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Today is the last day of Sleep #2 🪦 by Radu Jude at CCA Berlin! A beautiful work and presentation we have realized together with @mathiaszeiske and @daad_artists 💕 We are open today from 11 am–6 pm. If you want to learn more about the work, follow the link in our bio. 📸 @dianapfammatter

The winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 is Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) 🎖️! ⁠ ⁠ “Rene’s deeply personal work is rooted in community and belonging – and their power both to heal and bring people together.” – Shoair Mavlian, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery. ⁠ ⁠ Rene’s nominated project, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, explores identity and belonging, subculture, class and family. Their diaristic photography captures everyday moments with tenderness and intimacy in a vivid portrait of contemporary life. ⁠ ⁠ Congratulations to Rene! 🌟🏆 ⁠ ⁠ And to all of this year’s shortlisted artists 👏 @wgesicka @amak_mahmoodian and Jane Evelyn Atwood ⁠ ⁠ @rene.matic @arcadiamissa @ccaberlin ⁠ ⁠ Read more at .uk/DBPFP26 ⁠ ⁠ @dboersephotographyfoundation #DeutscheBorsePhotographyFoundation #DBPFP26

Huge Congratulations to Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) on winning the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026! The exhibition will continue to be on view at The Photographer’s Gallery in London (@thephotographersgallery ) until the 7th of June 2026. Featuring newly produced photographs, installations and sound pieces, Matić was nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, at CCA Berlin. Matić’s diaristic, snapshot-like photography captures everyday moments with poetic intimacy. The images, combined with collected objects, film and sound, form a vivid and layered portrait of contemporary life. Through the layered materials, symbols, and storytelling, the installation considers how intimate connections—often fragile or elusive—can become acts of resistance and form new meaning. It is a great honour to work together with Matić as they continue to contribute to the discourse and reflect on the fractured realities we inhabit through their work. Rene Matić was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 alongside Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, and Amak Mahmoodian. Pictured: Detail, Feelings Wheel, 2024-2025 Installation of glass framed photo series and sound piece, Dimensions variable. ©️Rene Matić. @dboersephotographyfoundation @ccaberlin @jbnnmnn @fabianschoeneich #renematic #renematić

CCA Berlin und DISTANZ laden herzlich zur Präsentation der Publikation “Tetris B Mountaingoat” von Jana Schulz am 21. Mai 2026 um 19 Uhr ein. Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung sprechen Jana Schulz und Herausgeberin Rebecca Wilton über das Buch, ergänzt durch eine Lesung von Logan February, die* einen Text zum Buch beigetragen hat. Eine Sonderedition zum Buch wird an dem Abend erhältlich sein. Das Gespräch findet auf Deutsch statt, die Lesung auf Englisch. (Weitere Informationen unter www.cca.berlin)

Das Buch und die Buchpräsentation im CCA Berlin werden von der Schulze-Fielitz-Stiftung Berlin gefördert. 📸: Jana Schulz, Tetris B Mountaingoat, 2026. Courtesy die Künstlerin. @rebecca.wilton @loganfebruary

CCA Berlin is pleased to present „Sleep #2“ (2024), an one-hour video installation by award-winning Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude 📹 The presentation runs from 30 April to 16 May 2026 and is realized in collaboration with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 💕 Radu Jude, born in Bucharest, is one of the most distinctive and anarchic voices in contemporary European cinema. His body of work is marked by constant formal reinvention, moving fluidly between political satires, documentary collages, theatrical episode films, and dark comedies. Central to his work are the unresolved wounds of Romanian history: the country’s involvement in the Holocaust, the violence of the Ceaușescu regime, and the hypocrisies of post-totalitarian society. His recent films include „Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn“ (2021 Golden Bear Winner), „Don’t Expect Too Much from the End of the World“ (2023), “Dracula“ (2025), and “Kontinental ‚25” (2025 Silver Bear Winner). During his DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellowship in 2023, Radu Jude made „Sleep #2,“ consisting of recorded live-streaming webcam footage of Andy Warhol’s grave in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paying tribute to Warhol’s landmark film “Sleep“ (1963), „Sleep #2“ is a voyeuristic study of death, immortality, and posthumous celebrity. See link in bio for more information about the film.

Join us on 16 April at 7 pm for the book launch of “distinguish the limit from the edge”—an artist book that presents an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Their connection emerges through the intersection of text and image between selected work from Cha’s oeuvre and Robert’s practice that share the formal strategies of the fold. The event will take place in the basement of CCA Berlin, presenting a short film by Robert, followed by a conversation between Jimmy Robert and Erin Honeycutt on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s influence on their work and on the book as a form of dialogue. Free entry. The conversation will be held in English. “distinguish the limit from the edge” is commissioned by Book Works @bookworksuk , edited by Jacob Korczynski and designed by Wolfe Hall @wolfehall.studio . The book is published in association with Participant Inc. @participantafterdark with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Services, after the exhibition: “flipping through pages keeping a record of time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert” curated by Jacob Korczynski at Participant Inc., 6 September – 3 November, 2024, in New York. 📸: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert, distinguish the limit from the edge, 2025. Courtesy Jimmy Robert and Book Works.

Schau diesen Samstag, den 11. April um 15 Uhr vorbei und sei beim Artist Talk mit Yalda Afsah und @fabianschoeneich dabei – ein Gespräch am letzten Tag von Afsahs Soloausstellung “PAN” im CCA Berlin. Eintritt frei. Das Gespräch findet auf Deutsch statt. Diese Woche ist deine letzte Chance, die Ausstellung zu sehen! Komm einfach während unserer Öffnungszeiten vorbei: Di–Sa, 11–18 Uhr. 📸 Yalda Afsah, 2026. Foto: Diana Pfammatter / CCA Berlin

New in our bookshop—“What is Contemporary Art for Today? And what should it be for, if anything?” 10 € All proceeds go to CCA’s programs and exhibitions. With thanks to the Perić Collection❤️ 📕To order, please email [email protected] or visit us during our opening hours (Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm). 🌸Spring Deal: Sign up to become a CCA Friend (50 € or 100 € annual donation) before 30 April 2026, and receive a copy for free! See link in bio. This publication developed out of the Seaport Talks, a yearlong, unrecorded series of conversations that was held roughly every month from January 2023 until January 2024 at T.J. Byrnes in downtown Manhattan, hosted by critic @deankissick . The book compiles short responses from many of those who participated and from a few regulars, to the question, “What is Contemporary Art for Today? And what should it be for, if anything?” The texts are presented with very little editing to allow everyone’s voices to come through. The Seaport Talks and this publication were initiated and organized by the Perić Collection with the aim of bringing lively discourse back to the public. Contributors include: Domenick Ammirati, Alvaro Barrington, Gavin Brown, Caroline Busta, Joshua Citarella, Ben Davis, Aria Dean, Travis Diehl, Bridget Donahue, Jason Farago, Bettina Funcke, Nick Irvin, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Matthew Linde, Patrick McGraw, Hiji Nam, Seth Price, Walter Robinson, Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, Tobias Spichtig, Natasha Stagg, Sean Tatol, Andrew Norman Wilson, and Lloyd Wise. Published by @peric_collection Editors: Matt Moravec, Eleonore Hugendubel, Dean Kissick Designer: Geoff Kaplan, General Working Group Copy editor: Laura McLean-Ferris

Join us for the presentation of Jenna Sutela’s record “Pond Brain” on 7 April at 7 pm in the Chapel (Kapelle) of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. ☘️ The evening will feature an extended listening session of the unique resin record—with malleable grooves so that each play sounds different—accompanied by a conversation between Jenna Sutela and Bill Kouligas, founder of the record label @pan__hq , moderated by Vittoria de Franchis, curator at the @nicolettafioruccifoundation . Free entry, no registration is required. The talk will be in English. “Pond Brain” is released on PAN and presented in the context of Sutela’s solo exhibition “With each cycle, a brain,” currently on view at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London. 📸 Jenna Sutela, Pond Brain, 2026. Photo by Eva Herzog. Courtesy the artist and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation. Jenna Sutela’s “Pond Brain” (2026) presents sounds from her instrument-fountain of the same name. The water-filled bronze bowl can be played, or activated by touch and friction. Forged as the artist’s neuroplastic portrait, it resembles a spouting bowl orchestrating feedback loops of sonic vibrations and dancing droplets. The work draws on ‘alt’ cybernetic ideas of ponds as self-regulating, living systems, and the notion that the human brain, like a musical instrument, produces oscillatory, resonant patterns. In the installation, the bowl’s frequencies interact with otherworldly resonances from oceanic and interplanetary audio libraries (star pulses, dolphin vocalizations, and beyond), shaping one another in an ongoing exchange. With each incoming cycle, a new brain is born and reflected back into its mirror image.

Staub, Schimmel, Nachkriegsmoderne: Wer das Center for Contemporary Arts Berlin an der Gedächtniskirche betritt, landet mitten in „PAN“, der neuen Filminstallation von Yalda Afsah (bis 11. April). Die Künstlerin begleitet darin ein esoterisches Festival im bulgarischen Gebirge, bei dem Tausende Menschen Paneurythmie tanzen – eine choreografierte Bewegungsfolge aus den 1930er-Jahren, in weißen Kleidern, auf der Suche nach Harmonie mit sich selbst und dem Kosmos. Doch Afsah zerlegt das Ritual präzise: Ihr Blick bleibt an Details hängen – Ketten, Ringe, Sonnenbrillen, Sportkleidung. Mehr als die Menschen erzählen hier die Dinge, so Oliver Koerner von Gustorf in unserem aktuellen März-Heft. Nicht nur von Sehnsucht oder Entfremdung, sondern auch von der eigentlichen Religion unserer Gegenwart: dem Kapitalismus. ⁠ ______⁠ ⁠ Yalda Afsah „PAN“, Ausstellungsansicht, CCA Berlin, 2026 © Foto: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin #monopolmagazin #monopolmarchissue26 #yaldaafsah @yaldaafsah @ccaberlin @oliverkoerner

‼️NEW TIME & LOCATION: 4 April, 4 pm, Chapel / Kapelle of Memorial Church‼️ CCA Berlin and @lnouwa invite you to the premiere of “Concerts” by @yuri_umemoto on 4 April at 4 pm in the Chapel of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, featuring piano by @yuri_umemoto , cello by @___ozgurkaya___ , violin by @w_weissowa , and fixed media.  Yuri Umemoto (b. 2002, Tokyo) is a composer currently in residence at @akademiesolitude , Stuttgart. Building on notation, recording, and editing, his music often incorporates sampled voices and songs in a practice that touches on classical and contemporary music, experimental, ambient, and pop.  In “Concerts,” fragments of everyday life appear as motives: a neighbor covering his ears, pigeons gathering where they are routinely fed, an ex-girlfriend with a bored expression, brothers absorbed in their video game. Moments of pleasure and casual aggression accumulate alongside the low mechanical chorus of a washing machine. 10€ entry, limited capacity, no registration required, tickets at the door. Drinks will be available before and after the performance.  📸: Yuri Umemoto @dollardunia @mathisneuhaus @ebony_____blade