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Soydivision

Is a performing art collective consisting of Berlin-based Indonesians, positioning itself in the int

Soydivision Berlin is a performing art collective consisting of Berlin-based Indonesians, positioning itself in the intersection of art and activism. As a registered UG, Soydivision makes curated performances, workshops, culinary pop-ups, and discussion sessions. Their diasporic point of views offer an alternative approach to contemporary challenges through art, and invite a new kind of dialogues and engagement? Soydivision’s activity started with the goal of provoking a discussion about the exploration and expression of identity through performing art and food. The goal originates from the member’s experience both as a foreigner and a long time resident of a country that does not share the same characteristics with the one they came from. This experience forces them to reevaluate their standing in this new society while retaining aspects of their preformed identity. Taking the issues as a starting point, Soydivision experiments and interacts with different people, mediums, and environments to take the problem from an artistic and culinary perspective. From the initial issue of identity, Soydivision Berlin enlarged its interest to the issues of social and environmental injustice. Coming from Indonesia and living abroad gives the member a certain perspective of environmental problems in their home country. However, various of this environmental problems are in connection to the demand of the global industries, leading to the exploitation of natural resources and labors in a non sustainable way. The connection and the critiques thereof became another theme that the members explore in their artistic creations. Their initial contemplation on the expression of identity is now put also in the context of social injustice. To be seen as the other--either abroad or at home--leads to further exploration of strategies to overcome stigmatized stereotypes and bridging the large gap of justice. The strategies, often in the form of cathartic experience, requestioning, or therapeutic healing, become themes of their artistic output or activities.

13/09/2026

Time flies. 👽🛸

After weeks of investigating, questioning, building, listening, sharing, and moving through ALIEN → ALIENATION → ALIGNMENT → ALLIANCE → AFFINITY, we have somehow arrived at the final day of ALI(E/A)NSI.

Today is officially the last chance to experience the exhibition at NOVILLA, open 15:00–19:00.

And after last night, our hearts are still very full. ❤️ Thank you to everyone who came to the finissage and shared the closing programme with us, including the final Soy&Synth Vol. 54 constellation. What a beautiful way to bring these weeks of encounters, experiments, sounds, movements and conversations towards a close.

These images are only the first glimpse of many more to come, captured by our official exhibition photographer and dear friend Hani Hamza. hani hamza 📸

For now, one last afternoon together.

ALI(E/A)NSI
Final exhibition day
Sunday, 13 September
15:00–19:00
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin Schöneweide

Come by before the aliens leave. 👽🛸

12/09/2026

SOY&SYNTH VOL. 54 SECOND SET: KIM VU + ELIAS 👽🌶️

For tonight’s second set, Soy&Synth brings together Kim Vu and Elias in their first artistic performance constellation as a duo.

Both have been part of sōydivision’s extended family for years and have helped co-curate, organise and shape previous editions of Soy&Synth. Tonight, they move from working behind the series to meeting each other through a shared performance for the first time.

Their set responds to Südost Serenade by Ariel William Orah and hanōmannō through sonic improvisation, expanded cinema and live scoring.

Created as a site-responsive multimedia installation for ALI(E/A)NSI at NOVILLA, Südost Serenade combines installation, sound, karaoke, speculative design and personal essay writing. The work begins with Schöneweide’s history as Berlin’s “Electropolis” and follows the promises of electricity and technological progress across the unequal connections between Germany and colonial Southeast Asia.

Since 2018, Soy&Synth has brought together artists who may have never performed together before, creating space for listening, empathy and unexpected collaboration. The meeting of Kim Vu and Elias continues this process, emerging from years of friendship, co-curation and collective work within sōydivision.

Today, 12 September
Soy&Synth Vol. 54 from 18:00
Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

Part of the ALI(E/A)NSI finissage programme.

12/09/2026

SOY&SYNTH VOL. 54 OPENS WITH MÚRMUR 👽🌶️

Tonight, Soy&Synth welcomes a newly formed collaboration within the sōydivision ensemble and extended family.

MÚRMUR is Giuliana Corsi on dance, Tengal Drilon on electronics, and Pedro Oliveira on guitar and electronics.

Through electronic and cinematic sounds alongside improvised movement, the trio works within the gaps and fractures between listening and space. Deeply inspired by Antonio Bispo dos Santos’s idea of “transfluence,” where knowledge flows like rivers, streams and rainwater across form, place and time, MÚRMUR brushes against the linearity of a single trajectory, privileging instead what lies between and beneath gestures.

For this first Soy&Synth Vol. 54 set, MÚRMUR will respond to Asarela Orchidia Dewi’s Rehearsing Becoming, a three-channel video installation presented as part of ALI(E/A)NSI.

Since 2018, Soy&Synth has brought together artists who may have never performed together before, exploring listening, exchange and empathy through sonic improvisation. It has become one of sōydivision’s longest-running series and a space where friendships, ideas and internal collaborations can grow.

Today, 12 September
Soy&Synth Vol. 54 from 18:00
Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

Part of the ALI(E/A)NSI finissage programme.

10/09/2026

A glimpse into ALIGNMENT ✨

Tomorrow, the final weekend of ALI(E/A)NSI begins. In Room 3, three works by Sebastian Körbs, MyLoan Dinh and Sofia Fernández enter into a quiet but charged dialogue.

Sebastian Körbs’ Blühende Landschaften grows from unglazed clay, turning the political promise of “blossoming landscapes” into a fragile terrain shaped by vanished industries and broken social continuities.

Above it, MyLoan Dinh’s Boom Boom Butterfy covers boxing gloves with delicate eggshell fragments. Force meets fragility, violence meets shelter, and the language of fighting becomes entangled with migration, identity and transformation.

Nearby, Sofia Fernández’s Wetscapes (clay/water) traces temporary relationships between soil, water, heat and organic matter, asking how we inhabit shared environments with care and responsibility.

Together, these works make ALIGNMENT feel less like harmony and more like a difficult negotiation: between strength and vulnerability, political promises and their ruins, human intervention and the living material world.

Come experience the final weekend of ALI(E/A)NSI from tomorrow, Friday 11 September, until Sunday 13 September at Moving Poets NOVILLA.

Open 15:00–19:00
Finissage programme on Saturday 12 September

Photo: Ariel William Orah

10/09/2026

👽 ONE LAST WEEKEND OF ALI(E/A)NSI

Can’t wait to welcome you back tomorrow for the final weekend of the exhibition.

And when you enter NOVILLA, this is where the journey begins: ALIEN, the first of our five spaces.

Spread across the entrance, staircase and hallway is Asarela Orchidia Dewi’s Rehearsing Becoming (2026), a three-channel video installation accompanied by sound, unfolding simultaneously through the architecture.

The work reflects on the Wilhelminenhof area as a place shaped by generations of arrival. Once an industrial complex connected first to AEG and later VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO), the site has been crossed by factory workers, forced labourers, contract workers and, today, students.

Beginning with .dewi own experience of arriving in Berlin as an international student, Rehearsing Becoming brings personal memories into conversation with archival materials and histories embedded in the site. It traces recurring gestures of arriving, adapting, surviving and searching for belonging.

Its three video channels move between historical archives of factories, workers and AEG/KWO materials; Asarela’s personal archive from their student years; and fragmented textual memories and feelings.

It is the first encounter with ALI(E/A)NSI:
ALIEN → ALIENATION → ALIGNMENT → ALLIANCE → AFFINITY

Come experience the journey one last weekend. 👽

ALI(E/A)NSI
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

Final weekend: 11–13 September 2026
Exhibition open 15:00–19:00

09/09/2026

👽🌶️ ALI(E/A)NSI FINISSAGE THIS SATURDAY!

We’re entering the final weekend of ALI(E/A)NSI.

After weeks of investigations, encounters, performances, sounds and unexpected alliances across NOVILLA, this Saturday we gather for a full day of poetry, exhibition, expanded cinema, improvised sound and live performance.

SATURDAY · 12.09.2026

📝 11:00–12:30 · POETIC BODIES
Workshop by Regina Riveros

Through body consciousness, embodiment and writing exercises, participants explore their own singular ways of telling and listening to the body.

📝 13:00–14:30 · WORDS (TO) BRIDGE COMMUNITY
Workshop by Regina Riveros

How can words help us build the bridges necessary to be part of, and feel part of, a community? An exploration of listening, poetry and togetherness.

👽 15:00–19:00 · ALI(E/A)NSI EXHIBITION OPEN

Wander through NOVILLA’s rooms, hallways and garden, encounter the investigation works and collect the stamps marking the journey through:

ALIEN → ALIENATION → ALIGNMENT → ALLIANCE → AFFINITY

🌶️ 18:00 · SOY&SYNTH #54 · FINISSAGE

For the closing of ALI(E/A)NSI, we welcome back one of sōydivision’s earliest and longest-running series: Soy&Synth, now reaching its 54th episode.

This special edition brings together the sōydivision ensemble family for an evening of expanded cinema, improvised sound and live performance with Pedro Oliveira · Giuliana Corsi · Tengal · Eiliyas · Kim Vu.

📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08–13.09.2026

08/09/2026

🗺️ ALI(E/A)NSI EXHIBITION MAP

Follow the different artistic investigations across the exhibition with our map, designed by our exhibition designer 👉🏼 🗞pisitakunkuantalaeng🔌

The works and stamps are spread across five interconnected spaces, following the five movements of ALI(E/A)NSI: ALIEN, ALIENATION, ALIGNMENT, ALLIANCE and AFFINITY.

The journey leads through three large rooms of the Moving Poets NOVILLA gallery and continues throughout the huge NOVILLA garden. Pick up a map, discover each investigation and collect the stamps along the way. Exploring the exhibition might feel a little like entering an artistic amusement park 👽🔍🌳

A huge thank you to Pisitakun for the incredible effort put into designing the exhibition map, visual identity and many details that connect the entire journey through ALI(E/A)NSI.

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08–13.09.2026
Open weekends, 15:00–19:00

Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstraße 22
12439 Berlin

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

06/09/2026

We’re looking forward to opening ALI(E/A)NSI again today from 15:00–19:00 👽🌶️

While you’re here, make sure to spend some time with the exhibition publication zine and its one of essential essay, “Here,” by Dr Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh.

Kalvin writes from a rare double perspective: as an art historian and as someone who has personally witnessed the transformation of Schöneweide and NOVILLA over many years. He first came to the neighbourhood as a teenager in the early 2010s, when his family was helping to create a home, artist studios and a cultural centre here. His essay moves between intimate memories of racism, hospitality and unexpected friendship, and the complex history of the villa itself: from the home of a Jewish industrialist family, through its use by N**i bureaucracy and the military, to its present life as an international space for art and community.

Through this personal and historical perspective, “Here” offers an important framework for encountering the exhibition. It reflects on how one place can hold alienation and belonging, violence and care, exclusion and affinity at the same time. Rather than imagining community as something already given, Kalvin asks how relationships across difference can be created, sustained and protected, especially amid gentrification, displacement and the resurgence of the far right.

“A place can make you feel alien and familiar at the same time.”

Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh is a writer, researcher and art historian based in London. He completed his PhD in Art History at University College London in 2025 and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Come by, experience the works and discover the publication 📖

ALI(E/A)NSI
Today, 15:00–19:00
NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstraße 22, Berlin-Schöneweide

06/09/2026

👽🌶️ TODAY: EMPATHONIC EP. 9 🌶️🥔

The ALI(E/A)NSI exhibition opens as usual from 15:00. Empathonic doors open at 17:00, with performances starting at 18:00.

Tatiana Heuman begins the evening by activating Radio Pillow, the work presented in the exhibition. This intimate performance will happen in two cycles, with limited capacity inside the gallery. Come early—but don’t worry if you miss the first cycle, there will be a second chance to enter.

Afterwards, Zoé Febvre-Utrilla aka Dolores takes over the main hall. And if the weather is with us, hanōmannō will activate Südost Serenade in the NOVILLA garden and close the night. 🐒👽

Tonight is also one of the special occasions when the entire exhibition will remain illuminated into the evening. Come experience ALI(E/A)NSI after dark, alongside three interconnected live activations.

📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

🖼 Exhibition from 15:00
🚪 Empathonic doors 17:00
🎶 Performances from 18:00

Come early, stay late 🌶️🥔👽

05/09/2026

🌶️ SOY&SYNTH IS BACK — EPISODE #54 👽

Saturday, 12 September 2026
Part of the ALI(E/A)NSI Finissage
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

Started in 2018, Soy&Synth is one of the earliest and longest-running series in sōydivision’s programming.

It began before we received any public funding or grants, growing instead through shared spaces, borrowed equipment, friendships, experiments and the people who happened to be around. Across 53 episodes, Soy&Synth has witnessed the ups and downs, transformations and changing constellations of sōydivision.

Now, in 2026, we’re bringing it back and refreshing the series with Episode #54, embedded into the public programme and finissage of ALI(E/A)NSI. 🥔🌶️

For this special edition, we turn the curatorial gesture inward with a kind of self-curation by our extended family: people who have co-curated, organised and accompanied Soy&Synth throughout the years, but haven’t necessarily performed in the series themselves.

The evening is framed by a special sōydivision ensemble constellation, responding to visual materials from works presented in the exhibition by Asarela Orchidia Dewi and Ariel William Orah, expanding them through expanded cinema, live scoring and collective improvisation.

🌶️ With Pedro Oliveira, Giuliana Corsi, Tengal Drilon, Eiliyas and Kim Vu 🌶️

12.09.2026
ALI(E/A)NSI Finissage from 16:00
Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

More details soon 🌶️

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Lichtenrader Str. 49
Berlin
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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	18:00 - 21:00
Mittwoch	18:00 - 21:00
Freitag	18:00 - 21:00
Samstag	12:00 - 21:00

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017684347240

Website

http://soydivision.berlin/

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