Callie's

Callie's is a non-profit exhibition space and artist residency located in Berlin's Wedding neighborhood.

23/07/2026

Research is the starting point of Kapwani Kiwanga’s process. Her work is guided by questions of how and why societies are structured the way they are, paying close attention to the ways power asymmetries are built and maintained.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, and video, Kapwani has an aesthetic language rooted in overlooked histories, archival research, and the politics of material, architecture, and colour; her work reveals how systems of power are built, maintained, and resisted.

By placing historical narratives in dialogue with contemporary realities, her work invites us to see existing structures from multiple perspectives – and to imagine different ways of navigating the future.

Kapwani joined us at Callie’s this spring, having recently relocated to Berlin from Paris. While in residency, she worked on solo exhibitions for the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Fundació Joan Miro in Barcelona – her first major retrospective in Spain.

📸 3: Kapwani Kiwanga, image by Angela Scamarcio

10/07/2026

Luke van Gelderen was raised on the internet, in the crevices between emo-teen Tumblr and the web’s darker, more unregulated corners.

Now based between Berlin and Dublin, Luke works across film, sculpture, installation, and image-making. Drawing on found footage, social media clips, and livestreams, his practice explores online culture and the forms of selfhood it produces. Rather than approaching online subcultures from a position of alienation, Luke pulls from his own experiences to examine how digital spaces shape emotion and identity.

During his residency at Callie’s this spring, Luke developed his latest film, CRISIS ACTOR, alongside a new series of transfer prints. Composed of appropriated online footage and original sequences, the film traces a shift from the vulnerable self-expression of early internet subcultures to today’s algorithm-driven platforms, where emotion is increasingly performed and commodified. Moving between footage of the Los Angeles wildfires, influencer confessionals, and news clips, the film blurs the boundaries between intimacy and spectacle, and between personal and collective crisis, reflecting on the direct link between emotion and authenticity online.

The accompanying prints isolate figures whose online identities have become inseparable from public crisis or collapse—from Justin Bieber to Clavicular—removing them from the endless flow of the feed and inviting a closer look at the fragility of internet fame.

02/07/2026

Congratulations to Mire Lee on the opening of her solo exhibition, “The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead,” at Secession in Vienna.

Over the past months, Mire has been developing the exhibition at Callie’s – prototyping and developing new materials and refining concepts.

Reflecting on lead as both a historical material and a metaphor, the exhibition continues Mire’s exploration of the shifting relationship between the organic and the industrial and transforming ideas on toxicity, desire, and decay.

At its center, a rotating cement mixer churns a dense red liquid that spills down a slanted metal wall. From the moment the work is activated, a process of aging begins: materials oxidize, coagulate, rust, and scab over themselves, slowly transforming the installation over the course of the exhibition.

“The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead” is on view at Secession through the end of August 2026.

📸 1, 2: Mire Lee, The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead, installation view, Secession 2026. Photo: Iris Ranzinger
📸: 3: Mire Lee’s studio at Callie’s

26/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week as writer-in-residence Dakotah Weeks Murphree read from her debut novel in progress, Teacher Fantasy. 📚

Through a selection of excerpts, Dakotah introduced the novel’s three central characters, loosely inspired by Sylvia Bataille, Georges Bataille, and Jacques Lacan, and the underlying dynamics of desire, power, and agency.

The reading was followed by a conversation with artist Kat Schneider, which explored gendered archetypes, psychoanalysis, and Dakotah’s writing process. We especially appreciated the way theoretical questions intertwined with personal anecdotes, offering an intimate glimpse into the ideas and experiences that shape the novel.

Thank you again to everyone who joined us, and to Dakotah and Kat for such a generous and engaging conversation. 🎀

15/06/2026

Based in Los Angeles, Cielo Saucedo is interested in migration: of people, ideas, and the infrastructures that shape and govern those movements. Working under the spectre of ableism and built against the apparatus of the surveillance state, Cielo’s practice spans writing, installation, machine vision, video game engines, and sculpture.

At Callie’s, Cielo has been developing a constellation of new works and continuing to research technologies of surveillance and control. She has focused on the American Southwest––how cultural iconography and military technologies from this region have been exported, circulated, and repurposed elsewhere.

Cielo’s research is coalescing into a video that follows a Berlin-based village dedicated to reenactments of the American West facing replacement by a data center––ironic, given how dramatically data centers are reshaping the landscape in Texas itself. Combining 3D animation, live footage, and essayistic commentary, the work traces afterlives of frontier mythologies and the systems they help produce.

Cielo will present a public lecture about their research at Trust in Berlin on Friday, June 19th. Admission is free.

09/06/2026

CLASS IN SESSION
A series of free dance and performance classes for professional dancers
initiated by Adam Linder as part of his Callie’s 2026 residency

Block 6: “Figuring it Out: Merfolx, Zombies, & Trons” taught by Justin F Kennedy

A 3-part lab exploring the voice and hybrid myths of Merpeople, Zombies, and Animatrons. Within research on a sci-fi choreographic opera, „figuring“ will link the embodied, sensed, experiential, and sonic qualities of these multivalent archetypes. The lab includes a rigorous vocal and physical warm-up related to meditation, Activated Somatics, Lymphatic drainage, and vocal exercises.

Classes are on Tuesdays, 10:00–12:00: June 23rd, June 30th, and July 7th

At Callie’s Movement Studio, Lindower Strasse 20, 13347 Berlin, Germany

Open to professional dancers and performers of all body shapes and sizes. Participants should be available for all 3 classes.

Apply by June 16th via the link in our bio 🔗

📸 2: Justin Kennedy, Image by Julie Nymann

14/11/2024

As winter approaches, we invite mothers* and their kin to join us for the next edition of Brood Reading Group. We will gather at Callie’s on Wednesday, December 11th at 10am to discuss Ursula Le Guin’s essay “The Space Crone.”

“The Space Crone”
In this 1976 essay on aging, Le Guin argues that the perfect human to send to a distant planet is not a man—and definitely not a young, highly educated man—but rather, an apparently ordinary post-menopausal woman: the crone. For only a crone has “experienced, accepted, and acted the entire human condition—the essential quality of which is Change.”

Participants are encouraged to read the book in advance and are invited to attend with their children. Capacity is limited and registration is required; please use the link in bio to register.

*Please note, we use “mother” as a term that is not limited to biology or gender but exists in a space of possibility and pluralism.

10/10/2024

Join us on Wednesday, November 13, at 10am for the second edition of Brood Reading Group—a monthly gathering organized for mothers* and their kin. Together, we will discuss “The Argonauts,” a braided work that combines memoir, philosophy, and theory, written by Maggie Nelson.

*Please note, the use of the word “mother” in this context is not limited to biology or gender but exists in a space of possibility and pluralism; we welcome all who step into the name, however they arrive there.

Each gathering will unfold over an hour in English. Participants are encouraged to read the text in advance and are welcome to attend with their children. Capacity is limited and registration is required; please use the link in bio to register.

01/10/2024

We are very excited to announce Brood Reading Group, a monthly gathering that considers what it means to spawn the next generation—practically, politically, and philosophically. 🌱

The group is organized for mothers and their kin, with the note that the use of the word “mother” in this context is not limited by gender or the capacities of giving birth, but inhabits a pluralism and agency in the role. Participants are welcome to attend with children. Addressing what makes up our “maternal imagination”, the gathering will engage with texts––spanning sci-fi, autofiction, and the human sciences––that examine human and non-human procreation. 🥚

The first iteration will discuss Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” on October 9th at 10am. The discussion will unfold over an hour and participants should plan to read the text in advance—with the understanding that life can interrupt even the best of intentions. Capacity is limited and registration is required; please use the link in bio to register.

In collaboration with Callie’s, Brood Reading Group was initiated by Penny Rafferty, Eloïse Bonneviot, and Judit Förster as part of a broader research and development network associated with Omsk Social Club and their own artistic and domestic practices.

23/09/2024

This Friday, September 27, at 6pm Kayode Ojo will premiere a new performance work that he conceptualized while in residence at Callie’s.

Titled “Am I Acoustic”, it investigates the tension between public versus private, foreign versus domestic, intention versus reality. The site-specific performance draws inspiration from the architecture at Callie’s and it will use the space in unexpected ways.

Entrance is free.

We hope to see you on Friday.

📷: Kayode Ojo, “Admin Reveal (Forbes),” 2024

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