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Die galerie weisser elefant heißt nun Kunst Raum Mitte.

Mit einem performativen und transdisziplinären Ansatz will Berlins älteste kommunale Galerie, gegründet 1987, zukünftig auch Bezüge zur Geschichte des Ortes herstellen.

05/06/2026

We're very excited to share some impressions from our recently opened exhibition DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry .

At its center is the video installation "EL" (2025), presented in Europe for the first time. Influenced by feminist and speculative readings of East Asian cosmologies, the exhibition takes the form of a hotel suspended between memory and oblivion. Light and sound installations extend the film’s atmosphere into the exhibition space.

Filmed in the historic Yamato Hotel in Shenyang, EL follows the encounter between the Korean poet Sansaee and the Chinese opera singer Fei. Moving through dreams, memories, and historical traces, the film explores longing, displacement, and states of in-betweenness.The sound and research installation "Listening Room" expands on the film through musical archives and performative practices from East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. Finally, "AFSAR Comfort Women Study Club" is an evolving research space that brings together books, films, texts and archival materials to explore obscured histories through collective reading and discussion.

DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry
23.5. – 4.10.2026

OPENING HOURS:
Mon – Sun, 10 AM – 6 PM

Curator of the exhibition:
Assistant Curator: .reka

Curators of DISSOLUTIONS: .keppler & (Artistic Co-Directors KRM)

Photos 1–X: Mooni Perry, EL, 2025.
Photos X–X: Mooni Perry, Listening Room of Choson Akguk Troupe (Choson Musical Troupe), 2026.
Photos X–X: Mooni Perry, AFSAR Comfort Women Study Club, 2026.
Photos X–X: Archive presentation galerie weisser elefant

(c) Jannis Uffrecht

02/06/2026

Einladung zu den SUNDAY ART MAKERS (SAM) im Kunst Raum Mitte: Kommt vorbei zum kostenlosen Workshop „Reassembled Künstler*innenbuch“ mit Daniela Herig .herig ✂️📄

Vergängliche Blätter – Poster, Zettel, Verpackungen vergangener Ausstellungen – werden neu belebt. Durch Schneiden, Falten und Schichten entstehen Bücher, die keine Bücher mehr sind, sondern skulpturale Formen aus Erinnerung und Verwandlung. Jede Spur des Alten fließt in neue Gestalten, jede Seite trägt eine andere Geschichte. Ein Raum des Spiels und der Möglichkeiten, in dem Bücher wie Organismen wachsen – frei, experimentell und offen für alle, die aus Resten neue Welten spinnen wollen. Der Upcycling-Workshop führt zugleich in grundlegende Techniken des Buchbindens ein.

Der Workshop ist Teil von SAM, dem Kreativsonntag der Kommunalen Galerien Berlin-Mitte, mit kostenlosen Drop-in-Angeboten auch im .berlin, in der .berlin und in der .

Termine: 7.6. · 5.7. · 2.8. · 6.9. · 4.10. · 6.12.
Jeweils von 14-17 Uhr
Ohne Anmeldung – einfach vorbeikommen und mitmachen
Für Kinder ab 5 Jahren, Jugendliche und Erwachsene

Workshop-Anleitungen können auch auf Englisch und Portugiesisch gegeben werden.

Fotos © Daniela Herig

29/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the opening of the second sequence of our annual program DISSOLUTIONS and Mooni Perry’s solo exhibition at Kunst Raum Mitte. We’re especially grateful to Mooni for the wonderful collaboration and for bringing her video installation EL to Kunst Raum Mitte for its European premiere.

We look forward to welcoming many of you back over the coming months for the accompanying program of screenings, talks, reading groups, performances and exhibition tours.

DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry
23.5. – 4.10.2026

OPENING HOURS:
Mon – Sun, 10 AM – 6 PM

Curator of the exhibition:
Curators of DISSOLUTIONS: .keppler & (Artistic Co-Directors KRM)

Photos: .pietrus

12/05/2026

DISSOLUTIONS Sequence II

On 22 May 2026, join us at Kunst Raum Mitte as we open the second sequence of our annual program DISSOLUTIONS with a solo exhibition by . For the first time in Europe, Perry’s video installation EL (2025) will be presented . Combining cinematic staging, music and historic materials, the exhibition traces historical entanglements between Korea, Northeast China and Japanese colonial rule through dreamlike encounters and shifting temporalities. Centered around the former Yamato Hotel in Shenyang, the video reflects on migration, displacement and the lingering traces of violence embedded within places and their histories – while AFSAR uses the exhibition space for their collaborative research practice.

DISSOLUTIONS explores processes of dissolving and reformulating historical, political and spatial narratives. In resonance with the program, Mooni Perry’s practice engages with speculative fiction, feminist readings of history, collective research and the afterlives of memory across East Asian contexts.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of events expanding on these themes through screenings, conversations, collective reading and performance.

DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry
23.05. – 04.10.2026
OPENING: 22.05.2026, 6 PM

EVENTS
26.06.2026 – 28.06.2026 Screening: Montika Kham-on , Hanwen Zhang

26.06.2026
5 PM – Reading Group Haunted Potentials (registration required)
7 PM – Screening: Montika Kham-on, Hanwen Zhang
8 PM – Talk: Montika Kham-on, AFSAR / Mooni Perry, Hanwen Zhang

02.07.2026, 6 PM
Performance by Luzie Meyer

17.07.2026, 5 PM
Reading Group Haunted Potentials (egistration required)

24.07.2026, 6 PM
Exhibition tour with Mooni Perry & Agnieszka Roguski, curator of the exhibition

Curator of the exhibition:
Curators of DISSOLUTIONS: .keppler & (Artistic Co-Directors KRM)

Flyer: Sibel Beyer
Images 1 & 2: Mooni Perry, EL, 2025, Videostill. Courtesy of Mooni Perry.

28/04/2026

Ab Mai laden die SUNDAY ART MAKERS (SAM) im Kunst Raum Mitte zum kostenlosen Workshop „Reassembled Künstler*innenbuch“ mit Daniela Herig .herig ein ✂️📄

Vergängliche Blätter – Poster, Zettel, Verpackungen vergangener Ausstellungen – werden neu belebt. Durch Schneiden, Falten und Schichten entstehen Bücher, die keine Bücher mehr sind, sondern skulpturale Formen aus Erinnerung und Verwandlung. Jede Spur des Alten fließt in neue Gestalten, jede Seite trägt eine andere Geschichte. Ein Raum des Spiels und der Möglichkeiten, in dem Bücher wie Organismen wachsen – frei, experimentell und offen für alle, die aus Resten neue Welten spinnen wollen. Der Upcycling-Workshop führt zugleich in grundlegende Techniken des Buchbindens ein.

Der Workshop ist Teil von SAM, dem Kreativsonntag der Kommunalen Galerien Berlin-Mitte, mit kostenlosen Drop-in-Angeboten auch im .berlin, in der .berlin und in der .

Termine: 3.5. · 7.6. · 5.7. · 2.8. · 6.9. · 4.10. · 6.12.
Jeweils von 14-17 Uhr
Ohne Anmeldung – einfach vorbeikommen und mitmachen
Für Kinder ab 5 Jahren, Jugendliche und Erwachsene

Workshop-Anleitungen können auch auf Englisch und Portugiesisch gegeben werden.

Fotos © Daniela Herig

30/03/2026

Join us for a special musical evening! Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good, a film by Catherina Cramer and Sabine Bremer , is currently in its final stages of production. On 10 April, you will have the chance to experience its soundtrack in advance, performed live within the setting of Catherina Cramer’s installation at Kunst Raum Mitte.

For the concert, Bremer transforms her studio setup into a set of instruments. Moving between classical violin, playful jazz and electronic sound, she creates collage-like compositions in which broken rhythms, psychedelic patterns, and percussive elements collide and intertwine, forming a direct and unpredictable sonic landscape.

Before the concert, join Catherina Cramer and co-curator Agnieszka Roguski () for a guided tour of the exhibition and the opportunity to explore the works together.

10.04.2026
6 PM: Exhibition tour
7 PM: Concert

DISSOLUTIONS—Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer
On view until 10 May 2026
Opening hours:
Mon—Sun, 10 AM — 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS is curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Directors KRM).keppler

Photo: Catherina Cramer / Sabine Bremer

26/03/2026

Stream sounds from the past!
Cashmere Radio featuring Nils Fock and Yara Mekawei
🔊🔊🔊
� Together with Cashmere Radio , we listen to the past and recall the live sonic performance by Yara Mekawei and Cashmere Radio DJ Nils Fock, which took place during the Autumn School "Stadt als Beute Revisited" in November 2025 at Kunst Raum Mitte , Kunsthaus KuLe , and the surrounding Berlin Mitte area.
🔊🔊🔊
Tune in and resonate
on Friday, March 27 + April 3
7—9:10 PM
🎧 cashmereradio.com
📻 digital stream 88.4

Yara Mekawei is a Sonic Sculptor and Sound Artist exploring the intersection of sound, architecture, and urban landscapes. Her work transforms the rhythm of cities into immersive auditory experiences, where sonic narratives merge with visual form.

Nils Fock is a former staff member at Hard Wax and was active in Cashmere Radio with radio shows such as Ziese and Scholien. As a DJ, they focus on ambient, early electronic, experimental, and industrial music.

The Autumn School took place within the 2025 program DISLOCATIONS, which was conceived by Natalie Keppler .keppler and Agnieszka Roguski
Artistic Directors of Kunst Raum Mitte

Photos: Piotr Pietrus .pietrus

23/03/2026

Take a seat on the oversized — sleeping or collapsed? — teddy bear at the center of Catherina Cramer’s installation at Kunst Raum Mitte and join the artist together with co-curator Agnieszka Roguski for a guided tour of our current exhibition DISSOLUTIONS—Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer.

The tour offers deeper insights into the artworks and an opportunity to hear directly from the artist and co-curator about the ideas, processes and contexts shaping the exhibition.

DATE: 10.4.2026, 6 PM

Afterwards, stay on for a concert at 7 PM based on the soundtrack of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, a film by Catherina Cramer and Sabine Bremer . More info coming soon.

DISSOLUTIONS—Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer
On view until 10 May 2026
Opening hours:
Mon—Sun, 10 AM — 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS is curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Directors KRM).keppler

13/03/2026

In her work Indexical, Catherina Cramer does not explore medical norms, but rather the narratives to which they are subject. Her almost criminological approach is based on set pieces from various found objects, text fragments, and materials, and unfolds as a search for clues rather than a linear narrative. Migraine and chronic fatigue syndrome form the culmination point: Cramer shows how these conditions are categorized as diseases and how they measure the performance of bodies. To illustrate the dimensions of this body politics, Cramer emphasizes the fictions and stories that supposedly claim control. These are thwarted by the visible seams and tears that—scratched and glued—reveal the inscriptions of illness on bodies. Tangible fantasies that seemingly cannot or do not want to fill the installation appear here as a gigantic, perhaps sleeping, perhaps collapsed teddy bear on which visitors can sit to view the wall-based works. These fantasies tell of something shiny and new that, precisely in their fragmentary nature, form a coherent whole. Illness is thus transformed from an individual deficiency into a social fact, in which deviations are integrated just as much as vulnerabilities and humor. The exhausted body, it can be concluded, is not a personal deficit, but instead reveals its possibilities for care in a dark yet luminous way—resisting the neoliberal imperative of omnipresent performance and the binary division into healthy or sick forms of existence.

Indexical is on view at Kunst Raum Mitte until 10 May 2026.

Join co-curator Agnieszka Roguski on an exhibition tour for a chance to get in-depth insight into the works by Catherina Cramer and Johannes Büttner.

DATE: 10.4.2026, 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS, Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer
On view until 10 May 2026
Opening hours:
Mon—Sun, 10 AM — 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS is curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Directors KRM).keppler

Photos:

20/02/2026

Buzzing microwaves pile up in Kunst Raum Mitte to form a city of apparatuses, accelerating the time between progress and decay. In the video work L’ État, c’est moi (Engl.: “The state is me”), Johannes Büttner explores the founding of the anarcho-capitalist pseudo-state of the so- called “Free Republic of Liberland,” which exists both geographically—on a piece of no man’s land between Serbia and Croatia—and digitally in the metaverse. The stark contrast between a futuristic luxury world designed by the architectural studio Zaha Hadid and a swampy forest area becomes increasingly apparent in the video.

Büttner's second work in the exhibition, How to get through, revisits the 1995 analog cyber attack by the group Keine Verbindung e.V., which disrupted Frankfurt Airport’s information network in protest against racist deportation policies , specifically the “deportation zones” at the airport. Afterwards, a video by the group circulated under the title How to get through, serving as both a manifesto and a guide to the attack. Büttner brings this story from subcultural memory into the present and reveals how, almost thirty years later, these practices are once again enforced through policies of isolation and deportation, as part of the normalization of racist violence. By focusing on so-called special administrative zones—also in connection with L’ État c'est moi—How to get through makes the arbitrariness of state action and national sovereignty particularly clear.

Join Johannes Büttner and co-curator Natalie Keppler .keppler in our upcoming guided exhibition tour for a chance to explore the works together:
27.02.2026, 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS—Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer
On view until 10 May 2026
Opening hours:
Mon — Sun, 10 AM — 6 PM

DISSOLUTIONS is curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (Artistic Directors KRM).keppler

Photos:
Slides 1-3: Johannes Büttner, L' État, c' est moi, 2025/26.
Slide 4: Johannes Büttner, How to get through, 1995/25.

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