House is a body, body is a home

Through film, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance, the exhibition explores questions of memory, decay, and non-human relationships as shared ecological processes.

– House Dancer, 2024

The exhibition brings together artists Helen Hines and Natascha Schoenaich in collaboration with Maria Ferrer, Vicente Yáñez, and Damián Noguera. Through film, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance, the exhibition explores questions of memory, decay, and non-human relationships as shared ecological processes. The program includes live performances and an artist talk.

The collaboration between Hines and Schoenaich began with joint residencies in the mountains of Kumano, Japan, where encounters with abandoned houses (akiya), neighbors, and the landscape sparked an artistic exploration of home, loss, and material transformation. Their joint publication *Listening to Houses* accompanies the exhibition and interweaves film stills and photographs with texts that situate the works within the context of new materialism and eco-somatic thinking.

Visitors encounter sculptural assemblages made of ash, dust, clay, paper, textiles, and everyday objects—materials that ferment, decay, and transform. Hines presents a series of films as well as sculptural reliquaries. Schoenaich contributes photographs and textile works. A sound installation by Yáñez and Hines transmits live wind data from Japan, collapsing distance into a shared elemental exchange. Ferrer, Noguera, and Yáñez activate the space through performances at the opening and closing events.

“House is a body, body is a home” opens on May 22, 2026, at the Hošek Contemporary Gallery in Berlin.

Hours: Daily from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Runtime: Fri, 22/05/2026 to Sun, 31/05/2026

Takes place here:

• Hošek Contemporary