26.6. – 28.06.2026: Screening (through the entire weekend)

26.6.2026:
7 PM, Screening:
Montika Kham-on, Afterlives (2025, 19:06 min)
Hanwen Zhang, In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025, 16:10 min)

8 PM, Talk:
Montika Kham-on, Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR, Hanwen Zhang, Mooni Perry)

The videos Afterlives (2025) by Montika Kham-on and In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025) by Hanwen Zhang imagine speculative futures shaped by migration and postcolonial histories. They examine the bodily and ecological traces these processes leave behind. The screening and subsequent conversation are thematically connected to Mooni Perry’s current exhibition.

Spatially, they also resonate with the sites and narratives opened up there: the screening and talk will take place within Perry’s research installation AFSAR Comfort Women Study Club. Throughout June and July, the space serves as a gathering place for the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), a collective research platform of which both Perry and Zhang are members.

Montika Kham-on’s artistic practice intertwines collective anxieties and memories, setting embodied knowledge and emotional landscapes against dominant narratives. In Afterlives (2025), she envisions a post-tropical future in which light carries, bends, and refracts memory, preserving stories that might otherwise remain untold. On an iodine-rich planet, a “dream engineer” conjures visions recounting her grandfather’s struggle against the destructive weather conditions of Isaan (Thailand), as well as the forced migrations and fractured lives that resulted from them.

In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025) is a poetic exploration of the entanglements of plants and people, memory and migration, colonial history and ecological survival. At its center is the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a species native to North America that now thrives across Berlin, often in post-industrial, war-scarred, or otherwise damaged landscapes. Hanwen Zhang traces the history of this tree, which is deeply rooted in Chinese ecology, regional cuisine, and the artist’s own personal memories. Zhang is an interdisciplinary researcher and a member of AFSAR.

In her artistic practice, Mooni Perry explores diasporic forms of the divine and gendered cosmologies in East Asia and beyond. Through multi-channel video installations, moving-image works, and publishing formats, she investigates how deities adapt within shifting historical and political contexts. She is a co-founder of AFSAR.

The videos will be screened throughout the weekend (26–28 June 2026) with English subtitles.

To mark the opening of the screening weekend, a conversation with Montika Kham-on, Mooni Perry, and Hanwen Zhang will take place on 26 June at 8 PM. The talk will be held in English.

Programme curators: Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Co-Directors KRM)

26.6. – 28.06.2026: Screening (through the entire weekend)

26.6.2026:
7 PM, Screening:
Montika Kham-on, Afterlives (2025, 19:06 min)
Hanwen Zhang, In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025, 16:10 min)

8 PM, Talk:
Montika Kham-on, Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR, Hanwen Zhang, Mooni Perry)

The videos Afterlives (2025) by Montika Kham-on and In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025) by Hanwen Zhang imagine speculative futures shaped by migration and postcolonial histories. They examine the bodily and ecological traces these processes leave behind. The screening and subsequent conversation are thematically connected to Mooni Perry’s current exhibition.

Spatially, they also resonate with the sites and narratives opened up there: the screening and talk will take place within Perry’s research installation AFSAR Comfort Women Study Club. Throughout June and July, the space serves as a gathering place for the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), a collective research platform of which both Perry and Zhang are members.

Montika Kham-on’s artistic practice intertwines collective anxieties and memories, setting embodied knowledge and emotional landscapes against dominant narratives. In Afterlives (2025), she envisions a post-tropical future in which light carries, bends, and refracts memory, preserving stories that might otherwise remain untold. On an iodine-rich planet, a “dream engineer” conjures visions recounting her grandfather’s struggle against the destructive weather conditions of Isaan (Thailand), as well as the forced migrations and fractured lives that resulted from them.

In the Wake of Unbelonging (2025) is a poetic exploration of the entanglements of plants and people, memory and migration, colonial history and ecological survival. At its center is the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a species native to North America that now thrives across Berlin, often in post-industrial, war-scarred, or otherwise damaged landscapes. Hanwen Zhang traces the history of this tree, which is deeply rooted in Chinese ecology, regional cuisine, and the artist’s own personal memories. Zhang is an interdisciplinary researcher and a member of AFSAR.

In her artistic practice, Mooni Perry explores diasporic forms of the divine and gendered cosmologies in East Asia and beyond. Through multi-channel video installations, moving-image works, and publishing formats, she investigates how deities adapt within shifting historical and political contexts. She is a co-founder of AFSAR.

The videos will be screened throughout the weekend (26–28 June 2026) with English subtitles.

To mark the opening of the screening weekend, a conversation with Montika Kham-on, Mooni Perry, and Hanwen Zhang will take place on 26 June at 8 PM. The talk will be held in English.

Programme curators: Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Co-Directors KRM)