Art Spring

In the organizer's words:

Poli Tiks - what moves us to move?

Graphics - Painting - Installation

The exhibition in the KulturMarktHalle creates contact spaces in which very personal themes are openly addressed in the form of drawings, prints, text collages, paintings and installations. Artists and activists provide an initial contribution.

It's about difficult topics that you wouldn't wish on anyone, but that everyone knows: identity and self-searching. Everyday life and expression. Contact and conflict. Illusion and disappointment. Trust and betrayal. Decision and failure. Getting up again and moving on.

The invitation to actively participate in the exhibition turns very personal insights into a political issue. Emotional chaos. Everyday conflicts. Solution strategies. Social order. The private sphere becomes political because it affects us all. Everyone needs to be heard and seen. Everyone - including YOU.

Program:

Saturday, 2 pm

Vernissage

Sunday, 3 pm

Performance by Jetzt-Jetzt-Trafo

Sunday, 6 pm

Finissage

With art by

Kati Leberecht: EVALUATIONARY ART - an interrogation of the was-, is- and will-be-again state of affairs

In recent years, one crisis has followed the next. Not only socio-politically, but also in my life. Partnership, family, colleagues, friends - conflicts everywhere. Yet I am happier than ever!

Is this a socio-political issue or purely a private matter? Where is the lightness?

Whereas I used to pursue pleasure, I now ride an emotional rollercoaster.

Whereas back then I was a workaholic between everyday family life and vacation planning, today everything seems more difficult. What has changed?

Exhaustion. Illness. Burnout. Danger to life. Stop.

I stopped working! I had no choice. Repeatedly, but with one difference: I was now

old enough to take responsibility.

An acceptance dance with what was, what is and what could become.

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Jetzt-Jetzt-Trafo: VERRAT (AT) - "A veil of gray hangs over the city"

Participatory reading & project presentation

VERRAT (AT) is a performative-documentary project on betrayal, trust and the aftermath of GDR state security. It asks how surveillance, denunciation and ideological loyalty shaped biographies - which traces still have an impact on society and political culture today. What significance does this past have for trust, identity and our coexistence today?

At the center is an anonymous questionnaire!

We invite you to take part: Your perspectives, memories and attitudes can be included here!

-> Questionnaire

-> Project description

The aim is to create a polyphonic picture of memory and the present. You are the authors! We open up the space to tell history yourself instead of being described. A play will be created from these experiences in 2027.

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POLA: But everyone has to pick up the shovel themselves

a 2-hour debating session at Pola

always on the 8th of the month

2 themed walls from the 8-person salon for artspring

From delicious to deadly: The toxic cake of communication I Never say ICH I Accept instead of fight

FANG AN: Courage to disobey I What to do in a sexualized high culture? Liberation of desires I Keep your shit to yourself

© 8er-Salon by POLA

CALL TO SCRIPT and JOIN IN

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Sonja Kirschning and Kati Leberecht: Who is the Mobb? Who feels it? Who decides?

EVALUTIONARY ART - entrance is exit.

An end to the (emotional) cold war.

Two meet. Stress.

Who is more powerful decides how it goes?

And then... complex, more complex, universal.

Life is made up of those who ask and those who answer.

Who is responsible for the world?

Only you and I - equals us.

We bear the responsibility.

We all feel: feelings.

What remains?

Attitude!

I am the Mobb. I feel that. I make up my mind.

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Valentina Colla and Cris Martínez Reig: People from Ukraine in the neighborhood and the fundamental values of Europe: A dialogue.

Democracy exhibition on the fundamental values of Europe

Ukraine and Europe. An important political issue. But how do individual people who have fled to Berlin from Ukraine feel about it? What do they associate with Europe's fundamental values? An experiment. White paper for their ideas, associations, feelings.

Without any guidelines, but with respect, openness, curiosity and acceptance.

(Many thanks to the people at the Volkssolidarität shared accommodation at Storkower Straße 101A)

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Year 10 art elective course at the Gustave Eiffel School - "It's only fun!"

When language determines our interactions and obeys the interpretive sovereignty of every listener - how do we misunderstand each other correctly?

Can fun facts save our opinion?

Abstract painting and interaction

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Art elective course year 9 at the Gustave Eiffel School - "Everyone wants to be happy."

SEARCH. One's own organism seeks compensation for repressed feelings. No access needs substitute happiness enhancers. Good mood products help.

But: What goes up, must come down. Better to think about it from the back.

And in the search for happiness, you can't get stuck. Not again and again.

Keep an eye on yourself and live real life.

You are stronger than you feel.