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YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

The exhibition view shows a dome-structure made of clay, in which a screen is placed.

YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Tabita Rezaire & Amakaba: Farmers’ Wisdom | Singing Bee Garden | Cacao d’Amazonie | Jardin Bois de Rose | Terre Rouge, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022) photo: Laura Fiorio

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 11:00–19:00
Sat, Sun 10:00–19:00
Tue closed

Gropius Bau

Featuring the diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives of 25 artistic positions, YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal addresses issues such as the politics of health, the resilience of Indigenous knowledge systems, forms of kinship, fair land use and its distribution, decoloniality and the rights of the non-human, all entangled with various concepts of care, repair and healing.

The Resonance Room is part of the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal and shares local knowledge and experiences of mental health in Berlin. As a meeting place, it gathers different voices and engages them in dialogue.

About the exhibition

YOYI is the name of the ceremonial song, dance and coming together that is central to Tiwi culture in northern Australia. YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal references this exclamation – an invitation to come together in celebration and mourning. The 25 invited artists and collectives embody just as many different strategies to critically challenge, re-invent, expand, perpetuate and disavow notions of care, repair and healing. Certain artists provide a critical lens on how the concept of care has been misused. Others propose methods of repair that differ significantly from Western perspectives. Finally, some ask if healing is possible or even needed. This spectrum of voices resonates through works in video, installations, paintings and performances, exhibited together across the entire ground floor of the Gropius Bau.

With works and contributions by Pierre Adler, Brook Andrew, Kader Attia, Tosh Basco, Mohamed Bourouissa, Andrea Büttner, Lavkant Chaudhary, Lygia Clark, André Eugène, Artemisia Gentileschi, Johanna Hedva, Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Eva Kot’átková, Betty Muffler & Maringka Burton, Grace Ndiritu, People’s Archive of Rural India, Outi Pieski, Paula Rego, Tabita Rezaire & Amakaba, Georgia Sagri, Yhonnie Scarce, Reginald Sénatus (Redji), SERAFINE1369 and Wu Tsang

Curated by Brook Andrew, Kader Attia with Giscard Bouchotte, Natasha Ginwala, Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, under the curatorial lead of Stephanie Rosenthal in collaboration with SERAFINE1369, In House: Artist in Residence 2021

Content Guidance
Certain artworks in this exhibition address physical and psychological trauma in relation to sexual and colonial violence, as well as legacies of National Socialism, sometimes in explicit depictions. In addition, some works use loud bass. Some visitors may find this troubling. Viewer discretion is advised.

To the exhibition imprint

  • An installation view showing people sitting in a kind of dark blue tent. A fluorescent sea creature hangs from the ceiling. In addition, the fabric of the tent is printed with colourful, fluorescent sea creatures.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Worlds Away, Clam Extravaganza, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • An installation view with various images attached to a wall with black knives.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Johanna Hedva: The Clock Is Always Wrong, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an orange wall set up in a semicircle with listening devices. In front of it is a table on circularly arranged mud bricks and seating.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI): The Grindmill Songs Project, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A photograph of a performance in which several people in make-up and costumes descend a staircase

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an installation consisting of a yellow floor, a wooden construction, screens, loudspeakers and potted plants.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Mohamed Bourouissa: Oiseaux du Paradis, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio, Courtesy: kamel mannour, Blum & Poe

  • Many protheses hang from a metal construction from the ceiling of a white room. People are standing underneath looking at them.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Kader Attia: On Silence, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    Foto: Laura Fiorio

  • The photo shows the exhibition room, in which a glass case filled with multiple objects is placed, from which a big grammophone-horn extends.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN | Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • The exhibition room contains multiple glass cases with the traditional headdress of the Sámi. On the walls, large-format images show these headdresses.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Outi Pieski: Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • An installation view showing people sitting in a kind of dark blue tent. A fluorescent sea creature hangs from the ceiling. In addition, the fabric of the tent is printed with colourful, fluorescent sea creatures.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Worlds Away, Clam Extravaganza, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • An installation view with various images attached to a wall with black knives.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Johanna Hedva: The Clock Is Always Wrong, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an orange wall set up in a semicircle with listening devices. In front of it is a table on circularly arranged mud bricks and seating.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI): The Grindmill Songs Project, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A photograph of a performance in which several people in make-up and costumes descend a staircase

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an installation consisting of a yellow floor, a wooden construction, screens, loudspeakers and potted plants.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Mohamed Bourouissa: Oiseaux du Paradis, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio, Courtesy: kamel mannour, Blum & Poe

  • Many protheses hang from a metal construction from the ceiling of a white room. People are standing underneath looking at them.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Kader Attia: On Silence, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    Foto: Laura Fiorio

  • The photo shows the exhibition room, in which a glass case filled with multiple objects is placed, from which a big grammophone-horn extends.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN | Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • The exhibition room contains multiple glass cases with the traditional headdress of the Sámi. On the walls, large-format images show these headdresses.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Outi Pieski: Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • An installation view showing people sitting in a kind of dark blue tent. A fluorescent sea creature hangs from the ceiling. In addition, the fabric of the tent is printed with colourful, fluorescent sea creatures.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Worlds Away, Clam Extravaganza, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • An installation view with various images attached to a wall with black knives.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Johanna Hedva: The Clock Is Always Wrong, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an orange wall set up in a semicircle with listening devices. In front of it is a table on circularly arranged mud bricks and seating.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI): The Grindmill Songs Project, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A photograph of a performance in which several people in make-up and costumes descend a staircase

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • A lively installation view with an installation consisting of a yellow floor, a wooden construction, screens, loudspeakers and potted plants.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Mohamed Bourouissa: Oiseaux du Paradis, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio, Courtesy: kamel mannour, Blum & Poe

  • Many protheses hang from a metal construction from the ceiling of a white room. People are standing underneath looking at them.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Kader Attia: On Silence, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    Foto: Laura Fiorio

  • The photo shows the exhibition room, in which a glass case filled with multiple objects is placed, from which a big grammophone-horn extends.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Brook Andrew: GABAN | Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

  • The exhibition room contains multiple glass cases with the traditional headdress of the Sámi. On the walls, large-format images show these headdresses.

    YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Outi Pieski: Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

    photo: Laura Fiorio

Organised in partnership with Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural programme about mental health; funded by the Peterand Irene Ludwig Foundation
Partner of BerlinArt Week
Partners: Wall, YorckKinogruppe
Media partners: Arte, BerlinArtLink, Cosmo, Elephant, Monopol, Tagesspiegel