Raumstrategien

Dear community of Spatial Strategies and Weisensee Art School!

Please join us for the finissage of the Tirailleurs project at HKW, and engage with the works of members of the Spatial Strategies/Raumstrategien community💐, including the new film by Kathleen Bomani, “The Fire Last Time” (2026), part of the exhibition, and the listening sessions by Nischal Khadka & Mohamed-Ali Ltaief that take place on Sunday June 14, at 15:30–17:00! ☘️

For the finissage of the Tirailleurs, it is a stimulating outline of artists, cultural practitioners, and keynote speakers who confront the whitening of history and create a shared space for the remembrance of the tirailleurs’ realities across race, gender, class structures, and politics, up to today.

The program starts tomorrow, Friday, June 12, 20:00 hrs, with the performance by Aria Dean: “The Colour Scheme”, which unsettles the colonial and nationalistic monuments and stories in the Tiergarten. With ticket: https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/tirailleurs/aria-dean-the-color-scheme

Then, the exhibition and programme on Saturday and Sunday are free admission 🌵🌈⭐️💕.

You will find the full weekend programme in the images. We would be very happy to see you there and celebrate this occasion together!

Eavesdropping
Kathleen Bomani

🗓️ Monday, May 11
⏱️ 7:00 Pm
📍Foundation Kai Dikhas
Prinzenstraße 84, 10969 Berlin, right at Moritzplatz

Eavesdropping takes place in transient spaces—corridors, stairwells, cars, trams, hallways, bus stops—where listening happens in passing, without full access or control. It does not present a complete account; instead, it draws on forms of listening that unfold across interiors in passage, across materials, sites, and time.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! May 31st
Applications are still open to prospective students who wish to enroll in our master’s program during the winter semester of 2026/27.

New application deadline: May 31st, 2026, 23:59 (GMT+1) Link in Bio

Spatial Strategies MA program charts a trajectory that critically deliberates on the vulnerabilities of spaces, especially through (post-) migrant, ecological, digital and other expanding perspectives. In this light, the Spatial Strategies MA program accommodates reflections on the impact of coloniality and the multiple resistances thereof on spaces of the coloniser and colonised, and how the rhythms of physical and virtual spaces, rural and urban spaces, the local and the global are marked by such sociopolitical realities—in the past, the contemporary and the future. The explicit aim is to create a transdisciplinary space of reflection and development of independent artistic or art-related practices.

Credits:
Photography: Michel Ptasinski
Graphic design: .de.marco










leratoshadi

We are delighted to announce the participation of artists-students Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba from the MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies program Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in the one-day symposium “Witnessing Otherwise” conceived and curated by Heba Y. Amin, which took place on Sunday 12 April 2026 at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

To what extent do landscapes, plants, light, and waste bear witness to forms of structural violence that exceed human perception and historical narration? How do the body, and contemporary tools for recording, mapping, and visualizing the world participate in the ongoing production of memory, evidence, and narrative? Developed in dialogue with Dr Marianna Liosi, the presentations by Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba explore a series of case studies that span from examining the yerba mate (ka’a) as plant that operates as a Guaraní cosmotechnic; waste as a more-than-human entity embodying memory, the region of Lausitz as a territory of extraction, ruins and archiving; the relationship between absolute darkness and total visibility with a focus on machine vision through the human eye.

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Conceived by Heba Y. Amin, the conceptual starting point of the symposium “Witnessing Otherwise”is the neurological phenomenon of blindsight - a paradox in which blind people are still able to process visual stimuli. Blindsight becomes a political allegory of a present in which perception and understanding are increasingly drifting apart. In a world oversaturated with images, visibility no longer guarantees recognition. Instead, images circulate anonymously through systems that monitor, process, and filter them. It is here where it is determined what can appear and can be known to whom.
The symposium brings together artists, theorists, and scholars to explore how forms of structural violence are inscribed in landscapes and materials and how they can be made visible. At the same time, the contributions examine images as instruments of control—and the diverse strategies for resisting them.

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We are delighted to announce the participation of artists-students Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba from the MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies program Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in the one-day symposium “Witnessing Otherwise” conceived and curated by Heba Y. Amin, which took place on Sunday 12 April 2026 at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

To what extent do landscapes, plants, light, and waste bear witness to forms of structural violence that exceed human perception and historical narration? How do the body, and contemporary tools for recording, mapping, and visualizing the world participate in the ongoing production of memory, evidence, and narrative? Developed in dialogue with Dr Marianna Liosi, the presentations by Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba explore a series of case studies that span from examining the yerba mate (ka’a) as plant that operates as a Guaraní cosmotechnic; waste as a more-than-human entity embodying memory, the region of Lausitz as a territory of extraction, ruins and archiving; the relationship between absolute darkness and total visibility with a focus on machine vision through the human eye.

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On the occasion of the exhibition “Iterations on Witnessing” by Heba Y. Amin, presented as part of the 2025 Hans Molfenter Prize, the symposium “Witnessing Otherwise” explores witnessing as a political relationship between the observer and the observed. Within this dynamic, hierarchies and power structures come to light. The symposium examines how one can document without appropriating; observe without erasing; and remember without co-opting. The conceptual starting point is the neurological phenomenon of blindsight—a paradox in which blind people are still able to process visual stimuli. Blindsight becomes a political allegory of a present in which perception and understanding are increasingly drifting apart. In a world oversaturated with images, visibility no longer guarantees recognition. Instead, images circulate anonymously through systems that monitor, process, and filter them. It is here where it is determined what can appear and can be known to whom. [to be continued ⬇️]

We are happy to share the documentation of “Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin…” - a group exhibition emerging from Viron Erol Vert’s seminar I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin.

Master students from KHB (Raumstrategien) explore the suitcase as vessel of memory, movement, identity, and belonging — oscillating between voluntary travel and forced migration, personal archives and collective histories. Rather than aiming for a comprehensive overview or a collection of readymades, the selection privileges divergent and sometimes contradictory readings, allowing the works to resonate through proximity rather than uniform interpretation. Visitors encountered materialized, spatial and virtual propositions, were invited to open, unfold, and inhabit each contribution as if unzipping a suitcase full of stories, traces, and gestures.

Displaying works from: Bita Asadi, Lili Christiane, Ruoming Zhao, Claudia H, Dré Philippens, Haonan Liu, MN Reyna, léna serdjebi & Beo Da Silva.

Documentation by:
🧳 Duration: 5.-13. Feb 2026
📍 Foyer KHB Entrance
Bühringstraße 20, 13086 Berlin

We are happy to share the documentation of “Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin…” — a group exhibition emerging from Viron Erol Vert’s seminar I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin.

Master students from KHB (Raumstrategien) explore the suitcase as vessel of memory, movement, identity, and belonging — oscillating between voluntary travel and forced migration, personal archives and collective histories. Rather than aiming for a comprehensive overview or a collection of readymades, the selection privileges divergent and sometimes contradictory readings, allowing the works to resonate through proximity rather than uniform interpretation. Visitors encountered materialized, spatial and virtual propositions, were invited to open, unfold, and inhabit each contribution as if unzipping a suitcase full of stories, traces, and gestures.

Displaying works from: Bita Asadi, Lili Christiane, Ruoming Zhao, Claudia H, Dré Philippens, Haonan Liu, MN Reyna, léna serdjebi & Beo Da Silva.

Documentation by:
🧳 Duration: 5.-13. Feb 2026
📍 Foyer KHB Entrance
Bühringstraße 20, 13086 Berlin

MemoryAndMovement

Applications are now open to prospective students who wish to enroll in our master’s program during the winter semester of 2026/27. 

Application deadline: Apr 30th, 2026, 23:59 (GMT+1) Link in Bio

Spatial Strategies MA program charts a trajectory that critically deliberates on the vulnerabilities of spaces, especially through (post-) migrant, ecological, digital and other expanding perspectives. In this light, the Spatial Strategies MA program accommodates reflections on the impact of coloniality and the multiple resistances thereof on spaces of the coloniser and colonised, and how the rhythms of physical and virtual spaces, rural and urban spaces, the local and the global are marked by such sociopolitical realities—in the past, the contemporary and the future. The explicit aim is to create a transdisciplinary space of reflection and development of independent artistic or art-related practices.

Credits:
Photography  
Graphic design
Work by Beo da Silva (), Embraced and Shared Ruin, during Várzea: Spaces of Relief, Bienal de São Paulo, 2025










leratoshadi

Join us in Consuelo y Marea, an exhibition by Mariana García Mejía at Hošek Contemporary.

Rooted in an open archive of lullabies gathered since 2024, the exhibition unfolds as a series of sound installations and a publication. Through arrullos —human and non-human lulls— a soft space of solace, memory, and the tender yet complex histories carried by sound is offered. Moving between personal and collective memory, the exhibition revisits lullabies as childhood symbols while questioning their assumed innocence. Re-contextualised as living sonic archives, arrullos carry stories of oppression, resistance, and liberation.

🔊With contributions from Sydney Ginnard, Yupanqui Ramos, Alexey Kokhanov, Haonan Liu and Oran Rey.

🗓 Opening: 01. March 16:00 - 19:00 (followed by concert from the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra)
Duration: 01–08 March 2026
14:00 - 18:00 (tuesday closed)

📍 Hošek Contemporary
Märkisches Ufer 1z
10179 Berlin

Join us for the opening of “not yet”

Much has been said about ruins. One thing feels certain: the end of the world is not ahead of us; it has already happened. “not yet” emerges as an emplacement that holds open a tense, generative interval: a time of potential, struggle, and invention, where what is yet to come is neither fixed nor fully disclosed, but continuously made. The works gathered here approach dreaming as an active practice, invested in what remains possible, what is already stirring, what refuses to be concluded. Faced with narratives of the end of the world, possibility flickers.


Realized within the context of Lerato Shadi’s WiSe 2026 seminar:
“Dreaming Beyond Ruins: Imagination as Resistance”
MA Raumstrategien, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

Curated by: ana gabriela garcía ( )
Poster Design: Bruno De Marco (.de.marco
Production: Ana Júlia Fortes (), Bruno De Marco (.de.marco , Léna Serdjeb ( , Wael Toubaji ()

📅 Opening: 18.02.2026, 19h
📍 Location: Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz
✨ On view till: 21.02.2026
⚡️Visiting hours: 14h-19h