A Home for Something Unknown

With the exhibition A Home for Something Unknown, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Haus am Lützowplatz are presenting works by 27 international artists living in Berlin who were awarded the Berlin Senate's 2023 Visual Arts Scholarship.

– Marcela Moraga, Objeto Sagrado (heiliges Objekt), 2023, kollektive Video – Performance, Atacama-Wüste

The doubling and internationalisation of the artistic positions compared to previous years illustrates the great importance of the visual arts for Berlin's cultural life. Spread over two exhibition venues for the first time, the group show brings together a variety of individual approaches to social phenomena and provides an insight into Berlin's contemporary art scene. Using the media of video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and performance, the artists reflect on numerous forms of coexistence and the structures and narratives on which they are based.

The collection of traces and signs - whether poetically or with recourse to documentary or archive-based practices - forms one of the overarching topoi of the exhibition and illustrates the concern to make fractures, ambivalences and power imbalances in everyday life comprehensible. The question of their own self-image is of central importance here - the artists take on the role of historians, archaeologists or mediators, for example, and feed their respective reference systems from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. What unites the artistic contributions is the targeted disclosure of repressed forms of knowledge, forgotten places or overlooked voices. As signalled by the title A Home for Something Unknown, the term "home" stands less for a separation between inside and outside or familiarity and otherness, but rather for the desire to find a place for sensations and ideas that would otherwise go unnoticed.

A Home for Something Unknown at Haus am Lützowplatz

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm

Admission: free

Runtime: Sat, 02/03/2024 to Sun, 28/04/2024

Takes place here:

• Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL)