The final exhibition of the 2023 – 25 fellowship

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin

OPENING
25.09.2025, 7 pm

EXHIBITION
26.09 - 05.10.2025
Wed-Sun: 2 - 7 pm

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, closing 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 A gesture, an image, a historical reference, or a moving body become ways of testing larger systems: how climate is lived, how scarcity is managed, how ancestral knowledge may resurface as a living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 not merely as a backdrop but as contested ground where struggles over resources and memory meet the search for new ways of living. In a moment shaped by ecological catastrophe, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the intensifying repression of students and artists protesting it in Germany and beyond, Flow States insists that other futures must be imagined.

Artists:
Tekla Aslanishvili
João Enxuto & Erica Love
Joud Al-Tamimi
Julia Lazarus
Sybille Neumeyer
Anani Dodji Sanouvi

Further details on the events programme.

Free admission and open to everyone. Full access information.

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 

In cooperation with Künstlerhaus Bethanien and supported by the Kommission für künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Vorhaben (KKWV) and Medienhaus, UdK.