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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.

26/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #8] 👽🌶️👽
Zoé Febvre-Utrilla aka Dolores

Zoé Febvre-Utrilla aka Dolores is an experimental musician working across sound, video and installation. A 2020 Art graduate from ENSAD Nancy, her work draws from pop, underground and internet cultures to explore how they shape us, emotionally and in terms of identity. She repurposes vocal AI, glitch, sampling and montage to expose the fragility of algorithmic and performative perfection.

Her works reflect a critical exploration of cultural appropriation, exchange and transformation. At its core, her practice is driven by a deep, almost obsessive love for fan culture — because what is music if not an elaborate form of stan behavior?

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Zoé presents Don’t Be Shy.sub, an installation entering the paradoxical intimacy of ASMR and online self-care culture. Moving between comfort and loneliness, pleasure and anxiety, the work asks what happens when intimacy, relaxation and self-care become entangled with platforms, consumption and late capitalism. A soft voice offers an escape from a world that feels too harsh — while simultaneously asking us to comment, click, like, follow, and perhaps buy the next product.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

25/08/2026

👽🌶️ We’re excited to launch SCHÖN UNGEWÖHNLICH, a new workshop series developed through the lainlainlab residency at Moving Poets NOVILLA.

Through different artistic and participatory formats, the series invites people from across the neighbourhood to explore questions of belonging, difference, trust and living together.

The first two workshops will take place at NOVILLA in the setting of the ALI(E/A)NSI exhibition, opening further encounters and conversations around some of its themes.

We begin with:

🛸 WHEN THE ALIEN CAME TO BERLIN
A shadow-puppet workshop with Herlambang Bayu Aji

What happens when an alien arrives in Berlin? Together, we will create shadow puppets and bring our own characters and stories to life.

📅 Sunday, 30.08.2026
⏰ 14:00–17:00 — open format, come and go anytime
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstraße 22, Berlin-Schöneweide
👨‍👩‍👧 For children aged 4+ and their families
🗣 German & English
🎟 Free admission

More information:
soydivision.berlin/shadow-puppet-workshop⁠

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👽🌶️ Wir freuen uns sehr, SCHÖN UNGEWÖHNLICH zu starten – eine neue Workshop-Reihe, die im Rahmen der lainlainlab-Residenz bei Moving Poets NOVILLA entwickelt wurde.

Mit unterschiedlichen künstlerischen und partizipativen Formaten lädt die Reihe Menschen aus der Nachbarschaft dazu ein, sich mit Fragen rund um Zugehörigkeit, Unterschiedlichkeit, Vertrauen und Zusammenleben auseinanderzusetzen.

Die ersten beiden Workshops finden in der NOVILLA im räumlichen Kontext der Ausstellung ALI(E/A)NSI statt und eröffnen weitere Begegnungen und Gespräche rund um einige ihrer Themen.

Den Auftakt macht:

🛸 WHEN THE ALIEN CAME TO BERLIN
Ein Schattentheater-Workshop mit Herlambang Bayu Aji

Was passiert, wenn ein Alien in Berlin landet? Gemeinsam gestalten wir Schattenfiguren und erwecken unsere eigenen Charaktere und Geschichten zum Leben.

📅 Sonntag, 30.08.2026
⏰ 14:00–17:00 Uhr — offenes Format, kommt und geht jederzeit
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstraße 22, Berlin-Schöneweide
👨‍👩‍👧 Für Kinder ab 4 Jahren und ihre Familien
🗣 Deutsch & Englisch
🎟 Eintritt frei

SCHÖN UNGEWÖHNLICH wird gefördert durch die Partnerschaft für Demokratie Schöneweide.

25/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #7] 👽🌶️👽
Samuel Johnstone

Samuel Johnstone is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin, working at the intersection of ecological research and mixed-media composition. His practice uses sound as a tool of artistic inquiry; a way of listening into ecological spaces and the noisy, entangled ways in which human activity is embedded within them. Field recording, spatial audio and situated fieldwork are central to his work.

He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where his artistic research project Copper Ecologies: Sounding Fields of Extraction and Advocacy develops sound as a method of ecological fieldwork. His installations and compositions have been presented at Hellerau Festspielhaus Dresden, Konzerthaus Berlin, Frequenz Festival Kiel, the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and performed by ensembles including El Perro Andaluz and Ensemble UnitedBerlin.

Samuel is also a member of Moving Poets Berlin and a close neighbour of NOVILLA in Berlin-Schöneweide, making his participation in ALI(E/A)NSI part of the exhibition’s immediate local constellation.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Samuel presents sub/Wald (field recordings) (2026), a sound installation emerging from artistic research into how field recording and immersive media can become tools for understanding forest ecologies. Developed through fieldwork in Denmark, London, Berlin and the Teutoburger Wald, the work listens closely to the forest floor, mosses and trees using contact and binaural microphones, moving between two contrasting environments: a young Norway spruce plantation and a mature European beech forest.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

24/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #6] 👽🌶️👽
Sebastian Körbs
Sebastian Körbs

Sebastian Körbs is a German visual artist born in Magdeburg and based in Berlin. Working across printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, his practice explores abstraction, ornament and the interplay between pattern and structure, increasingly moving between abstract and figurative forms. He studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and became Meisterschüler of Prof. Bogomir Ecker in 2013. His works have been presented nationally and internationally, and he is a co-founder of Treptow-Ateliers in Berlin-Schöneweide.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Sebastian presents Blühende Landschaften (2026), a ceramic installation responding to the promise of “blossoming landscapes” made by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1990 in relation to German reunification. Made entirely from unglazed clay, the work recalls the red-brown brick architecture of former industrial regions: across a strictly structured field of ceramic tiles, flowers, buds and organic forms begin to grow. What initially appears as abundance and flourishing becomes an inversion of that political promise — a landscape blooming not through economic prosperity, but where industrial production, employment and forms of social continuity have disappeared.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

24/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #5] 👽🌶️👽
Pisitakun Kuantalaeng
🗞pisitakunkuantalaeng🔌

Pisitakun Kuantalaeng (b. 1986) is a Thai multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Berlin. Working across sound, performance, video, drawing and installation, his practice examines political violence, contested histories, memory and resistance. Emerging from Thailand’s politically turbulent art scene, his work has consistently questioned who is allowed to write history and how dominant narratives can be challenged, often combining critical inquiry with music, noise, ritual and speculative forms.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Pisitakun presents With My Own Eyes, developed in response to two book burnings he witnessed near his studio in Berlin-Schöneweide. Using fragments of the burned books that he collected and preserved, he creates five amulets inspired by the Benjapakee, a group of five highly revered Thai amulets. Each responds to a question that arose from witnessing the burnings: Who are these people? What are they afraid of? How were they raised? Do they have families? What history did they learn? Transforming remnants of destruction into objects associated with protection, courage and spiritual strength, the work turns the burned fragments into gestures of resistance and protection.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

23/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #4] 👽🌶️👽
Clara Sofía Fernández

Clara Sofía Fernández is a German-Uruguayan designer, artist and researcher based in Berlin-Schöneweide. Working across experimental materials, objects and installations, her practice explores the intersections of technology, ecology and more-than-human perspectives. Through hands-on material experimentation and critical inquiry, she questions how we think about materials, spaces and the making of things, and explores how living systems can shape new forms of making and relating.

She is currently pursuing a PhD at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, researching living materials, particularly fungal mycelium, and the relationship between growth and fabrication. Alongside her research, she works as an artistic associate at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and develops her independent artistic practice from her studio in Berlin-Schöneweide.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Fernández presents Wetscapes (clay/water), a series of hydrographies emerging from her research into biomaterials and the complex, unpredictable interactions between living systems and their environments. Bringing soil, water, heat and organic matter into relation, the works trace the temporary encounters and entanglements between these different elements. Water appears, travels and disappears again, leaving ephemeral traces that make these relationships momentarily visible while pointing toward questions of finitude, emptiness and our responsibility within shared environments.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

23/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #3] 👽🌶️👽
SIESTARIA — Florencia Curci & Tatiana Heuman
Florencia Curci Tatiana Heuman

Siestaria is an artistic research project exploring listening at the threshold between waking and sleep, developed by Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman. Working through concerts for sleeping audiences, collective siestas, installations and radio pieces, they approach rest as political and dreams as technology. The dream space is an acoustic refuge: involuntary, intimate and undisciplined.

Tatiana Heuman is an Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist working with sound, performance and installation. Known also as Qeei, she creates affective sonic environments through improvisation, speculative fiction and vocal experimentation. Her practice investigates bodily memory, transformation and the construction of alternative imaginaries.

Florencia Curci is a sound and radio artist and curator, founder and director of the Sound Art Center of Argentina – CASo (2017–2024). Through radio experimentation and artistic research, she develops collective tools to challenge and resist dominant monoculture.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Siestaria presents Radio Pillow, emerging from their research on radical rest and dreamlike listening. A constellation of pillows is distributed throughout NOVILLA as soft devices for receiving a radio signal carrying voices, questions and fragmentary texts. Situated at the threshold between waking and sleep, the work invites visitors to pause, listen and enter different states of attention — creating small refuges for rest and protecting the involuntary space of dreaming.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

22/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #2] 👽🌶️👽
MyLoan Dinh MyLoan Dinh

MyLoan Dinh is a Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist. MyLoan exhibits nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington National Biennial, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, the Santo Foundation in St. Louis, and the Urania Center for Science and Humanities in Berlin.

Her work can be found in collections in the United States and Europe, including the Muhammad Ali Museum and Center in Louisville, KY, ArtFields in Lake City, SC, the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, and the Imago Mundi Benetton Foundation, Italy. Notable accomplishments include the Arts & Science Council Inaugural Founders Grant, NC Zeitgeist Foundation Biennial Artist, and the ArtFields 2nd Place Jury Prize. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, The Observer, The Washington Post and BBC.

Together with her husband, Till Schmidt Rimpler, she co-founded Moving Poets – Charlotte l Berlin, developing creative projects in the USA and Germany.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, MyLoan presents Boom Boom Butterfly (2019), a sculpture made from boxing gloves covered in fragments of eggshell. Moving between the Vietnamese bươm bướm (“butterfly”), the explosive English “boom,” and Muhammad Ali’s famous phrase “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” the work layers questions of migration and identity with histories of the Vietnam War, violence, masculinity and the fetishization of Asian women. The fragile eggshell veneer also draws from MyLoan’s latent exposure to Vietnamese sơn mài lacquer traditions, transforming an object associated with force through a slow, careful process that considers slowness itself as a decolonial strategy.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

22/08/2026

ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [ #1] 👽🌶️👽
Asarela Orchidia Dewi - .dewi

Asarela Orchidia Dewi is an Indonesian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. They hold a degree in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

Drawing from their nomadic upbringing, Asarela finds inspiration in the emotions of alienation and exploration. Their focus lies in exploring q***r and diasporic experiences through various mediums such as film, visual art, and performance art.

Since 2018, Asarela has worked closely with sōydivision, collaborating on video installations, performances, and interdisciplinary artistic projects. They also collaborate with Ballhaus Naunynstraße as a visual artist and director.

In 2021, Asarela wrote and directed their debut short film, Memori Dia (Their Memory), which was screened at festivals including the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival and XPOSED Q***r Film Festival.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Asarela presents Rehearsing Becoming, a work that departs from their personal relationship with the HTW Berlin campus in Oberschöneweide, housed within the former industrial complex. Having first encountered these buildings as an international student from Indonesia, Asarela traces questions of arrival, belonging and becoming through a site shaped by different histories of labour, migration and education, bringing personal experience into conversation with the layered histories embedded in the architecture.

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ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

20/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE (S) 👽🌶️👽

Finally, we can share our full programme for August and September!

Alongside the ALI(E/A)NSI exhibition, the programme brings together exhibition activations, workshops and performances hosted with our collaborating partners, as well as our signature concert formats EMPATHONIC and sōy&Synth.

🌶️🛸 28.08.2026, from 18:00
VERNISSAGE

Performance by the Moving Poets Ensemble, featuring Dr Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh, Carmen Volpe, Till Schmidt-Rimpler and Tom Dayan, followed by a DJ set and installation activations by participating artists.

🌶️🛸 30.08.2026, 14:00–17:00
WHEN THE ALIEN CAME TO BERLIN

Indonesian shadow-puppet-making workshop with Herlambang Bayu Aji, for children aged 4+ and their families.

Supported by Partnerschaft für Demokratie Schöneweide.

🌶️🛸 06.09.2026
EMPATHONIC, EPISODE 9

Curated by Ariel William Orah and Andrea Goetzke, featuring Zoé Febvre-Utrilla, Tatiana Heuman and Hanumano.

Supported by Musicboard Berlin.

🌶️🛸 12.09.2026
FINISSAGE

Collective poetry workshop with Regina Riveros.

Supported by Partnerschaft für Demokratie Schöneweide.

Followed by sōy&Synth #54: an expanded-cinema and improvised-sound response by the sōydivision Ensemble family to visual materials by Ariel William Orah and Asarela Orchidia Dewi presented in the exhibition.

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

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA
Berlin-Schöneweide

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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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