Berlin doesn’t only test you through chaos.
Sometimes it’s the repetition. The noise. The random plans. The feeling of becoming someone you didn’t really choose.
That’s exactly why we built Mae.
Every week, we meet in art spaces around the city. We experience the work together, then sit in a circle and talk.
The art is just the starting point, it sparks questions, and we follow whatever it brings up in us: identity, desire, fear, change, the world we’re living in.
A space for art, reflection, and real conversation.
Less performance, more presence.
Less drifting, more depth.
If this feels like what you’ve been looking for, come sit with us.
First time’s on us.
Art is not content. But more and more, we consume it as if it were. And the problem is not the art, not the artists, not the art professionals behind it. It’s the format around it.
So many art experiences today leave very little space for what makes culture feel alive: attention, conversation, interpretation, collective meaning.
At Mae, we believe art should be something you stay with.
Something you question.
Something you talk about.
Something that helps you give language to what you felt, and hear what others saw.
Every week, we meet inside cultural spaces around Berlin with artists, members and curious people who want more from art than just passing through.
No need to perform knowledge.
No need to belong to the art world.
Just curiosity, attention and real conversation.
Come sit with us.
Join an upcoming encounter through the link in bio.
What if understanding something does not mean holding it still?
Today for our next mae encounter we meet at Pescare Perle, @yvonneandreini solo show.
Here paintings move between structure and dissolution, gesture and form, control and openness. Images appear, collapse, return. Water becomes not only a motif, but a way of thinking: fluid, shifting, impossible to fully grasp.
After the exhibition and conversation, the evening moves into a private performance by @idamariecorell
Come sit with us at the link in bio
What You Cannot Control
with Yvonne Andreini
14.05 h19
A prison. A psychiatric ward. A migration system. Each one does more than contain a person. It organizes time, movement, language, identity.
@claudia_virginia_vitari work begins there: with lives shaped by systems of control and care, and with the question of what remains of the individual inside them.
On May 14, we enter her studio, encounter the work, and sit together with the question:
How do institutions shape human existence and what remains of the individual within them?
Glass as a Lens on Power
Studio Visit & Symposium with Claudia Virginia Vitari
14.05 · 19:00
Come sit with us. RSPV at the link in bio
Have you ever thought that the chase for more is what leaves us unsatisfied?
On May 13th at 19:00, during our next mae Encounter “The Trap of Always Wanting More,” we’ll explore this idea through the work of @philip_groezinger , an artist whose worlds are shaped by restless desire, shifting horizons, and figures who reach but never quite arrive.
If these are the kinds of conversations you wish you had in Berlin, come sit with us.
Save your spot via the link in bio.
Encountering @studiotheresaschubert ’s Beyond the Human made me rethink how I see the world.�Fungi, organisms, even technology not as tools for us to control, but as collaborators we share the ecosystem with.�A tiny shift in perspective, but it changes everything.
If you want to be part of these kinds of conversations in Berlin, check what’s next on mae at the link in bio, sign up now and start your free trial.
This is a reminder that entering an artist’s studio is never just stepping into a room… it’s stepping into a parallel world.�We were an intimate group inside @rhodeeo studio on a rainy Berlin Saturday.�Went to see art. Ended up trauma‑bonding and that was beautiful <3
Thanks to Lara for bringing us into her magical world, for sharing and listening.�“Obsession and the Distance Between Us.”
If this is the kind of conversation you wish you had in this city,
come sit with us.
Your first mae experience is on us.
Link in bio.
if you’re in berlin and this story hits a little too close to home, come sit with us :)
mae is for artists, creatives, art lovers + curious minds who want more than just “networking” . Real conversations, real spaces, real community <3
your first experience is on us.
link in bio!
credits: this story was shared by one of our beloved community members. it reflects their personal experience of the city, so please receive it with care.
What happens when home is no longer something you can simply return to?
For our next Mae encounter, we’re entering the world of @montoyollin , whose work moves through migration, memory, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge as ways of finding ground again.
Together we’ll reflect on what it means to rebuild belonging when identity no longer feels fixed and return is no longer only about place.
Grow Your Own Roots
9 May, 19:00
🗝️RSVP via the Mae app
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As someone with a full-time job in Berlin, I’m constantly tempted to just rot in bed and let my life turn into a loop of laptop, groceries, bed. And after a while, that starts to make life feel weirdly empty.

On weekends, obviously, you want to see your friends and be out in the city, so it can start feeling like there’s never any time left for yourself, for something that’s actually just for you.
Until I found Mae.
This is what I do instead when I want art, good conversations, people on the same wavelength, and a night that actually leaves me with something.
If that sounds like your vibe, come find us on Mae (link in bio)
What happens when we stop seeing the world through human logic alone?
For our next Mae encounter, we’re stepping into Theresa Schubert’s world, where fungi, algorithms, organic matter, and digital systems don’t sit there like passive tools, but show up as collaborators. Her work shifts the focus away from the anthropocentric view of the human as the only source of meaning, intelligence, or agency.
Come solo, no art background needed.
Beyond the Human
7 May, 19:00
RSVP via the Mae app.
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