BERLIN.- A multimedia exhibition on language, migration, and belonging opens at Berlin Art Institute this September, bringing together the collaborative exhibition correct me if i’m foreign and the annual BAI Open House, featuring the BAI Open Studios and BAI Fellows Exhibition
In a city where languages meet, collide, and reshape everyday life, Berlin Art Institute (BAI) and ART PROJECT REVOLUTION art collective present correct me if i’m foreign, a multimedia exhibition exploring how language shapes belonging, visibility, and exclusion in migrant experience.
Opening on Wednesday, September 09, 2026, during Berlin Art Week, the exhibition brings together works by ART PROJECT REVOLUTION, Dasha Buben, Jeiryung Lee, Katarzyna Sienkiewicz, Polina Ryman, Monika Błaszczak, Nadja Kracunovic, and Lola Szlupowicz (Vrogini). Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, the artists examine what becomes altered, softened, or erased in translation across languages, institutions, and media systems.
“Through this collaboration, BAI opens its space to artistic practices that address migration not as an abstract subject, but as a lived reality shaped by language, access, and visibility. Presented alongside the BAI Fellows Exhibition and Open House, correct me if I’m foreign reflects our commitment to international exchange, dialogue, and artistic voices that challenge how we understand belonging,” Stephanie Jnemann and Ralf Schmitt, directors of Berlin Art Institute.
correct me if i’m foreign
correct me if i’m foreign invites audiences into a space of interruption, uncertainty, and fragmented understanding. Through personal testimonies, multilingual recordings, bureaucratic documents, manipulated media headlines, and fragmented subtitles, the exhibition reveals how language can create borders and control perception.
Inside the exhibition space, temporary walls divide and interrupt movement, echoing the bureaucratic, social, and linguistic barriers migrants encounter while navigating unfamiliar systems. Some texts remain untranslated, others are intentionally incomplete, while grammatical mistakes and linguistic inconsistencies are left visible rather than corrected.
Rather than presenting multilingualism as harmony, the exhibition treats it as friction: a space where meanings shift, collide, and resist simplification. Viewers are invited to move through the limits and possibilities of understanding, encountering language not only as communication, but also as a structure of access, exclusion, memory, and survival.
“Language can open a door, but it can also become a border. With this exhibition, we wanted to keep mistakes, fragments, and untranslated moments visible, because they are part of the migrant experience and part of how we understand belonging,” Dasha Brian, founder and director of ART PROJECT REVOLUTION.
Performance Night: Soliloquy by Monika Błaszczak
As part of the exhibition’s Performance Night on Friday, September 11, 2026, Soliloquy, a durational performance by Monika Błaszczak.
Soliloquy is a movement practice and choreographic project studying the ghosts carried by the body.
For Berlin Art Week, a new iteration unfolds as a durational performance in which the dancer offers movement gifts to those present and to figures who have shaped her, including the ghost villages in the Carpathian Mountains, distant ancestors, and the surrounding environment. Visitors may enter and leave at any point during the performance.
BAI Fellows Exhibition
Running alongside correct me if i’m foreign, the annual BAI Fellows Exhibition presents selected works developed by fellows over the past 12 months during their participation in BAI’s Studio Program.
The exhibition highlights emerging voices and experimental practices, offering insight into the diverse media, themes, and approaches explored during the residency. As a key part of BAI’s annual program, the Fellows Exhibition reflects the institute’s commitment to mentorship, process-driven creation, critical dialogue, and international artistic exchange.
By opening the exhibition to the public, BAI creates a platform for fellows to connect with curators, collectors, peers, neighbors, and Berlin’s wider art community.
With works by Alexander Aburanem, Nina Bennardo, Giel Brouwer, Edwin Choi, Kfir Goldenberg, Leslie Grollman, Pawel Jankiewicz, Ella Ogan, Sophia op ten Berg, Rotem Ritov, Michal Rubens, Elinor Sahm, Noa Simhayof Shahaf, Richard Sund Jr., Katja Toporski, Simge Uzkurt, Danielle + Astrid van Drie (das.art), Beatrix Villiers, Karen Wood, among others, and participants of the Master Class Out of Line: Drawing With and Beyond the Self by Dagmara Genda.
BAI Open Studios
On Wednesday, September 09, 2026, Berlin Art Institute will also host its annual Open Studios from 6:00 – 9:00 pm, coinciding with the opening of correct me if i’m foreign and the BAI Fellows Exhibition.
The Open House invites the public, neighbors, artists, cultural professionals, and international visitors to experience BAI from the inside. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the studios, meet participating artists, and encounter the working environment where BAI’s dynamic creative exchange unfolds.
The event reflects BAI’s broader vision of building bridges between artists, civic society, professional art networks, and the local Berlin community.
With works by Debjani Bhattacharya, Karen Dolev, Rylan Friday, Madhav Ashok Menon (Bamboo), Cassandra Renzullo, Nora Surez, Adam Sumner, including ifa CCP Fellows: Rokaya Abdelhafez, Mariam Zakaryan, and Ruslan Zhubanysh.
