I don't know how I missed making fun of this title earlier, (embarrassing even if you set the whole Kunsthalle public funds fiasco aside) I am losing my edge. “Diversity United” is both a tautology and an antithesis. The kind of cringy nonsense Germans with no grasp of English can think of as a good idea. Also, intersectionality has nothing to do with sprinkling a few white women in the mix. White Dicks till The End of Times. Let's get to it.

A lot has happened since we posted about this last week, and new information has come to light. Did you know the Kunsthalle is hosted at Tempelhof RENT freaking FREE and Berlin taxpayers pay 50% of the expenses of a private institution? Candice Breitz has penned an open letter laying out the newsest information: "Read Niklas Maak’s article, ‘Berlin zahlt auch noch drauf' (it’s behind a paywall, unfortunately), as well as the article by Maak that preceded it about a week ago (titled ‘Das System Smerling,’ also published in the FAZ). Read the article by Saskia Trebing in Monopol Magazine. Arrive at your own conclusions. And should you decide that you’d rather not align yourself with this sordid situation, consider joining us and posting one of our ugly orange squares—or an ugly orange square of your own making—on your timeline, to send a signal that we are many. Read the whole letter here and follow Candice Breitz and Zoe Miller ( from bbk) and the hashtag #BoycottKunsthalleBerlin for updates. A lot of artists have dropped out of the Diversity United show, hopefully some of the (ten white!) curators will follow too.

THIS WEEK

OPENING FEB 10TH, 19H @HAZEGALLERY: RINA DROZD: DINNER WITH THE MONSTER- curated by @irinarusinovich.art

The exhibition Dinner with the Monster tells of childhood fears that many of us carry through our lives. Irina Drozd explores in her works how people since childhood test the boundaries of what is permissible in society and what is not, and why, and how far each of us can go. This is a kind of dialogue with one's inner demons, the stereotypes of good and evil, which the author wraps up in the images of fairy-tale characters and attributes familiar to us from childhood.
2G
11 Feb 2022 – 26 Feb 2022
HAZE GALLERY
Bulowstrasse 11
10789 Berlin

Opening Friday Feb 11, 19h Haus am Lützowplatz Studio Galerie: NEVER MIND THE BURNOUT

group show with 4000, Katharina Arndt, Jim Avignon, Fehmi Baumbach, Alexandra Baumgartner, Clud Becker, Isabella Bersellini, John Bock, Birgit Brenner, Jan Brokof, Danielle de Picciotto, Tatjana Doll, Brad Downey, Galya Feierman, Emilie Gleason, Lukas Glinkowski, Katharina Grossmann-Hensel, Anni Heuchel, Anna Ingerfurth, Juliane Kownatzki, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Justina Los, Irina Mmur, Jaybo Monk, Moritz Schleime, Patrick Sellmann, David Shrigley, Yukihiro Taguchi
Introduction by Dr. Marc Wellmann, creative director of Haus am Lützowplatz and the curators of the show: Katharina Schilling and Jim Avignon
2G
11 Feb 2022 – 10 Apr 2022
Haus am Lützowplatz - Studio Galerie
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

Opening Friday, Feb 11th 16-23h MERCURIAL BY GØNEJA @okkraum29

In his second solo show “Mercurial”, opening at the Organ Kritischer Kunst, Berlin-based Gøneja uses photography and totemic sculpture as the media to bring the ancient spirit of Alchemy alive through a combination of artistic experiments both fluid and idea-driven. An aesthetic territory which aims to surpass the limitations and duality of the rational mind through the use of symbolism, mysterious physicalities, undefinable narratives and open-ended meanings.
2G + (vaccinated or recovered + booster or 24h test)
11 Feb 2022 – 27 Feb 2022
okk/raum29
Prinzenallee 29
13359 Berlin

Also this Friday, Feb 11th at 18H @acudgalerie "y is everything so exhausting"

A group show/collective fatigue - being a reaction to overwhelming reality, constructed of capitalistic, colonial, carnal forces. Together artists collect lullabies and love stories to themselves, rejecting gender binaries, disentangling their own identities from productivity, and questioning cannon.
Participating artists: @alicezjones @daphnethehunter @eightfang @internet.ella @miriam.knows
@iam.itchi
Graphics by @iam.itchi @miriam.knows
Curatorial support by @paula_durinova @kazikkkazikkkkazi
2G++: For the opening, please bring proof of vaccination or recovery PLUS a negative test. Both rapid tests and PCR tests are accepted.

Sat Feb 12, 10h at Axel Obiger WORKSHOP ON SOL LEWITT'S "OPEN CUBES"

with Harriet Groß, Sarah Loibl, Enrico Niemann, Keren Shalev- curated by Daniela von Damaros
The group exhibition entitled “un-structured” will feature works by the four artists Harriet Groß, Sarah Loibl, Enrico Niemann and Keren Shalev. By means of an installative gesture, all exhibits break the boundaries of their medium, such as painting, sculpture and drawing. Their visual language is found in the simultaneity of structural principles such as chaos and order. In the exhibition, the viewer can immerse in the dynamics between the two seemingly contrary principles.
2G
coming up: Finissage on Saturday, March 12, 2022, 6-9 pm
Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

OPENING SAT FEB 12 16-20H AT NEUN KELCHE ELISA STORELLI: ATOMISTIC

In her solo exhibition Atomistic, Elisa Storelli transforms the project space Neun Kelche into a sensual space of experience. Her spatial installation consists of the multi-sensory light sculpture Time Piece (Seconds) and the sound installation Time Piece (Ticking). In her works, Storelli approaches the thematic field of time in a playful and theoretically profound way at the same time, and opens up new perspectives on this abstract everyday phenomenon.
2G
Duration: 12 Feb 2022 – 27 Mar 2022
Neun Kelche
Pasedagplatz 3-4, Zugang über „An der Industriebahn"
13088 Berlin