Callie's

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

As winter approaches, we invite mothers* and their kin to join us for the next edition of Brood Reading Group. We will g...
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.

Join us on Wednesday, November 13, at 10am for the second edition of Brood Reading Group—a monthly gathering organized f...
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.

We are very excited to announce Brood Reading Group, a monthly gathering that considers what it means to spawn the next ...
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.

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

✨ Sabar workshops and performance with Family Ndiaye Rose and LABOUR ✨⁠Join us at Callie’s on Monday, August 26th, and T...
23/08/2024

✨ Sabar workshops and performance with Family Ndiaye Rose and LABOUR ✨
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Join us at Callie’s on Monday, August 26th, and Tuesday, August 27th, for a two-day sabar program as we welcome Family Ndiaye Rose from Dakar. ⁠
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Sabar workshops 🥁 ⁠
Monday, August 26th, 3-6pm⁠
Tuesday, August 27th, 12-3pm⁠
Callie’s will host two sabar workshops with Birame and Molamine Ndiaye Rose. Participation is free, but places are limited. All levels are welcome. Please register using the link in bio.⁠
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Sabar performance 🌙⁠
Monday, August 26th, 7-10pm⁠
An evening of sabar music will begin with a DJ set by LABOUR, followed by a sabar performance by Family Ndiaye Rose. 10€ cash entry. No registration necessary.⁠
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Doudou N’Diaye Rose (1930-2015) is widely considered the master of Senegal’s traditional drum, the sabar. Doudou was one of the first musicians to bring Senegalese music to an international audience, performing with Josephine Baker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Rolling Stones. In his lifetime, he developed over 500 original drumming patterns and in 2006 was designated a UNESCO Living Human Treasure. ⁠
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LABOUR is the sonic duo Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander. Colin had the honor of performing numerous times with Doudou, and their friendship formed the starting point for the “Transcriptions” project.⁠
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We look forward to seeing you at Callie’s!⁠
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📸: Recording session with Family Ndiaye Rose, Lac Rose Senegal 2020. Photo by ⁠
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Based in New York City, writer Akil Kumarasamy is interested in the tension that emerges when the mystic and divine brus...
17/06/2024

Based in New York City, writer Akil Kumarasamy is interested in the tension that emerges when the mystic and divine brush against the everyday. Immersive, lucid, and compassionate, her writing frequently centers those forced into the margins, eking out the truth of their stories through slightly surreal reflections of reality. Like life, her writing rarely follows linear chronology. Instead, it is layered, polyvocal, and rich with stories within stories.

Akil joined us at Callie’s as the sun returned to the city. In the Writer’s Room, she worked on her new novel, which explores the migration of trees, the female body, and communication with the more than human world.

Akil is the author of “Meet Us by the Roaring Sea” (FSG, 2022) and “Half Gods” (FSG, 2018), both New York Times Editors’ Choice picks. She is a recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Award. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s and The Atlantic, among others. Akil is currently an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program and a 2024-25 Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University.

Living between New York, Harare, and Berlin, nora chipaumire is an artist who uses the body to explore the theoretical, ...
11/06/2024

Living between New York, Harare, and Berlin, nora chipaumire is an artist who uses the body to explore the theoretical, historical, and personal. Hers is a movement-based practice refined over years through an approach called “nhaka,” literally translated as “heritage” in Shona, the artist’s first language. Rooted in decolonialism, nhaka is an animist physical manifesto that, in nora’s words, seeks to “express a poetic insolence that rebels against ignorance, honors ownership of the body and imagination, and conveys freedom and strength.”

We are always happy to welcome nora back to Callie’s, and have hosted her multiple times since our earliest years. Most recently, she returned this past winter to prepare “Dambudzo,” a performance-activated installation that premieres this week at mumok in Vienna. “Dambudzo,” which translates to “trouble” in Shona, creates a radical and participatory space that explores political realities through sound and movement. 🌍💭

At present, nora is a Pina Bausch Fellow, a Doris Duke Fellow, a Researcher-in-Residence at the NYU Future Imagination Collaboratory, and a Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University. In November 2023, she was awarded the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal for her opera “Nehanda,” which she had prepared at Callie’s earlier that year. She has received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Princeton Hodder Fellowship, among others.

“Dambudzo” will be performed at mumok nightly at 7pm from June 11 to 14. Tickets are available from the mumok website. 🎟️



📸: Stills from video documentation of open studio performance at Callie’s in 2024 by Katrina Singleton.

Living between New York, Harare, and Berlin, nora chipaumire is an artist who uses the body to explore the theoretical, ...
11/06/2024

Living between New York, Harare, and Berlin, nora chipaumire is an artist who uses the body to explore the theoretical, historical, and personal. Hers is a movement-based practice refined over years through an approach called “nhaka,” literally translated as “heritage” in Shona, the artist’s first language. Rooted in decolonialism, nhaka is an animist physical manifesto that, in nora’s words, seeks to “express a poetic insolence that rebels against ignorance, honors ownership of the body and imagination, and conveys freedom and strength.”

We are always happy to welcome nora back to Callie’s, and have hosted her multiple times since our earliest years. Most recently, she returned this past winter to prepare “Dambudzo,” a performance-activated installation that premieres this week at mumok in Vienna. “Dambudzo,” which translates to “trouble” in Shona, creates a radical and participatory space that explores political realities through sound and movement. 🌍💭

At present, nora is a Pina Bausch Fellow, a Doris Duke Fellow, a Researcher-in-Residence at the NYU Future Imagination Collaboratory, and a Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University. In November 2023, she was awarded the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal for her opera “Nehanda,” which she had prepared at Callie’s earlier that year. She has received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Princeton Hodder Fellowship, among others.

“Dambudzo” will be performed at mumok nightly at 7pm from June 11 to 14. Tickets are available from the mumok website. 🎟️



📸: Stills from video documentation by Katrina Singleton of open studio performance at Callie’s in 2024.

Hanne Lippard is a Berlin-based artist who works with the production and perception of language through sound. Collating...
06/06/2024

Hanne Lippard is a Berlin-based artist who works with the production and perception of language through sound. Collating immersive sound-based installations and performances that employ rhythmic repetition, shifting intonation, and the permutation of words and sentences, Hanne’s practice explores the social and political dimensions of semantics. Her work reveals the fragility, flexibility, and fallibility of language as a tool for conveying meaning.

During her residency at Callie’s, Hanne has been in the sound studio preparing for her exhibition for the Preis der Nationalgalerie, which opens at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin on June 7th. Inspired by the Rosetta Stone, her newest project features a styrofoam stele and an eight-channel sound piece.

Hanne’s work has been exhibited and performed in various institutions including FRAC Lorraine, Metz; MHKA, Antwerp; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; Palais de la Découverte, Paris; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway; as well as n.b.k., Hamburger Bahnhof, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and CCA in Berlin. Hanne was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2024.

Callie’s is pleased to open applications for an immediate residency in our movement studio from June through August for ...
03/06/2024

Callie’s is pleased to open applications for an immediate residency in our movement studio from June through August for dancers, choreographers, and artists working with movement. We are accepting applications until Friday, June 7th, at 17:00 CET. More info on our webpage, linked in bio ✨

Callie’s is hiring a fixed-term position that will start later this summer and continue until fall 2025 (14 months). Fin...
30/05/2024

Callie’s is hiring a fixed-term position that will start later this summer and continue until fall 2025 (14 months). Find all the details on our website, linked in bio.

Interviews will begin the week of June 3rd ✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the launch of Isabel Lewis and Callie’s first publication, “An occasion...
30/04/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the launch of Isabel Lewis and Callie’s first publication, “An occasion to consider a book.” Our special thanks go to Isabel and the book’s designer Dan Solbach for sharing insights into the conceptual journey behind the work, and also to Isabel and Dirk Bell for the incredible spread they prepared for guests. It was a pleasure hosting you all for such a warm and intimate evening.

As Isabel explained during her conversation with Dan, she understands this publication as a kind of script to be performed or an occasion waiting for the reader’s attendance. She noted that one of the key points of departure for the work was the question of how she might create an occasion without being present for it herself. If you missed the evening, you can experience these and other musings by purchasing a copy of the book via the link in our bio 💚

“An occasion to consider a book” is proudly co-published as edition of 1250 by Callie’s with and , and was made possible by the generosity of .



📸 Event photographed by .hugendubel for Callie’s; “An occasion to consider a book,” photographed by for Callie’s.

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Callie’s

Callie’s is an experimental institution founded for the purpose of fostering creativity, cultural exchange, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Through residencies, exhibitions, and public programs, we strive to support local and international artists while becoming a resource for our immediate community. Callie’s operates in the spirit of inquiry; our activities are a form of research aimed at developing new models of social and artistic engagement.

Located in a 19th-century factory building in Berlin’s Wedding neighborhood, Callie’s offers night light-flooded studios that can be used for work, performances, or exhibitions.