currently on view
Alicja Rogalska: The Feast
The exhibition features Alicja Rogalska’s movie The Feast (2022), in which she set up a “metabolic feast, a dinner ritual commemorating the end of humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels.” The movie takes place in an unspecified future when humans managed to distribute surplus energy generated by their metabolisms. The four dinner attendees reminisce about the past and the different strategies it took to challenge the climate catastrophe. The screening is accompanied by a text from Julio Linares’ upcoming book Decolonizing Money. In the chapter titled “On the Abolition of the U.S. Dollar” the Guatemalan economic anthropologist demonstrates how imagining life after fossil fuels necessarily means dismantling the US petro-dollar system.
code of practice
library
code of practice
The Code of Practice is an ever-evolving document to show where the gallery is coming from and where it is going. It includes quotes from The Code of Practice of a Feminist (Art) Institution and is also inspired by the tools created by the Juist is Juist initiative. To ask, comment, suggest to it, please, write to mjhartelova@gmail.com
Libraries
MP20 includes a book, zine, tool, seeds and cuttings, and music equipment library. To see the list of items, check out the Google Doc below. To see, if a book or an object are currently available and ask about lending possibilities, contact mjhartelova@gmail.com
previous exhibitions and events
Cassie Thornton: Mythical Celestial Bodies, white hole
What if white noise is leaking out of a theoretical white hole somewhere nearby our home, e-town (Earth). A white hole is like the theoretical anus of a black hole: it is infinitely small, infinitely flat and flattening, and it projects itself very far. As opposed to black holes, a white hole separates and segregates. What if white holes are not ‘real’, but more like something we made up (like money, war or linear time) because we love to have white a-hole in all our stories? Where, then, do white holes get their power? It might be from the constant noise they produce. The nature of whiteness is that it impacts and gets inside everything. And, we have all been listening to white noise for a few hundred years and it keeps getting louder.
Opening featured a WHITE NOISE CHOIR performance and reading of Cassie’s text “Anxiety Is Nature Defending Itself”
Bea Xu: Plastic Lattice
Plastic Lattice is a land-based, site-specific piece of speculative ontological design, born out of a desire to connect humans across geographical distances via their psychic energy, blood and surrounding mycelial infrastructures.
Alice Yuan Zhang: A Web Without Capture, A Spell Against Time
This show is a sideways view into the artist’s ongoing research and writing, Becoming Infrastructure, in which she explores a deep view of digital infrastructure on earthly terms. Often manifesting through technological innovations is the imperialistic desire to conquer the future. To unravel this bind, Alice offers diasporic logic to weave inquiries across geological strata, Internet stack, and intergenerational residue alike. Can we rehearse grief and healing practices to "bridge the bitsphere and biosphere", as metallurgist Ursula M. Franklin urges? Visit Mehringplatz 20 for Alice's ingredients toward deciphering a more relational media cosmology.
QUEER MARXIST READING AND ACTION GROUP
The Queer Marxist Reading and Action Group was initiated by Brad Scott and Gabriel Mehmel, organized in collaboration with KD68 (later MP20), in summer 2020. The group met bi-weekly collectively discussing readings. Additionally, it aimed to work to inspire and support its members in joining anti-Capitalist organizing. Its members are part of initiatives such as Deutsche Wohnen Enteignet, Putx United, community of sex workers and allies, the Blue Star queer collective, TheLeftBerlin, Gemeinschaftsgarten am Moritzplatz, and more. In 2020, the group read The Politics of Everybody by Holly Lewis. In 2021, we were reading Social Reproduction Theory anthology by Tithi Bhattacharya.
Amy Balkin et al.: A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting
People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting is a collection of materials contributed by people living in places that may disappear because of the combined physical, political, and economic impacts of climate change, primarily sea level rise, erosion, desertification, and glacial melting. It may be seen as an archive of our future… Amy Balkin is an American artist. In here projects, she considers our relationship to the natural environment and what we see, and could see, as a “public domain”.
shaghayegh cyrous: the window
What did the outside become to us in the months we were quarantined? Through views from windows collected from all over the world, Iranian artist Shagheygh Cyrous continues on her years-long investigation of possibilities and politics of relating over distances that can’t be physically crossed.
July - August, 2020
An Interview
with Diane Barbé for Berlin ArtLink about then Kottbusser Damm 68 gallery and the ideas behind it here.
Judit navratil: transsaulted circles
A visit to artist Judit Navratil’s Szívküldi Lakótelep (szívküldi= heart-sent, lakótelep=social housing neighborhood). In her project, she consider what good ancestory could look like in the difficult realm of virtual reality. Exhibition synchronized and organized in collaboration with /room/ (program of / gallery in San Francisco, curated by Maxine Schoefer-Wulf).
Madelyn Byrd: Output_Ritual 1
An exhibition initiated by a 24 hours residency in the KD68 gallery, finding authenticity, alone and in dialog, between/in/despite surveillance. In the exhibition, Madelyn Byrd thinks further about what making a (sound) mark on a space that is constantly changing could feel like.
December, 2020 - March, 2021
Jésus Landin-Torrez III, Brett Russell: Learning to Love in the Key of F.
“Can violence and hate teach us to love? If so/not how?” The two Alaskan musicians and artists present a video and a set of questions that stare into the rainbow version of love for so long that they start recognizing the force moving behind it, dark, powerful, a matter of life and death. “Can you learn to love?" If so/not how?”
September - November, 2020