The following is a selection of past projects to which significant contributions were made under varying contractual arrangements. Dates represent official openings, descriptions are taken from press releases. To learn about specific involvements, please get in touch via personal correspondence. Current projects will be listed here only some time after completion. To respect confidentiality not all past work is displayed on this website. All pictures are copyrighted, please refer to the imprint section of this website for a listing of the rights owners.

In a historical first, the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (National Gallery of Contemporary Art) join forces on a trans-historical, site-specific presentation by artist Liam Gillick throughout the halls of the Pergamonmuseum. From Babylon’s iconic Ishtar Gate to the monumental sculptures of Tell Halaf, Gillick adds layers of sound, light and colour – creating an overlay to evoke connections across periods of the Pergamonmuseum.

Distributed and embedded across eBay Kleinanzeigen, Tempelhofer Feld, transmediale warehouse, the U-Bahn, and Spätis, the exhibition features work from over twenty international and Berlin-based artists, who question our reliance on the technological organisation of the city, and generate new perspectives through inquiries into environmental ruin, bio-surveillance politics, anticolonial resistance, and other-than-human identities.

WITH: Xcessive Aesthetics | Jeanne-Ange Wagner | bela | Elio J Carranza | Nestor Siré | Joana Moll | Rosa Menkman | Lauren Lee McCarthy | McKenzie Wark | Lorna Mills | Suzanne Treister | Nazanin Noori | Tanat Teeradakorn | NúÚ P3A☭3 | Uma Breakdown | Wednesday Kim | Sabrina Ratté | Eva Papamargariti | Anna Ehrenstein | Nora Al-Badri | Patricia Domínguez

From the spatial to the temporal, the intimate to the geopolitical – scale and its many technological manifestations have long been means for measuring and organising. As machine learning and automated tools become common, the scaling of images and representations fabricates and circulates realities. The politics of scaling contests established hierarchies of information by favouring certain representations over others. The 2023 transmediale festival will explore the scalar politics and tactics at stake, questioning how the instrumentalisation and affect of scale can be challenged.

The transmediale is one of the most important festivals of art and digital culture in the world. It is also part of a select group of outstanding German cultural institutions which receives special funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation. For more than 30 years, the transmediale has brought international artists, researchers, activists and thinkers together to develop new perspectives on our technological age.

Or So It Seems is collaborative exchange between Alan Butler and Simone C Niquille that interrogates the technical and socio-political implications of computer-vision technologies. A simulation of an extreme weather report of a never-ending storm is interrupted by duckrabbit – the star of an animated TV series – who tells their queer coming-of-age story of self-discovery and their struggles with vision technologies. Roaming through California’s Yosemite National Park, the news reporter screams My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), an account of ‘nature writing’ by John Muir, in defiance of the storm, while duckrabbit ponders their desires for ambiguity in a world composited and remade with CGI assets. The exhibition features the premiere of two new video works by Alan Butler and Simone C Niquille.

Under the Artistic Direction of ruangrupa the fifteenth edition of documenta has built on the foundation of the core values and ideas of lumbung. As an artistic and economic model it is rooted in principles such as collectivity, communal resource sharing, and equal allocation, and is embodied in all parts of the collaboration and the exhibition.

What possibilities can refusal open up? What limitations does it impose? As crises across economic and environmental spheres produce contradictions and gaps, what role might refusal play in negotiating and opening up new values of calculation and computation? Reflecting on the frictions that emerge between practices of refusal, This is Not Anarchy, This is Chaos is a two-day binge-watch of talks, lectures, and films featuring artists, theorists, and activists whose works refuse the seduction and desire of technological promises and logic.

Referencing Dante’s Inferno, “abandon all hope ye who enter here” investigates the technological hellscapes and damage created by computational logics and extractive processes. Concluding transmediale’s year-long investigation into the socio-political agency of refusal, the exhibition traces the material, ecological, and ideological limits of refusal. From misanthropic narratives to the false promises of techno-solutionism, the exhibition confronts the realities constructed and mediated by technological and algorithmic forces. Reflecting on the modalities of power embedded in military-entertainment infrastructures that make up our everyday experiences and the aftermath of extraction, the works critique the nature of image production, consumption and technological infrastructures.

An anniversary exhibition marked the 75th anniversary of establishing the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The exhibition opened in August 2021. The opening constituted the founding of the House of History North Rhine-Westphalia, a modern museum that is dedicated to the contemporary history of Germany’s largest federal state. Set on Düsseldorf’s Rhine embankment and close to the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, the museum is housed in the Behrens building. The Berlin based multidisciplinary design office gewerkdesign was awarded the tender to design and fully implement the 75th anniversary exhibition.

Die Informale: Videoramas is an evolving 8-week program of video interventions in various public and hidden locations throughout Buenos Aires accompanied by screenings, talks, music and culinary events. Featuring pieces by artists from Berlin, Hamburg and Buenos Aires, Die Informale celebrates the “quality of the informal”: the free spaces and unexpected pockets of possibility within the urban landscape which serve as fertile ground and inspiration for artists of all kinds. The project seeks to acknowledge the liberty and raw energy emerging from those unsung heroes as the soul of cities, nurturing creativity and public discourse amongst residents and visitors alike.

WITH: A/A | Nevin Aladag | BALTIC RAW ORG | Aram Bartholl | Julian Charrière | Die Tödliche Doris | Uros Djurovic | Pauline Doutreluingne | Brad Downey | Peter Edinger | Kasia Fudakowski | Björn Gogalla | Vincent Grunwald | Perla Herro | Anne Duk Hee Jordan | Guido Ignatti | Christian Jankowski | Armin Keplinger | Felix Kiessling | Fabian Knecht | Luciana Lamothe | Jeewi Lee | Mischa Leinkauf | Carolina Magnin | Pablo Mazzolo |  Kevin McElvaney | Björn Melhus | Carsten “Erobique” Meyer | Nicolas Monti | Konrad Mühe | Julian Rosefeldt | Corinna Schnitt | Sarah Schönfeld | Paul Speckmann | Nasan Tur | Wermke/Leinkauf | Ole Wulfers | Augusto Zaquetti