BERLIN.- Caught in a Landslide
March 2–July 6, 2025
Maschinenhaus M2
Artists: virgil b/g taylor, Christopher Kline, Luzie Meyer, Nguyễn + Transitory and Bussaraporn Thongchai, Andrea Pichl, Neda Saeedi, Melanie Jame Wolf
Curator: Sadaf Vasaei
With the exhibition Caught in a Landslide, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the KINDL present recent works by international artists living in Berlin who were awarded the 2024 visual arts work stipend of the Berlin Senate. Spanning two venues, the exhibition features works across the mediums of video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance.
A project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
The exhibition is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
A publication will accompany the exhibition.
KINDL: March 2–July 6, 2025
Artists: virgil b/g taylor, Christopher Kline, Luzie Meyer, Nguyễn + Transitory and Bussaraporn Thongchai, Andrea Pichl, Neda Saeedi, Melanie Jame Wolf
Curator: Sadaf Vasaei
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n.b.k.: March 2–May 4, 2025
Artists: Özlem Altın, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Stephanie Comilang, Kristina Paustian, Babette Semmer, Jasmin Werner
Curators: Feben Amara, Krisztina Hunya
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Aslan Goisum: Suspect
March 23–July 27, 2025
Maschinenhaus M1 + M1 VideoSpace
Curator: Kathrin Becker
Aslan Goisum (b. 1991 in Grozny, lives in Berlin) works with found or recreated objects, video, works on paper, sculpture and language, achieving a progression of forms that are at the same time abstract and concrete, composed and open-ended. He creates pictorial and architectural spaces that undermine access to understanding. Suspect is Goisum’s first institutional solo project in Germany, presenting a new body of work that continues his observation of our attempts at pinning down meaning.
Alfredo Jaar: The End of the World
September 15, 2024–June 1, 2025
Kesselhaus
Curator: Kathrin Becker
Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956 in Santiago de Chile, lives in New York) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker. For over 40 years, he has examined complex sociopolitical issues and the limits and ethics of representation. For the Kesselhaus at the KINDL, he has created a new site-specific installation that reflects on the current state of our world. Drawing from a five-year research project on our ailing planet, the artist presents his critical assessment of the ecological and political crises facing our present and future.
A publication will accompany the exhibition.
Summer programme
50 Gramm Kunst
Exhibition: July 20–27, 2025
Kesselhaus
Free admission
Since 2021, 50 Gramm Kunst invites children, teens, and adults to contribute to a collective artwork presented in the 20 x 20 x 20 metre Kesselhaus. Participants create 50-gram objects using various materials, either at home or in one of the free workshops. These individual creations are then displayed together as a hanging mobile in an exhibition at the KINDL.
Open-air film screening
They name thee before me
August 20, 2025, 8:30pm
Free admission
With films by Marco A. Castillo, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh, Agnė Jokšė, Young-jun Tak
Curator: Kathrin Becker
While the KINDL’s exhibition spaces are closed for summer, visitors can enjoy an open-air film programme exploring human relationships. The evening takes its title from a verse in When We Two Parted (1816), a poem by Lord Byron. The selected films address themes of friendship, love, and longing, as well as disappointment and hatred.
Fall exhibition programme
As part of Berlin Art Week 2025
Cornelia Parker
September 14, 2025–May 24, 2026
Kesselhaus
Curator: Kathrin Becker
Sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker (b. 1956 in Cheshire, lives in London) unites deconstruction and transformation in her practice, often subjecting everyday objects to violent processes. Parker is creating a site-specific work for the monumental Kesselhaus at the KINDL.
Phoebe Collings-James: The Subtle Rules the Dense
September 14, 2025–February 15, 2026
Maschinenhaus M1
Curator: Katherina Perlongo
The work of Phoebe Collings-James (b. 1987 in London, lives in London) spans across sound, performance, ceramics, sculpture and installation. Her works speak on knowledge of feelings, the debris of violence, language, and desire inherent to living and surviving in hostile environments. The KINDL presents Collings-James’ first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, featuring ceramic sculptures that continue her engagement with these themes.
Cihad Caner: Demonst(e)rating the Untamable Monster
September 14, 2025–February 15, 2026
M1 VideoSpace
Curator: Katja Kynast
Cihad Caner (b. 1990 in Istanbul, lives in Rotterdam) questions social mechanisms of representation and power in his artistic practice. His video work focuses on the figure of the monstrous and its layered meanings. Caner’s animated monsters sing, hum, and speak of exclusion, self-assertion, and hospitality.
The Rise and the Fall of Erik Schmidt
September 14, 2025–February 1, 2026
Maschinenhaus M2
Curator: Yara Sonseca Mas
Erik Schmidt (b. 1968 in Herford, lives in Berlin) works across painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance. This major survey exhibition at the KINDL presents his extensive body of work in multiple chapters, creating a multifaceted self-portrait that probes questions of identity, community, and individuality. Through richly layered compositions, Schmidt offers a perspective that is at times brutal and often humorous, exposing underlying social norms and structures.
The exhibition is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
The video work Recap is produced by Fluentum and will be shown for the first time as part of the exhibition.
A publication will accompany the exhibition, supported by the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst (Leinemann Foundation for Education and Art).
