstaat und männlicher Herrschaft träumt. Auch nach Europa pflegen diese Netzwerke beste Beziehungen

The next step in this horror show is women losing the right to vote.

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com
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An old copy of James Joyce's book Ulysses sliced into so as to create a new narrative by the words left behind.

Art as such doesn't ensure a fair and open discursive space. It must be reread and redefined with each generation, whose conditions of thinking and feeling are embedded in new material and social contexts. This was the concern behind this cut book work: 'Ulysses' (2024).