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Matrix-Ost, Herzbergstraße 79, Berlin (2026)

22/11/2025

In Kooperation mit dem Kulturring in Berlin e.V. erweitern wir unser Jahresendprogramm um eine Reihe von Kurzfilmabenden, die wir bei entsprechendem Interesse im Jahr 2026 fortführen möchten.

Wir laden euch herzlich zu den Vorführungen im Museum Kesselhaus und im GISELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg ein.

Der Filmabend im Kesselhaus findet unter dem Label Matrix-Ost statt und setzt unsere Auseinandersetzung mit osteuropäischer Kunst fort. Einige der gezeigten Filme waren bereits Teil unserer gleichnamigen Gruppenausstellung Matrix-Ost im Sommer.

Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2025, 16:00 Uhr
Filme von:
Dasha Brian, Cristian Fierbiteanu, Daria Gnatchenko, Konstantinos Antonios Goutos,
David Heinemann / Elvina Nevardauskaite, Lisa Hoffmann, Federico Montaresi,
Elena Muchnaya, Neringa Naujokaite, Paulius Sliaupa
später ergänzt: Nadežda Fedorova

Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2025, 18:00 Uhr
Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2025, 18:00 Uhr
Filme von:
Uwe Bohrer, Roland Eckelt, Adalbert Fahrenhorst, Lara Faroqhi, Marcus Frimel,
Daniel Gianfranceschi, Lisa Hoffmann, Annika Horn, Dirk-Martin Heinzelmann / Julieta Palombi,
Heinz-Hermann Jurczek, Christine Lengtat, Maria Korporal, Tom Meier, Makiko Nishikaze,
Irena Paskali, Antti Pussinen, Lucas Rehnman, Axel Roch, Alexandru Salceanu,
Yoel Diaz Vazquez, pmwaschkau
u. v. a.

02/08/2025

Our opening menu:

Baba Kartoflyana for vegetarians.
A Zapiekanka z ziemniaków i kapusty for meat eaters,
a Solyanka for those on a budget, and cheese/sausage and fruit snacks for those with a light appetite.

There will also be pretzel sticks and peanuts for those without any money.

13/07/2025

Marc Allgaier

Marc Allgaier is an artist from Stuttgart who explores environmental themes in his paintings and
mixed-media works. His pieces illuminate the interplay between humans and nature, focusing on
resilience, transformation, and the ecological impact of human actions. By combining abstract and
figurative elements, Marc’s art encourages reflection on the urgent challenges of climate change and
sustainability. His paintings invite viewers to rethink their connection to the natural world.

Studied Communication Design
2018 HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Guest Seminar at ABK Stuttgart: “Europe after Europe? The Subject of Ethics in
Contemporary Film.” With Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin.

art & design lessons
2022 - now Schickhardt Gemeinschaftsschule, Stuttgart

art price
2020 YAS AWARD, Zweiter Preis young artist space
Preis des Lions Club Magdeburg – Kaiser Otto 1.

publication
2025 Munchies Art Club, Discover 15 Exceptional Artists: Handpicked by Curator
Katharina Hoffmann – Wien, Österreich
Al-Tiba9 ISSUE17 – Barcelona, Spain.
Art for the Future: Ecology and Sustainability –
artistic hub magazine, Schweiz.

2024 Collect Art, Tiflis Georgien.
Abstract Horizons Catalog – Schweiz.
Visual art journal #13.

exhibitions
2025 Galtes Hotel Miami South Beach, Miami Beach, USA

Gallery One, Ellensburg, Washington, USA
Punch Gallery, Thorp, Washington, USA
Art Number 23 Gallery, Athen, Greece
2024 Oculus World Trade Center, New York, USA

W109, Reutlingen
Miyagi Records, Chicago, USA
Schauraum, Nürtingen
b05, Montabaur
Studio nowhere, Mannheim
Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
Galerie Oberwelt, Stuttgart
V-Art Union Gallery, Brüssel, Belgien
Kunstraum heartspace, Berlin
Swiss art expo, Zürich, Schweiz
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen

2023 Shedhalle, Tübingen
Galerie der Stadt Wendlingen, Wendlingen
Museum für Papier- und Buchkunst, Lenningen
Artbox, Dresden
BT24, Münsingen

2022 5. Otto F. Scharr Kunstpreis, Stuttgart
Kulturnacht, Tübingen

2021 Kunst/Mitte, Magdeburg
arte-sono, Stuttgart
Haze Gallery, Berlin
The Holy Gallery, London, UK

2020 Galerie Interart, Stuttgart
Galerie der Einheit, Potsdam
Kunst/Mitte Magdeburg
arte-soso, Stuttgart

2019 Lehmann, Stuttgart
and more...

08/07/2025

PAULIUS ŠLIAUPA

Artist statement:
Our tools for understanding the world are often inadequate, rationalist and limited by our human
perspective. The environment continues to change on scales beyond our comprehension, while scientific theories struggle to capture their full impact. As humanity grows more distant from nature, a yearning for deeper connection persists. Coming from a family of geologists, I am deeply interested in the friction between culture and nature, particularly the psychological effects of natural and artificial light.
I spent my childhood fishing by riverside and later immersed in screens—an interplay of analog and digital worlds that still defines my perspective. Today, I sense that direct wilderness experiences are fading, replaced by the immersive, expectant pull of digital media. My art practice seeks to bridge this divide, blending personal recollections, dreams, and technology to explore natural phenomena and modern life.
Fieldwork is integral to my projects. Using drones—tools originally designed for surveillance—I reveal perspectives that transcend human senses, imagining landscapes through the eyes of celestial beings. What visions emerge from these otherworldly perspectives, and how might they reshape our imagination?
Ranging from video installations and experimental films to object-like paintings, my works weave painterly imagery, atmospheric sound, and poetic energy into sensual narratives inspired by poetic cinema, magical realism, and sci-fi. In an increasingly opaque digital age, I feel the need to affirm the tactile importance of matter and texture.

Short bio:
Paulius Šliaupa (b. 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania) holds a BA in painting and an MFA in contemporary sculpture from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, an MFA in media arts in KASK, HISK postgraduate residency program in Ghent, Belgium. He was awarded the grand prize of ArtContest22, Brussels, Belgium, the main prize of INPUT/OUTPUT 2023 Brugge, Belgium, and the Simultan Festival prize, Timișoara, Romania in 2024. Currently, Paulius is a resident artist at Foundation Fiminco 2024-2025 Paris, France. Selected exhibitions would include personal exhibitions: “A Snowfall of Salt”, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France (2024), “After Nature” (2024) Michele Schoonjans, Brussels, Belgium; “Night watch“ (2022), HuidenClub, Rotterdam, Netherlands, “Neon Poems“ (2021) Casinot XXH, Malmo, Sweden; “Dès Vu“ (2019), Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania; the group exhibitions: ”Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order”, ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium (2025), “GOING PLACES, MOVING THINGS“ Mipec Longbien, Hanoi, Vietnam (2024), KIN, LT.art Vienna, Viena, Austria (2022), “Earth Drama“ Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania (2022), “M-idzomer“, M Leuven, Belgium (2022).

07/07/2025

Marina Schmitt

Statement

My work engages with the legacy of Russian Constructivism, deconstructing its utopian ideals through the lens of personal and collective memory. Drawing from the geometric rigor of El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko and Kazimir Malevich I employ stark formal contrasts – sharp angles, monochromatic planes and the symbolic tension of black, white, and red – to examine how revolutionary aesthetics become entangled with collapse.
The Soviet Union’s disintegration frames my practice. As someone who witnessed its final years as a child, I return to Constructivism not as a celebration of its early radicalism, but as a way to interrogate the paradoxes of its afterlife. The movement’s once-utopian forms – meant to architect a new society – are repurposed in my work to map dissolution: the slippage between ideology and failure, between collective dreams and their unraveling.
I am particularly drawn to Brutalist architecture’s inheritance of Constructivist principles – how their modular logic scaled into monuments of state power. Through painting, installation, and spatial intervention I distort these vocabularies (repetition, fragmentation, abrupt shifts in scale) to evoke the uncanny persistence of historical trauma. The same geometries that once signaled futurity now speak of obsolescence, their austerity charged with new melancholy.
Current geopolitical fractures – resurgent borders, the weaponization of cultural memory – haunt my work. But so does intimacy: the personal artifacts of a dissolved world. Nostalgia and critique coexist here, as I layer formal precision with traces of erasure, leaving viewers suspended between the weight of history and the instability of its telling.
My practice asks: How do aesthetic systems outlive their ideologies? And what ghosts linger in their angles?

Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2025 "Matrix-Ost", group show, Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin
2025 Guest study at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach, painting class
2024 20 Years Studios Atelierfrankfurt
2024 Teaching assignment for painting/graphic at Goethe University Frankfurt/M, Institute for Art Education
2024 Galerie WangHohmann Contemporary "Figurationen im Raum: Verschachtelt, Verschoben, Versetzt". Catalog
2022 "Umwandlung", graduation show (solo), Studierendenhaus K4, Goethe University Frankfurt/M
2020-2023 "Art. Media. Culture education", Master of Arts, focus on painting/graphic, Goethe University Frankfurt/M

30/06/2025

Carolina Dutca and Valentin Sidorenko are two artists. They work with photography, documentary films and text.

Since 2019 the artist duo Carolina Dutca (*1995, Bender, MD) and Valentin Sidorenko (*1995, Gornyak, RUS) live and work in Moldova. Dutca studied art and documentary
photography at the Fotografika Academy (St. Petersburg). Sidorenko studied animation in Russian State University of Cinematography (Moscow) and graduated from the Fotografika Academy (St. Petersburg).

Carolina likes to experiment and to walk on the edge of the genre. The beauty of creative process is the main thing in her works. Valentin adores digging through the discovered archives and plays the detective. He scans for interesting people in the streets and writes his dreams down.

In their works they create a sacral world. They observe the disruptions in the usual order of events where the distinctions between good and evil, life and death, are sometimes blurred. In this torn world, they try to make connections through art.
They took part in international festivals and exhibitions at the Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates), Fondation François Schneider (France), The National Museum of Art of Moldova (Moldova), Golubitskoe Art Foundation (Russia), Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Les Rencontres d'Arles (France), National Taras Shevchenko Museum (Ukraine), Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (Russia) etc.

Winners of Contemporary Talents 10th Fondation François Schneider (France), Contemporary Photography Funding The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation (Germany), Prix Les Nuits Photo Freelens (France) etc.

30/06/2025

Cristian Fierbinteanu is a Brussels based independent artist, member of art-pop group Fierbinteanu, active in visual art, music and sound. His visual works were recently presented in European festivals and galleries: Prague Biennale, Zebrastraat Gent, Espace Libre Etterbeek, ArtHUB Bucharest, Dreaming In Collages collective exhibition in Bucharest, United Cowboys art-space in Eindhoven, Utrecht.
He performed on European scenes, including Berlin Konzerthaus, and released
records via independent labels. Audio works by Fierbinteanu have been presented and/or awarded in international festivals: Phonurgia Nova (Paris), Prague Biennale, Nuit de la fiction sonore à Arles (France), Arts and Science days (St. Etienne/ France), 60 Seconds Radio (Montreal), Grand Prix Nova (Bucharest), Dvorak Marathon (Berlin Konzerthaus), Dvorak remix (The Czech Cultural Center/ Bucharest). His sound works are constantly being presented via the Romanian podcast platform for sound art, radio art and field recording SEMI SILENT. “Un auteur à suivre” - Phonurgia Nova; "An artistic duo that sincerely deserves total fascination" - Art7; "One of the most eccentric creatures of the independent music made in Romania" - DILEMA veche; "The oddest and most experimental duo of the Romanian electronic music" - VICE Romania.

30/06/2025

Adrian Ghiman

Adrian Ghiman, born in 1989, is a graduate of University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Regarding his artistic practice, Adrian Ghiman uses drawing as a method of documenting reality. The graphic representation is the process that creates new and fresh ideas, being a tangible extension of thinking. It is flexible, honest and spontaneous and connects the imagination with the observation. Perception creates the path between the brain activity and the mechanical action of the hand. It is an inner and direct path having an experimental and temporary character. The drawing holds the essence of imagination, outlining new transgressive territories with personal touch. He creates his own mythology with representation from surroundings, personal archive, movies, music, absurd situations and bizarre stories.

CV
Adrian-Viorel Ghiman, February 27, 1989, Romania
University Lecturer (PhD)
Studies
2013–2017 – Doctorate in Fine Arts, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca
2011–2013 – Master's Degree, Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca
2008–2011 – Bachelor's Degree, Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca
2004–2008 – High School Diploma, Fine Arts, "Ioan Sima" High School in Zalău
Professional Experience
2023–... – Lecturer at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca
2020–2023 – University Assistant at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca
2017–2020 – Associate Professor at the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca

SELECTED PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
National
2020 – Exotic Extinction, online platform
2018 – Trichoptera Incommoda, performance show and live drawing, Urania Palace, Galeria Soimii Patriei, Cluj-Napoca
2018 – Guts of Paradise, Galeria Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca
2017 – Apokatastasis, performance show, Reactor, Center for Culture, Creation and Experimentation, Mimesis Festival, Cluj-Napoca
2013 – Carnival and Apocalypse, Bazis Contemporary Art Platform, Brush Factory, Cluj-Napoca
2013 – Napalm in the Morning, Arts and Culture Center Zalău
2013 – Cholera, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
2012 – Visions of Abundance, Arts and Culture Center, Zalău
2011 – The Sin of Paper, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
International
2011 – Untitled, Ecole Superieure des ARTS Saint-Luc, Liège, Belgium
Selection of Group Exhibitions
National
2020 – My 4th Solo Exhibition, Multimedia Visual Arts Center, Bucharest
2020 – We Must Cultivate Our Garden, Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca
2020 – A4, Online-Ausstellung
2019 – Muttersprache, Galerie Sektor 1 Bukarest

International
2020 – Kunstmarkt Budapest, Budapest, Ungarn
2016 - AUTO. Zeitgenössische Kunst Ruhr, Essen, Deutschland
2015 – Il senso del corpo, Albertina FISAD, Turin, Italien
2014 – Hidden Field, Ultrastudio, Pescara, Italien

26/06/2025

IGA KONCKA

Born in Poland, currently based in London, Iga Koncka is a feminist artist and thinker. She has a BA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales, and a MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins. Her research interests mainly concern feminist issues, public and private relations and archival practices. Performance art plays a big part of her artistic practice, alongside installation, sculpture, video and textile pieces.
AWARDS:
Emerging Artist Free Studio Award from ASC Studios, Holborn, London UK
EXHIBITIONS:
2025 ‘Matrix Ost’. Museum Kasselhaus, Berlin Germany
2025 ‘Dreams’, Azalea Arts, Online
2025 ‘Earth's Whispers. Trail of Culture’, Sosnowiec Center for Art - Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec Poland
2023-2024 ‘New Contemporaries 2023’, Grundy Art Gallery and Camden Art Centre, Blackpool and London UK
2024 ‘The Bedford Row Show’, ASC Studios, London UK
2024 ‘Riposte: Queer-Art-Techno’, The Cause, London UK
2024 ‘The Nude’, Candid Arts Trust, London UK
2024 ‘Aritst Lunch Box’, Austrian Cultural Forum, London UK
2024 ‘Spilt Milk’, VFDalston, London UK

„In my practice, I am interested in the folklore traditions of Poland, rituals and repetitions. I play with the materials like a child would.
Through the medium of a large soft sculpture installation, I aim to explore the handmade and crafty aspects of art. I made this work in response to the legislation of anti-abortion laws in Poland. When they encounter my work, I hope audiences feel uneasy and alert. I also hope for questions about the presence of women’s bodies in public, as that’s what is important to me.“

25/06/2025

Stanko Gagrčin was born in Sombor, Serbia in 1994. In 2013 he finished the highschool for design in the class of Interior design, and in 2017 he finished the bachelor studies in the course of Scene architecture, design and technology in Novi Sad, Serbia. He participated in numerous group exhibitions and cooperated with festivals like Bitef and Exit festival. His area of interest ranges from film, video art, visual art, installation, stage design to virtual art and architecture.
Artist Stanko Gagrčin about himself:
„As an interdisciplinary artist, I primarily explore the aesthetic possibilities of new media through interactive virtual audio-video installations and experimental films. My work often subverts conventional perceptions of video games, transforming them into a potent medium for engaged discourse on complex themes such as national, supranational, ethnic, regional, gender, and sexual identity, particularly within the current landscape of techno-feudalism and over-arching corporate-technological mega-entities.
My creative process, though intuitive, is grounded in a robust theoretical foundation from my formal education in interior design and scenography, allowing me to contextualize my art within broader historical and cultural frameworks. This approach fosters a diverse range of media and artistic genres, positioning my work within the vast pluralism of contemporary aesthetics.
Honored with the Prince Claus Fund Award in 2022, my moving image creations have been internationally exhibited and screened in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Hong Kong, Croatia, and Portugal.“

21/06/2025

Industrial Ghosts & Avant-Garde Visions: The Haunting Venue of "Matrix-Ost"

Behind the unassuming name Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge lies one of Berlin’s most charged cultural spaces—a century-old psychiatric hospital boiler room where the steam pipes still whisper stories of revolution, repression, and rebirth.

This is no white cube gallery. The Kesselhaus is a time capsule of German turmoil:

🔸 1893: Born as part of Berlin’s progressive "Irrenanstalt" asylum
🔸 1940-41: Became the site of the T4 campaign. At least 91 patients were deported from Herzberghe to Neuruppin and from there to the T4 extermination center in Hadamar.
🔸 Cold War: Split between GDR municipal control and West-funded Protestant operations
🔸 Today: A "wild archaeology" lab where artists dissect Europe’s fractured psyche

For Matrix-Ost, the building’s rusted veins and concrete scars become active participants—its industrial carcass framing urgent questions about East/West divides.

The exhibition doesn’t just occupy space here; it conducts a séance with layers of buried history.
Come witness art that doesn’t just hang on walls—but seeps from the bricks themselves.

📍 Aug 03-Sep 07 | Kesselhaus Herzberge, Ost-Berlin

In a city obsessed with memorials, the Kesselhaus offers something rarer—a living monument where the past isn’t preserved, but provoked. Its location—trapped between a forested park and roaring autobahns — mirrors Eastern Europe’s own suspended state between nature and ideology.

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