Events 2020

In Turkish

Presentation
BPA // Berlin program for artists at the Gropius Bau

BPA at Gropius Studios – Public Presentation

Michelle Volta, Niklas Binzberger, Anne Fellner

10:00—19:00

Thursday, 10 December 2020

Listening Party

Masculinities: Berlin Perspectives

Listening Party with Loren Britton

Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Online event

19:00—20:00

In English

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Online Lecture

Nzukota: Coming Together

With Emeka Okereke and Pamela Owusu-Brenyah

Movement as part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Online event

18:00—20:00

In English

Saturday, 5 December 2020

Reading Group

Queer of Colour Critique

“Connected within that Light”: Reading/Theory Group Series with Kathy-Ann Tan

Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Online event

15:00—17:00

Online conversation

Carved to Flow

With Otobong Nkanga and Nuno Vasconcelos

Part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Online event

15:00

In English

Thursday, 3 December 2020

Online tour

Masculinities: Berlin Perspectives

Online tour with Fikri Anıl Altıntaş

Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Online event

19:00—20:00

In German

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Presentation
BPA // Berlin program for artists at the Gropius Bau

BPA at Gropius Studios – Public Presentation

Victor Payares, Esper Postma, Anton Steenbock

10:00—19:00

Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Lecture

Full Body: Cuts a Traditional Sculpture

With Cassils

Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Online event

19:00—20:00

In English

Saturday, 21 November 2020

Reading Group

Bodies that Matter

“Connected within that Light”: Reading/Theory Group Series with Kathy-Ann Tan

Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Online event

15:00—17:00

Saturday, 7 November 2020

Public Forum
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

Plants Practice Politics with Zheng Bo

Livestream

13:00—17:00

In English

Friday, 6 November 2020

Workshop

Earth Workshop: Bee Houses

with Nuno Vasconcelos, Thomas Meyer (RATIBOR 14) and Cornelis Hemmer (Deutschland summt)As part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Postponed, new date coming soon

12:00—18:00

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Workshop
Gropius Bau Giving Space

tracing matters

Within the framework of Bodies Object(s) Borders & Corners

Date cancelled

15:00—17:00

Gropius Bau, 1st floor

In English (possible other languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian)

Presentation
BPA // Berlin program for artists at the Gropius Bau

BPA at Gropius Studios – Public Presentation

Rob Crosse, Bertrand Flanet, Doireann O'Malley

10:00—21:00

Friday, 30 October 2020

Workshop

Earth Workshop: Bee Houses

with Nuno Vasconcelos, Thomas Meyer (RATIBOR 14) and Cornelis Hemmer (Deutschland summt)As part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

12:00—18:00

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Lecture

Pó di Terra: Amílcar Cabral’s Agropoetics of Liberation

Conceived by Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges
Presented by Diana McCarty and Sónia Vaz Borges

Movement as part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

19:00

In English and Cape Verdean Creole

Saturday, 24 October 2020

Open Studio
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

What Do the Trees Want?

With Zheng Bo

11:00—12:30

In English

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Presentation
BPA // Berlin program for artists at the Gropius Bau

BPA at Gropius Studios – Public Presentation

Dina Khouri, Katrin Winkler

10:00—21:00

Friday, 16 October 2020

Workshop

Earth Workshop: Bee Houses

with Nuno Vasconcelos, Thomas Meyer (RATIBOR 14) and Cornelis Hemmer (Deutschland summt)As part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

12:00—18:00

Friday, 9 October 2020

Open Studio
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

Filming Plants Politically with Zheng Bo

17:00—18:30

In English

Sunday, 4 October 2020

Workshop
Gropius Bau Giving Space

I. Feeling the gaps

Within the framework of Bodies Object(s) Borders & Corners

15:00—17:00

Gropius Bau, 1st floor

In English (possible other languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian)

Thursday, 1 October 2020

Talk
BPA // Berlin program for artists im Gropius Bau

BPA Talks 3

Lecture series with Anne Fellner, Bertrand Flanet, Katrin Winkler and the BPA mentors Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff

16:00—20:00

In English

Monday, 21 September 2020

Lecture Performance
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

Plant Sex Workshop with Zheng Bo

17:00—18:30

In English

Friday, 11 September 2020

Films
Revolverkino at the Gropius Bau

What is Landscape?

With films by Hannes Lang, Amie Siegel and Joanna Hogg

19:00

Thursday, 10 September 2020

Films
Revolverkino at the Gropius Bau

What is Landscape?

With films by Virgil Widrich & Martin Reinhart, Hannes Lang and Miklós Jancsó

19:00

Monday, 7 September 2020

Open Studio
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

Walk-Reading with Zheng Bo

17:00—18:30

In English

Saturday, 22 August 2020

Open Studio
In House: Artist in Residence

Botanical Comrades 植物同志

Drawing Weeds Practice with Zheng Bo

11:00—12:30

Gropius Bau, Atrium (Ground floor)

In English

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Online conversation
In House: Artist in Residence

Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

Zheng Bo & Stephan Gale

Part of In House: Artist in Residence 2020

Live Audio Broadcast

19:00—20:00

In English

Saturday, 4 July 2020

Performance

Guernica in Sand

Lee Mingwei

Part of the exhibition Lee Mingwei: 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals

12:00—17:00

Saturday, 27 June 2020

Workshop

Pictures out of noise - an introduction to SSTV

Part of We’ll be making lots of noise

11:00—12:00

In English and German

Friday, 26 June 2020

Open Studio

The silence is deafening

Closing of the educational project We’ll be making lots of noise

10:00—15:00

In English and German

Sunday, 21 June 2020

Online conversation
In House: Artist in Residence

Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

Zheng Bo & Elaine Gan

Part of In House: Artist in Residence 2020

Live Audio Broadcast

16:00—17:00

In English

Friday, 5 June 2020

Online conversation
In House: Artist in Residence

Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

Zheng Bo & Takeshi Ise

Part of In House: Artist in Residence 2020

Live Audio Broadcast

12:00—13:00

In English

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Online conversation
In House: Artist in Residence

Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

Zheng Bo & Roger T. Ames

Part of In House: Artist in Residence 2020

Live Audio Broadcast

19:00—20:00

In English

Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Online conversation
In House: Artist in Residence

Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

Zheng Bo & Natasha Myers

Part of In House: Artist in Residence 2020

Live Audio Broadcast

16:00—17:00

In English

Sunday, 26 April 2020

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

Memories to Choke on, Drinks to Wash Them Down

Directed by Leung Ming-Kai, Kate Reilly, HK 2019

Date cancelled

In Cantonese and English with English subtitles

Sunday, 19 April 2020

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

Reunification

Directed by Alvin Tsang, HK 2015

Date cancelled

In English and Cantonese with English subtitles

Monday, 30 March 2020

Sound performance

Noise from the outside

rECoNStrUcTIVe

Part of We’ll be making lots of noise

Date cancelled

In English, German and French

Sunday, 29 March 2020

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

The Longest Summer

Directed by Fruit Chan, HK 1998

Date cancelled

In Cantonese with German subtitles

Saturday, 28 March 2020

Symposium: Talks, readings and listening session

Akinbode Akinbiyi: On Image Worlds and Passageways

With Fatin Abbas, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Natasha Ginwala, Houwaida Goulli, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Emeka Okereke

Part of the exhibition Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air

Date cancelled

In English

Friday, 27 March 2020

Talk

The Colours of Noise

Part of We’ll be making lots of noise

Date cancelled

In English, German and French

Sunday, 22 March 2020

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

Not One Less

Directed by Kanas Liu, Sam Tsang, HK 2019

Date cancelled

In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

The Aqueous Truth

Directed by Chan Tze Woon, HK 2013

Date cancelled

In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles

Saturday, 21 March 2020

Workshop

Noise from the outside

rECoNStrUcTIVe

Part of We’ll be making lots of noise

Date cancelled

In English, German and French

Sunday, 15 March 2020

Film
Sundays for Hong Kong II

Many Undulating Things

Directed by Bo Wang, Pan Lu, USA/HK/KOR 2019

Date cancelled

In English, Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles

Friday, 6 March 2020

Concert

The Colours of Noise

Bader Motor

Part of We’ll be making lots of noise

17:00—18:30