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30/05/2026

Lindsay Perryman

TOPS (2024)
one channel 2:40min.
2 fine art prints, 40x60cm framed
photobook

„TOPS was created from the desire to display transmasculine vulnerability. My experience with top surgery, with its many stages of tenderness, holds the urgency, trauma, and grief it took to become myself. TOPS is a short film expanding into a photography book of images captured before, during and after filming. Zaire says, “I wouldn’t have been able to get this surgery without community.” The aftermath illuminated the gift of community, as well as the potential dangers for those who do not have it. Although everyone’s experiences are not alike, romanticizing the healing process was a part of recovery. The recurring presence of scarring holds the weight of not just physical change, but emotional and communal healing. Many of those featured in TOPS refer to the commitment of their caregivers devoting time to their wellbeing, granting them the access to a greater depth of resilience many hadn’t accessed before. Zaire and Blaize sit across one another in a shared vulnerability, while Zaire applies gel to Blaize’s surgical scars, revealing the act of communal strength in connection and familiarity. The documentation of TOPS serves as a righteous act to maintain the scarce legacy and commitment to the archival of transgender identities.“

Documentation:

30/05/2026

Evo Sidney

Playing with the Binary (2026)
Plushy sculptures
Dimensions Variable

Heart Pole, Clown Bear, and Keychain are part of an over-
sized playground installation where familiar toys and nostal-
gic childhood forms are reimagined in soft, plush sculptures.
Bright colors and “cute” aesthetics evoke warmth, comfort,
and a sense of familiarity, while simultaneously opening a reflection on gender, social norms, and the early formation of
identity.

Here, cuteness becomes a critical tool rather than mere decoration. Sidney uses softness and playfulness to challenge the idea of gender as fixed or binary, instead creating space for
curiosity, doubt, and exploration: qualities often associated
with childhood but suppressed in adulthood.

Documentation:

27/04/2026

OPEN CALL – Radio Show

Hiii radio friends!

Our upcoming exhibition will as usual be accompanied by a live radio show.

We’re looking for text pieces, spoken word, sound performances, or anything else that resonates with the theme of luck / happiness.

This time, we’ve invited .radio member Sally Dalgaard and artist Sanna Leone to host and curate the show. It will take place live in the gallery during the finissage on May 17, 2026, and will also be streamed via .radio.

Both live contributions and pre-recorded pieces are warmly welcome.

Send your submissions to: [email protected]

We wish you the best of luck 🍀😌

15/04/2026

Opening 30.04.26 7pm

In German, the word GLÜCK refers to both luck and happiness, a linguistic overlap that reveals how closely personal feelings are tied to circumstance. Happiness rarely appears as a purely individual state. It is shaped by conditions, by access, by timing, and by the structures that enable or restrict the possibility of becoming oneself.
The show GLÜCK brings together artistic positions that approach the term not as a stable or universally accessible experience, but as something contingent and unevenly distributed. What appears as happiness for some may depend on forms of luck that remain invisible - social, political, historical, or intimate.
The works gathered in the exhibition consider the spaces we individually create in order to exist, to belong, and to imagine ourselves otherwise. Moving between questions of identity, childhood, desire, visibility, and community, they trace how moments of happiness can emerge through processes of negotiation, resistance, and self-definition.
Rather than presenting GLÜCK as a given, the exhibition understands it as a fragile constellation of conditions, shaped by chance as much as by struggle, and always entangled with the realities in which we live.

Supported by BKM

27/12/2025

Julia Wolkenhauer

Soft Launch: Datacore (2025)
Metal, memory foam, cable, cable binder, cable protector,
Arduino, temperature sensor, infrared heater
101 x 273 x 45 cm

Data moves like water, circulating through bodies, systems, and feedback loops. This work merges fitness equipment, biometric data, and thermal control into a hybrid body: part machine, part organism. At its core, an Arduino-controlled infrared heater pulses like a heartbeat, translating a dataset of my daily body temperatures into heat. Here, warmth becomes both memory and signal, a tactile presence that connects intimacy, discipline, and flow.

27/12/2025

Eyi Kim

Der Hauch (2025)
Ink on the wall
Site specific installation

This work, to be realised on the wall surface, traces the movement of water as both material and metaphor. Through layers of faintly coloured pigment, ‘Der Hauch‘ will explore where opacity and transparency meet — where a surface begins to breathe.

27/12/2025

Drexciya

Neptune‘s Lair (1999)
Harnessed the Storm (2002)
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I (2012)
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller II (2012)
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller III (2013)(2024)
vinyl

Drexciya, a Detroit-based electronic duo, imagined an underwater world born from the descendants of enslaved Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage. The albums transform water into a carrier of memory and myth. They evoke the ocean as both a site of loss and of imagination. Through sound, they connect histories of the submerged with visions of renewal. Their myth reclaims the Atlantic as a space of survival and transformation, turning trauma into an act of creation. In doing so, Drexciya offer an Afrofuturist memorial — one that exists not in stone, but in sound and movement.

27/12/2025

Mor Afgin

Orientation (2024)
3d printed Stainless steel parts
Pcb boards (copper plated fiberglass epoxy resin sheets)
126 x 95 x 5 cm

Using a deep learning model trained on thousands of online images, Orientation generates a desert landscape —an imagined oasis shaped by collective vision. The work reflects on how Western imagi- naries construct the East through images of water, scarcity, and desire. What appears as a place of abundance is revealed as a technological mirage — a memory of longing built from pixels and copper, where myth, control, and image converge.

27/12/2025

Eda Aslan

Tears are falling but never touching each other. (2025)
Stainless steel, hand-blown glass tubes,
Seawater from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey
130 cm

Eda Aslan’s practice explores narratives excluded from dominant histories. Through sculpture, text, sound, and archival material, she traces the political and geographic imprints left by the circulation of raw materials. In her work, salt water becomes both substance and metaphor— a medium through which memory, loss, and transformation are held in motion. The installation evokes the Mediterranean as a space of passage, where grief and healing flow together like currents between islands.

27/12/2025

Clarissa Kassai

Between two deaths (2024)
Mixed Media
Site specific installation

The installation, conceived as a staged space, draws on research into architectural boundaries and theories of demarcation. A rotary clothes dryer stands at its center as a cultural, order-keeping object. In its emptiness, it marks an absence — a space for something not yet present. The work negotiates the threshold between two states. Between two walls. Between inside and outside, stillness and potential.

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