Before sharing more about a new publication, I would like to look back at another one that came out last year and means a lot to me:
Gbegbetopia—Maison Gbegbe: An Art-Based Community and Spiritual Center Published by Archive Books, Berlin
Maison Gbegbe is a cultural center in Togo that aims to bring together different cultures, traditions, religions, and knowledge systems, creating a space for exchange, reconciliation, and critical thinking.
The project is a collaborative effort involving members of the Union des Cultes Traditionnels du Togo (UCTT) in Agouegan, L’Africaine d’Architecture, art&dialogue e.V., and a pre-configuration committee.
Maison Gbegbe is intended as a space for dialogue and the preservation and transmission of traditional and spiritual knowledge. It also hopes to provide a place for returned and restituted West African cultural and spiritual assets to be reintegrated into an appropriate context.
This publication gives an overview of the process, collaborations, and motivations behind its creation.
Editors: Sename Koffi Agbodjinou, Mathilde ter Heijne, and Messanh Amedegnato Editorial support: Amy Patton Design: Lilia Di Bella Translations: Steve Corcoran and Amy Patton Photographs and video stills: Emmanuel Agbelessessy, Dodo Adogli, Ingo Brunner, Musquiqui Chihying, Alexander Gheorghiu, Gregor Kasper, Sename Koffi Agbodjinou, Cristiane Lopes Da Cunha, Mathilde ter Heijne
Softcover, English, 225 pages ISBN 978-3-949973-63-5
More information: Archive Books — Gbegbetopia
Something is coming soon ✨
The publication for our research project Dropping In and Out – A Response to Uncertainty will be out soon.
The project reflects on artistic careers, interruptions, returns, absences, care, uncertainty, and the ways in which creative lives do not always follow linear narratives.
More soon — but for now, here are the first details:
Edited by: Jessica Goodman, Vanessa Gravenor, and Mathilde ter Heijne
Editorial collaboration: Amy Patton
Design and production: Katja Gretzinger
Published by
Berlin University of the Arts
Printing: Newspaper Club
Cover image: One of 50 unique posters printed at MIZDRUK, Aarle-Rixtel
ISBN: 978-3-89462-441-8
We won the competition for a 15 meter wall installation at te new building for the Bundespolizieinspektion in Ludwigsdorf. A border is not a place, but a state—this wall installation makes it visible. At the intersection of past and present, state and individual, the project documents an archaeological mapping of the invisible: pieces of soil are cast at sites where history, control, movement, and uncertainty have been inscribed—crime scenes, borderlines, waiting areas, zones of stagnation. Here a visualisation of the wall-mounted casts—featuring different color textures of various sedimentary rocks from the region. To be realised this year!
Looking forward to the first edition of BEYOND THE METHOD!
🗓Saturday, April 25, 2026, 12–6 pm
📍Salzufer 13–15, 10587 Berlin
BEYOND THE METHOD is a day-long gathering where artists, researchers, and practitioners share how they work. This first edition focuses on vulnerability and connection.
Across three blocks of presentations, screenings, and open discussion, participants explore what it means to engage with inherited trauma and feminist genealogies, to practice within states of fear and anxiety, and to approach the body as a site of knowledge.
With screenings and presentations by:
Irina Denkmann (@nikarkay )
Chang Gao (@gao.chang_rca )
Vanessa Gravenor (@vanessa_gravenor )
Patricia Gwozdz (@patriziologie )
Magdalena Kallenberger (@magdalenakallenberger )
Anastasia Kolas (#anastasiakolas)
Anastasia Putsykina (@anastasia_putsykina )
Mathilde ter Heijne (@mathildeterheijne )
Discussions led by:
Irina Denkmann
Patricia Gwozdz
Amy Patton (@aaaairplane )
Initiated by Daniela Salazar @commonland_studio
Organized by art&dialogue e.V.
Registration for participating the event in Bio:
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Open Speech — Beyond the Method
📍 Salzufer 13–15, 10587 Berlin
🗓 April 2026 (date TBC)
art&dialogue launches Open Speech with Beyond the Method — a gathering for artists, researchers, and creative practitioners working with non-commercial, research-based, and participatory practices.
What happens when methods dissolve, mutate, or are refused?
How can artistic practice exist beyond institutional frameworks?
Which new spaces, audiences, and temporalities emerge?
A day with presentations, screenings, panels and discussions around the following topics:
• Intergenerational — transmission, rupture, inherited knowledge
• Fear / Anxiety — affect, trauma, geography as method
• Vulnerability — bodies, feeling as method, openness
📩 More info & full program coming soon
Initiated by art&dialogue Berlin
Graphic Design: Daniela Salazar
Room to Expand #4 showcasing performative and time based art from the Berlin University of the Arts
January 31 & February 1 2026 This year, the platform will expand again and include presentations at Uferstudios at the end of the Wintersemester
Save the Date!
31.01.2026 | 16:30 - 21:00
01.02.2026 | Winterkino | 16:30 - 20:00
Studio 1 | Uferstudios
Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin
Mathilde ter Heijne @mathildeterheijne & Amy Patton @aaaairplane from @art.and.dialogue are hand-printing 50 unique covers for our upcoming publication of the research project “Dropping In and Out”, in collaboration with Jan Willem from MIZDRUK @mizdruk in Aarle-Rixtel, Netherlands.
Each cover is made using MIZDRUK’s unique participatory print method — layering fragments and elements from users of the workshop, some of which were printed over 10 years ago. Time, memory, and process all pressed into paper. 💥📚
Stay tuned — no two are the same.
#HandPrinted #PublicationArt #DroppingInAndOut #artanddialogue #MathildeterHeijne #AmyPatton #MIZDRUK #ParticipatoryArt #ArtistBook #Printmaking #LimitedEdition
‘Woman to Go’ is featured in the exhibition ‘Care: After the Immediate’ at the Global Encounter Festival 2025 in Dubai.
I’m grateful to have been invited by curator Shaheen Merali, who developed a thoughtful and well-conceived concept, that I was happy to be a part of. It allowed me to meet some other very interesting artists.
This installation and archive, started in 2005, continues to travel the world. I’m glad to see it continuing to share the stories of forgotten 19th-century women and non-binary people.
Project Kickoff: Dropping In and Out
🗓 July 8, 2025
We’ve officially launched the next phase of Dropping In and Out with a joint hybrid meeting connecting participants in Berlin and Oxford!
This follows our inspiring May visit to Oxford, where project leads Mathilde ter Heijne and Dr. Jessica Goodman met with Prof. Dr. Elleke Boehmer, artist Prof. Oreet Ashery, Prof. Hannie Lawler, and our partner @torchoxford .
💬 Our key discussion themes included:
– Rethinking artistic value beyond visibility and income – to include care, impact, and feminist priorities
– Exploring how personal agency meets structural force in shaping careers
– Embracing multiplicity in narratives, artworks, and interpretations
– Imagining relational and non-linear approaches to archives, especially around women and non-binary artists
Looking ahead, we began sketching ideas for new exhibition formats that emphasize dialogue and collective engagement — all in preparation for our upcoming zine publication, to be designed by Studio Gretzinger (@studiogretzinger ).
This meeting marked an important step in our growing, cross-institutional collaboration. 🌱
Participants in the July 8 Kickoff
Jessica Goodman, Mathilde ter Heijne (@mathildeterheijne ), Vanessa Gravenor (@vanessa_gravenor ), Oreet Ashery (@oreetashery ), Jade de Montserrat (jadedemontserrat), Hannie Lawler, Sonya Schönberger (@sonyaschonberger ), Antje Weitzel (@awetzelberlin ), Heike Munder (@heike.munder ), Katja Gretzinger (@studiogretzinger ), Sylvia Sadzinski (@sylv_inski ), Katharina Koch (@katharinakoch77 )
🖼️ Image 2: Mizdruk, Instagram: ink*orporated (@mizdruk )
📸 Image 7: Dr. Jessica Goodman visiting core members of @artanddialogue — @mathildeterheijne , @aaaairplane , @vanessa_gravenor , and @gao.chang_rca — for the occasion of the Project Kickoff: Dropping In and Out at Universität der Künste.
#seedfundingudkoxford #artanddialogue #Berlin #Oxford @udkberlin@oxford_uni@TorchOxford #oxfordudkseedfunding
#ArtisticValue #AlternativeCapital #PoliticalArt #FeministArtPractice #ContingencyAndControl
I am delighted to announce that my postcard piece "Woman to Go", an ongoing project since 2005, will be shown at another venue of the exhibition "Empowerment – Art and Feminisms", which will open this Friday in New Delhi.
Opening reception: Friday, 11 April 2025 | from 7:00 PM
Venue: Travancore Palace, New Delhi
Ahead of the opening, from 6:00–6:45 PM, curator Dr. Uta Ruhkamp will offer a guided tour through the exhibition.
"Fake Female Artist Life #2 - Ueno Otoko" from 2003. The character I used for this figure comes from the novel "Beauty and Sadness" by Yasunari Kawabata.
