OPEN CALL 2024

MOMENTUM-LAGOS [Berlin]
LAGOS-MOMENTUM [Mexico City]

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Since 2023, LAGOS and MOMENTUM have initiated a series of exchanges between our institutions which enable the mobility and visibility of the artistic communities of Mexico City and Berlin through our Artist-in-Residence Programs in both cities. Starting in 2024, we open the applications to international artists and curators, regardless of their nationality or where they are based. The locations of the Residencies are in Berlin at MOMENTUM-LAGOS in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center, or at LAGOS in Mexico City.

MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#7: IRMA SOFIA POETER

OPEN STUDIO

NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE

With Live Performance:

It’s a Girl! Opening one door and closing another

Artist Residency Presentation by Irma Sofia Poeter

30 September 2023 @ 6 – 9pm, Performance 8pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

Irma Sofía Poeter is a Mexican American artist who has lived on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. For her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS, Poeter brought a selection of recent works, entitles NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE, to present in dialogue with new work created in Berlin. “It’s a GIRL! Opening one door and closing another” is closely related to the “New Man” series – a body of work that explores the possibility of deconstructing hegemonic masculinity and opts for alternative masculinities in which ways of being and existing in the world stand out differently. With the performance “It’s a GIRL!”, Poeter starts to imagine the deconstruction of that hegemonic masculinity in women. How can we alter, transform, recreate this structure? As more women enter and thrive in this vertical and patriarchal system, we are just conforming and settling into the same system we are revolting from. Who is this New Woman that embraces both her masculine and feminine and projects that balance into the creation of a new and harmonious world? These are some of the topics Poeter explores during her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS.

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#6: RAÚL CERRILLO

OPEN STUDIO

New Mythologies:

Intelligence vs Consciousness

Artist Residency Presentation by Raúl Cerrillo

1 September 2023 @ 6 – 9pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

With his paintings, sculptures and installations, the Mexican artist Raúl Cerrillo builds a bridge between the past of our ancient cultures and the future that can be expected from today’s technological age. The syncretism expressed in his works speaks of the importance of blending different cultures and traditions to connect with ourselves and with other people. In this context, he proposes new myths and archetypes to help us find our own way.

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Parallel to his Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS,
Raúl Cerrillo holds an exhibition at Mexican Embassy:

With his paintings, sculptures and installations, the Mexican artist Raúl Cerrillo builds a bridge between the past of our ancient cultures and the future that can be expected from today’s technological age. The syncretism expressed in his works speaks of the importance of blending different cultures and traditions to connect with ourselves and with other people. In this context, he proposes new myths and archetypes to help us find our own way.

New Mythologies:

OPENING: 28 August @ 6-8pm

EXHIBITION: 29 August – 11 October 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

Mexico in Berlin

Featuring:

Julieta Aranda, Luis Carrera-Maul, Mariana Castillo Deball, Emilio Chapela, Sandra Contreras & Anselmo Fox, Beatriz Morales, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Gabriel Rossell Santillá

Curated by Luis Carrera-Maul

Within the framework of the 30th anniversary of sisterhood between Berlin and Mexico City,

MOMENTUM & LAGOS jointly present

Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

An exhibition of contemporary art by Mexican artists working in Berlin.

FINISSAGE: 23 July @ 5-8pm

With Catalogue Launch & Mezcal by San Cosme

Catalogue Design by Emilio Rapanà

EXHIBITION: 6 July – 23 August 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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TRUTHTRUSTTREES

FEATURING:

Alena Grom, Verena Issel, Laura J. Lukitsch, Sonya Schönberger, Nina E. Schönefeld, Benjamin Heim Shepard, Caroline Shepard, Andreas Templin, Philip Topolovac, Magaly Vega

Curated by Caroline Shepard & Benjamin Heim Shepard

OPENING: 27 July @ 5-9pm

With Movable Performance by Patrick Jambon @ 6-8pm
& Musical Intervention by Andreas Templin: Aurorhytmica Hymns // Extended Piano (Drone/Doom) @ 8:30pm

POETRY & SOUND: 2 August @ 6-8pm

“How Do We Love This World“: Sound Performance and Guided Cemetery Walk by Laura J. Luetisch,
“Roses of Resistance”: Reading by Federico Hewson,
& A Celebration of Trees with Poetry from Ben Shepard and Max Haivenm

FINISSAGE: 6 August @ 4-9pm

Raise money for Ukraine! Unique poster from Ukrainian artist Alena Grom will be for sale. Proceeds will be donated.
Caroline and Ben Shepard say “Adieu” to Berlin and all the wonderful people they have met. Celebrate with live music by the band “Isaak” and D/VJ AntiDodi.

EXHIBITION: 28 July – 6 August 2023

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday @ 12-6pm

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Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

Mexico in Berlin

Featuring:

Julieta Aranda, Luis Carrera-Maul, Mariana Castillo Deball, Emilio Chapela, Sandra Contreras & Anselmo Fox, Beatriz Morales, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Gabriel Rossell Santillá

Curated by Luis Carrera-Maul

Within the framework of the 30th anniversary of sisterhood between Berlin and Mexico City,

MOMENTUM & LAGOS jointly present

Far Away So Close / In weiter Ferne, so Nah!

An exhibition of contemporary art by Mexican artists working in Berlin.

OPENING: 5 July @ 5-9pm

EXHIBITION: 6 July – 23 August 2023

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday @ 9-5pm

@ The Cultural Institute of Mexico in Germany

Embassy of Mexico

Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#3: LUIA CORSINI

OPEN STUDIO:

BEYOND BAUHAUS

Works-in-Progress

27 May 2023 @ 5-9pm

@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS

Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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You Know That You Are Human

Travels to the Kultursymposium Weimar 2023

A MATTER OF TRUST

Featuring:

Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh

Curated by Kateryna Filyuk

In this edition of the exhibition at Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar, You Know That You Are Human is presented together with selected video artists from the MOMENTUM Collection.

Lutz Becker, Nezaket Ekici, Thomas Eller, Mahsa Foroughi, Christian Jankowski, Shahar Marcus, Christian Niccoli, Nina E. Schönefeld, Caroline Shepard, Mariana Vassileva

Curated Rachel Rits Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

OPENING: 9 May 2023 @ 6-9pm

ARTIST TALK: 11 May @ 4pm

EXHIBITION: 11 May – 3 June 2023

EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 10 June 2023

Opening Hours: Thurs-Sat @ 4-7pm

@ Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar

Asbachstrasse 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany

Part of the Kultursymposium Weimar:

10-12 May 2023

A MATTER OF TRUST

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MOMENTUM – LAGOS

Present:

EMILIO CHAPELA

There are no clouds on Google

SCREENING & ARTIST TALK

13 May 2023 @ 7pm

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

Emilio Chapela is a visual artist and researcher. His practice, which is informed by science and ecology, aims to visualize bonds and connections between humans and nonhumans to reconcile with the world’s manifold temporalities and movements. His work deals with multiple ideas about time and space. He is a fellow at Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (2022-2024) in Mexico. He has exhibited extensively in Mexico, Latinoamerica, the USA and Europe. His most recent solo Museum exhibition was at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City in 2019, where he collaborated with architects, astronomers and scientists. He has a PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the co-curator of entre—ríos.

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#2: MERCEDES GERTZ

OPEN STUDIO

26-28 April 2023 @ 6-9pm

DREAM FOR A DREAM

Participatory Workshop by Mercedes Gertz

with Tarot Performance by Paulina Jade Doniz

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY

#1: Magaly Vega Lopez

1 – 31 March 2023

OPEN STUDIO

29 March 2023 @ 6-9pm

LOVE IN A MIST
Performance by Magaly Vega Lopez @ 7pm

ARTIST TALK @ 7:30pm

Magaly Vega Lopez in dialogue with Luis Carrera Maul, Director of LAGOS Mexico City & Berlin
& Caroline Shepard, Artist and Prof. of Photography

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

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CURATORS TALK & VIDEO SCREENING

20 February 2023 @ 18:30

With Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

VIDEOS from ELSEWHERE: Tijuana

Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection @ ICBC

The Cultural Institute of Baja California, Mexico

Part of the MOMENTUM, Berlin – LAGOS, Mexico City Partnership Program

On the occasion of
the 30th anniversary of Berlin & Mexico City as Sister Cities

ART from ELSEWHERE: Mexico City

On the Occasion of Mexico City Art Week 2023
and the 30th anniversary of Berlin & Mexico City as Sister Cities

OPENING:
2 February 2023 @ 20:00

EXHIBITION:
3 February – 2 March 2023

Opening Hours:
Art Week, 6-12 February: 11:00 – 18:00

All Other Times,
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
info@artelagos.mx

Featuring:

aaajiao – AES+F – Inna Artemova – Claudia Chaseling & Emilio Rapanà – Margret Eicher – Nezaket Ekici – Thomas Eller – Theo Eshetu – Amir Fattal – Christian Jankowski – Ola Kolehmainen – David Krippendorff – Milovan Destil Marković – Almagul Menlibayeva – Gulnur Mukazhanova – Kirsten Palz – Nina E. Schönefeld – Caroline Shepard – David Szauder – Vadim Zakharov

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

Laguna de Tamiahua 3,
Anáhuac I Sección,
Mexico City, 11320, Mexico

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You Know That You Are Human

@ POINTS of RESISTANCE V

Opening: 3 December 2022 at 1pm – 6pm

Exhibition: 4 December 2022 – 7 January 2023

@ Zionskirche

Zionskirchplatz, 10119 Berlin Mitte

Opening Times:

Monday – Friday / 2 – 6 pm

Saturday + Sunday / 12 – 6 pm

ARTISTS:

You Know That You Are Human

Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh

POINTS of RESISTANCE V

Borys Artiukovych, Lutz Becker, Andreas Blank, Viki Berg, Karol Broniatowski, Kerstin Dzewior, Louisa Dzewior, Thomas Eller, Mahsa Foroughi, FRANEK, Sofia Golubeva, Chris Hammerlein, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Anne Jungjohann, Gita Kurdpoor, Maria Lutsak, Volker März, Iris Musolf, Anastasia Pasechnik, Stefan Rinck, Antony Reznik, Nina E. Schönefeld, Deborah Sengl, Kerstin Serz, Caroline Shepard, Marta Vovk, Patricia Waller, Sofiia Yesakova

Curated by:
Kateryna Filyuk, Constanze Kleiner, Rachel Rits-Volloch, Stephan von Wiese

Organized by:
IZOLYATSIA, MOMENTUM, KLEINERVONWIESE

Supported by:
Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut as well as Goethe-Institut in Exile

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Far Away So Close

LAGOS Mexico City / MOMENTUM Berlin
Art Exchange

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of partnership between Berlin and Mexico City as sister cities.

We welcome applications from Berlin-based artists/curators/urban practitioners to the LAGOS Residency in Mexico City, and project proposals for the Mexico City / Berlin 30th Anniversary program in 2023!

And we welcome applications and project proposals from artists/curators/urban practitioners based in Mexican City to the LAGOS Berlin Residency @ MOMENTUM!

APPLICATIONS & INFO:
info@artelagos.mx

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MORE INFO @ www.mexicocity-berlin.org > >

Presented at the

Danube Dialogues Contemporary Art Festival

for the European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad

In the historic Karlovci Gymnasium, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

19 August – 15 September 2022

ART from ELSEWHERE:
Danube Dialogues

Selected Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection

Marina Belikova // Claudia Chaseling // Nezaket Ekici // David Krippendorff // David Szauder // Mariana Vassileva // Vadim Zakharov

“ART from ELSEWHERE: Danube Dialogues” presents a selection of video artworks by seven artists from the MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin, who come from the Danube regions of Germany, Hungary, and Bulgaria. MOMENTUM’s program is presented for the European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad, in the Danube Dialogues Festival in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, and is shown in parallel to the exhibition “Danube Dialogues”, featuring Milovan Destil Markovic, Claudia Chaseling, and Inna Artemova – three artists from the MOMENTUM Collection.

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Mahsa Foroughi

Website – CV

15 June – 15 November 2022

ARTIST BIO:

Mahsa Foroughi is a published Persian poet, filmmaker, critic and architect. She was awarded her PhD for interdisciplinary research on architecture, film and philosophy that questioned the status quo of humans’ perception. As an academic, she has been teaching architecture history and theory at UNSW since 2018. Mahsa is one of the authors of The Theatre Times, a non-partisan, global theatre portal. Mahsa has recently been offered an artist residency in Berlin to develop and produce her docudrama A Poetic Suicide. She has also finished her first non-fiction book, Haptic Visuality in Arts. She previously engaged with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), National Art School (NAS) and Carriageworks as a literary curator’s assistant.

A POETIC SUICIDE

For her Artist Residency project at MOMENTUM, Iranian filmmaker and poet Mahsa Foroughi undertakes research for the production of her new film, A Poetic Suicide. Set in three seminal cities spanning three continents – Tehran, Sydney, and Berlin – this work commingles the bitter truths of history and the poetic license of fiction to address individual and collective memory, trauma and healing, dream and reality. Based on a young poet’s life in post-revolutionary Iran, and then in Europe and Australia, A Poetic Suicide explores a young girl’s attempt to escape the trauma of persecution through an inner journey taking her to her most terrible memories and fears. The film traces the poet’s growth from a rebellious teenager in Iran to a desperate young woman in Australia, and onwards through her family connection to Berlin. Shot on location and also using found documentary footage, this film is designed as visual poetry comingling historical fact with fictional dreamscapes.

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OPENING: 7 April 2022 @ 6pm

EXHIBITION: 8 April – 1 May 2022

CONCERT by Sven Helbig: 17 April 2022 @ 7pm

PANEL DISCUSSION: 26 April 2022

@ Zionskirche

Zionskirchplatz, Berlin

Monday – Saturday: 14:00 – 18:00
Sunday & Holidays before Easter: 12:00 –16:00
Sunday & Holidays after Easter: 12:00 –18:00

Featuring:

Andreas Blank – Jonas Burgert – Tony Cragg – Wojtek Doroszuk – Nezaket Ekici – FRANEK – Asta Grötting – Sven Helbig – Stefan Höller – Olaf Holzapfel – Huang Jia – Nikita Kadan – William Kentridge – Ola Kolehmainen – Via Lewandowsky – Bernd Lohaus – Sarah Loibl – Boris Mikhailov – Fiona Pardington – Angelika Platen – Gerhard Richter – Stefan Rinck – Arsen Savadov – Katharina Sieverding – Vadim Zakharov

Initiated by:

MOMENTUM & KLEINERVONWIESE

Curated by:

Constanze Kleiner, Daniel Marzona, Rachel Rits-Volloch, Stephan von Wiese, in cooperation with David Elliott

Ukrainian Video Program curated by Kateryna Filyuk:

Piotr Armianovski – Fantastic Little Splash – Oksana Karpovych – Dana Kavelina – Yarema Malashuk & Roman Himey – Oleksiy Radynski – Mykola Ridnyi

POINTS of RESISTANCE WEBSITE > >

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27 March @ 6-9pm

Hannu Karjalainen Performs His Visual Album LUXE @ 7pm

Karjalainen presents a live rendition of his most recent work, the audiovisual project LUXE, released by Berlin record label Karaoke Kalk in December 2021. While STATES of EMERGENCY poses the question “What is the role of the artist in a state of emergency?”, Hannu Karjalainen’s new visual album LUXE is inspired by a parallel question, addressing “whether being able to make art in times when the world is quite literally burning must be understood as a luxury or rather a necessity that helps humans to reflect upon the slowly unfolding catastrophes around them?”

@ MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

2G+ Corona Rules Apply:
Proof of Vaccination or Recovery AND a Negative Test REQUIRED

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POUSH-Manifesto Artist Incubator

Open Studios Exhibition

5 February 2022

11:00 – 19:00

Featuring:

Mariana Hahn // Boryana Petkova // Mariana Vassileva

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch

@ POUSH Manifesto

Studio of Boryana Petkova & Mariana Vassileva

6 Boulevard du Général Leclerc
92110 Clichy, Paris, France

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The Conclusion of MOMENTUM’s 10th Anniversary Program

OPENING (2G+): 11 December @ 7-9pm

11 December 2021 – 27 March 2022

FINISSAGE PERFORMANCE (2G+):

HANNU KARJALAINEN Performing His Visual Album LUXE

27 March @ 6-9pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS:
20 December 2021 – 4 January 2022

Featuring:

aaajiao (CN) – Iván Buenader (AR) – Claudia Chaseling (DE) + Emilio Rapanà (IT/DE) – Margret Eicher (DE) – Nezaket Ekici (TR/DE) – Thomas Eller (DE) – Amir Fattal (IL/DE) – Doug Fishbone (US/UK) – Máximo González (AR) – Hannu Karjalainen (FI) – David Krippendorff (US/DE) – Shahar Marcus (IL) – Milovan Destil Marković (CS/DE) – Christian Niccoli (IT) – Kirsten Palz (DK) – Nina E. Schönefeld (DE) – Sumugan Sivanesan (AU)

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

Supported by Stiftung KUNSTFONDS

@ MOMENTUM Gallery
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

& the MOMENTUM Channel on IkonoTV

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ONLINE EXHIBITION
ON

5 November – 31 December 2021

Featuring Video Art from TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles Berlin:

AES+F // Shaarbek Amankul // Marina Belikova //
Zuzanna Janin // Dominik Lejman // Almagul Menlibayeva // Hajnal Nemeth // David Szauder

Curated by
Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà

With David Elliott, Curatorial Advisor & Symposium Organizer

CLICK HERE to view TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles on IkonoTV >>

Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

9 November 2021

The 32nd Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

11:00 – 13:30 & 18:30 – 23:00

At Zionskirche, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin Mitte

Morning Program – 3G rules apply: proof of vaccination, recovery, or negative test required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

11:00 – 11:30

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

11:30 – 12:00

Film Screening – Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English subtitles]

12:00 – 13:00
Panel Discussion – Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom [in English]

Moderated by David Elliott
Curator, Writer, Art Historian, Museum Director (Oxford, UK / Berlin)

Tatiana Arzamasova
Artist from AES+F (Moscow, Russia / Berlin)

Thomas Eller
Artist and Curator, Artistic Director at Taoxichuan China Arts & Sciences, President of Randian Magazine, Director of THEgallery (Mürsbach, Germany / Berlin)

Dominik Lejman
Artist and Professor at the University of the Arts Poznan (Poznan, Poland / Berlin)

Zsuzsanna Petró
Curator at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, formerly at the Ludwig Museum Budapest (Budapest, Hungary / Berlin)

Rachel Rits-Volloch
Curator and Founding Director of MOMENTUM

13:00 – 13:40
Film Screening – Allegoria Sacra by AES+F

Evening Program – 2G rules apply: proof of vaccination, or recovery required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS – CLICK HERE >>

18:30 – 19:00

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

19:00 – 19:30

Film Screening Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English Subtitles]

19:30 – 20:30
Lecture – The Church, the Resistance and the Bear – Philosopher, historian, and publisher

Christian Posthofen addresses the Zionskirche as a heterotopia.
[in German]

21:00 – 22:00
Concert – TRES MOMENTOS by Sven Helbig, conducted by Wilhelm Keitel

To Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS – CLICK HERE >>