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Mix it up this Summer at BERLIN ART INSTITUTE
✨ Scroll down and let your creativity run wild – we promise it’s worth the splatter! All seats are limited, so be quick and get your space. 🎉
This summer, we’re mixing things up – literally. Whether you’re sketching outside the lines, molding wild ideas, or painting your way into new creative zones, BAI’s line up of master classes, workshops, and online courses is here to make your inner artist do a happy summer dance.
Online Course ART FOR OTHER WORLDS by Mitch Speed
Duration: Tuesdays, Apr 29 – May 20, 2025 | 4 – 6 PM (CEST)
What might art look like in a world not shaped by private ownership, market pressure, or institutional gatekeeping? In this live online course, artist and writer Mitch Speedinvites participants to reimagine creative communities grounded in solidarity,collective practice, and speculative thinking.
Together, we’ll explore how historical artist groups have resisted Eurocentric, capitalist structures – and ask: Can artists reclaim their practice from these forces today? Through case studies, open dialogue, and guided reflection, you’ll develop new ways of thinking about art’s function, access, and future.
This course is ideal for artists, writers, and cultural workers interested in aesthetic activism, alternative economies, and critical art-making.
Workshop SCULPTURAL PROCESSES: Papier-mâché by Emily Hunt
Duration: May 07 – 08, 2025
Discover the power of papier-mâché as both a historical craft and a contemporary sculptural technique in this hands-on, high-energy workshop with artist Emily Hunt. Learn how to create large, lightweight, and cost-effective sculptures that can be used across installation, performance, stage design, or exhibition-making.
Participants will be introduced to the global history of papier-mâché, from its origins in China, Mexico, and Europe, to its current role in resourceful, experimental art practices. You’ll develop a finished piece using intuitive, rapid techniques and leave with a versatile skill you can immediately incorporate into your practice.
Perfect for artists working with materiality, scale, and improvisation.
Master Class OUT OF LINE: Drawing with and beyond the Self by Dagmara Genda
Duration: June 02 – 06, 2025
What happens when you stop drawing to represent and start drawing to rethink? In this transformative Master Class, artist Dagmara Genda leads participants into a radical exploration of drawing as conceptual practice, gesture, and embodied knowledge.
From collaborative mark-making to drawing with the body, the class encourages you to leave behind familiar habits and discover new visual languages. You’ll work through exercises that challenge traditional expression and unlock new ways of developing self-directed projects.
Whether you’re just starting or ready to deconstruct and rebuild your approach, this course supports bold experimentation in a supportive, critically engaged environment.
Master Class STAGING EVIL: Folk Devils, Social Dramaturgy, Performance and Object Making by Steven Warwick
Duration: June 30 – July 04, 2025
How do we construct, perform, and aestheticize the idea of “evil”? In this deeply layered Master Class, artist and theorist Steven Warwick explores the creation of folk devils and the social dramaturgy behind fear, conflict, and power.
Drawing from queer theory, critical art history, and narrative structure, participants will examine how artists can challenge normative representations through experimental storytelling, performance, and visual forms. Each session supports the development of individual projects while building theoretical fluency around cultural taboos, binaries,and resistance.
This class is designed for artists of all disciplines looking to make work that interrogates complexity and confronts uncomfortable truths.
Master Class DRAWING DOWN THE MOON: The Crossroads of Surrealism, Magical Practice and Material Form by Emily Hunt
Duration: July 07 – July 11, 2025
Enter the realm of ritual, intuition, and material enchantment. This course by artist Emily Hunt explores how artists can engage with esoteric knowledge and surrealist strategies to give shape to the unseen. Combining haptic processes with conceptual exploration, participants will examine how art becomes a ritual act.
Participants will study historical frameworks of Western esotericism, and experiment with ways to connect these to contemporary practices in sculpture, drawing, and installation. Guided exercises will help transform personal interpretations of mystical thought into physical, sensory artworks.
No prior experience in magical practice required, just a curiosity for the unknown.
Master Class THE HYBRID-MONSTER BODY: Shapeshifting as Rebellion by Jasmine Reimer
Duration: July 28 – August 01, 2025.
What does it mean to defy categories and reclaim the monstrous as creative power? This bold Master Class, led by artist Jasmine Reimer, explores the hybrid-monster body as both a mythological figure and a radical artistic strategy. The course is rooted in feminist theory, myth, and material experimentation. It encourages participants to shapeshift their practice. They will use symbolism, storytelling, and bodily transformation.
Through research and making, participants will study historical and contemporary examples of grotesque and hybrid bodies, and create their own interpretations using a mix of 2D, 3D, and found materials. The goal is to unlearn rigid definitions and make space for messy, intuitive, and rebellious creation.
Ideal for artists seeking to explore gender, identity, transformation, and the power of myth.
Summer School Course A LIBRARY OF IDEAS: The Art and Craft of Artists’ Books by Emily Hunt
Duration: August 25 – 29, 2025
This summer, turn your ideas into art you can hold. In this intensive week-long course, artist Emily Hunt introduces the artist’s book as a unique and intimate medium for storytelling, experimentation, and visual thinking. Participants will explore both the theoretical foundations and practical techniques behind book-based art forms.
Through monoprinting, collage, cut-up writing, and watercolour, participants will create their own artist book while learning from contemporary and historical references. The class blends making with dialogue, offering space for peer feedback, material discovery, and critical exploration.
Whether you’re interested in publishing, zines, or sculptural books, this course offers a platform to fold, bind, and build your ideas into something tangible.
BAI STUDIO PROGRAM
The Berlin Art Institute’s Studio Program is a unique opportunity for artists seeking a structured yet open-ended environment to deepen their practice, develop new ideas, and connect with an international creative community. This residency is located in one of the world’s most vibrant art capitals. It invites participants to immerse themselves in a multidisciplinary space. This space supports both individual exploration and collective dialogue.
The program provides 24/7 access to personal workspaces, individualized coaching, and a dynamic curriculum that includes courses, lectures, workshops, and seminarsled by renowned artists, curators, and theorists. Participants engage in regular critiques and discussion forums, receiving constructive feedback and fresh perspectives on their work.
Designed for emerging and mid-career artists alike, the Studio Program encourages critical thinking, experimentation, and the development of a sustained artistic voice. The structure is flexible, allowing each artist to tailor their experience while benefiting from the cultural and professional exchange fostered by BAI’s global network.
Whether you’re curious or just beginning your artistic journey, currently studying, or actively working as a professional, the BAI Studio Program offers a space for orientation, experimentation, and meaningful exchange within Berlin’s vibrant contemporary art scene.Learn more & apply now
With its hybrid concept of an international artist residency, contemporary art school and innovative arts incubator, the BAI is an independent institute for artistic practice, training, discourse, and research in Berlin. All courses are conducted in English.
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documenta lessons: Von, mit und ohne Kunst lernen
Was kann, soll, muss Kunst leisten? Die documenta lessons laden zu fünf Gesprächen über 70 Jahre Lernen durch Kunst. Eintritt frei, ohne Anmeldung!
Fünf öffentliche Veranstaltungen zur Geschichte des Lernens durch Kunst
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1955 stand bei den documenta Ausstellungen das Lernen mit und durch Kunst im Mittelpunkt. Wie hat sich das Lernen von, mit und ohne Kunst im Laufe der Geschichte der documenta verändert?
Für die Gründer war klar, dass dieses Lernen im Kontext der Reeducation zu begreifen ist. Mit der Besucherschule von Bazon Brock kam die Vorstellung auf, die Ausstellung selbst als demokratische Praxis zu verstehen. Ab der documenta 10 etablierte sich ein Lernen des Lernens jenseits des europäischen Bildungskanons. Die vierzehnte Ausgabe stellte vom Lernen auf Verlernen um und die documenta fifteen brach schließlich mit der Idee des exemplarischen Lernens. Nun widmen sich die documenta lessons in einer Reihe öffentlicher Gespräche der Reflexion dieser 70-jährigen Geschichte.
In fünf Veranstaltungen an unterschiedlichen Orten der Bildung und des Lernens wird der Raum für kritische Reflexionen, persönliche Erinnerungen und neue Perspektiven geöffnet. Künstler*innen, Forscher*innen und Pädagog*innen diskutieren gemeinsam mit dem Publikum zentrale Fragen: Hat sich das heutige Publikum von der Idee eines exemplarischen Lernens durch Kunst emanzipiert? Welche Rolle spielt die Vorstellung einer „nützlichen Kunst“? Und was kann, was soll, was muss Kunst heute leisten?
Die documenta lessons laden alle Interessierten zum Mitdenken, Mitreden und Mitlernen ein. Der Eintritt ist frei, eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich. Die Veranstaltungen finden jeweils dienstags statt.
Über die documenta
Die documenta ist eine weltweit beachtete Ausstellungsreihe für zeitgenössische Kunst. Seit 1955 lädt sie internationale Künstler*innen und Denker*innen dazu ein, aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zu reflektieren und neue künstlerische Perspektiven aufzuzeigen.
Das Programm
Gesprächsreihe
documenta lessons: Von, mit und ohne Kunst lernen
Fünf öffentliche Veranstaltungen zur Geschichte des Lernens durch KunstTermine
6. Mai 2025
Masters of the Universe – Wisst ihr, was ihr tut?
Mit: Eva Maria Stadler und Heinz Bude
Das Gespräch zwischen Heinz Bude und Eva Maria Stadler fragt nach der Wirksamkeit von Kunst heute. In welchem Verhältnis steht die Autonomie der Kunst zu den politischen Anforderungen an die Kunst?
Uhrzeit: 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel20. Mai 2025
Das Kunstwerk als Schule
Mit: Marie Rosenkranz und Andreas Niegl
In diesem Gespräch diskutieren Marie Rosenkranz und Andreas Niegl documenta Kunstprojekte und Ausstellungen, die als alternative Räume der Bildung begriffen und inszeniert wurden
Uhrzeit: 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Jacob-Grimm-Schule Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 35–393. Juni 2025
Was lernt man beim Verzweifeln an der Kunst?
Mit: Jörn Peter Budesheim und Michael Flörchinger
Im Gespräch mit Michael Flörchinger erzählt Jörn Peter Budesheim von seinen documenta Lernerfahrungen und dem Einsatz, der Belohnung und der Verzweiflung, die damit verbunden sind.
Uhrzeit:18.30 Uhr
Ort: Stadtmuseum Kassel, Ständeplatz 1617. Juni 2025
Artivism oder über das Verlernen der Anmut
Mit: María do Mar Castro Varela und Luisa Standop
Durch die Verbindung von Kunst und Aktivismus hinterfragt Artivism Sehgewohnheiten. Das Gespräch erkundet Spannungen zwischen Ästhetik und Aktivismus: Ist Kunst Dekoration oder Werkzeug sozialer Veränderung?
Uhrzeit: 18.30 Uhr
Ort: WH22, Werner-Hilpert-Straße 22, Kassel1. Juli 2025
Von ästhetischen und moralischen Ambitionen der Kunst
Mit: Magdalena Nieslony und Claire Zimmermann
Moralische Kriterien spielen in der Kunstbetrachtung eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Doch wie verhält sich eine solche Erwartungshaltung zu den ästhetischen und diskursiven Momenten eines Kunstwerks?
Uhrzeit: 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Kassel, Mombachstraße 1270 Jahre documenta
Anlässlich des 70-jährigen Jubiläums der documenta laden das gesamte Jahr 2025 über Ausstellungen, Talk- und Vortragsreihen, Konzerte und Performances, Buchpräsentationen und Social Media Kampagnen dazu ein, sich mit der wechselvollen Geschichte und der Zukunft der international einzigartigen Ausstellungsreihe auseinanderzusetzen. Mit einem Festakt am 7. Juni wird an die Gründung der documenta erinnert und zugleich eine stadtweite Intervention der documenta 12 Künstlerin Cosima von Bonin eröffnet.
Weitere Informationen:
documenta Institut
documenta lessons: Von, mit und ohne Kunst lernen
Fünf öffentliche Veranstaltungen zur Geschichte des Lernens durch KunstSince its inception in 1955, the documenta exhibitions have focused on learning with and through art. How has learning with, through and without art changed over the course of documenta’s history? For the founders, it was clear that this learning had to be understood in the context of re-education. Bazon Brock’s school for visitors gave rise to the idea of understanding the exhibition itself as a democratic practice.
From documenta 10 onwards, a learning of learning beyond the European educational canon was established. The fourteenth edition switched from learning to unlearning and documenta fifteen finally broke with the idea of exemplary learning. Now documenta lessons is devoting a series of public talks to reflecting on this 70-year history.
In five events at different places of education and learning, the space will be opened up for critical reflection, personal memories and new perspectives. Artists, researchers and educators will discuss key questions with the audience: Has today’s audience emancipated itself from the idea of exemplary learning through art? What role does the idea of “useful art” play? And what can, what should, what must art achieve today?
The documenta lessons duscussion series invites all interested parties to think, talk and learn together. Admission is free, registration is not required. The events take place on Tuesdays.
About documenta
documenta is a globally acclaimed exhibition series for contemporary art. Since 1955, it has invited international artists and thinkers to reflect on current social developments and present new artistic perspectives.
The program
Series of talks
documenta lessons: Learning from, with and without art
Five public events on the history of learning through artDates
May 6, 2025
Masters of the Universe – Wisst ihr, was ihr tut?
With: Eva Maria Stadler and Heinz Bude
The conversation between Heinz Bude and Eva Maria Stadler asks about the effectiveness of art today. What is the relationship between the autonomy of art and the political demands on art?
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, KasselMay 20, 2025
Das Kunstwerk als Schule
With: Marie Rosenkranz and Andreas Niegl
In this talk, Marie Rosenkranz and Andreas Niegl discuss documenta art projects and exhibitions that were conceived and staged as alternative spaces for education
Time: 6.30 pm
Location: Jacob-Grimm-Schule Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 35-39June 3, 2025
Was lernt man beim Verzweifeln an der Kunst?
With: Jörn Peter Budesheim and Michael Flörchinger
In conversation with Michael Flörchinger, Jörn Peter Budesheim talks about his documenta learning experiences and the commitment, reward and despair involved.
Time: 6.30 pm
Location: Stadtmuseum Kassel, Ständeplatz 16June 17, 2025
Artivism oder über das Verlernen der Anmut
With: María do Mar Castro Varela and Luisa StandopBy combining art and activism, Artivism questions viewing habits. The conversation explores the tension between aesthetics and activism: Is art decoration or a tool for social change?
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: WH22, Werner-Hilpert-Straße 22, KasselJuly 1, 2025
Von ästhetischen und moralischen Ambitionen der Kunst
With: Magdalena Nieslony and Claire ZimmermannMoral criteria are playing an increasingly important role in art appreciation. But how do such expectations relate to the aesthetic and discursive aspects of a work of art?
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Kassel, Mombachstraße 1270 years of documenta
To mark the 70th anniversary of documenta, exhibitions, talk and lecture series, concerts and performances, book presentations and social media campaigns throughout 2025 invite visitors to engage with the eventful history and future of the internationally unique exhibition series. A ceremony on June 7 will commemorate the founding of documenta and at the same time open a city-wide intervention by documenta 12 artist Cosima von Bonin.
Further information:
documenta Institut
Das documenta Institut
Das documenta Institut entsteht in Kooperation zwischen dem Land Hessen, der Stadt Kassel sowie der Universität Kassel mit der Kunsthochschule unter finanzieller Beteiligung für das Bauvorhaben durch die Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien beim Bund. Im Rahmen des Aufbaus des documenta Instituts wurden 2019 mit Mitteln des Landes Hessen drei Tenure Track-Professuren in den Fachbereichen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Architektur, Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung und Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Universität Kassel ausgeschrieben. 2020 wurde Heinz Bude zum Gründungsdirektor ernannt.
The documenta Institut
The documenta Institut is being established in cooperation between the State of Hesse, the City of Kassel and the University of Kassel with the Kunsthochschule, with financial support for the construction project from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. As part of the establishment of the documenta Institut, three tenure-track professorships were advertised in 2019 with funds from the state of Hesse in the departments of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning and Social Sciences at the University of Kassel. Heinz Bude was appointed founding director in 2020.
Text by Sofia Asvestopoulos
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The Psychonautic Adventures of the 187 Year Old…
187 years strong & still dodging drops—Gunnar Oliasson survives EDM to inspire a new frequency frontier. pdqb’s dream is now your soundtrack. 🧠⚡
EDM Intolerance Survivor Gunnar Oliasson
Many of the greatest artists of all time found inspiration in their dreams… and pdqb is known to be an absolute pro when it comes to creatively exploiting the REM cycles.
Recently, for example, he dreamed of Gunnar, who had witnessed the rise and fall of electronic dance music, which had once held simple-minded creatures in its thrall. The beats had a peculiar effect on them, drawing them into euphoric trances. But Gunnar, allergic to its hypnotic frequencies, stood apart, unaffected. However, eventually, in a hidden enclave in the highlands of Reykjavík, he met Dr. Amara El-Amin, a neuroscientist fascinated by his unique immunity.
Together, they discovered that Gunnar’s resistance was a gift, offering insights into human consciousness and the power of music. With this knowledge, Gunnar inspired a global movement celebrating frequencies that resonate…differently. Though EDM had become a relic, Gunnar Oliasson remained a legend – a bad taste survivor who embraced a symphony of pure electrical potential, a language of circuits and oscillations beyond sound.
He woke with a jolt, the phantom music still echoing in his mind. He scribbled furiously, equations and diagrams mixing with strange, abstract notations. The dream, he knew, was a glimpse into a world where his inventions would dance, not just function.
For Synaptic Cliffs, it is an extraordinary honor to be able to offer you, dear listeners, the soundtrack of pdqb’s world-changing dream: Four beautiful genre-defining Electrocognition tracks, embracing the depths of the human wetware. And three jaw-dropping sonic remodels from a human-like being called The Exaltics.
Artist: pdqb
Release: The Psychonautic Adventures of the 187 Year Old EDM Intolerance Survivor Gunnar Oliasson
Label: Synaptic Cliffs
Release Date: May 2, 2025Tracks:
A1 Submarinobambino
A2 Frontera Extraterrestre
A3 Elafuhr Oliasson (Defog Remix)
A4 Vltimodespiroriuita
A5 Vltimodespiroriuita (The Exaltics Digital Zen Remix)
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Stirring Songwriter Tommy Down shares new single ‘Mrs Blue’
Tommy Down’s soulful hit ‘Mrs Blue’ has over 5.7M streams. His dreamy new single ‘Do You Want It All?’ premiered via CLASH. New EP lands in 2025.
London multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter Tommy Down’s soulful single ‘Mrs Blue’, off his 2024 album 21st Century Living, has garnered over 5.7 million Spotify streams alone, earning him support from the likes of Radio X and Earmilk – and a dedicated following which cemented his reputation as a rising talent in soulful music. Tommy is gearing up to release an EP later in 2025, recently releasing its first single, the dreamy psych rock track ‘Do You Want It All?’, which premiered with globally renowned tastemaker CLASH Magazine.
Tommy Down: From Jazz Roots to Soul Stardom
Tommy Down has worked with acclaimed producers such as Jeffrey Silverman and Grammy-nominated hitmakers Jon Shave and Jason Pebworth of Invisible Men. He has graced the stages of events like Camden Rocks Festival, headlined by Frank Turner.
Notably, Tommy has had six of his songs featured in just as many episodes across all three seasons of HBO’s hit drama series Industry, co-created by his brother Mickey Down.
Image credit: William Pope Tommy Down is a Camden-based musician whose journey began at fourteen, combining influences from jazz, rock, and soul. Tommy has deep musical roots, with his grandfather singing for WWII troops. A former member of the Bristol-based jazz band BUJO that toured Europe, he later returned to London to produce a soul album. Tommy continues to perform across London, blending his rich UK-Ghanain heritage with a passion for storytelling through music.
The Sound of Heartache: Inside the Emotion of ‘Mrs Blue’
Known for his raw, heartfelt performances reminiscent of Paolo Nutini and Tame Impala, he draws inspiration from a wide array of artists including Marvin Gaye, Mazzy Star, Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, David Bowie, and Michael Kiwanuka, to name but a few. Now taking the reins and producing his own music and performing live with a backing band, his forthcoming EP promises a psychedelic rock and soul fusion inspired by Radiohead and Mitski.
The hype around ‘Mrs Blue’ will still not prepare a first-time listener for the stirring experience of the song. The gorgeously romantic number will ensnare fans of John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Maroon 5. The track’s stripped-back instrumentation, consists of a steady, gently grooving Al Green-like rhythm section, carrying a delicate atmospheric organ occasionally interlaced with airy backing vocals, leaves ample room for Tommy’s timeless voice, controlled yet brimming with emotionality. ‘Mrs Blue’ exquisitely captures the pangs of yearning for someone, oozing with gooey warmth, adoration, and deep melancholy.
“The song was produced by Grammy and Brit award winning producer Jon Shave. I brought Jason Pebworth, one of the Invisible Men, a song I wrote about my girlfriend. I felt blue one weekend because I felt like my girlfriend was too but we hadn’t spoken about it. It felt like a sixth sense and I wrote a song about that feeling. Jason and I started writing a new version of the song and I completely changed the lyrics. Jason suggested getting a sort of Al Green ‘Lets stay together’ beat for the track, which worked very well.”
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Rémy Hysbergue: THE WISDOM OF THE PEACOCK
Last chance during Gallery Weekend! Dive into The Wisdom of the Peacock by Wolfgang Flad & Rémy Hysbergue — luminous, immersive, unforgettable.
During Gallery Weekend, don’t miss your final chance to visit the sensational exhibition/dialogue between German artist Wolfgang Flad and French artist Rémy Hysbergue: THE WISDOM OF THE PEACOCK
This exhibition is the result of two personal “art crushes” I had. Wolfgang Flad captured my heart during Berlin Art Week a few years ago. Rémy Hysbergue did the same in Paris last spring, while I was gallery scouting in the Marais. I would truly be sad if you missed the chance to fall in love with their fantastic works as I did.
Flad’s and Hysbergue’s pieces enchant like the splendid plumage of a peacock. They pull viewers into an immersive world. The world is full of shifting hues and luminous surfaces. Their ability to play with light and color creates an alluring spectacle, inviting you to linger, explore, and surrender to the evocative beauty of their art.
The Wisdom of the Peacock is a celebration of this mesmerizing interplay — an invitation to lose yourself in the iridescent brilliance of sculptural reliefs and painted illusions.
The show is organized in collaboration with my wonderful neighbors Jaeger Art, whose exhibitions during Gallery Weekend are also not to be missed.
So much happening on one street, come over!
Special opening hours for Gallery Weekend:
Friday, May 2nd: 11:00 – 20:00
Saturday, May 3rd: 12:00 – 20:00About The Artist:
Wolfgang Flad’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in relief and texture, incorporating abstract aluminum casts, iridescent glass works, and mixed-media compositions. His recent series, Dark Side of the Moon, features intricate reliefs veiled behind reflective, color-shifting glass panels, challenging the viewer’s perspective and engagement with the work.
Rémy Hysbergue’s paintings extend the discourse on materiality and space through an entirely different yet equally immersive approach.
His works, whether executed on mirrored polymethyl methacrylate or silk velvet, explore the tension between depth and flatness. They also examine concealment and revelation. His works blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. They blur the tactile and the elusive. This draws the viewer into a dynamic interplay of material contrast: matte versus shiny, raw versus refined, near versus distant.
Luisa Catucci Gallery
Brunnenstraße 170
Berlin 10119, Germany
https://www.luisacatucci.com/Copyright © 2025 Luisa Catucci Gallery, All rights reserved.
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Richard Norris & Eskimo Drop Epic 42-Track Compilation
Richard Norris teams up with Eskimo Recordings for Mr Norris Changes Brains, a 42-track global psychedelic journey. Out May 23rd on 3x2LP, CD & digital.
Over the past few years Eskimo Recordings have invited some of the best crate diggers around to curate compilations that don’t just reveal the hidden contents of their record bags but something about themselves too. Now, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bill Brewster and Psychemagik, producer, musician, DJ, writer and more, Richard Norris, takes us on a globetrotting psychedelic journey with the epic 42 track compilation, Mr Norris Changes Brains released on 23 May 2025.
A Psychedelic Odyssey: Richard Norris Curates Global Gems
For over forty years Richard has played a part in many of the UK’s most important music subcultures. Whether sharing stages with the likes of Tracey Thorn as a pubescent punk in St. Albans, or running freakbeat nights in Liverpool and working at the pioneering psychedelic label Bam Caruso, co-producing the UK’s first acid house inspired LP with Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P. Orridge or riding the wave of creativity that the second summer of love unleashed all the way to the Top of the Pop studios as The Grid, Richard’s career has continually seen him work to expand his own musical horizons. He also strives to broaden the public’s musical perspectives. Most recently, he explored his diverse career as a musical tastemaker in his critically acclaimed autobiography Strange Things are Happening (White Rabbit).
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve Influence Runs Deep
Mr Norris Changes Brains is the most recent part of his mercurial career, drawing inspiration from his post 2006 adventures as one half of Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, alongside Trash’s Erol Alkan. This compilation shows how a more connected world has blown the dust off a paradoxically sometimes straightjacketed scene. The result is a dizzyingly wide-ranging collection that explores the further out there reaches of worldwide psychedelia and dancefloor mayhem.
“A lot of these tracks are fairly recent discoveries, things that I’ve discovered from around the time I started working with Erol and going right up to today. Whether that’s from going out to play and finding new records in places like Istanbul or just connecting with people online from all around the world. Psych can sometimes be a sort of narrow-minded field, with everything having to sit in its specific niche, but more and more people are open to new sounds and that’s allowed for a much broader selection.”
Richard NorrisThat freedom sees Mr Norris Changes Brains take us on a trip around the world and through time, with tracks from the 1960s rubbing up against recent releases. We journey through the US accompanied by heady fuzz monsters like Evolmia by Boston’s Banchee and the lysergic rhythms of Forest of Black by Oakland’s The Dirty Filthy Mud. Elsewhere we encounter mind-expanding sounds that have emerged everywhere from the valleys of Wales to sweaty Parisian basements, from underground Turkish clubs to Italian film scores and beyond.
Compilation Bridges Generations of Psych Fans
There’s obscurities aplenty, of course. Many of these recordings have never been officially available outside of their original, often hard to find, releases with some, like Thumbquake and Earthscrew by A to Austr and DAVE’s In My Mind, culled from punishingly rare private press albums. These rarities are accompanied by hidden gems, often overlooked B-sides to otherwise big hits with the likes of Rare Bird’s Hammond Organ stomper Devils High Concern or Iron Butterfly’s Iron Butterfly Theme duly making an appearance.
Despite their disparate origins, what unites these tracks is their infectious danceability. Mr Norris may change your brains but he will also move your feet. Whether it’s killer guitar riffs, oscillating synths, floor shaking drums or soulful Hammond organs, these are all cuts that get people dancing everywhere from festival tents to underground clubs
“With a lot of these tracks there’s a kind of fun element in them. It’s still psychedelia, but they’ve also got these solid, funky grooves. They sound phenomenal on the dancefloor and as much as these records might excite old psych heads, this compilation is also for a new generation out there who might have never heard anything like this before and, just like when I was 18 and heard The 13th Floor Elevators for the first time, think ‘Oh, my God, what on earth is this and more importantly what else is out there?’”
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RELEASE DETAILS
Label: Eskimo Recordings
Format: 3x 2LP // 3CD // Digital
Cat no: 541416668181
Release date: May 23rd 2025SOCIAL MEDIA
Website of Eskimo Recordings
Eskimo Recordings on Instagram
Eskimo Recordings on BandcampTRACKLIST
- Chapter 1
- 1. Banchee – Evolmia
2. The Dirty Filthy Mud – Forest Of Black
3. Wool – Love, Love, Love, Love, Love
4. Spencer Mac – Ka-Ka Baya Mow-Mow (Sing A Little Love Song)
5. Trifle – One Way Glass
6. Brainticket – Black Sand
7. Emma De Angelis – Trip
8. Blonde On Blonde – Castles In The Sky
9. The Braen’s Machine – Fall Out
10. Eddie Warner & Roger Roger – Shut Up
11. Köy Kardeşler – Shürük
12. The Children – Beautiful
13. Moebius & Beerbohm – Doppelschnitt (Richard Norris Edit)
14. Demon Fuzz – Past, Present & Future - Chapter 2
- 1. Iron Butterfly – Iron Butterfly Theme
2. Rare Bird – Devil’s High Concern
3. Paul St. John – Flying Saucers Have Landed
4. Chris Hodge – We’re On Our Way (2010 Remaster)
5. Juantrip – Shadows
6. 62 Miles From Space – Time Shifts
7. White Trash – Road To Nowhere
8. Blue Phantom – Diodo
9. The Mannheim Rock Ensemble – Hungarian Dances
10. Limousine – Barriers
11. Ugo Busoni – Rullio
12. Bernard Estardy – Cha Tatch Ka
13. Kate – Shout It
14. Dyna-Might – Need You
15. La Metamorfosi – Scusa, Eh! - Chapter 3
- 1. André Brasseur – Saturnus
2. Contessa Vittoria – Can We Stay Together
3. Klaus Weiss – Time Signals
4. Brainstorm – You Are Whats Gonna Make It Last
5. Paladin – The Fakir
6. A To Austr – Thumbquake & Earthscrew
7. DAVE – In My Mind
8. Relatively Clean Rivers – Journey Through The Valley Of O
9. The Advancement – Stone Folk
10. The Pretty Things – The Sun
11. Poll – Psachno Na Vro To Filo Mou
12. Higamos Hogamos – Moto Neurono
13. The Invisible Girls – Huddersfield Wastes
LIVE DATES
- 24.4.25 – Richard Norris presents Oracle Sound live AV set, The Old Market, Hove, as special guest of Carbon Based Lifeforms
- 26.4.25 – Beyond The Wizards Sleeve DJ set, The Golden Lion, Todmorden
- 23.6.25 – Richard Norris live AV set, special guest of The The, Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
- 12.7.25 – Oracle Sound live AV set, Labyrinth Festival, Tofte Manor Bedford, w/Sasha and Digweed
- 23.8.25 – DJ set, The Wake Festival, Loxwood, West Sussex
- 24.8.25 – DJ set, Barley Mow, nr Wilmington, East Sussex
- 12.9.25 – DJ set, All Things Fungi Festival, East Grinstead, West Sussex
- 4.10.25 – Richard Norris presents Oracle Sound live AV set with Plaid, Castle and Falcon, Birmingham
ABOUT RICHARD NORRIS
Richard Norris has been pushing the envelope sonically for many years. From co-producing the seminal ‘Jack the Tab’ album, via his work with Soft Cell’s Dave Ball in The Grid and Erol Alkan in Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, alongside his many collaborations, solo albums, productions and remixes, Richard has been deeply connected with the spirit of psychedelia and dance since before Acid House.
credits (c) Josh Hight @josh._.hight After publishing his music memoir ‘Strange Things Are Happening’ (White Rabbit) in 2024, Richard is currently working on a host of new projects. These include Oracle Sound, his dub series of releases, Music For Healing, his monthly deep listening ambient work, Hypno, his new electronic dance label, a collaborative project with Mark Barrott for Anjuna Chill and DJ sets as Beyond The Wizards Sleeve. A live Oracle Sound AV show is currently touring, and The Grid return shortly, via a new deal with BMG that will see a ‘Best Of’ compilation, a brand new album and live shows.
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Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery: Blue Blossom Lions, Ralf Kokke
Step into Ralf Kokke’s dreamlike forest world in Blue Blossom Lions. Vernissage: 2 May, 6–9pm @ Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin.
Vernissage
Friday, 2nd May 2025
6 – 9pm
Opening hours during Gallery Weekend:
Saturday, 3rd: 11am-7pm
Sunday, 4th: 11am-6pm3 May – 7 June
In his latest solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Ralf Kokke transports us into a twilight world bathed in blue. This is a realm of communality and pleasure, where people gather to rest, make music, and bathe in harmony with nature. The exhibition’s title, Blue Blossom Lions, alludes to the recurring presence of lions in Kokke’s dreams – guardians of his inner world and symbols of power and strength. In these paintings, predators of various kinds become guides, leading both artist and viewer through the composition while retaining their mystery and wildness.
A sense of magic and unease.
Het Bad In Het Bos (Forest Bathing), 2025, Chalk Paint on Canvas, 120 x 140 cm, 47 1/4 x 55 1/8 in As a child, Kokke grappled with the vividness of his imagination, which conjured both magical dreams and intense nightmares. Painting became a means not only of control but also of expansion, largely centring around the concept of paradise, which for Kokke, is linked to a feeling of safety and security as well as a oneness with nature.
While his previous works focused more closely on the characters or animals who occupied his dream world, in this series they are secondary to the environment that surrounds them.
We are drawn into lush, forest landscapes where figures and animals are glimpsed between trees, or lounging in a secluded glade. The colours and characteristics of the landscapes are inspired by those of Northern Europe but also borrow from the tropes of fairy tales to evoke a sense of magic and unease.
Dark Forest Swans (Zwanen In Een Donker Bos), 2025, Chalk paint on canvas, 160 x 200 cm, 63 x 78 3/4 in Moments of familiarity and intrigue, tension and calm
On the surface, these are all scenes of repose, but an undercurrent of tensions lingers. Take, for instance, the painting in which two figures sit on the banks of a river, playing the guitar. Around them, the world seems to pause, expectant: a tiger rests further down the river, its mouth slightly ajar; birds sit motionless in the trees; the sun burns a deep red. Elsewhere, a snake coils around the trunk and branches of a tree, poised to strike while in another work it is a swan that becomes the uncanny presence, emerging from behind a tree in the foreground while in the distance, figures bathe in the bend of a glassy river.
We could endlessly unpick the art historical references and symbolisms in these works, but Kokke is more interested in the suggestiveness of colour and line – how they shape the gaze and play with collective memory to create moments of familiarity and intrigue, tension and calm. This is not an act of deception but an invitation.
The rough texture of chalk paint lends the works a raw, almost primal quality, while depictions of water and impressions of softness in the leaves of the trees and grass evoke a strong sensuality the softness of leaves and grass evoke a visceral sensuality – a language both universal and deeply rooted in the body.
Get in Touch About the Exhibition
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Mercator Höfe
Potsdamer Str. 77-87
10785 Berlin, GermanyCopyright © Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, All rights reserved.
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Sonic Investigations – La Biennale di Venezia 2025
Opening Next Month: The Luxembourg Pavilion will present Sonic Investigations at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025.
Sonic Investigations
Curated by Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau
with Ludwig Berger & Peter Szendy
19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, 1st floor
Sestiere Castello, Campo Della Tana 2169/F, 30122 Venice10 May – 23 November 2025
Preview days: 8 and 9 May 2025
Official Opening: Thursday 8 May, 4pm CEST
Photo © Simon Nicoloso.
The curators:
Valentin Bansac, Alice Loumeau, Mike Fritsch Sonic Investigations is an immersive, joyful and radical invitation to shift focus from the visual to the sonic. In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses which are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. Inspired by John Cage’s silent song 4’33’’, Sonic Investigations invites us to close our eyes and actively listen.
As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments and to move our attention towards giving voices to more-than-human agencies.
As both a practical and theoretical investigation, the project serves as a tool to re-explore the dense territory of Luxembourg – a significant case study for global western paradigms in territorial planning.
The sounds of the region emanating from biological, geological and anthropogenic beings blend into the intertwined soundscape of the Anthropocene and lead to the question: How to reveal the entangled character of specific contemporary situations in Luxembourg?
Through attentive listening and field recordings that capture a range of sounds from diverse environments, Sonic Investigations creates a new, uncanny and embodied experience of space, thus emphasising the value of sensorial approaches in spatial practices. Investigating territories through the medium of sound, the project seeks to craft new narratives that reimagine Luxembourg beyond anthropocentric perspectives.Acoustic Ecology and Sonic Warfare
By attuning to the auditory dynamics of the region’s densely infrastructured landscapes, the pavilion will provide an immersive space to give voice to the invisible. Drawing inspiration from Murray Schafer’s 1960s concept of Acoustic Ecology and Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare, sound serves as a point of tension, offering alternative ways to perceive space and confront the challenges of a rapidly transforming environment.
Also, The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is delighted to invite you to the Curators’ Tour on Thursday 8 May at 2pm CEST with Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau, Ludwig Berger & Peter Szendy. Please register through this form before Thursday 1 May, 2025 to attend.
During an exclusive press tour, the curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion will lead visitors through the immersive pavilion space, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the sound excerpts that shaped their research, sharing the creative process behind the project, and explaining how their work contributes to the architectural discipline.
Sound Pieces
A commissioned in-situ sound piece is at the centre of the physical pavilion. Developed in collaboration with sound artist and field recorder Ludwig Berger, the composition weaves together recordings from distinctive locations across Luxembourg, inviting listeners to explore space through a new auditory perspective. The field works spur from encounters and site visits with local specialists encompassing a broad spectrum of disciplines including ecology, social science, engineering, history and data science.
Focusing on multi-perspective field recordings, the piece critically examines the dynamics of the Luxembourgish territory and investigates how ongoing sustainable and digital advancements are shaping the country’s landscape. By employing sound as a tool for spatial and territorial analysis, the project offers a fresh framework for understanding urban and extra-urban contexts, challenging conventional approaches to territorial planning along with the power structures and limitations it creates. The concept of Ecotone – a transitional space between two ecosystems – guides the field recording process, utilising liminal spaces to explore the impact of human intervention on the environment.A multiplicity of voices are present in the sound piece, from the buzz of data centres to the silence of biodiversity loss, portraying, among other things, forests as spaces of exchange, energy production infrastructures and the architecture of digital technology. By exploring how complex networks coexist, the composition blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, natural and artificial, local and global, granting voice to silenced entities and overlooked systems.
Sound teaser for Ecotonalities: No Other Home Than the In-Between, 2025 by Ludwig Berger here.
On the threshold of the Pavilion, the suspended “Long Throw” parabolic loudspeaker by Anthea Caddy projects a sound work into the space based on a reading by philosopher and musicologist, Peter Szendy.
Exhibition
Inspired by Bernhard Leitner’s research on Sound Spaces, the pavilion provides an immersive environment where visitors are transported away from the abundance of images into a sonic experience. As banal as listening seems, concentrating solely on sound can create a surprisingly uncanny experience.
Sonic Investigations will present a collection of original content, including a sound piece, written texts, and fieldwork documentation. The aim of the project is to utilise the Biennale context as a platform for generating knowledge rather than physical objects. Therefore, the pavilion’s scenography is designed with minimal intervention, creating an ideal acoustic environment to display the soundscapes recorded in Luxembourg.A sustainable material strategy focuses on rental, reuse, recycling and reusability. The physical materials used consist of standard construction elements with minimal modifications, facilitating reimplementation within circular systems.If you are still in Venice on Saturday, 10 May, we would be delighted to welcome you to:
Public performance and book launch “Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories”
In the presence of Ludwig Berger, landscape sound artist, composer and musician, Peter Szendy, French philosopher and musicologist, and contributors of the book.
Date: 10 May 2025
Time: 18:00 to 21:00
Location: Ca’Buccari (Calle Buccari 3, Viale IV Novembre, 65, Venice)
Commissioners appointed by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture:
Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg
LUCA – Luxembourg Center for ArchitectureCurators
Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice LoumeauExhibitors
Valentin Bansac, Ludwig Berger, Anthea Caddy, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau, Peter Szendy
Opening hours
10 May to 28 September: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
29 September to 23 November: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except on 12/05, 2/06, 21/07, 1/09, 20/10, 17/11)
www.venicebiennale.kulturlx.luFollow the Instagram with photos and sound excerpts from the project: @venicebiennaleluxembourg
Book (Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories)
Edited in collaboration with philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy, the book extends the investigations on the relevance of sound in territorial studies outside the context of Luxembourg. Developed as an autonomous book, it offers a curated collection of texts from various disciplines that examine spaces, territories and ecologies through sonic ventures. Much like the sound piece, the book fosters new cultural frameworks and theoretical tools for spatial practitioners.
Structured in three chapters that provide a multiplicity of textual forms including essays, fictions and situated case studies, the book begins by exploring sound as a perceptual medium and the potential for a politics of listening. The second section narrates sonic practices, investigations, methodologies and the sensorial engagement of the listener’s body. Finally, the third section enters territories and field experiments, exploring how to portray sonic entanglements within specific contexts.
The book includes contributions by Peter Szendy, Shannon Mattern, Tim Ingold, Soline Nivet and Ariane Wilson, David George Haskell, Ludwig Berger, Philip Samartzis and Madelynne Cornish (Bogong Centre for Sound Culture), Nadine Schütz, Laure Brayer (CRESSON), Julia Grillmayr, Christina Gruber and Sophia Rut (Lobau Listening Comprehensions), Yuri Tuma (Institute for Postnatural Studies), Emma McCormick Goodhart, as well as a fiction piece by Xabi Molia and poems by Laura Vazquez and Cole Swensen. The graphic identity of the project and the book are designed by Pierre Vanni.Activations
A series of three events will activate and resonate with the pavilion at key moments, such as the opening week, the Pavilion Days and the closing week. These activations extend the reflection on embodied practices and sensorial approaches to space through sound, engaging with what composer Pauline Oliveros calls Deep Listening.
The programme will include an off-site sound performance by Ludwig Berger with readings from the book, a short residency with Gaia Ginevra Giorgi culminating in a performance within the pavilion’s immersive space, and an audio-walk through the Venice lagoon guided by Nicola Di Croce, each offering a unique exploration of the audience’s body within soundscapes.
The events will create a dialogue between the pavilion’s production and the local Italian sound research scene.
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total recall – Gabriele Regiert, Matthias Reinmuth
Entdecke „total recall“ beim Sellerie Weekend 2.–4.5. in Berlin – Kunst jenseits von Kommerz, mit Gabriele Regiert & Matthias Reinmuth am Samstag vor Ort!
Sellerie Weekend
2.5. – 4.5.2025
https://www.sellerie-weekend.de/Freitag 15-19 Uhr, Samstag 14-18 Uhr und Sonntags geöffnet! 14-18 Uhr Gabriele Regiert und Matthias Reinmuth sind am Samstag anwesend *
open friday 3-7pm, saturday 2-6pm and sunday 2-6pm the artists are present on saturday
Sellerie Weekend:
This initiative aims to create visibility for the work of independent art spaces in the city through joint action. It expresses an understanding of art and its display that is not oriented towards commercial purposes.
Initiated by Spoiler
total recall
Gabriele Regiert, Matthias ReinmuthAusstellung: 12.04. – 24.05.2025
Ordnung scheint dringend nötig in einer Zeit, in der offenbar vieles in Unordnung geraten ist. Werte und Normen geraten angesichts der jüngsten Kriege und Krisen durcheinander, unsere Lebenswelt ist geprägt von dauerhaften Veränderungs- und Anpassungsprozessen, reaktionären und totalitären Zwangsideen stehen Rationalität und Wissenschaft gegenüber. Und angeblich stehen nur Ordnung und Chaos zur Wahl.
Es überwiegt ein Gefühl der Orientierungslosigkeit. Die Ereignisse der Welt passieren nun nicht nur gleichzeitig – so wie sie es immer schon getan haben – sie sind heute noch dazu gleichzeitig erfahrbar geworden. Während die Erde brennt und Raumgleiter zum Mars düsen, wühlen wir auf der Suche nach neuen Häppchen immer weiter Gold aus der Erde, jagen es durch Quecksilberlaugen und vergraben es wieder in Stahltresoren im Untergrund. Immer gravierender wird unser menschliches Eingreifen in die Biosphäre spürbar.
Die Ausstellung total recall versucht Bilder für diese Komplexität zu finden.
Haben wir noch irgendeine Chance, selbstbestimmt und mit Würde Entscheidungen zu treffen?“mach-alles-größer-Freunde”
Algorithmen, die programmiert werden mit den erratischen Zukunftsvisionen unserer „mach-alles-größer-Freunde“? Haben wir noch irgendeine Chance uns kollektiv darüber bewusst zu werden und an einer optimistischen und sozialen Zukunftsvision für die Menschheit zu entwickeln?
Darauf können die Arbeiten der Ausstellung total recall keine Antwort geben, sie können vielleicht nur Wege zu richtigen Fragen aufzeigen. English version: Order seems to be urgently needed at a time when many things seem to have fallen into disarray. Values and norms are getting mixed up in the face of recent wars and crises, our living environment is characterized by permanent processes of change and adaptation, reactionary and totalitarian ideas of compulsion are confronted with rationality and science. And supposedly there is only a choice between order and chaos.
Sellerie Weekend: total recall – Gabriele Regiert, Matthias Reinmuth
Exhibition: 12.04. – 24.05.2025A feeling of disorientation prevails. The events of the world are now not only happening simultaneously – as they always have – they have also become simultaneously tangible today. While the earth burns and spacecrafts jet off to Mars, we continue to dig gold out of the earth in search of new morsels, chase it through mercury leaches and bury it again in steel vaults underground. Our human intervention in the biosphere is becoming increasingly noticeable.
The exhibition „total recall“ attempts to find images for this complexity.
Do we still have any chance of making self-determined and dignified decisions?
Algorithms that are programmed with the erratic visions of the future of our “make-everything-bigger-friends”? Do we still have any chance of collectively becoming aware of this and developing an optimistic and social vision of the future for humanity?The works in the exhibition „total recall“ cannot answer this question, they can perhaps only point the way to the right questions.
Scotty Berlin
Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle MedienOranienstrasse 46
D 10969 Berlin
U-Bahnhof Moritzplatz
Öffnungszeiten: FR: 15 –19 Uhr / SA: 14 – 18 Uhr
www.scotty-berlin.deFacebook: ScottyProjectSpaceBerlin
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