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Thank you for visiting us during @berlinartweek ! For this occasion, ‘Ancestral Frequencies: Shrines of Resistance’ has opened an additional room featuring a video installation, offering an immersive way to engage with Janice Mascarenhas’ research through both documentary and experimental approaches. @janicemascarenhass ’ show is on view until 27.09.2025.

As we’re continuing to accept submissions for the @parrotart.io × @behindart__ Open Call (link in bio), curated this month by Mathilde Castaignède (@nathash44 ), founder of @kusse.berlin , we’re also sharing Mathilde’s Picks: 8 recommendations from our Curator of the Month spanning exhibitions, events, and books for art professionals and art lovers. __ Sculpture & Installation Open Call: Through the @parrotart.io × @behindart__ Open Call, artists working with objects, sculpture, and installation have the chance to receive a personal 1:1 online consultation with Mathilde Castaignède. She’ll provide feedback on your projects, share insights from her curatorial practice, and offer guidance to help refine your direction and and approach the art world with confidence. Deadline: September 25, 2025 (11:59 PM New York Time)

Janice Mascarenhas Ancestral Frequencies: Shrines of Resistance 06.09.2025 - 27.09.2025 KÜSSE Berlin @janicemascarenhass is a Brazilian hairstylist and visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice, including installation, performance, and photography, extends far beyond an aesthetic experience. Through diverse artistic forms, she conveys to the audience an exploration that merges anthropological and sociological perspectives. (...) For Janice, her work is inseparable from her lived experience: “Candomblé and being connected to my ancestors helped me to discover more about my identity, especially as a Black woman. The invisibilization of Black women is always what shocks me the most in any context I live in.” In this sense, her practice is not only about revisiting ancestral knowledge but also about reimagining its forms in the present as acts of visibility, affirmation, survival, and vehicles of cultural transmission. Lies to the concept of orí, literally « head » in Yoruba, but understood metaphysically as the individual’s seat of destiny, consciousness, and spiritual alignment. Mascarenhas’s sculptural and photographic creations are not only expressions of Black women’s empowerment but also material embodiments of resilience and cultural ancestry. (…) « Ancestral Frequencies: Shrines of Resistance » is an invitation to discover her creative research, accompanied by new narratives rooted in diasporic pasts. Following a temporal framework, the exhibition is conceived in two distinct phases. The initial presentation features two large-scale portraits, establishing a visual entry point into the artist’s practice. Coinciding with Berlin Art Week, the second phase activates a dedicated space for her video works, creating a deliberately immersive environment. This staged approach is designed to engage the viewer’s senses, fostering a multi-sensorial encounter that cultivates the experience of Janice Mascarenhas’s works. Video Installation Janice Mascarenhas « Les sons des cheveux » 2023 OPENING TIME Tuesday - Saturday 13:30 - 19:30

@parrotart.io in collaboration with @behindart___ is excited to announce the 10th edition of our seasonal Open Call: Personalized 1:1 Curator Consultation (Online) This month, the focus is on artists working with sculpture, installation, and object-based practices. The selected winner will receive a one-hour online consultation with our Curator of the Month, Mathilde Castaignede (@nathash44 ). She will offer personalized feedback, share insights from her own experience, and provide guidance to help you refine your projects, clarify your direction, and approach the art world with confidence. Mathilde Castaignede is an independent curator, art critic and founder of KÜSSE Berlin (@kusse.berlin ). After completing a Master’s degree in Curatorial Practices at the University Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, she dedicated her research to exploring art & cultural spaces engaged in cultural, ecological, and social transitions. KÜSSE Berlin (@kusse.berlin ) is a curatorial and research collective founded in 2019, originally based in Kathmandu, Nepal. After several years of nomadic activity, the project enters a new chapter in 2025 with the opening of its first physical space in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Conceived as an ephemeral concept store, the space functions as a hybrid between an art gallery and a retail shop, hosting exhibitions, cultural events, workshops, and lectures, while showcasing contemporary art, design, and independent publishing. Deadline: September 25, 2025 (11:59 PM, New York Time) Learn more and apply: ↘ link in bio #OpenCall #ArtCurator #Consultation #PortfolioReview #ArtOpportunity #Sculpture #Installation

Full look @kusse.berlin 💋💄 « Migrating is a Right » 📓 Publisher @linea__recta Author @migratingisaright Fanzine, 90 pages English / Spanish — KÜSSE Berlin CONCEPT SPACE Tuesday - Saturday 13:30 - 19:30 Mittenwalder Str.47, Berlin

Beautiful article by @keyimagazine 🌹 Karlotta Susanna Pöschko Between the skin 15.07.2025 - 25.08.2025 Stratum Salvationis (2024) Oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm Courtesy Karlotta Susanna Pöschko

Huge thanks to everyone who already came by today, it was such a joy to welcome you ❤️ We’re thrilled to present Between the skin, a solo exhibition featuring the amazing works of Karlotta Susanna Pöschko.

We are thrilled to officially announce the opening of KÜSSE Berlin with a stunning solo exhibition showcasing the work of Karlotta Susanna Pöschko. A poetic invitation into vulnerability, intimacy, and alienation, unfolding through profoundly introspective portraiture. OPENING RECEPTION 26.06.2025 18:00 – 21:00 CONCEPT SPACE from 27.06.2025 Tuesday – Saturday 13:30 – 19:30

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