ongoing & forthcoming
● 09 – 30 November 2025, KE25 at Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
● 28 November – 13 December 2025, Dead Darlings XX at W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
● 28 November 2025, One night group show Europa ohne Ende at Spor Klübü, Berlin
Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling | KE25 at Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
09 – 30 November 2025
Graphic by Mette Sanggaard Dideriksen
Color Album
30 August – 13 September 2025
Gallery Heerz Tooya | Stefan Stambolovo 36th Street, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
“Play The Changeling by The Doors, pitch it down to 30bpm, and imagine an old photograph of your parents in the back of a Lincoln Versailles, cruising under neon lights, through thick air with gasoline, jasmine, and quiet promises. An omen too bright to ignore a dim bar on Melrose – half empty of longing, fully charged with love.”
– Excerpt from press release by Lars Nordby
The exhibition is supported by the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation. Many thanks to David Gunneng, Dr Petar Petrov and the Tequila Bar Fnky Mnky.
Wert eines Ortes | The Value of a Place
22 May – 31 July, 2025
Kulturhaus Baumschulenweg, Berlin
CURARA DE CARRERA Vol.3
This exhibition closes a project in 3 chapters, developed by 3 artist-run-spaces, in 3 European cities: C_u_at_Sadka in Krakow, +DEDE in Berlin and DOC in Paris.
The binder of this project based on collaboration and friendship, is found in the construction of a welcoming, carrying (Curara), and itinerant (Carrera) structure, designed according to the exhibition space.
An evolving exhibition in which artists are invited to transform and show their work in these spaces and times.
Venue: DOC, Paris
Opening: 30.11.2024 _ 18h-22h
with performances of Kim Doan Quoc, Michał Jurgielewicz, Carthage Telecom, Flavio Degen & Alessandro Rauschmann
30. 11 -> 15.12: Open from Friday to Sunday: 16h – 19h, Or by appointment: dragon@doc.work
Closing: 15.12.2024 _ 16h-19h
Curation: CU AT SADKA – Krakow ; +DEDE – Berlin ; DOC – Paris
Artists: Michael Biber, Valentin Bigel, Manuel Bochaton, Marielle Chaballe, Lauren Coullard, Caroline Curdy, Kim Doan Quoc, Flavio Degen, Matthieu Duringer, Vincent Grunwald, Thom Friedlander, Łukasz Horbów, Michał Iwański, Michał Jurgielewicz, Karolina Jarzębak, Constantin Kyriakopoulos, Michał Maliński, Léa Mercier, Rina Nakano, Michel Santos, Grzegorz Siembida, Moritz Stumm, Soji Shimizu, Berthold Reiß, Alessandro Rauschmann, Agnieszka Szostek, Carthage Telecom, Camille Tzvetoukhine, Alicia Zaton
Graphic : Valentin Bigel
Close To The Edge
The 1980s, the last decade of the Cold War, is characterized by the threat of violent disputes in the East-West conflict with initially rearmament and later disarmament, the opening up to the Eastern Bloc up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of neoliberalism, the actor Ronald Reagan as American president for two terms, the beginning of the era of Chancellor Kohl. A whole weird decade often on the edge. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious rapped in 1982 in their hook line: “Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge – I’m trying not to lose my head – It’s like a jungle sometimes – It makes me wonder how I keep from going under”. They bring the social criticism of the black, marginalized and oppressed population into hip-hop as proof of failed politics.
Switch. Over four decades later. Once again, an American re-elected President Trump enters his second term. With a sense of victory that can no longer be averted, he proclaims a coming golden age of America and a return to former greatness at the expense of the poor, the weak, those who think and live differently, women and migrants. The Ampelcoalition in Germany is falling apart. War and the Cold War are already making a comeback in Europe. The world is unsafe. Propaganda and lies instead of truths. Violent intimidation as normality. The law of the strong. Fascists are warming up. Will the punished attackers of the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 soon be pardoned?
Will the 1980s get a revival that will be even closer to the edge?
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Spor Klübü, Berlin
29.11.2024, 19:00
Performances ab/from 20:30:
“Axe” Catherine Lorent, sound performance
“Blockiert” DJ Sporty Jack aka Matthias Mayer, music performance
Anonyme Zeichner at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
A Letter from a Friend at Bacio, Bern, Switzerland
Hammer Time at Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
As a part of Lisbon Art Weekend 2024
CURARA de CARRERA
a collaborative initiative by C U AT SADKA (Cracow), +DEDE (Berlin) and DOC! (Paris)
Opening on October 25th | 18:00 to 22:00 | at the former Rossmann in Gesundbrunnen ( Brunnenstraße 107, 13355 Berlin )
26th to 30th October 2024 | On appointment
With works by: Michael Biber, Lauren Coullard, Flavio Degen, Kim Doan Quoc, Matthieu Duringer, Łukasz Horbów, Michał Iwański, Michał Jurgielewicz, Lea Mercier, Berthold Reiß, Soji Shimizu, Agnieszka Szostek and Alicia Zaton and more.
The Edo period haiku poet Matsuo Basho’s preface to Oku no Hosomichi contains this sentence. ‘Days and months are the travellers of eternity. So are the years that pass by.’ Basho’s view of life, that life itself is like a journey, is also projected onto this sentence.
This preface is based on the Chinese poet Li Bai’s Preface to The Spring Evening Banquet at the Peach and Pear Blossom Garden. ‘The world is a temporary inn for all creatures and time is a passing traveler of endless generations,’ wrote Li Bai.
The cycle of hatred has not stopped in many parts of the world. Does time travel from the past to the future, or does it go round and round in circles to the same place? If the fleeting months and days are eternal travellers, where do they end up?
In this exhibition Time Zones, the artists involved in the Yokohama-based Hayama Projects, which was active for about five years from 2011, are reunited after a lapse of almost ten years. In the exhibition space, the time domains of each work exist in parallel, creating an unmeasurable undulation of time.
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Juka Araikawa (Los Angeles), Mike Chang (Singapore) , Krister Olsson (Los Angeles), Pimeriko (Kanagawa), Ryo Shimizu (Kanagawa), Soji Shimizu (Berlin), Seiko Watanabe (Kanagawa)
30 Aug – 10 Sep, 2024
Waves Project | 63-1 Mongawa, Yugawara-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, Japan
Alles 6 at studio im Hochhaus, Kommunale Galerie Berlin – Lichtenberg
09 July – 09 September 2024
Day & Night at Galerie Gruppe Motto | Speckstraße 85, Hamburg
16 – 26 May 2024
Eliza Wagener, Florian Wendler, Jil Lahr, Larissa Mühlrath, Lena Schütte & Robert Bergmann, Maxime Chabal, Maximilian Seegert, Millie Schwier, Raphael Haider, Soji Shimizu, Thomas Baldischwyler, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zehui Xú
AW
performance, music, food, discussion and group show:
Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Hans Andersson, Atoosa Farahmand, Marie Karlberg, Emma Khanafer, Martin Kozlowski, Tova Mozard, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Sonia Sagan, BK Sannerud, Soji Shimizu, Katarina Sylvan, Victoria Verseau and Noa Yekutieli
29 – 30 September 2023
Initiated by Dimen Abdulla and Max Ronnersjö
Hudiksvallsgatan 8, 1f, 113 30 Stockholm
WALL OF SOUND
Opening on Thursday, DEC 15, 6 — 9pm
16.12 2022 — 28.01 2023
WED—FRI, 2—6pm, SAT, 3—6pm
Also open by chance or appointment
LAGE EGAL [GW34/35]
Curatorial Projects
& Artist–Run Galleries by Pierre Granoux
Greifswalder Str. 34, 10405 Berlin
BLIND VISION
Initiated and realized by Matthias Mayer and Maik Schierloh in cooperation with Treptow-Ateliers e.V.
11 – 13. 11. 2022
Treptow Ateliers in the Rathenau Hallen
Wilhelminenhofstr. 83-85, 12459 Berlin-Oberschöneweide
Anyone who has moved to Berlin in recent decades has played a part in the development of this city. For some, it conveyed an atmosphere of departure (or even “dependency”) in an alternative and avant-garde sense; for others, it was merely a projection surface for profane economic interests pushed by global market events. There was never a vision for all. Politicians were merely trying to pick the pearls out of many alternative ideas. For example, the nightlife and the precarious life of artists were included in the marketing of Berlin. This blind vision is now reflected in a place of action. An unrenovated former industrially used hall and other rooms formerly used as offices, which were made available to the artists’ community “Treptow-Ateliers” together with their cheaply rented temporary studios as a temporary playground by an investor. The community itself opened the space for third-party projects. The rawness of the historic site, the desire and spontaneity of the alternative users inevitably lead back to the aura of Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s. And of course Berlin still works like that. But the atmosphere is deceptive, the awakening already sits in the neck, like a drug that slowly loses its effect. Because it all ends, and without romanticism. The artists soon have to go back to their nomadic way. Only that they are not nomadic, but originally displaced from their cherished place of work. Their journey is already unique, because they stick together in solidarity in their seemingly hopeless situation. What could become, what could be? Why is it a blind vision?
Enclosure
Mia Goyette, Timo Hinze, Nao Kikuchi, Soji Shimizu
Text by Michael Broschmann
stella | UG, Ring-Center 1, Frankfurter Allee 111, Berlin
22 October – 6 November 2022
Soji Shimizu 