with
Katrin Bittl
Seo Hye Lee
Anika Krbetschek
& Zorka Lednárová
Graphic: Nora Keilig
Exhibition
22/8/2025 – 2/11/2025
Curated by
Janine Pauleck
The exhibition »Politics of Being Heard« is the third part of the annual programme HANDLE (with) CARE.
Events
5/9/2025, 6 PM
Audio and tactile tour with Sebastian Schulze & Katrina Blach
Opening
Thursday, 21/8/2025,
from 7 PM
Free entry
The artistic positions of Katrin Bittl, Seo Hye Lee, Anika Krbetschek, and Zorka Lednárová engage with barriers, participation, and forms of care through different media. Katrin Bittl works with video performances involving self-staging and situations of assistance to question bodily norms, accessibility, and social hierarchies. Seo Hye Lee combines textile and moving image works with personal experiences of hearing loss, addressing questions of accessibility, language, and shared understanding. In her multisensory installation and outdoor work, Anika Krbetschek develops a complex engagement with care, psychiatric violence, and the history of the Bärenzwinger, intertwining sound, video, scent, and materiality.
Zorka Lednárová translates personal experiences of everyday barriers into spatial and physical restrictions for the audience through sculpture and documentary photography, prompting shifts in perspective and direct confrontation.
The exhibition is accompanied by a public program combining inclusive mediation formats and artistic contributions. Planned elements include an audio and tactile tour, text versions in plain language, and a performative program. Further program details will be announced during the course of the exhibition.
Katrin Bittl
Katrin Bittl (*1994 in Munich) is a visual artist, freelance author, and peer advisor for artists based in Munich. Until 2023, she studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. A central focus of her artistic practice is the deconstruction of bodily and behavioral norms. She explores the perception of women with disabilities through self-portraits and video performances, aiming for a direct yet unobtrusive confrontation with diverse bodies.
By situating her own body within the plant world, she raises questions about care work, the notion of caregiving, and societal ideals of performance. Her work has been presented in national and international solo and group exhibitions, including Galerie Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich (2023); DG Kunstraum, Munich (2024); HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2022); Vivo, Vancouver (2023); and Platform, Munich (2022).
Her artistic practice has been supported by the Visual Arts Scholarship of the City of Munich (2024), the Academy Association Prize (2023), and a #takeHeart residency as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, 2022).
Seo Hye Lee
Seo Hye Lee is a deaf South Korean artist based in the UK. She studied Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London, completing her MA in 2017. Drawing from her lived experience of hearing loss and as a cochlear implant user, she works across drawing, moving image, and multi-sensory installation to explore the intricate terrains of sound and silence. Across her practice, Seo Hye Lee champions accessibility and collaboration, drawing inspiration from both collective and personal encounters with sound.
Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, including the V&A Museum, London; Kunsthalle Bremen; Tate Exchange, London; MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Science Gallery London; Royal College of Art, London; Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto; CCA Glasgow and Nottingham Contemporary.
She has also participated in festivals such as the Selected 12 UK Tour (including CCA Glasgow, Fabrica Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, John Hansard Gallery) and Presents 2023 in Canada and Germany.Her research and projects have been supported by the Vital Capacities Residency and Arts Council England’s DYCP programme.
Anika Krbetschek
Anika Krbetschek (*1997, Berlin) is a spring-born artist, curator, and author based in Berlin. In her post-disciplinary research, she relates what occurs at the edges of psyche, trauma, and memory to systems, collective memories, and neurophysiology. Where politics and history are inscribed in bodies and voices, and psychological knowledge itself has a history, she develops a practice that listens, experiences, and distills. Her projects, which center participation and lived expertise, create artistic formats in which resistant memories and inner realities can become part of an inclusory discourse.
Her work has been presented in national and international solo and group exhibitions, including Petersburg Art Space Gallery, Berlin (2024); Living Room Studio, Yerevan (2025); Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2024); Goethe-Institut, Yerevan (2024); and KunstHaus Potsdam (2023).
She has also participated in festivals such as Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (2023); 48h Neukölln Arts Festival, Berlin (multiple editions since 2020); and Grenzen sind relativ Festival, Hamburg (2023). Her artistic practice has been supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (2025), the Culture Moves Europe mobility grant (2025), and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (2023).
Zorka Lednárová
Zorka Lednárová (*1976 in Bratislava, Slovakia) is an artist and curator based between Bratislava and Berlin. She studied sculpture, fine art, and calligraphy at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and the Berlin University of the Arts. In large-scale installations, photography, and public space projects, she explores physical and social barriers and their impact on participation, visibility, and belonging.
Her work draws on biographical experiences and often employs subtle yet disruptive interventions to enable shifts in perspective, question power structures, and rethink participation. Her work has been presented in national and international solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthaus Dresden (2025), OKK/Raum 29, Berlin (2025, 2021), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2024, 2023, 2019), Plato – Ostrava City Gallery (2023), and Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2025). She has also participated in festivals such as Biela Noc Bratislava (2023) and Ostrava Camera Eye (2023).
She has received funding from the City of Bratislava (2023), the German-Czech Future Fund (2023), the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (2020), and Pro Helvetia (2020). As co-founder and long-time director of the project space OKK/Raum 29, she developed platforms for international exchange and collaborative formats.