Retrospective

On three dates in December 2025 and January 2026, the artists participating in the BPA// Exhibition 2025 A place never fully held will present their works in the exhibition. Location: Kunst Raum Mitte & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, front house (meeting point) Registration via bpa@berlinprogramforartists.org Show & Tell #1 Wednesday, 10.12.25, 6–7 p.m. With … BPA// Exhibition 2025 Show & Tell with the Artists

06.12.25–11.01.26Opening 05.12.25, 7–10 p.m. at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, front house & Kunst Raum Mitte KW Institute for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with BPA// Berlin program for artists and Kunst Raum Mitte, is pleased to present the BPA// Exhibition 2025 – A place never fully held, featuring works created by second-year BPA// participants over the … BPA// Exhibition 2025 – A place never fully held

Stadt als Beute [City as Prey] RevisitedNovember 21–23, 2025 Contributors: Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (featured exhibiting artist), Nils Fock (DJ, Cashmere Radio), Elisa R. Linn (author, exhibition curator, and educator), Annette Maechtel (art historian and managing director of nGbK Berlin), Yara Mekawei (sound artist and electronic music composer), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (artist), Axel … Autumn School

A city’s art scene is always temporary—it is characterized by alternating actors and shifting conditions of production. Urban politics, cultural budgets, and the possibility of occupying, using, or creating spaces are shaped not only by developments in general society and political decisions, but also by the myths that they follow or that are formed with … Berlin is/will be/has been over. Temporal Conditions and Self-Organization in Berlin-Mitte after 1990

Three directors develop three astounding tales about the German capital, based on rehearsals for a play by Volksbühne playwright René Pollesch. With subtle humor and quirky realism, the film comments on the relationship between art and life. The rehearsals for Pollesch’s production of STADT ALS BEUTE, a furious collection of absurd texts and outbursts full … Screening: Stadt als Beute [City as Prey], 2005

Nils Fock is a former staff member at Hard Wax and was active in Cashmere Radio with radio shows such as Ziese and Scholien. As a DJ, they focus on ambient, early electronic, experimental, and industrial music. Nils Fock is pursuing a doctorate at the Offenbach University of Art and Design under Juliane Rebentisch and … Nils Fock (Cashmere Radio): DJ Set

From Language is a performative lecture by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, in which, departing from their practice, the artist explores core linguistic aspects such as semantics, translation, and interpretation. The public presentation of From Language at the Autumn School of Kunst Raum Mitte marks its first iteration in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Christine Krammer, … Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino: From Language 

Yara Mekawei is a Sonic Sculptor and Sound Artist exploring the intersection of sound, architecture, and urban landscapes. Her work transforms the rhythm of cities into immersive auditory experiences, where sonic narratives merge with visual form. Rooted in deep research, Mekawei bridges antiquity and modernity, drawing from Sufi philosophy and The Book of the Dead … Yara Mekawei: Live Sonic Performance

November 1, 2025, 1–2 p.m.November 2, 2025, 5–6 p.m. Location: Terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie The performance moving together in time by artist Raul Walch is created in collaboration with young people from Berlin. Together, they design short choreographies that deal with locations in the former East and West Berlin. The work focuses on urban … Raul Walch: moving together in time

13.9.–23.11.25Opening: 12.9.25, 6 PM With Nadja Abt, Orawan Arunrak, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Paula Hoffmann, Raul Walch The exhibition on the spot marks the beginning of the third sequence of DISLOCATIONS. The program’s protagonists are Auguststraße and the adjacent Scheunenviertel neighborhood in Berlin’s Mitte district. Once considered a symbol of social decline and … DISLOCATIONS—on the spot