Graduate School - Graduiertenschule / UdK Berlin

Today is your last day to visit FLOW STATES!

Featuring works by Tekla Aslanishvili & Nikoloz Tabukashvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi and a catalogue text by Hanno Hauenstein, designed by Camilo Baquero Burgos 🙌

These photos are from opening night, featuring a performance by Anani Dodji Sanouvi: E’TOME – Counter-colonial curves from Éwé epistemology.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening night of FLOW STATES ✨

Congratulations to the artists: Tekla Aslanishvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi.

And a special thank you to Antje Weitzel and her team at Küstlerhaus Bethanien: Dennis Metaxas, Maxmillian Rauschenbach and Sebastiaan Verhees for making the show possible.

The exhibition is on view until Sunday 5.10.2025.

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES

Liquid commons, or who manages our water? 💧

Join us for a workshop on the regional water politics in Brandenburg with activists of "Tesla den Hahn abdrehen" and artist and filmmaker Julia Lazarus:

🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏰ 5 - 7 pm
📍 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Language: German with English whisper translation

The exhibition continues until 05.10.2025.

image: © Julia Lazarus

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES programme highlight ✨

Manaova toy ny dian-tana, jerena ny aloha, todihina ny afara. (Malagasy proverb: Like a chameleon: one eye on the past, one eye in the future 👀)

Join us for a Graduate School Round Table with Jenny Fuhr, Nik Haffner and alumni of the Graduate School.

🗓️ 02.10.2025
⏰ 4 - 6 pm
📍 held in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Library, Kohlfurter Straße 41-43
Langauage: English and German

After 15 years of fostering critical artistic research and development,
the Graduate School fellowship programme at the Berlin University of the Arts is coming to an end due to severe budget cuts. Its closure leaves a void, but also opens a door. In a city where resources are increasingly scarce, the Berlin Senate has finally given the green light for a new hybrid doctorate (PhD) for artists. How can our individual experiences and collective expertise be harnessed to design a vibrant and resilient future for artistic qualification in Berlin?

With contributions from:
Jeremiah Day
Lisa Glauer
Stefan Hayn
Julia Lazarus
Omonhinmin Omonblanks (online)
Judith Raum
Alex Martinis Roe (online)
Adnan Softić
Anani Dodji Sanouvi
Genoel von Lilienstern
and a tribute to Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

The exhibition is on view until Sunday 05.10.2025 💥

image: © Piotr Pietrus

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
26.09. – 05.10.2025

Join us for a reading group hosted by Joud Al-Tamimi as part of the Graduale 25: FLOW STATES event programme:

"I Have Found My Answers: Basel Al-Araj and the Political Economy of Struggle"
🗓️ 28.09.2025
⏰ 2 - 4 pm
📍Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Language: Arabic

A reading group dedicated to exploring the incisive political thought of the late Palestinian writer and revolutionary Basel Al-Araj, focusing on key selections from his posthumously published book I Have Found My Answers.

This session will center on Al-Araj’s reflections on the political economy of the Palestinian struggle, examining how class, labor and economics shape resistance under occupation. Through collective reading and discussion, participants will engage with Al-Araj’s uncompromising critique of neoliberal politics, his study of organisational form, and his vision for liberation rooted in both a materialist analysis and lived revolutionary practice.

Within the context of Masha’at; a cross-disciplinary project that unfolds through study, publishing activities and infrastructural interventions. Masha’at investigates the significance of the agrarian within the context of Palestinian anticolonial struggle, engaging with agricultural cooperatives and community organisations across Palestine to examine organisational forms that disrupt dominant relations of labour and property and construct a resistance economy.

This event is also part of the Salon für Ästhetische Experimente event series.
Image: © The Joss Dray Collection, The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
26.09. – 05.10.2025

The exhibition programme for FLOW STATES kicks off with a gallery walk-through. Join the exhibiting artists as they share insights into their works and artistic research. With works by Tekla Aslanishvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer and Anani Dodji Sanouvi.

🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏰ 2-4 pm
📍 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Language: English

image: © Georg Schroeder

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
26.09. – 05.10.2025
Opening: 25.09., 7 pm

✨ On the opening evening, we are delighted to present:
E’TOME – Counter-colonial curves from Éwé epistemology
A performance by Anani Dodji Sanouvi

🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏰ 7:30 pm
📍 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin

Join us as the exhibition opens with this unfolding exhibition performance.
Content notice: this performance may include nudity.

image: © Anani Dodji Sanouvi

Universität der Künste Berlin Künstlerhaus Bethanien

A journey back to
🪐Salon für Ästhetische Experimente | CURVERSATION 🪐

On 21.11.2024, Anani Dodji Sanouvi presented a CURVERSATION.
E’TOME is a nomadic performance-state-space where animist practitioners and associated artists converge. Rooted in Éwé epistemology, it embraces the curve as an agent of transmutation, facilitating fluid, trans-subjective relationships and cosmopolitical positions beyond chronological time.

In collaboration with Michelle Christensen and Florian Conradi of Berlin Open Lab, a "Curversation" with Brazilian artist Christiane da Cunha who spoke about her project Talking with Trees 🌳 , focused on the role of rhythm within non-anthropocentric and trans-specific forms of communication.

The evening ended with performative-light-sonic experiment, inviting participants to engage with sound as an active agent in the encounter of diverse epistemologies and ontologies.

📍 Hosted by Berlin Open Lab in collaboration with Graduate School, UdK Berlin.

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Throwback to
💧 Salon für Ästhetische Experimente | Investigating the many levels of water 💧

On 17.11.2024, the salon by Julia Lazarus, associate of the Graduate School, together with Simone Hain and Şermin Güven, explored how water infrastructure planning has long been used to colonize land and assert power in France, Turkey, and Germany. Through historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion traced the entanglements of resource control, territorial politics, and resistance.

📍 Hosted by diffrakt : zentrum für theoretische peripherie in collaboration with Graduate School, UdK Berlin.

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During the exhibition Teleconnections at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig our 🫧Salon für Ästhetische Experimente | Political Drifts🫧 took place, moderated by Sybille Neumeyer.

João Enxuto presents A Film for People, created with Erica Love, exploring energy infrastructure. Inspired by a decommissioned Lisbon coal plant turned museum by EDP, Portugal’s energy monopoly, the animation reanimates museum diorama figures to reveal tensions between industrial workers, climate activists, and artists. Inside a video game engine, multiple historical timeframes and spaces collapse into a single environment emerging from an ash pit.

📍 Hosted by D21 Kunstraum Leipzig in collaboration with Graduate School, UdK Berlin
💡 Supported by Graduate School UdK Berlin & NYFA Artist Fellowship

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Over the weekend, we celebrated the finissage of Teleconnections, curated by Sybille Neumeyer at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig.
This moment captures some of our current fellows in the exhibition space during the ✨Salon für Ästhetische Experimente | Political Drifts ✨event.

From left to right:
Tekla Aslanishvili, Sybille Neumeyer, João Enxuto, Julia Lazarus.

Artwork in the background:
Sonja Hornung & Daniele Tognozzi.



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