The urban space in Berlin-Mitte has changed dramatically since the 1990s. It has become a symbol of gentrification, a hub for commercial galleries, an investment property, and a backdrop for tourists. The program sequence on the spot examines these processes of exploitation and displacement—as well as the artistic strategies used to circumvent them. Combining exhibition, performance, and discourse, on the spot brings together contemporary perspectives and archival material to explore the speculations and fictions with which a place is charged.

The community space »Emergent Archives« at Galerie Wedding is a growing archive of (post-)migrant and anti-racist engagement. It collects stories of people who have organized—through alliances, initiatives, and across communities. Their experiences speak of responsibility, contradictions, solidarity, and the struggle for a just city.

The exhibition »Cemetery of the Nameless« by artist Pınar Öğrenci weaves together the ecological, historical, and social threads surrounding Lake Van in eastern Turkey, creating a haunting portrait of the region shaped by profound loss.

The exhibition project THE LINE BETWEEN US, realized in collaboration with laif agency and laif foundation, is dedicated to the challenge of showing and debating the realities of queer people’s lives. In the exhibition, the eleven photographers scrutinize normative attributions from the inside perspective of the queer community. At times glamorous, at times ruthless, at times quiet and seemingly casual, the photographs reveal a multi-layered panorama of photographic appropriation of a fluid representation beyond stigmatization and discrimination.

What does it mean being heard – every day, in institutions and in the arts? The exhibition “Politics of Being Heard” at Bärenzwinger Berlin brings together installations, videos, photographs, textile works and sculptures to show the multilayered physical and social barriers, that impede or prevent access.

Mitte Museum keeps documents and books from the estate of Paul Gurk (1880-1953) and his life partner Erna Schallok (1886-1943) as well as artworks by the artist. The exhibition presents a selection of the material and provides authentic insight into the artist’s life.