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atb#112 Undine Goldberg, Petra Kübert & Christina Zück, Costantino Ciervo

Friday, 4 April, 7 pm Information and discussion event with the Bürger*innenInitiative A100 (BI A100) as part of our exhibition

Inside, Outside and Beyond

We talk to activists from the BI / Citizens’ initiative A100 about the current status of the motorway construction site, 16th construction section from Neukölln to Treptow, about the planning status of the 17th construction section (Ostkreuz) and about the protest on 17 May 2025: ‘A100 wegbassen’.

Exhibition: 8 March to 13 April 2025
open by appointment: 0178 3298 106 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

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after the butcher – exhibition space for contemporary art and social issues is pleased to present the exhibition Inside, Outside and Beyond, a dialogue between three artistic perspectives that artistically reflect various virulent social issues and conflicts of our time in their own unique way.

With their collaborative project A 100 – Operation Beton (2021-2025), Petra Kübert and Christina Zück explore the question of the social, urban and ecological consequences of building a new motorway in the 21st century in the middle of a metropolis like Berlin and in the midst of an energy and climate crisis. Using various means of artistic research, they approach the colliding viewpoints of a wide range of protagonists and their fears and hopes. Their photographic and video works as well as their audible interviews offer an insight into a dystopian place of transition that produces its own rules and aesthetic manifestations.

Undine Goldberg’s current painting (2025) reflects with irony and depth the relationship between individual identities and the social issues and attitudes of feminism. Her paintings are body images and images of bodies that simultaneously question their representation.

Costantino Ciervo’s Pale-Judea, (2002/2011) is a video sculpture with two constantly moving screens which, like a pair of scales, constantly balance up and down, but at the same time reproduce an argument between two brothers in a continuous loop. The controversy develops along the history and traces of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By making two constantly contradictory voices heard, the artist questions the dilemma of a seemingly irresolvable conflict with its numerous historical and political interdependencies.

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atb#111 – ON SEEKING #3 –

Anna Zett, Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger and Thomas Kilpper

Opening: 17 January 2024, from 7pm

8pm: Anna Zett, performative reading 

Exhibition: January 18 – 28 February 2025

Save the date:

28. January 2025, 6 pm: 

‘Collective Archiving’ 

Workshop by Nóra Lukács with Gusztáv Hámos and other guests (TBC): 

A Joint Interpretation of the Photographic Documentation of Jürgen Schweinebraden’s EP Galerie in East Berlin

28. February, 7pm: experimental sound performance by Viktor Bátki, viola

Opening hours: 

January 21., 24.: 11am-3pm

January 28.: 4-6pm

February 14., 21.: 11am-3pm 

or by appointment 0176 618 133 03 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

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#atb110 On Seeking #2)

Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger, Harry Sachs, Susanne Schröder

Opening / iteration #2: 13 December 2024, from 7pm

Performance at 8pm with Hajnal Német – Copy Nothing
Delivered by Mark Ballyk and Julia Koffler

Opening hours:
December 17. and 20.: 11am-3pm

January 7., 10., 14.: 11am-3pm

January 11.: guided tour at 2 pm 

or by appointment 0176 618 133 03 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

The Seeker is doomed to wander, albeit not to some final destination. The Seeker’s attention is dedicated to the journey itself and navigation tactics. Along the way, the Seeker gathers information, orientates, deconstructs, and rearranges the imprints of the present, filters out the superfluous, the false, the deceptive, what is untrue or what seems even more real than reality itself. What will be gleaned from these movements and rituals? Can their knowledge be preserved for the future in more than a set of rites? And will the Seekers of the future be able to read their pasts? 

Developed as an episodic installation that unfolds through three iterations, punctuated by public events, On Seeking aims to acknowledge Berlin’s critical artistic community and dialogue in a state of uncertainty marked by the disintegration of social structures, the crisis of counterculture or the erosion of solidarity. The project gathers artists in Berlin who share a background in the (post-)socialist context as well as research-based practice, reflecting on images of the future shaped by a possible dystopia. All participants have a history of running independent spaces and initiatives for art, in Budapest, Skopje and Berlin. 

The project is about embracing the fluidity of artistic inquiry, emphasizing the value of process over the formality of presentation, turning the exhibition space into a site of ongoing collective experimentation, spontaneous and responsive artistic practice and dialogue. Alongside research-driven approaches, the presented works and performances attempt to reinterpret and reimagine archival material and biographies, to (re)archive the ephemeral, the discarded, the waste of history or archival waste, and to address practices of remembrance. All the while, these artistic endeavors reflect on the act of seeking itself, as a response to our time that demands new forms of knowing.

In November 2024 a temporary collective took over the running of After the Butcher with the project On Seeking. Over the course of three months, the exhibition space unfolds as an evolving, morphing installation in which individual works are replaced and repositioned, refocusing the initial constellation and keeping the dialogue fluid and ongoing. 

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atb#109 On Seeking

Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, 

Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger

Opening: 22 November, from 7pm, 

Zsolt Sőrés – MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC) sound performance 8pm

Exhibition: 23 November 2024 – 28 February 2025

Opening hours: Tuesdays and fridays 11am-3pm or by appointment: 0176 618 133 03 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

After the Butcher – exhibition space for contemporary art & social issues – Spittastr. 25 – D-10317 Berlin

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atb#106, Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing

Patrik Thomas, Valério de Araújo Silva, Anna Scherbyna, Anna Sopova, Michalina Musielak & Aya Ganor, Dana Kavelina 

Sunday afternoon finissage 

May 26, from 3-6pm

at 5:00pm sharp live music intervention by Johann Bärenklau (drone/music concrète) 

open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de

or +49 178 3298 106 

The exhibition ‘Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing’ presents works by Meisterschüler*innen of the expanded cinema class at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). The exhibition includes video works, installations and drawings. In their works, the artists address questions about the production of visible and invisible patterns that define how we see. How can we create images that question these patterns? How can the act of seeing be transformed from an exploratory gaze to a gaze of resistance? 

The works discuss self-images and forms of emancipation through the camera lens, a self-organised film project in Portugal or the GDR gaze in Tanzania. Another installation deals with the sound of surveillance, while another video is on contemporary interpretations of the image of Nefertiti (Nofretete). Private … utopian … politicised … embodied & redirected patterns. 

Patterns of Seeing and Not Seeing presents works by Patrik Thomas, Valério de Araújo Silva, Anna Scherbyna, Anna Sopova, Michalina Musielak & Aya Ganor, Dana Kavelina. Expanded cinema class is headed by Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien, PhD. Link: / http://excine.net/

after-the-butcher, showroom for contemporary art and social issues, Spittastr. 25, 10317 berlin, www.after-the-butcher.de

Mobil: +49 178 3298106, mailto@after-the-butcher.de

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#105, Anike Joyce Sadiq . Thomas Locher

“Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a question of power, not justice.”

Jose Antonio Vargas

(from Emila Roig, Why We Matter, Aufbau-Verlag 2021) 

after the butcher, exhibition space for contemporary art and social issues cordially invites you to a discussion event with 

Kerstin Stakemeier, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Thomas Locher and Helmut Draxler.

The discussion will take place in the context of our current exhibition by Anike Joyce Sadiq and Thomas Locher. 

The works of both artists deal with elementary questions of law – Anike Joyce Sadiq in the context of German colonialism, Thomas Locher in the context of war and the question of whether soldiers may be labelled as potential murderers. 

Both works are highly topical in politically polarised times. They develop a concrete concept of law as an elementary pillar of the power of the state. And they make it clear that this pillar is not static, but in constant motion and development: what is right and wrong is a question of the balance of power between us, the forces of society and the forces of the state.

The exhibition is open Sunday 7 April from 3-6pm

The discussion starts at 4 pm

Exhibition: March 2 – April 7, 2024

open by appointment: +49 1783298106

or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

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#103. Kabeltomate und Tränenreinette (vonfürmit) [engl:cable tomato and teardrop purette (fromforwith)]

Ute Waldhausen + Jan Molzberger

Finissage: Sunday, 14 January – 3-6pm

5pm Concert with Robert Schalinski, Ute Waldhausen and some voices


Exhibition: 9 December, 2023 – 14 January, 2024 

open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de

or: +49 178 32 98 106

Questions to Autonomy in the Year 24.000

We are in paradise.
In a gay paradise. No more trans bodies comparing themselves to countries in theory. Theory no longer exists, nor does what was called human once.

The gay paradise no longer needs Eve. The apple is an apple again, you can eat it or leave it.
Eve is now a tree, an android tree, with cables in her spinal cord that have long since given up the ghost. Nothing flows here anymore, her back is no longer a back, but an open landscape with a blue background.

Everything feminine there has de-formed into signal-dead details. Her spinal cord is now floating space.

We are in outer space. A universe without sexual events.
A water bong flies by, a body of smoke, an object of intoxication. Without an interest of consumption.

We would float in this space if we would still exist. We could reach for the glass body and inhale. And get twisted afterwards.

There are objects that are like short stories, without a beginning or an end. They seem dystopian and therefore always out of place. Displacement is an elementary question of autonomy,
as it seems so displaced within the networks of collectivization. Bound to human cords.

Do apples know about their neighbours on the tree,
do they feel how they develop in form and colour,
how they surrender to the given circumstances?
Do they envy the pears, are they autonomous? Do they have a goal?
Do they notice when you walk past them, do they like it when you see them, pick them up, eat them, compost them, photograph them?

Apples fly through space. They are not altered in any way. They are autonomous beings that do not speak, but are.
They fly, just as they were hanging on the tree, same constellation just tree-less.
The water bong cannot fly through them.
The apple formation forms an autonomous shield.
They move towards zero, while the jar with the cables moves towards one.

Spatial performance.
What we are about to see has never been shown or seen before. It is unique and limited to a short time only.
If you go there, you will experience the universe.
You can fly, but only in your imagination.
You will move through a space that does not exist,

that passes by and perhaps touches something.
You will hear something, you will see rotations and a lot of installed stillness where something has moved through once.

It’s a museum in a gay universe. In which we still find flying apples and comments on the wall.
People do things, people whose names have three letters. They don’t share these letters.
Everyone has a different one.
There is an A, an E, a J, a U, an N and a T like expensive, thoughtful, awkward, jubilant, extreme and different. All letters have experienced some time and have made decisions and yet they are sometimes not fully aware of themselves.
They walk a lot and they are happy to be. They like to watch while walking.

They collect while watching while walking. They like to be with themselves. They are autonomous.
So is the space they will give to us.

Form and life.
In response to autonomy in the 24th millennium.

(pour Jacques)

Text: Nine Budde