with
Rike Scheffler
Nail Doğan
Exhibition
16/2/2024 – 28/4/2024
Curated by Philipp Hennch, Joana Stamer
Coordination Annika Reketat
“in mir draußen” is the first part of the annual exhibition programme KANTEN UND KNOTEN
The first exhibition in the 2024 annual program Edges and Knots is dedicated to storytelling as cultural practice, manifested in poetry.
The duo exhibition combines spatial-, video- and sound installations by poets Nail Doğan and Rike Scheffler. Words and verses interact with the architecture of the former animal kennel, whispers are hidden in walls; poetry as an installation takes up existing structural forms, flowing outside into the deep moats that once separated animals and humans.
Lyrical voices speak of connections and borders, ask about individual and collective, queer and changing identity. How do we live together? Who belongs to us? Who is included and who is excluded? What is it that divides us?
Semiotics and materiality create contradictions and bonds, languages mix or dissolve. The tension between poetry and space creates a field of possibilities »in mir draußen« (»in me outside«).
Rike Scheffler
Rike Scheffler works transdisciplinary in the fields of poetry, performance, installation and music, frequently in collaboration with Ólafur Elíasson’s Institute for Spatial Experiments. For Scheffler, poetry is a space of possibility, a transformative social practice. Based on her poems, she develops performances, sound and video installations as well as spatial poetry and immersive ecosystems that challenge common perceptions.
Scheffler has received scholarships from prestigious institutions such as the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, Casa Baldi and the Academy of the Arts Berlin, and won the Orphil Debut Prize for her poetry collection “der rest ist resonanz” (kookbooks, 2014). In her latest work, “Lava. Rituale” (kookbooks, 2023), Scheffler delves into speculative multispecies alliances and AI collaborations, unfolding new and tender ways of being.
Her global presence includes performances at renowned venues like Neue Nationalgalerie, Copenhagen’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Palais de Tokyo Paris.
Artist Portrait Louisiana Channel (2016)
https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/rike-schefflerpoetry-as-a-performance
Nail Doğan
Nail Doğan is a writer living in Hamburg. He was born in Augsburg in 1988 as the son of a guesttaxidriver and a guestcleaninglady.
In 2020 he won the prize for poetry and the taz audience award at the 28th open mike – competition for young literature.
In 2023, his poetry debut “ausgeliehene suchtwörter” was published by Elif Verlag. He is also the author of several plays, which premiered at the Thalia Theater Hamburg.
Opening
15/02/2024 | from 6 pm
7 pm Sound Performance “Echoes from the Future” by Rike Scheffler
8 pm Reading by Nail Doğan
Free Entry
On Thursday the 15 February 2024, from 6pm the Bärenzwinger Berlin invites you to the opening of the exhibition “in mir draußen“, with Rike Scheffler and Nail Doğan.
The first exhibition in the 2024 annual program Edges and Knots is dedicated to storytelling as cultural practice, manifested in poetry. The duo exhibition combines spatial-, video- and sound installations by poets Nail Doğan and Rike Scheffler. Words and verses interact with the architecture of the former animal kennel, whispers are hidden in walls; poetry as an installation takes up existing structural forms, flowing outside into the deep moats that once separated animals and humans.
Displayed Words
26/03/2024
7 pm
Reading + Talk
with Lou Ferrand Rafael Moreno Kinga Tóth
Displayed Words is CCA Berlin‘s literature project curated by Fabian Schöneich. It is an experiment in dealing with language, text and poetry through digital and public formats.
Who and what defines the space in which words are displayed and meanings are created? How does the perception of text change from one medium to another?
Displayed Words plays with the comprehensibility of text and its diverse representations; it poses questions about the context in which literature and poetry can be perceived and understood.
Finally, it asks how text is conveyed and in which language the dominant discourse and literature are communicated in a metropolis like Berlin.
What about languages that are considered minor and that are heard in everyday encounters in the city, such as Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese or Spanish…?
The readings will be accompanied by a music / sound element, followed by a conversation with Lou Ferrand, a curator and writer based in Paris and Jeunes Commissaires Fellow with CCA Berlin in 2023.
Displayed Words is a collaboration between CCA Berlin and Bezirksamt Mitte, in cooperation with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, featuring works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Angélica Freitas, Hassan Khan, Otis Mensah, Rafael Moreno, Nazanin Noori, Nhã Thuyên, Kinga Tóth. All works on display can be seen also on displayedwords.org. The project will be accompanied by a series of reading events and a concert. Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, project funds from Draussenstadt and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin
Clinch
19/4/2024
20/4/2024
21/4/2024
9 pm
“Clinch”
Performance
by WILD ACCESS
WILD ACCESS is an interdisciplinary performance company that since 2021 has created site-specific productions for public spaces. Using dance, light, sound and storytelling, their immersive performances bring audiences together to experience urban locations through fictional landscapes and sensory worlds.
Beatrix Joyce
Michela Filzi
Lena Gätjens
Susanna Ylikoski
Savina Casarin
Imola Nagy
Sebastian Faust
Hannah Schillinger
Taking the history of the Bärenzwinger bear enclosure as a starting point, the interdisciplinary performance company WILD ACCESS explores animals in captivity and an encounter with “the wild”. In creating a fictional, immersive environment, the performers fall into a “CLINCH”; a grapple at close quarters between the human and the non-human, between claws and jaws. The audience is invited into an extended choreography that slips across territories of domestication and ferocity.
The weather forecast is not in our favour, so remember to wear weather-appropriate clothing! ☂️
Finissage
28/04/2024
4 pm
with readings by
Rike Scheffler
and
Nail Doğan
On 28 April 2024, the Bärenzwinger invites you to the finissage of the exhibition »in mir draußen«from 4-7 pm.
The poets Rike Scheffler and Nail Doğan will read and the exhibition will be on display for the last time.