Exhibitions on Bardo

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The exhibition considers the pose not only as a visual gesture, but as a way of appearing, resisting, and contesting the gaze. Through photography, the body, archives, sound, performance, and writing, it raises questions about representation, desire, memory, and the image.

But Call Me Lolita connects Lima, Berlin, and Mexico City through a multilayered reflection on the archive, the body, the image, femininity, and the gaze.

Credits

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose is a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva . It was supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and presented at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.

Archivum Naturae

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archivum Naturae brings together Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti in a reflection on the ways living organisms are transformed into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.

Nature appears here not as an untouched landscape, but as a territory shaped by displacement, technological mediation, extraction, and survival. Birds from southern Latin America and digitally reproduced insects become traces of ecosystems under pressure, suspended between preservation and disappearance.

Two approaches to the natural archive

In her series YAJNA, Ana Palacio works with images of birds whose habitats have been altered by human intervention. Adopting the visual language of documents and scientific records, the works consider ecological imbalance as well as the violence embedded in observation, classification, and possession.

FLUSSLAB — Edition 25

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

FLUSSLAB — Edition 25 brings together seven international artists after several weeks of research, experimentation, and artistic production in Berlin.

Developed over residencies ranging from four to eight weeks, the works move across installation, sound, performance, interactive practices, material experimentation, and technology. The exhibition offers a glimpse into works in progress, new artistic directions, and the encounters and questions that emerged throughout the residency period.

Resident artists

Asucena Di Giovanni (Canada)
Cecilia Andino (Argentina)
Juliana Andrea Astudillo Palta (Colombia)
Kayla Jean Smith (United States)
Núria Planes Llull (Spain)
Pau Arissa Caellas (Spain)
Pedro Street (Brazil)

LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort brings together painting, collage, embroidery, photography, assemblage, and participatory installation by Brazilian artists Elisa Carreno and Vanessa Neuber. Rooted in their experiences as Brazilian women living in Berlin, the exhibition asks when a place of residence becomes home.

The Portuguese word lar refers to home, but reaches beyond the physical structure of a house. Here, home is understood as something continuously assembled through memory, bodily gestures, relationships, domestic objects, food, friendship, language, and everyday rituals. Rather than presenting displacement only as rupture or loss, the exhibition considers how familiarity, protection, and belonging are created in new surroundings.

PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder (PINOCENO: Tras el rastro de un despojo, desde Alemania al Sur) traces the entanglements between colonialism, extractivism, and transnational histories through pine plantations in the southern territories of Argentina and Chile, in Wallmapu—the ancestral land of the Mapuche people.

The pine appears as a living archive: both witness and intruder. Introduced as part of extractive economies, it reveals processes of land appropriation, monoculture, and the transformation of ecosystems into industrial infrastructures.

Topographies of Memory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Topographies of Memory brings together two practices that engage with displacement, materiality, and embodied experience. Curated by Ayelén Ruiz, the exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between Carla Abilés and Paula Punto through textiles, archives, writing, and performance, approaching memory as a territory in constant transformation.

Carla Abilés works across textile practices and research-based processes, exploring collective memory, migration, and material knowledge rooted in the Global South. Paula Punto develops a multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, photography, and writing, where personal experience becomes a site for political and historical inquiry.

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia explores the intersection between queer identities and migrant experience through the idea of “unhousing”: the dismantling of symbolic structures that exclude in order to imagine new forms of belonging.

The exhibition understands the house as more than a physical space. It can be the body, the family, the country of origin, the territory one migrates to, or the cultural system that defines who is recognized, protected, or left outside.