Ella C Bernard - Ella CB

Please join us on Sunday, 22 March at 6 PM for ‘We keep losing the plot’ a conversation between Ella C. Bernard and Sonia Fernández Pan. @ella_cb @sf__pan At the end of 2024, we recorded a conversation that would become the podcast ‘We lost the plot’ in the ‘The Tale and The Tongue’ series by the IAGN in Basel. We were driven by the need to talk about the situation in Germany in relation to guilt, the culture of remembrance and the fact – more common than is admitted – of having grown up with a convinced Nazi in the family. We also felt it was important to do it in the first person, seeing how ‘we’ has shifted to ‘they,’ placing accountability on an official narrative that tells half-truths. Our podcast was published in February 2025, and although much has happened since then, other things remain the same.The plot seems increasingly difficult to follow. That is why we would like to return to this conversation from the current moment at Hours Space.  We invite you to a conversation among friends who work in art, a field affected by censorship and complicit silence, both inside and outside Germany. How we move and resist within it is also important for the plot.

More from Lindre-Basse, thank you @cac_synagoguedelme Overview photo: me

Some first photos of the sculptural developments from my recent stay in Lindre-Basse at the Residency of @cac_synagoguedelme Untitled, 2025 acrylic paint, ratchet straps, acrylic marker, ink, blankets

"Parce que l´univers est partout 02", 2025 at: "TheButchisHeretoStay" @scherben.scherben photos: 1-5 @artrepros 6-8: me. materials: tires, straps, ink, spray paint, acrylic spray, marker

Fragiles Open studio 16-19 @nkf_sweden with @ella_cb invited by @cave3000 photo by @4namendoza4ldana . Thanks for the opportunity to have you over. Ellas videos and installations are informed by her sculptural practice. Her sculptural work informs these more essayistic pieces, and what she learns from her immediate exchanges with materials and objects feeds directly into how she conceives space in her installations.

Ella C Bernard Fragiles Walk and screening 27/9 Nordic guest studio, Stockholm Walk 16.00 Nytorget 15A start at the Nordic guest studio 17.00 - 19.00 Open studio and screening at Nytorget 15A at the Nordic guest studio 18.00 Soup and tea We begin at the studio, where Ella C Bernard will give a short introduction to her project and practice. Afterwards, participants are invited to join Ella on a walk to observe the “details” inscribed in the urban space—traces that reveal how we live in and engage with the city. Participants are encouraged to bring their phones to photograph or film what we discover together. After the walk we gone head back to the studio where there will be the a chance to see Ella C Bernards practice and the project Fragiles. There will be soup and tea. The walk in the neighbourhood lasting about 1–1.5 hours and will be in the area around the studio. Fragiles Fragiles is a series of abstract portraits of places and cities. The artist began the project as a sculptural installation in Paris in 2023. Since then, it has developed into a combination of sculpture and film, with Stockholm becoming the third iteration, following Paris, France, and Lima, Peru. The work focuses on infrastructure and explores how film can create a tangible, haptic experience of the city. In each location, the artist collaborates with local sound artists, musicians, and writers to discover the city as its residents live it, and to trace how they care for their environment—inscribed in the marks of time on architecture and urban space. The project pays particular attention to structural elements—such as sewer and ventilation systems, the wear of time, or visible DIY fixes—that reflect how inhabitants engage with their surroundings. Ella C Bernard is invited by Natasja Loutchko in the unfolding project CAVE — an art project of intimate dialogues. #ellacbernard #cave3000

Ella C Bernard is at Nordic guest studio to work on their ongoing project Fragiles. Fragiles is an ongoing series of abstract city portraits that began in Paris (2023) and expanded in Lima (2024). In Stockholm, Bernard will work on the third iteration, combining sculpture and film to explore how architecture and streets carry traces of time and everyday life. Collaborating with local voices, she creates haptic encounters with the city through sound, text, and moving image. Ella C Bernard is a German artist whose visual practice encompasses sculpture, installation, moving image, and text. She primarily works with found and salvaged objects and materials, which often bear traces of their use and their abandonment from the utilitarian and capitalist circuit. Selected for their aesthetic and material potential, these elements are incorporated into installations or become sculptures while retaining their agency: they are presented to be read as they are, without calling for metaphorical or narrative interpretations from viewers. She is also co-founder of Unqualified Comments, a feminist, queer, and anti-fascist platform for collective reflection and exchange. At her stay she will host a public event with Unqualified Comments and Fragiles. Walk with Ella C Bernard 27.09 at the Nordin Guest studio located at Nytorget 15A 4pm Ella C Bernard graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt, in 2022 and has since exhibited widely across Europe, the U.S. and Mexico. Ella C Bernard is invited by Natasja Loutchko in the unfolding project CAVE — an art project of intimate dialogues @cave3000 pic. Ella C Bernard Ass in Window 95x65 cm

And some overviews.

A walk through my work this summer. These are individual sculptures installed together for my last critique of the summer a month ago. Thank you to everyone you know who - for the invested conversations, commitment, support, sensibility, thoughtfulness, hands on and passion. No one tagged individually due to lack of space. Thank you all!

Ella C. Bernard Mirrors, 2023 Cable, Various reflections, 2024 Part of « El fantasma de Tennessee » at Marcelle Alix Galerie until July 26 @ella_cb @marcellealix - - - #contemporary #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #mirrors #installation #parisart #digitalcurator #digitalcuration My photos

Can you look at Me?, 2025 installation view Au-dessus-des-Capitales curated by @maria.magdalena.sz and @edinzenun @scherben.scherben , Berlin lightbox, cables, mirror film, LEDs, glue, concrete, light, reflections overall dimensions: variable lightbox plus cables: 76x46x17cm concrete: 66x44x12 cm The dimensions of the concrete follow the exact dimensions of the lightbox. Photo: artrepros.berlin

Can you look at Me?, 2025 Au-dessus-des-Capitales curated by @maria.magdalena.sz and @edinzenun @scherben.scherben , Berlin lightbox, cables, mirror film, LEDs, glue, concrete, light, reflections overall dimensions: variable lightbox plus cables: 76 x 46 x 17 cm and concrete: 66 x 44 x 12 concrete The dimensions of the concrete follow the exact dimensions of the lightbox. Photos: artrepros.berlin and myself