{"id":3049,"date":"2025-05-20T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/?page_id=3049"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:13:25","slug":"this-too-is-a-way-of-keeping-each-other-close","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/program\/this-too-is-a-way-of-keeping-each-other-close\/","title":{"rendered":"This, too, is a way of keeping each other close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>with <br><a href=\"#field\">Field Narratives (hn. lyonga &amp; Lene Markusen)<\/a><br><a href=\"#sarnt\">Sarnt Utamachote<\/a><br><a href=\"#theresa\">Theresa Weber<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/zhou\">Zhou Yichen<\/a><br>&amp; <a href=\"#lauryn\">Lauryn Youden<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/program\/this-too-is-a-way-of-keeping-each-other-close\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-423x600.jpg 423w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-1083x1536.jpg 1083w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-1444x2048.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM-235x333.jpg 235w, https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Flyer-fur-WebsitePM.jpg 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Graphic: Nora Keilig<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29\/5\/2025 \u2013 10\/8\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by<br>Maxime L\u00fcbke <br>&amp; Annika Reketat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/program\/this-too-is-a-way-of-keeping-each-other-close\/\"><strong>\u00bbThis, too, is a way of keeping each other close\u00ab<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>is the second part of the annual programme <strong>HANDLE <strong>(with) CARE.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#opening\"><strong>28\/5\/2025, from 7 PM<\/strong><br>Opening<br>8 PM: Performance GLITCH CHOIR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#fete\"><strong>21\/62025, from 4 PM<\/strong><br>Venue at&nbsp;F\u00eate de la Musique<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#ways\"><strong>19\/72025, from 2&nbsp;PM<\/strong><br><em>Ways of Staying With<\/em><br>Day program with workshop, performance &amp; panel on <em>Queering Grief &amp; Loss<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#lesung\"><strong>24\/7\/2025<\/strong>, from 7 PM<br>5:30 PM: Curator&#8217;s tour<br><em>Where Words Stay, When Home Fades<\/em><br>7:00 PM: Reading &amp; Talk with Atefe Asadi &amp; Sarah Rauchfu\u00df (Farsi with German translation)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#kaffee\"><strong>3\/8\/2025, 2-4 PM<\/strong><br><em>Kaffee, Kuchen &amp; Schnute<\/em><br>Open neighborhood gathering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#dinner\"><strong>10\/8\/2025, 5-6:30 PM<\/strong><br>Slow Finissage &amp; pIAR Dinner<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening\">Opening<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>28\/5\/2025, from 7<strong> <\/strong>PM<br>Opening<br><br>8<strong> <\/strong>PM Performance GLITCH CHOIR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free entry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>B\u00e4renzwinger Berlin warmly invites you to the opening of the group exhibition <strong>&#8220;This, too, is a way of keeping each other close<\/strong>&#8221; <strong>on May 28, 2025 from 7 PM<\/strong>. As the second exhibition in this year\u2019s program <strong>HANDLE [with] CARE<\/strong>, it centers lives and losses that are often excluded from public rituals of mourning and remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artistic positions by hn. lyonga &amp; Lene Markusen (together with Sascia Bailer &amp; Andreas Doepke as the collective Field Narratives), Sarnt Utamachote, Theresa Weber, Zhou Yichen, and Lauryn Youden approach grief not as mere pain, but as a deeply social, political, and relational practice \u2013 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>as a way to take responsibility, to practice care, and to foster connections, especially where public recognition and remembrance has long been denied. Through queer, anticolonial, and community-based gestures, they open spaces for empathy, closeness, and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition space itself is a site of commemoration: 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Schnute, the last bear to be kept in the B\u00e4renzwinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition is accompanied by a public program focused on poetic, performative, and educational formats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performance: GLITCH CHOIR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>28\/5\/2025, 8<strong> <\/strong>PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No registration required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>GLITCH CHOIR transfers the phenomenon of the glitch \u2013 the unexpected result of a digital malfunction \u2013 into the analog space, exploring how disruptions can open new forms of expression. At the heart of the piece is the recomposition of a song of lament, deconstructed and transformed through glitching. Historically, public mourning has been a practice performed predominantly by women, often professional lamenters, who express grief on behalf of others. This tradition reveals the paradox of women being both permitted and burdened to translate private emotions into public mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this performance, two female performers create a collective body of mourning, inviting the audience into a resonant, multivocal space. The inherent vocal distortions of lamentation become a medium for transforming individual grief into a collective glitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choreography &amp; concept: Deva Schubert<br>Performance: Chihiro Araki, Deva Schubert &amp; guests<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Chihiro Araki (she\/her) is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche \/ The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Deva Schubert, Lina G\u00f3mez, Sergiu Matis, Jule Flierl and musical artist Pan Daijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deva Schubert is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. Her work explores the voice in relation to dance, installation, and digital media. She studied in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen, and at HZT Berlin. Her artistic practice addresses intimacy, collectivity, and transdisciplinary synergies, and has been presented at institutions such as Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the Transart Festival Bolzano. In 2024, she received the ImPulsTanz \u2013 Young Choreographers\u2019 Award for <em>Glitch Choir<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fete\">B\u00e4renzwinger at the F\u00eate de la Musique<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>21\/6\/2025,<br>16-21:30 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admission free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No registration required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On 21 June, the B\u00e4renzwinger will become a stage: for the first time, we will be part of the F\u00eate de la Musique and invite you to the outdoor area in K\u00f6llnischer Park. Live acts from retro-soul to synth-punk will provide musical variety where real bears used to roam &#8211; open air and with free admission. Come along and celebrate the longest day of the year with us!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Line-up:<\/strong><br><br>4:00 pm: Jelena Brand<br><br>5:00 pm: Krisenmanagement<br><br>6:15 pm: Jochen<br><br>7:30 pm: Tango Bravo<br><br>8:45 pm: \u00d6PNV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ways\">Ways of Staying With \u2013 Theme day with workshop, discussion &amp; performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>19\/7\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 to 5 PM: Workshop with Joachim Perez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5:30 PM: Panel discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 PM: Performance with Jeremy Wade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admission free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No registration required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On <strong>Saturday, 19 July 2025, from 3 PM<\/strong> B\u00e4renzwinger Berlin invites you to a theme day entitled <strong>&#8220;Ways of Staying With&#8221;<\/strong> as part of the exhibition <strong>&#8220;This, too, is a way of keeping each other close&#8221;<\/strong>. The exhibition brings together queer, anti-colonial and embodied perspectives on grief, memory and spirituality. The artistic positions explore how grief can become a place of relationship, resistance, and continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>&#8220;Ways of Staying With&#8221;<\/strong> is dedicated to the question of what it means to stay with one another \u2013 across loss, distance and time. The day brings together artistic, activist and collective practices that resist forgetting and instead linger with the vulnerable, the unresolved and the fragile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Collective Threads: Textile Workshop with Joachim Perez<\/strong><br>The event kicks off from <strong>3 to 5 PM<\/strong> with the bilingual, open workshop Collective Threads with artist <strong>Joachim Perez<\/strong>. Participants will work together with discarded textiles \u2013 as an exercise in memory, repair and connectedness. Perez&#8217;s practice combines hand-sewn textile architectures with diasporic narratives and intergenerational exchange.<br>This is a drop-in format: interested parties can come and go as they please. The workshop is open to all age groups. No prior knowledge is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Panel Discussion: Queering Grief &amp; Loss<\/strong><br>At <strong>5:30 PM<\/strong>, a panel discussion follows with <strong>Sarnt Utamachote<\/strong> (researcher, filmmaker, curator), <strong>Francis Seeck<\/strong> (professor at TH N\u00fcrnberg, author, and anti-discrimination trainer), and <strong>Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (crazinisT artisT)<\/strong> (performance and installation artist, LGBTQIA+ activist from Ghana).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queer grief often speaks to the loss of a life imagined differently \u2013 of futures that have been dismantled or denied. Drawing on Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s theory, it explores mourning as a longing for what has not yet been possible. LGBTQIAs+ are frequently rendered invisible in death and mourning \u2013 particularly queers who face legal and social obstacles that criminalize their identities or deny them the right to grieve.<br>What infrastructures or alternative practices of grieving exist for queers? How can we mourn and die outside of heteronormative, bureaucratized funeral cultures? Who is considered \u201cworthy\u201d of burial? And who tends to the graves if ties to one&#8217;s family of origin are broken?<br>Prof. Dr. Francis Seeck, Sarnt Utamachote, and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi will discuss current developments around queer cemeteries in Berlin, the deaths of young queers due to substance abuse in nightlife scenes, and rituals of care within queer mourning groups \u2013 all while considering intersections of class, gender, and race.<br>The talk will be held in English and moderated by Maxime L\u00fcbke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performance with Jeremy Wade<\/strong><br>The event will conclude at<strong> 7 PM<\/strong> with a collective performance by Jeremy Wade, consisting of three participatory rituals. The focus is on community, systemic care and support in times of loss, grief and crisis. The performance creates a space for shared pause, physical sensation and ritual gesture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"lesung\"><strong>Where Words Stay When Home Fades: Reading with Atefe Asadi &amp; Sarah Rauchfu\u00df in Farsi and German<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>24\/7\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5:30 PM: Curator\u2019s tour<br>with Maxime L\u00fcbke &amp; Annika Reketat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7:00 PM: Reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No registration required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When <strong>home<\/strong><em> <\/em>disappears, language is often the last thing that remains \u2014 and at the same time the first to risk breaking apart in exile. B\u00e4renzwinger Berlin invites you to a reading with Iranian author Atefe Asadi and translator Sarah Rauchfu\u00df on <strong>July 24<\/strong> <strong>at 7 PM<\/strong>. The reading offers a glimpse into literary fragments from a life in between: caught between inner rebellion and outer silence, between remembering in one\u2019s mother tongue and expressing oneself in a foreign language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asadi\u2019s texts emerge from experiences of repression, migration, and alienation. They do not simply tell \u201cof Iran,\u201d but reveal a daily reality torn apart by political violence. Written in Farsi, these stories carry voices silenced in places of control. In the reading, they meet a new language \u2013 Rauchfu\u00df\u2019s German translation \u2013 which is not a mere reflection but a tentative chamber of resonance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening is part of the exhibition <em>This, too, is a way of keeping each other close<\/em>, which explores queer, feminist, and anti-colonial perspectives on memory, care, and the narration of loss. It focuses on invisible stories, fragmented narratives, and forms of mourning that create closeness through shared vulnerability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Atefe Asadi<\/strong> is an Iranian writer, poet, editor, and translator known for her role in Iran\u2019s underground literary scene. Her three collections of short stories have been banned by the Iranian Ministry of Culture, and her literary activities and participation in protest movements have led to her persecution and arrest. She subsequently became a writer-in-residence with ICORN (International Cities of Refugees Network), received the Hannah Arendt Fellowship, and settled in Germany. There, she campaigns for literature in exile and for freedom in Iran through school visits, interviews, cultural programs, and residencies such as the Stiftung K\u00fcnstlerdorf Sch\u00f6ppingen and the Kultur Ensemble Palerme. Her works, which explore women\u2019s rights, migration, discrimination, and freedom, have been translated into English, German, and Italian. Her first collection of short stories is currently being translated into German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sarah Rauchfu\u00df<\/strong> (born 1990 in Ottersberg near Bremen) has been translating contemporary Persian literature from Afghanistan and Iran since 2019. She works as a freelance translator for the Weiter Schreiben project, the DAAD and various literary institutions and festivals in German-speaking countries. Her second novel translation, Bahram Moradi&#8217;s \u201cDas Gewicht der anderen\u201d (Wallstein Verlag), will be published in August 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"kaffee\">&#8220;<strong>Kaffee, Kuchen &amp; Schnute&#8221;: Open neighborhood gathering<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>3\/8\/2025, 2-4<strong> <\/strong>PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No registration required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Schnute, the last bear to have lived in Berlin\u2018s B\u00e4renzwinger, died 10 years ago, in October 2015. Her death marked the end of an era that still moves many Berliners today. To commemorate her death, we cordially invite you to \u201eKaffee, Kuchen &amp; Schnute\u201c, a neighbourhood gathering in memory of Schnute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With coffee, cake and conversations we want to share memories of Schnute and the B\u00e4renzwinger, a place that has transformed from an animal enclosure to a contemporary art gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Share your stories, anecdotes, and photos of Schnute or the B\u00e4renzwinger with us!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write us at: <a href=\"mailto:info@b\u00e4renzwinger.berlin\">info@b\u00e4renzwinger.berlin<\/a>. Selected submissions will be added to a memorial album, which will be displayed in the B\u00e4renzwinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside the neighbourhood gathering we are offering a workshop: in memory of Schnute, we will write memories, thoughts and wishes on seed paper, which will then be buried in the Garden of the B\u00e4renzwinger. From words, flowers will grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once per exhibition, with the format \u201cKaffee, Kuchen &amp; \u2026\u201d the B\u00e4renzwinger opens its doors for an informal neighbourhood gathering. We look forward to old friends, new faces and many shared memories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dinner\">Slow Finissage &amp; pIAR Dinner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>10\/8\/2025, 5-6:30 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free Registration, please sign up here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/YxqCqfiRKEcDQFUc9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/YxqCqfiRKEcDQFUc9 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the final day of the exhibition <em>This, too, is a way of keeping each other close<\/em>, we invite you to a moment of mindful pause \u2013 and to a ritual designed to celebrate closeness. Together with the <strong>crazinisT artist studiO<\/strong>, we are bringing the <strong>pIAR Dinner<\/strong> to Berlin: a culinary and storytelling gathering that has formed the heartbeat of the <em>perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR)<\/em> in Kumasi, Ghana, since its founding in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Inspired by the family dinners of <strong>Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi\u2019s<\/strong> childhood \u2013 and a living tradition in many Ghanaian households \u2013 the pIAR Dinner invites guests to gather at a long red table, eat from the same bowls, and share stories. It is a space for conversations about life, culture, intimacy, and politics, for laughter, and for quiet listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the exhibition itself, this performative ritual seeks ways of staying close \u2013 across differences, between cultures, languages, genders, and experiences. We look forward to sharing this communal experience at the B\u00e4renzwinger with Berlin-based pIAR members, friends, allies, and curious guests, and to welcoming you to the final day of our summer exhibition <em>This, too, is a way of keeping each other close<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Menu<\/strong><br>The pIAR Dinner will serve a selection of traditional Ghanaian dishes, both vegan and non-vegan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Banku and Pepper<\/strong> \u2013 available vegan or with okro soup, fish, and meat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Waakye<\/strong> \u2013 served to all guests, with optional boiled egg and <em>Shito<\/em> (spicy chili sauce).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Red Red<\/strong> \u2013 beans, palm oil, gari, pepper, and plantain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sobolo<\/strong> \u2013 a refreshing hibiscus drink with ginger, cloves, <em>Grains of Selim<\/em>, and <em>Grains of Paradise<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"field\">Field Narratives (hn. lyonga &amp; Lene Markusen)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>hn. lyonga<\/strong> is a Black, Queer, interdisciplinary writer, poet, and currently a Human Maschine Fellow at E-Werk L\u00fcckenwalde and Akademie Der K\u00fcnste, Berlin.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work focuses on writing, storytelling, and community making. It looks at migrational inquiries pertinent to historically colonized and marginalized communities. Among other things, he is a neighbor, a (livelong) student, a member of the curatorial board of BARAZANI.berlin \u2013 Forum Kolonialismus und Widerstand, working on ideas of rural biographies, transgenerational and cross-continental storytelling. His work qualifies as \u2018Wake Work\u2019: <em>a labour within the space of paradoxes surrounding Black citizenship; it is also the work of \u2018continuous inhabiting and rupturing of episteme.<\/em>\u2019 (Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 2016).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>hardeson lolita<\/strong> is a certified Dementia caregiver, mother, and grandmother. In another life, hardeson lolita was an Elementary school educator, business owner, and contractor for CDC. She is born and raised in the southwest regions of Cameroon and is currently based in Duisburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Markus Posse<\/strong> is a performance artist and researcher. After graduating from Performance Studies, he worked as a dramaturg and artistic collaborator at spaces such as Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, Theater Dortmund, K\u00fcnstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and so forth. In addition, he is currently finishing his training to become a Drama Therapist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Lene Markusen<\/strong> is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work weighs in on historical discontinuities and spatial disparities, activating the catalytic and micro-utopian moments of performance and storytelling. An essential element in her work is the inclusion of drawing; exploring the disposition of this media in space and time, she negotiates more-than-human relations and the potential of improvisation and processes. She received the Villa Romana Prize in 2021. Her films and video installations have been screened and exhibited internationally, most recently at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt and Stadtgalerie Saarbr\u00fccken among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Narratives is an artistic research platform for rural biographies, transgenerational and cross-continental storytelling. It consists of Sascia Bailer, Andreas Doepke, hn. lyonga and Lene Markusen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sarnt\">Sarnt Utamachote<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator in Berlin. Their work explores the intersection between activism and contemporary art through intense archival research and community-based collaborations in the form of exhibition or film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>They have curated exhibitions or programs for institutions such as HKW, Schwules Museum, nGbK, Sinema Transtopia, shaping conversations on migration, queerness, and transnationalism. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Additionally, they work as a film programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin and Short Film Festival Hamburg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"theresa\">Theresa Weber<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Theresa Weber was born in D\u00fcsseldorf in 1996 and lives and works in Berlin. Weber studied painting with Katharina Grosse and Ellen Gallagher at the D\u00fcsseldorf Art Academy, graduating as a master student in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>She was then awarded a two-year postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art in London. She has had solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Bochum, Neun Kelche, Berlin (2024), Somerset House, London (2023), Dortmunder Kunstverein and Moltkerei Werkstatt e.V., Cologne (2021). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Theresa Weber&#8217;s works can be found in the collections of the Bundeskunstsammlung, the Kunstmuseum Bochum, the Morgan Stanley Collection, the London School of Economics (LSE) Collection, the Mercedes Benz Collection, the Philara Collection, the By-Form Design Studio Collection and many more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"zhou\">Zhou Yichen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Zhou Yichen was born in Wuhan, China, in 1993. He is a new media artist whose practice centers on video games. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>He earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2017, followed by a first master&#8217;s degree from the same institution in 2020. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In 2021, he completed a second master&#8217;s degree at Pratt Institute. Zhou currently lives and works in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"lauryn\">Lauryn Youden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p> Lauryn Youden is a sculptor, poet, performance, and installation artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her practice derives from her research in and navigation through the medical industrial complex \/ colonial medicine, \u2018alternative\u2019 healing practices and traditional medicine for the treatment of her chronic illnesses and disabilities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>By publicly presenting her personal experiences and re-evaluations of history, she illuminates and advocates for repressed, marginalized, and forgotten forms of care and Crip knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has performed and exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Museion Bolzano, Frye Art Museum (Seattle), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), 11th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 12 (Palermo), and K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), among others. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Recent exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zurich, Migros Museum (Zurich), Pogo Bar \u2013 KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and Rochester Art Center (USA). 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