David Rueter

Pavasario renginių sezonas jau čia! Menininkai(–ės): Marissa Lee Benedict (@marissaleebenedict ) ir David Rueter (@david.rueter ) Justina Mykolaitytė (@justinamyk ) Viktorija Rybakova (@weatherinvilnius ) 1 nuotraukoje – kadras iš Marissa Lee Benedict ir David Rueter filmo „Metrika Nr. 5“. DOP Laurynas Skeisgiela (@laurynas.skeisgiela ). 2 video – Justinos Mykolaitytės performanso ištraukos. 3 nuotraukoje – Viktorijos Rybakovos kūrinio vaizdas. _ The spring events season is here! Artists: Marissa Lee Benedict (@marissaleebenedict ) and David Rueter (@david.rueter ) Justina Mykolaitytė (@justinamyk ) Viktorija Rybakova (@weatherinvilnius ) 1st image – a still from ‘Metrica No. 5’, a film by Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter. DOP: Laurynas Skeisgiela (@laurynas.skeisgiela ). 2nd video – excerpts from a performance by Justina Mykolaitytė. 3rd image – a view of a work by Viktorija Rybakova.

🎧🔊, room tone feedback on 🔁 Thank you @airberlinalexanderplatz for having us, and @mondriaanfonds for making it possible. Until soon Berlin, see you in Venice and Vilnius in May 🌪️☀️

We’re happy to share that an excerpt of receipts generated as part of our architecturally-adapted installation 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘝𝘰𝘭. 𝘐 (2023) — first installed and shown @rupert.vilnius as part of the 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴 performance program (curated by @tautvydas.urbelis ) — are now published as part of the @mit_thresholds 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 54:𝘙𝘌𝘊𝘖𝘙𝘋 issue edited by Hana Meihan Davis and Bridget Peak. 🔗 to the issue in bio 🌪️📖🌪️

(((teaser images))) Join us ✨today✨ for a gorgeous presentation of new work by Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Daniel Giles in 𝒥𝑜𝓈𝑒𝓅𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑒’𝓈: 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓊𝒹𝑒. The work emerges out of long-term archival research, critically processing and tracing aesthetic projections of architecture, race, and gender through European history and into the present. A new artist book will be available for sale at the event 🔥 Come from 15:00-18:00 to see the work + stay for the good company and good food from 19:00+ terminal Willem Parelstraat 17 1018KZ, Amsterdam, NL

Work-in-progress, 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘳 (𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊), Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter, 5-gallon PET plastic preforms, air, tap water from the site of fabrication, institutional furniture and/or architecture. 2018 - 2026 - Infrastructure is the pattern of movement of social form, writes Lauren Berlant. In times of crisis it is clear to identify what menaces “the endurance of the world,” life as we know it, they say. Itʼs harder, they say, to bear the ambivalences of the things we want (sex, democracy, even life itself), the things that require us to manage “being in proximity in the awkard and violent ordinary. ” (Berlant, 2016) 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘳 (𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘈-𝘊) share a simple sculptural procedure executed in relation to circulating and non-circulating architectures and institutional forms. The series is one of dependencies and displacements, crystallizing patterns of social choreographies and elemental forces. Each of the series begins with two or more 5-gallon water bottle preforms—standard “blanks” molded in China and shipped to factories worldwide. Instead of blowing the bottle preform into a standardized steel mold, as is done in industry, Benedict and Rueter expand the forms organically into architectures and objects with either high pressure air or boiling water. The process requires closeness and the potential for violence; attention to engineering and improvisation; feeling through collective bodies, private and public; and unfolding relations between the whole and the fragment. ___ Install 📸 Simon Pillaud / production 💙@yelizaveta_strakhova_ / archival and research images collected by Benedict and Rueter

🎧🔈🔔 on —> 𝘈𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘯 (2026), 9:10 min single-channel looping video installation and 5.1 channel sound, displacement of the exhibiting institution’s storage room(s) + crops of an A1 poster we printed (backend of the backend). DM if you want a poster by 🐌✉️ or local delivery 📨🐞

🎧 , 🔈, 🔔 on —- Thank you to everyone who made it out to the opening of 𝑨𝒌𝒕𝒆𝒏 yesterday at Uq-Bar-A-Ba.The warmth was felt on this gray Berlin day. Special thanks to the ABA team for hosting us so generously these past months - @airberlinalexanderplatz , @aleksanderkmrv , @susanne.kriemann , @_aa__eee_ , @merel_b_ - and to those helping with the production of the work (Lillian Canright), and the labor of love that is childcare (Mathilde 💜). And many thanks to @mondriaanfonds for supporting this residency and the childcare that made it possible, allowing for this burst of new energy amidst our often long and slow moving working processes. 🌪️ If you’re in Berlin the next few days DM to make an appointment (until the 18th!), or if you’re afar but would like to watch (with headphones on) DM for a screening link 🖤⚡️

We warmly invite you to the exhibition opening of our current resident duo Marissa Lee Benedict & David Rueter. Presented will be the first presentation of Akten, a single-channel video installation developed during their residency at ABA. The video documents the artists’ performance of a score in the ABA Salon — an artist-run space housed in a temporary construction trailer that will disappear at the end of 2026. The work manifests as a feedback loop hovering at a threshold, as the two artists work with files and filing cabinets to find space amidst a world coming loose, evaporating, and falling into new arrangements that mirror centuries-long rituals of management. Opening: 12th April at 16:00. Further visits by appointment @marissaleebenedict @david.rueter Uq-Bar-A-Ba Schwedenstr. 16 13357 Berlin ---------- Supported by Mondriaan Fund

We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Daniel Giles' presentation 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴: 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦. 18 April 2026 15.00-18.00 Willem Parelstraat 17, 1018 KZ Amsterdam RSVP to marissa [at] terminal.institute to join us for a light meal following the opening. 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴: 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 brings together the process and findings of a multi-year research project on the Baker House (1927), its modernist architect Adolf Loos, and its inspiration, the iconic entertainer Josephine Baker. The installation at terminal is an accumulation of material experiments on paper, ceramics, and textiles by Daniel Giles, made in response to archival and field research. This presentation serves as a prelude to a future speculative staging of the house, with parts of the research coming to life and underpinned by a critique of modernist conceptions of race and gender.

A brief excerpt from Marissa Lee Benedict & David Rueter @marissaleebenedict @david.rueter contribution on ABA Blogs about rituals of (dis)posession. The ABA Blogs section on our website is dedicated to showcasing entries from current residents, reflecting on their findings, thoughts, processes while at the residency in Berlin. Keep an eye on the Blogs page for upcoming contributions. 🖌️ There is a link in our bio that will take you there.

We kindly invite you to our Indoor Picnic: Mid-Presentations. Join us for an informal gathering where artists open up their process – from past works to current research. And joins us after for drinks. Indoors: ABA Office Friedrichstraße 23a, 10969 Berlin 17.02.2026 18-20h Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter, video stills from Metrica No. 5 (2025-26, commissioned by Rupert and the Lithuanian Council for Culture; filmed at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania) and Metrica No. 6 (2025-26, produced with support from the Mondriaan Funds; filmed at the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and the Delft stadsarchief). ----- Who was first, the mimic or the model? Obviously the model. But how does the model know what to model before the mimic mimics? In Elisabeth Prehn’s current research, she examines rhetorics in dance and political negotiation: visual rhetorics, emotional rhetorics and the persuasive power of neutrality and affect. ---- We hope to see you there!

A warm welcome to Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter who have joined the ABA residency this month! Through videos, performances, site-adapted sculptures, and drawings, Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter imagine scores for intercepting and redirecting infrastructural systems and bureaucratic processes. The duo's work lodges materiality, voice, intimacy, and at times their own bodies, into the midst of seemingly banal technologic operations. With gestures that simultaneously index and fictionalize the conditions they study, the duo picks up the art-historic tools of institutional critique and romantic conceptualism to dig into colonial legacies sedimented into official worlds. Teasing at the peripheral vision of historical objects and records, their process based work speaks at intimate volumes and project across vast distances. The duo currently lives in Amsterdam (NL). While in residence Benedict and Rueter will be developing a monograph, and finalizing post-production, on their most recent document performance (Metrica): a score that invites professional psychotherapists to conduct intake sessions with the “psyche” of administrative archives in the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Germany. The resulting written “talk” therapy sessions, mediated by an AI agent scripted by the artists, are as revealing of the history of psychotherapeutic techniques and practices as they are of the archives’ “memories,” which are derived from regional and national historic land registries from the 12th - 20th centuries.  Supported by Mondriaan Fund