With the exhibition Caught in a Landslide, n.b.k. and KINDL at Maschinenhaus M2 will present current works by international artists living in Berlin who were awarded the Berlin Senate’s Visual Arts Scholarship in 2024 from 2. March 2025. The exhibition is curated by the curator Sadaf Vasaei.
Image above: Melanie Jame Wolf, The Creep, 2023, Videostill © Melanie Jame Wolf / Ashton Green.
Spread across two exhibition venues, current developments in the Berlin art scene and current artistic themes are presented in the media of video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. At the centre of many of the contributions is an examination of social and personal states of ambivalence and uncertainty. The focus here is on the inner processes, emotional worlds and imaginations that are set in motion in the midst of radical change – due to migration, the collapse of a political system or the onset of puberty.
Many of the artists make unconscious and hidden processes perceptible with the help of speculative visualisations or the activation of other sensory systems, such as touch and hearing. The depiction and staging of bodies and body parts create fragile moments of contact and transmission. By incorporating individual and collective memory or repression, places of transit and encounter, as well as historical architectures of the city of Berlin, are also examined and restaged. With sensitivity for details and nuances of social processes, the artists create new forms of expression and visual languages that emphasise changeability and ambiguity.
The preoccupation with psychological, physical and social threshold states, which links the works in the exhibition, is also evoked in the title Caught in a Landslide. Last but not least, the exhibition title, which is borrowed from a line in Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) by the British rock band Queen, refers to the landslide-like reorganisation of Berlin’s cultural scene and the feeling of uncertainty that accompanies many artists looking to the future.
A project of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Artists:
Virgil b/g taylor, Christopher Kline, Luzie Meyer, Nguyễn + Transitory and Bussaraporn Thongchai, Andrea Pichl, Neda Saeedi, Melanie Jame Wolf.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Sunday, 02. March – Sunday, 06. July 2025
Opening: Saturday, 01. March 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
WHERE?
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
Am Sudhaus 3
12053 Berlin
