Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
Flow States
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 do shape our daily lives; and how they might open ways to 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. 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 A gesture, an image, a historical reference, or a moving body become ways of testing larger systems: how climate is lived, how scarcity is managed, how ancestral knowledge may resurface as a living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 and intensifying repression against cultural workers and activists in Germany and beyond, Flow States insists that other futures can still be imagined.
Free admission and open to everyone. Full access information.
Artists
Tekla Aslanishvili
João Enxuto & Erica Love
Joud Al-Tamimi
Julia Lazarus
Sybille Neumeyer
Anani Dodji Sanouvi
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 note: held in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Library, Kohlfurter Straße 41-43 Language: English and German After 15 years of fostering critical artistic research and development, the Graduate School fellowship programme at the Berlin University of the Arts is coming to an end due to severe budget cuts. Its closure leaves a void, but also opens a door. In a city where resources are increasingly scarce, the Berlin Senate has finally given the green light for a new hybrid doctorate (PhD) for artists. How can our individual experiences and collective expertise be harnessed to design a vibrant and resilient future for artistic qualification in Berlin? Graduate School Round Table with Jenny Fuhr, Nik Haffner and alumni of the Graduate School: Jeremiah Day Lisa Glauer Stefan Hayn Omonhinmin Omonblanks Judith Raum Alex Martinis Roe (online) Adnan Softić Julia Lazarus Genoel von Lilienstern with a tribute to Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa Chameleons possess a remarkable gift: the ability to survey their world in two directions at once. This unique vision is a powerful metaphor as it teaches us to draw on the wisdom and experience of the past while simultaneously charting a course toward an unknown future with fresh curiosity and courage. The roundtable will bring together alumni from different cohorts of the Graduate School— artists who navigated their own artistic and personal journeys through the programme. They will share their unique experiences, reflecting on how this fellowship shaped their practice and professional lives. This conversation is an opportunity to look back at the foundation the Graduate School built and, like the chameleon, turn our other eye toward what lies ahead for artistic development and qualification in Berlin. What future colors will we see? What new patterns will we need to adapt to? Join us as we look together through a chameleon’s lens. |
| 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
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.