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ʀɪᴘ ᴍᴀɴꜱᴛᴇɪɴꜱᴛʀᴀꜱꜱᴇ, ʟᴏɴɢ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴏʀ After the sudden, unexpected loss of our location on Mansteinstrasse, we’re beginning the search for a new space to call home. We’d love to find like-minded creatives from all disciplines looking for a shared studio and interested in planning exhibitions and other events with us. If two to four more people join our next chapter, we’ll be able to rent a larger space while keeping rent affordable- ideally around 200€/person each month. If you’re looking for a shared studio or working space and don’t mind occasional events, you’re still welcome to write us- but ideally, you’re also someone excited about collaborating on our program. If you want to get involved, or have a lead on a space, shoot us a message- and feel free to share this post! Sharing a few moments from our first chapter, and looking forward to the next one 🦋

The first edition of the Teufelssee Biennale unfolded a month ago today - what started as a running joke during visits to our favorite lake took shape and transformed into a beautiful farewell to summer. Thanks to everyone who braved the gloomy forecast to visit and especially to the artists and writers who shared their work, time and energy 🌞

We’re thrilled to share the program for the first Teufelssee Biennale, which will unfold tomorrow, August 30, from 3pm into the night: 3pm Poetry and Prose Readings Joana Stamer, Andreas Hill, Lara Husemann, Stephanie Fernandes @ste.fern , & Any Angel @any9angel 4:30pm Nancy Görlach: ‘From the Other Shore’ @nancy_goerlach 5pm Interactive Sculpture Activation Steph Joyce & Nick Koppenhagen: ‘Building a Sand Commune’ @_stephjoyce @nickkoppenhagen 5:30pm Bistu Ryx: ‘Cyborg-Shaminismus’ @bisturyx 6:30pm Adrian Piper: ‘Philip Zohn Catalysis’ (1971) #adrianpiper After Dark Melo Börner: ‘Phantom Dance’ @melosyndrom With additional artworks presented by Popo Fan @popofan , Oliver Schulz, Sebastian Acker @sebastianacker , Patricia Detmering @patricia_detmering , Mohsen Hazrati @mohsenzzzt , Lisa Nossek @_lesorties & Yashar Shirdel @_yasharshirdel 52°29’18.6”N 13°14’16.6”E Free Entry - Bring Drinks, Snacks, and Something Warm for later

You’re warmly invited to the first edition of the Teufelssee Biennale - a day of art, readings and performance near Berlin’s Teufelssee on August 30th. The day’s program will run from 3pm-8pm, mostly centered at the dunes a few minutes’ walk from the lake, and will conclude with a sound-work by #AdrianPiper at 6:30 pm. Participating Artists: Adrian Piper Andreas Hill Any Angel @any9angel Bistu Ryx @bisturyx Joana Stamer Lara Huesmann Lisa Nossek @_lesorties Melo Börner @melosyndrom Mohsen Hazrati @mohsenzzzt Nancy Görlach @nancy_goerlach Nick Koppenhagen @nickkoppenhagen Oliver Schulz Patricia Detmering @patricia_detmering Popo Fan @popofan Sebastian Acker @sebastianacker Steph Joyce @_stephjoyce Stephanie Fernandes @ste.fern Yashar Shirdel @_yasharshirdel 52°29'18.6"N 13°14'16.6"E

We’re thrilled to announce the digital release of ‘be an apple falling in every direction’, Any Angel’s latest studio album and the first of many musical projects and editions to come from or 🍏 Available for purchase on bandcamp and streaming on all major platforms; proceeds from the album’s sale will go directly towards funding future events and projects at or. All songs composed and recorded by @any9angel ; album art by Any Angel in collaboration with @derkroelofsen ‘we dreamed in and of a language like rain, more so a fine mist of points of glowing dew laid with precision and gently so as to evenly coat the whole surface. and as the surface moved and breathed deformed and shifted the glimmering grid danced with it, opalescent and soon another image as if reality were a mere fine pixelated screen, and another and another‘ or001

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Poets’ Corner last night, and special thanks to the writers, performers, @notthatbubblegum and @hausfuerpoesie .Berlin’s 2025 Poetry Festival continues in the coming days; be sure to check out the full program via @hausfurpoesie @microbe___ @nancy_goerlach @fox.tales @bardhisgram

Looking for a studio space in Berlin? We have an open spot at or! Since we’re already tight on storage space, we’d like to find someone with a relatively lightweight practice (for example, large paintings and sculptures probably won’t work out). We’d also love it if you want to take an active role in helping to curate and realize our future exhibitions and other events. If this sounds like you, shoot us a DM! A bit more about us: We’re a shared studio and project space in Berlin’s Schöneberg district. Five of us split the studio currently, and we have space for one more person. The whole space is 80 sqm, and the open space is ~11 sqm. We’re currently figuring out the details of a potential rent increase with our landlord, so your share of the rent would be €200/month at most, and potentially even less.

Many thanks to the artists who participated in our first crit night last month, as well as everyone who attended and shared their thoughts! Our next crit night will take place in June - if you’re interested in getting feedback on an in-process or recently finished creative project in any discipline, shoot us a DM! And so much thanks for showing us your works: @famifax @nic_hipp @mohsenzzzt

Save the date! As part of Poesiefestival Berlin 2025, or is thrilled to host Poets’ Corner Schöneberg and Bubble Gum for one evening only on May 31st. This edition of Poets’ Corner in cooperation with Bubble Gum aims to explore the fluid transition between language and body, between poetry and performance. Bubble Gum is an international platform and network for performance artists and Poet’s Corner is part of @hausfuerpoesie Performers Nancy Görlach and Mélissa Antier confront topics such as loss, parting and the search for home in different ways. In their performance practices, their bodies shape resonances for what lies before poetic language and is so hard to describe: this elusive humming between movement and sound that is always there, behind everything, if you just listen hard enough. In an experimental lab setting, they meet poets Fatbardh Kqiku and Sylvia Fox to react to their poetry, to try out new forms of physical expression for poetry and to approach the question: In what space and in which manner is poetry created before it is spoken? Moderation: Liola Nike Mattheis With texts in English and German.
Funded by: Dezentrale Kulturarbeit Tempelhof-Schöneberg With: Fatbardh Kqiku • Melissa Antier • Nancy Görlach • Sylvia Fox Location:
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Free Admission Photo credits in order of appearance: Klauß Dupeyrat, Hans-Christian Plambeck, Wibke Deschamps-Lange, Alicja Khatchikian

Save the date! Our next YouTube reading group meets on Thursday, April 24th at 7pm- we’ll be viewing and discussing John Berger’s classic 1972 video essay ‘Ways of Seeing’ 👁👁

Save the date! We’re hosting our first crit night on Thursday, April 3rd at 7pm 🦋 Bringing back a format that we first explored at Galerie Weisser Elefant, the crit nights will be a series of free, interdisciplinary group critiques where artists and other creative practitioners can present and receive feedback on new and in-progress work. Our first crit night will feature work by @nic_hipp @mohsenzzzt and @famifax - thanks to everyone else who applied to our open call and see you next week!

Save the date: our first YouTube Reading Group meets Monday, March 17th at 6pm YouTube is an archive of videos that’s unprecedentedly vast - over 500,000 hours are uploaded there each day. YouTube and other social media platforms are also unprecedented in the way that their recommendation algorithms sort, and in some ways subvert, their massive archives. Imagine a librarian who’s paid to keep you in the library for as long as possible. You can go explore the stacks whenever you like, but as long as the librarian keeps bringing you books that you like reading, why should you? And what will you do if one day the librarian brings you a book that describes this system perfectly, down to the color of the shirt you’re wearing as you read it? For the first YouTube reading group, let’s pull on these three threads and see where they lead- the endless library, the algorithmic librarian, and the book that seems to render both in perfect clarity. What videos have you found on YouTube that gave you deeper insights into your experience of the platform as a whole? I’ll be bringing a few clips that I think capture something about this uncanny archive- feel free to do the same or just come as you are, and see you Monday evening at or 🦋