Curated by Römer + Römer, Lumen invites artists from the Netherlands and Germany to explore the theme of light in all its elements.

Hanna Mattes will be exhibiting works from her series ‘The Lunar System’.

“‘The Lunar System’ was established as an innocent attempt to mythologise my life. It started when I was a teenager and my friends and I gave each other nicknames that related to the planets and stars in our galaxy. We still revolve around each other’s axis and my system kept growing during the course of my life. I never thought much of it and kept it mainly to myself until I stumbled upon the mythology of the Licananta, the indigenous people who have lived in the Atacama desert in Chile for more than 2000 years. Their mythology revolves around the array of volcanoes that borders the desert on the east. The sun and all the planers and stars rise behind it. They too play a vital role in the mythology. It reminded my of my own system and I started understanding it as a mythology as well”

Lumen will run from Monday 4th  August to Sunday 2nd November, with an openining reception at 6pm on Sunday 3rd August.

Schloss Biesdorf
Alt-Biesdorf 55
12683 Berlin
Germany 

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Tim Berresheim presents Im Moment Anders/Different For Now, an exhibition on analogue roots and digital tools.

The show will run from Saturday 2nd August until Sunday 26th October, with an opening reception at 7pm on Friday 1st August. 
 

Exhibition Hall 1
MEWO Kunsthalle
Bahnhofstraße 1
87700 Memmingen
Germany

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As part of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and the Berlinische Galerie Summer Festival, Gernot Wieland, Carla Åhlander and Konstantin von Sichart present Monologue of a sock or What would we have told the children?, a performance situated somewhere between theatre and lecture, with storytelling, moving image and the occasional appearance of a sock puppet.

Co-commissioned and co-produced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur

Sunday 20th July, 5 – 6pm

Berlinische Galerie
IBB Video Space
Alte Jakobstraße 124–128
10969 Berlin
Germany

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Michela de Mattei, with Palm Wine, presents Hydromantique (Tilikum): an underwater listening session

Hydromantique (Tilikum) is an underwater listening session for eight underwater speakers. For this iteration, the sound was developed in collaboration with Palm Wine and consists of a 30-minute sequence of audio materials assembled into a loose narrative structure, combining underwater stories, spoken words, and fragments from diverse musical repertoires.

Taking place at Terme di Premia, Hydromantique is one of the opening events of Nextones 2025, an international music festival promoting sonic and landscape explorations in the territory of Val D’Ossola. It will first occur as a live performance on Thursday 17th July, and will be a temporary installation with regular playback sessions throughout the festival.

Thursday 17th July, 8pm

Terme di Premia
Frazione Cadarese, 46
28866 Premia VB
Italy

Nextones 2025
Thursday 17th – Sunday 20th July
Via Valle Formazza, 37
28865 Oira VB

Italy

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Release of ‘Repetitive Surrender’

Hanna Mattes releases the first song from her upcoming sophomore album on Tuesday 15th July.

Created in collaboration with Bernhard Wöstheinrich, ‘Repetitive Surrender’ will be released on his music label Iapetus.

‘Repetitive Surrender’ will be available to listen to from 15th July here.

Hanna Mattes and Charlott Weise are partaking in a big Dead Darlings auction in Berlin on June 28th. 

doors open 2pm / 14 Uhr; acution starts 5pm / 17 Uhr sharp!

Heimathafen Neukölln

Karl-Marx-Str. 141,
12043 Berlin

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Germot Wieland will premier his new film, Family Constelation with a Fox. Event, location and further information to be announced on the 12th of June.