Invitation Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
Tekla Aslanishvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi,Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi
26.09. – 05.10.2025
Exhibition Opening:
25.09.2025, 7 – 11 p.m.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin
Flow States brings together the works of the final cohort of UdK Graduate School in an exhibition, performance and event programme that explores how infrastructures shape our daily lives and how they might open ways of imagining different futures. The exhibition marks the final chapter of the fellowship programme. It closes a 15-year journey of interdisciplinary artistic research at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Land, water, archives, and institutions appear here not just as neutral systems, but as sites where memory and imagination intersect. Across different geographies, the artists in Flow States trace how infrastructures are entangled with state power, political agendas, and the histories and present-day realities of colonial control, including the logistics of war and genocide. Yet they also show how these same infrastructures carry the potential for resistance, renewal, and alternative ways of living.
Rather than telling one single story, Flow States shifts between historical and speculative perspectives. A gesture, an image, a historical reference, or a moving body become ways of testing larger systems: how climate is lived, how scarcity is managed, how ancestral knowledge may resurface as a living practice.
At its core, the programme asks what happens when art treats infrastructures as contested ground. It is not merely a backdrop. It is where struggles over resources and memory meet the search for new ways of living. We live in a moment shaped by ecological catastrophe. There is the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The repression of students and artists protesting it in Germany and beyond is intensifying. Flow States insists that other futures must be imagined.
Events
25.09.2025
7 pm
Exhibition Opening
7.30 pm
E’TOME – Counter-colonial curves from Éwé epistemology
Performance by Anani Dodji Sanouvi
Content notice: this performance may contain nudity.
26.09.2025
2-4 pm
Gallery walk through with the artists of the exhibition
Language: English
28.09.2025
2-4 pm
I Have Found My Answers: Basel Al-Araj and the Political Economy of Struggle
Reading group hosted by Joud Al-Tamimi as part of the Salon für Ästhetische Experimente series.
Language: Arabic
02.10.2025
4-6 pm
Manaova toy ny dian-tana, jerena ny aloha, todihina ny afara. (Malagasy proverb)
Like a chameleon: one eye on the past, one eye in the future
Graduate School Round Table with Jenny Fuhr, Nik Haffner and alumni of the Graduate School.
note: held in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Library, Kohlfurter Straße 41-43
Language: English and German
03.10.2025
5-7 pm
Liquid commons, or who manages our water?
A workshop on the regional water politics in Brandenburg with activists of “Tesla den Hahn abdrehen” and artist and filmmaker Julia Lazarus.
Language: German with English whisper translation
Acknowledgements
- Project coordination: Catherine Rose Evans
- Organisation: Catherine Rose Evans, Jenny Fuhr, Ronja Landtau
- Catalogue text: Hanno Hauenstein
- Design: Camilo Baquero Burgos
- Photography: Piotr Pietrus
- Technical assistance: Dominik Fraßmann, David San Millán, Dennis Metaxas, Sebastiaan Verhees
A cooperation between Künstlerhaus Bethanien and The Graduate School, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), supported by the Kommission für künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Vorhaben (KKWV) and Medienhaus, UdK.
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