Pascale Espinosa

“Imagining Buchanan” is a sound installation at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Dec 12, 13 & 14. 11-6pm. We explored the multiplicity, presence, and simultaneous invisibility of Black lived realities in Berlin, placing them in dialogue with the exhibition of Beverly Buchanan’s works at Haus am Waldsee. The project brings together voices from several Afro-diasporic artists with an installation inspired by Buchanan’s sculptural practice and an accompanying publication. Sound installation + Publication: Cecilia Tosh, Sena Tabea Nehme, Elia Keinprecht, Pascale Espinosa and Jenny Contreras Installation in collaboration with Juan Orozco. With contributions from: El Hadji M.F.Joe, Noah Osarenren, Monty Luke, Sarah aka Ubax, Cecilia Tosh, Sena Tabea Nehme As part of: Beverly Buchanan / Berlin: Public Programme for an Exhibition, conceived by artists of Art in Context from UdK & students of HU Languages: German / English / others Admission to the event is included in the exhibition ticket. 📷 1 Cecilia Tosh 2 Pascal Espinosa

Viral Intimacies x Young Intimacies: Traces of Possible Future 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 📆 Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 3 PM 📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin 🗣️ German, English The last day of Viral Intimacies gives space to voices weaved together by the exhibition project. Students of the Evangelischen Schule Berlin-Zentrum are sharing their perspectives on the topic of HIV/AIDS & in conversation with @christa8675 ,@hannaschaich ,@losamarillos.colectivo & @pascal3spinosa . The tour is followed by a screening of short films developed in workshops and school project days together with @3awadalla , @pascal3spinosa & @christina.harles . @losamarillos.colectivo will share about their encounters of their Europe-Tour & project “Frontera Amarilla”. Together we will close the day and exhibition with a DJ Set by ½ of Los Amarillos Camilo Acosta. 15h: Fokus Tour Bei der Young Intimacies Fokus Tour führen Schüler*innen der Evangelischen Schule Berlin-Zentrum durch die Ausstellung. Dabei laden sie dazu ein, ihre Projekte und Perspektiven auf das Thema HIV/AIDS kennenzulernen, die sie in Bezug auf die künstlerischen Positionen der Ausstellung entwickelt haben. Ausdruck finden ihre Projekte als künstlerische Interventionen in der Ausstellung. Bei der Tour kommen die Schüler*innen mit Künstler*innen der Ausstellung ins Gespräch. Die Führung findet auf Deutsch statt (Flüsterübersetzung auf Englisch / Spanisch möglich) Mit: Hanna Schaich, Los Amarillos, Pascal Espinosa, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo und Schüler*innen der Evangelischen Schule Berlin-Zentrum 17h: Screening Kurzfilme von Schüler*innen & Jugendlichen aus Ferienworkshops & Schulprojekt Tagen. 18h: Artist Talk @losamarillos.colectivo kommen zurück nach Berlin, um ihre Erfahrungen aus dem Projekt “Frontera Amarilla” zu teilen. Nach dem Auftakt bei der Eröffnung von Viral Intimacies trafen @santiagolemus & @ladyhunter.ht bei ihrer Europa-Tour auf Geschichten, Körper und Realitäten von Menschen die mit HIV+ und in lateinamerikanischer Migration leben. Im Gespräch mit @pascal3spinosa & @elliferrr 19h: DJ Set Camilo Acosta aka LadyHunter @ladyhunter.ht Image Credits @lu.alfarovalecia @laurafiorip

Each letter of 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 🩶✨ unfolds into an entry — a constellation of vulnerability, activism, memory, and desire. Love. AIDS. Riot. Sex. opens the sequence, referencing the two-part exhibition at nGbK that explores artistic and activist responses to the AIDS crisis and its reverberations today. The Glossar can be found and traced both in the exhibition Viral Intimacies and in the accompanying publication. * Jeder Buchstabe von 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 🩶✨ entfaltet sich zu einem Eintrag – einer Konstellation aus Verletzlichkeit, Aktivismus, Erinnerung und Sehnsucht. Liebe. AIDS. Aufstand. Sex. eröffnet die Sequenz und verweist auf die zweiteilige Ausstellung in der nGbK, die künstlerische und aktivistische Reaktionen auf die AIDS-Krise und ihre Auswirkungen bis heute untersucht. Das Glossar findet sich sowohl in der Ausstellung Viral Intimacies als auch in der begleitenden Publikation.

Archiving HIV/AIDS: Archival Practices in Berlin and the UK’s HIV/AIDS Visual Culture 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 📆 Sat, 15 Nov 2025, 3 PM 📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin 🗣️ English Join us for a rich afternoon of talks exploring HIV/AIDS archival work, queer club culture, and the visual history of activism. Moderated by Samuel Perea-Díaz @samuel.perea.diaz . Talk 1: “Archiving HIV/AIDS: Introduction, Berlin Spotlight, and Research Findings” – David Aaron Swartz (@daswartzy ; @singularartsgroup_ !!re_email!!_queer.artwork.archive; @queerclubculture ) David Aaron Swartz will share insights from his recent years of research on queer club culture, HIV/AIDS activism, cultural responses to the epidemic, and public educational campaigns. Focusing on Berlin, he will present archival resources, research findings, and his personal experiences navigating the city’s rich archival landscape. Talk 2: “Take Care (of that archive)” – Siân Cook (@hivgraphics ) Graphic designer and Senior Lecturer Siân Cook will discuss the importance of HIV/AIDS graphic ephemera in documenting the epidemic. From activist organizations to health authorities, these materials preserve a tangible legacy of care and communication, highlighting how communities informed and supported one another, especially in pre-digital times. 📸 Portrait by Pieter Defraene (David Aaron Swartz) | Portrait by Piccia Neri (Siân Cook) #ViralIntimacies #HIVAIDSArchive #DavidAaronSwartz #SianCook #HIVgraphics #nGbK #BerlinArt #QueerCulture #AIDSHistory #VisualCulture #ArchivalResearch #QueerArchives #ContemporaryArt

Archiving HIV/AIDS: Several Favourable Bodies 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 📆 Sat, 15 Nov 2025, 1 PM 📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin 🗣️ English “Several Favourable Bodies” is a performance and accompanying video tracing Benny Nemer’s research into the unusual journey of French photographer and author Hervé Guibert’s postcard collection (1955-1991). Through queer methods, participatory research techniques, and the formation of transhistorical bonds of kinship, Nemer activates a thoughtful and intimate engagement with AIDS histories. Benny Nemer (@benny_nemer ) is a Montreal-born artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. His multidisciplinary practice explores love, longing, and kinship, taking form through audio work, performance, participatory actions, epistolary writing, and even flower arranging. 📸 Portrait by Laurent Poleo-Garnier | Research table by Hervé Bossy #BennyNemer #ViralIntimacies #nGbK #HerveGuibert #QueerHistory #AIDShistory #PerformanceArt #TranshistoricalKinship #ArtResearch #BerlinArt #SeveralFavourableBodies

Artist Talk with Manuela Solano 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 📆 Fri, 14 Nov 2025, 7 PM 📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin 🗣️ English A free public talk moderated by Samuel Perea-Díaz @samuel.perea.diaz Since 2024, Manuela Solano (@manuelasolanolozano ) has been producing her series “Blind, Transgender and Wild” — a body of paintings on paper that captures her encounters in Berlin’s nightlife, reflections on the art world, and the intensity of personal and social experiences — with humour, urgency and truth. Her work “Wanna Party?” (2024) — part of this series — is featured in the exhibition Viral Intimacies (11.09.-16.11.25) at nGbK. Manuela Solano (b. 1987, Mexico City) studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico, followed by an academic stay at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. In 2014, she lost her sight due to complications from an HIV-related infection; her practice explores identity, memory and humour. 📸 Portrait by René López Velasco | Exhibition view by Lucia Alfaro #ManuelaSolano #ViralIntimacies #ArtistTalk #nGbK #BerlinArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtEvent #BlindTransgenderAndWild #QueerArt #HIVawareness #BerlinCulture #FreeEvent #ArtandDiscourse #ngbkBerlin

Morgen 19:00 Eröffnen wir Places that are Other @neuenationalgalerie mit einer listening session um Mitternacht auf der hinteren Terrasse Pascale Espinosa (Aka Tomás Espinosa) & Jona Wolf  in Collab mit Gabriel Knoop und Juan Orozco @pascal3spinosa @_wolfjona_ @knogab @juanorozcoartesonoro   Auf der Terrasse der Neuen Nationalgalerie entsteht ein temporärer Darkroom. Ein Raum, der das Verborgene nicht auflöst,  sondern als Form von Widerstand und Erinnerung sichtbar werden lässt. Orte wie Parks, Toiletten oder dunkle Ecken sind Teil einer queeren Topografie, die aus Mangel an Sicherheit entstand. Sie sind Zufluchtsorte, Möglichkeitsräume für Intimität, Solidarität, Selbstbestimmung und Liebe. Die Installation versteht den Darkroom als Widerstandsform und als Archiv flüchtiger Begegnungen. Zwischen Geräuschen aus dem Tiergarten, Fragmenten von Stimmen und keramischen Spuren entfaltet sich ein Netz aus Erinnerung, Begehren und Unsichtbarkeit. Innen- und Außenraum spiegeln einander, und was einst im Schatten lag, wird vorsichtig erfahrbar. Eine Einladung, urbane Orte neu zu hören, zu sehen und zu verstehen. —- Tomorrow 7pm we are opening Places that are Other @neuenationalgalerie with a listening session at midnight at the back of the terrace  Pascale Espinosa (aka Tomás Espinosa) & Jona Wolf
 in collaboration with Gabriel Knoop and Juan Orozco
 On the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie, a temporary darkroom takes shape. A space that does not dissolve what is hidden, but instead makes it visible as a form of resistance and remembrance. Places such as parks, public toilets, or dimly lit corners are part of a queer topography that evolved out of a lack of safety. They are refuges and spaces of possibility for intimacy, solidarity, self-determination, and love. The installation approaches the darkroom as both a form of resistance and an archive of fleeting encounters. Between sounds from the Tiergarten, fragments of voices, and ceramic traces, a web of memory, desire, and invisibility unfolds. Interior and exterior mirror one another, and what once lay in shadow becomes gently perceptible. An invitation to listen, explore, and understand urban spaces anew.

Installation views from Viral Intimacies, on view until 16 November 2025 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 Viral Intimacies brings together artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on how HIV/AIDS has been shaped by politics, biomedicine, social contexts, as well as personal memories, love, and archives. The exhibition centers the lived realities of those long marginalized in the histories of HIV/AIDS — trans and cis women, people from the Global South, racialized communities, incarcerated people, and sex workers. Through eleven audiovisual works, Viral Intimacies seeks to decolonize the past and present of HIV/AIDS, filling the silences within dominant narratives.As the show enters its final weeks, we invite visitors to experience the works in person and spend time with the atmosphere they create. Scenography by Nancy Naser Al Deen & Sina Ahmadi Design by Karan Kobel Education & Outreach by Madi Awadalla, Pascale Espinosa & Christina Harles @christina.harles Pictures: Laura Fiorio @laurafioriop

21-28 Oct 2025: “Young Intimacies” Film Workshop For Young Queers || 2pm - 6pm || Visual by @pascal3spinosa || For: Queer youth from 14 years to 27 years old Register: [email protected] Location: nGbK am Alex Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin The @ngbk_berlin exhibition VIRAL INTIMACIES brings together artists, activists and scientists to reflect on how HIV/AIDS is shaped by politics, biomedical, social contexts, as well as personal memories, love and archives. This project is funded by the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education @kultur_formen — — Click the link in @queer.artwork.archive bio to access full infos. — —

Impressions from the opening of 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦, as part of Berlin Art Week @berlinartweek Come visit the current Exhibition at nGbK! 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 can be seen Tue-Thu from 12am to 6pm and Fri-Sun from 12am to 8pm until 16 November. VIRAL INTIMACIES brings together artists, activists and scholars to reflect on contemporary conditions of HIV/AIDS, as they are shaped by politics, biomedicine, social locations as well as personal memories, love and archives. The project foregrounds the realities of those who long have been silenced or forgotten in writing the history of HIV/AIDS: trans and cis women, people from the Global South, racialized people, incarcerated people and sex workers. VIRAL INTIMACIES asks how to decolonize the history and present of HIV/AIDS. Eleven audiovisual artworks fill the gaps in the dominant yet incomplete narrative of HIV/AIDS and narrate HIV/AIDS as a fragmented and uneven story. The accompanying public program creates a shared space for in depth conversation, encounters, visibilities and solidarity through film screenings, talks, workshops and performances. Artists: Camilo Acosta & Santiago Lemus, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Jorge Bordello, Kat Cheairs, Naya de Souza, Pascale Espinosa, Ato Kwamina Hasford, Kia LaBeija, Ivan L. Munuera, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Manuela Solano nGbK work group: Ahmed Awadalla (Madi), Tomás Espinosa, Elisabeth Krämer, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Max Schnepf Photo Credits: Laura Fiorio @laurafioriop

🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 Exhibition catalogue VIRAL INTIMACIES 🩶✨ reflections on intimacy, care, and collective resilience Inside you’ll find: Hanna Schaich in conversation with Kat Cheairs — “The meaning of HIV is not dead!” Madi Awadalla — What the Virus Saw: Touch, Borders, and Other Infections Santiago Lemus & Camilo Acosta — Manifiesto Amarillo / Yellow Manifesto (2023) Samuel Perea-Díaz in conversation with Benny Nemer — Intimate Ancestries Max Schnepf — Forever and You: PrEP and HIV’s Archive of Feelings Curatorial Statement, work descriptions and artist’s biographies Edited by Madi Awadalla, Pascale Espinosa, Elisabeth Krämer, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, and Max Schnepf (Lead Editor) Design by Karan Kobel Copyediting by Savannah Turner

Artist Talk mit Ivan L. Munuera 🩶✨ 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦 📆 Sat, 18 Oct 2025, 3:30 PM 📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin Join curators Max Schnepf @mxschnepf and Pascale Espinosa @pascal3spinosa for an intimate walkthrough of the exhibition, tracing currents of desire, memory, and politics — with a special focus on the work of Ivan L. Munuera, who will also be present. Ivan L. Munuera (with V. Rotie and P. Saiz) PrEP Bread, 2023 Installation – table, twenty-eight prints, photos, PrEP medication, and bread sculpture. PrEP Bread maps the chemical and political networks that shape our bodies. PrEP—an HIV prevention therapy—links biology and geography: a single slice of bread taken with the drug spans continents, connecting laboratories in California, cornfields in Argentina, gas from Eastern Europe, lithium from the Atacama Desert, oil from Kazakhstan or Libya, flour from Navarra, latex from Thailand, and lubricant from Almería. Developed for the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, PrEP Bread unfolds as a visual research project exploring the global cartographies of health, technology, and desire. Ivan L. Munuera @ivanlmunuera is a scholar, critic, and curator whose work investigates the intersections of culture, politics, and bodily practices. Currently Assistant Professor at Bard College, Munuera has presented projects at the Museo Reina Sofía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundació Suñol, Ludwig Museum, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Image credits: Laura Fiorio, Alvaro Grarcia