Projects

Desire Lines

Group exhibition at Hilbertraum Berlin

May 2023

Sarah Doerfel, Len Lye, Yana Zschiedrich

The desire for escape routes from social conventions is the focus of the exhibition Desire Lines curated by Carola Uehlken. The art works of Sarah Doerfel, Len Lye and Yana Zschiedrich deal with protozoa, mealworms and leeches, making them the protagonists of innovative material breakdown and alternative medicine.

Sensing Landmarks III

Guided Tour Performance

October 6, 2022

Participating: Yohei Hamada (Norway), John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal (Norway), Carima Neusser (Sweden), Else Olsen Storesund (Norway), Carola Uehlken (Germany)

Sensing Landmarks brought together dance, visual art, architecture and music with the aim of creating a multi sensorial guided tour that was specific to BAS‘s architecture, history and natural setting. The tour examined the metabolism of the building in relation to that of the human body. The project was funded by Nordic Culture Fund and Bergen Kommune. Produced by Vision Forum, Tomorrow’s Art Audience and Ny Musikk Bergen. Special thanks to Bergen Dansesenter and BAS Bergen School of Architecture.

Illustration by Natasza Center

The Ledger of the Sun

Lecture Performance

September 23, 2022

“The Ledger of the Sun” was organised by artist-researcher Jamie Allen with contributions by Jan Nikolai Nelles, Carola Uehlken, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Louise Emily Carver and Thomas Turnbull. Collaborative writings by Dani Admiss, James Bridle and Catarina de Almeida Brito will be published as an Empyreal Ephmeride, which accompanies the event. A walk and a specially designed canapé meal, created in collaboration with the Oslo Botanical Gardens and Oslo-based organic chef, gardener Kia Vulgaris: interventions and readings, media and moments created experiences of solar pasts, and solar futures.

Architecture Triennale, Oslo

Temple of Emerging Histories

September, 2022

Curated by Carola Uehlken, lecture performances, talks, workshops and screenings took place in the context of Temple of Alternative Histories. The program was dedicated to the permeability of ecosystems, transfiguring the boundary between the architectures surrounding us and the architecture of our own bodies. In an interplay between activist and tragicomic approaches, visual artists Eli Cortinas, Susanne Kriemann, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Lola Göller, Riina Hannula, Egill Saebjörnsson, Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn address the absurdities of the administration of life and the temples of our time. The Community Labor e.V. Kassel offered microscopic insights into the future of the food industry, while probiotic drinks were served to stimulate the brain-gut axis of the visitors from the inside. The program culminated in the Science Slam organised by the University of Kassel in the frame of the Science Year 2022.

Staatstheater, Kassel

Microbes at Court

Lecture Performance

March 3, 2022

About microbes, stones and orbits – thoughts on haptic knowledge, circulating narratives and transitions between the organic and the inorganic as part of the exhibition „Stretching Materialities - Hidden Activities in Objects and Spaces"

Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin

RISE AND DIE

Screening of video works by Dafna Maimon, Agnieszka Polska, Cheng Ran

Curated by Carola Uehlken & Arthur Debert

April 9, 2022

Lyo Est, Metz, France

SORROWS

Guided car tour

The Palliative Turn

With: Simon Blanck, Kasia Fudakowski, Anna Gohmert, Annemarie Goldschmidt, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, Per Hüttner, Nina Katchadourian, Alex Kwartler, Karin Kytökangas, Keith Larson, Mathias Lempart, Dafna Maimon, Carima Neusser, Michael Norton, Rattelschneck, John-Luke Roberts, Xavier Robles de Medina, Lydia Roeder, Nala Tessloff, Carola Uehlken, Olav Westphalen

August 18 - November 7, 2021

Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam

Initiated by Olav Westphalen

SENSING LANDMARKS

Multi sensory guided tour with Carima Neusser and John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal

Helsinki, Finland, 2021

STAGE OF DEATH

Guided Tour Performance with Carima Neusser

SOLO MARKT

curated by Lola Göller & Johanna Landscheidt

Berlin, 2021

POST IMPALPABLE RITES

Theodoulos Polyviou & Dakis Panayiotou

curated by Carola Uehlken

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2021

Photo: Joseph Devitt Tremblay

GOLD ALL IN MY VEINS

Multi sensory guided tour

Sara Gurevitsch, Carima Neusser, Carola Uehlken and John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal

Old Mine Residency, Outokumpu, Finland, 2020

THE NATURE WITHIN

Elias Arnér (Professor in Biochemistry), Giada Lo Re (PhD, Industrial and Materials Science),

Carola Uehlken (Curator/Artist), Carima Neusser (Choreographer), MaiBritt Giacobini

(Child psychiatrist MD, PhD), Per Hüttner (Visual artist/musician), Oskar Gudmundsson (Writer),

Adriaan Samson (Writer), Freddie Ross (Art historian), Emil Krog (Visual artist),

Simone Bang Jørgensen (Visual artist) and Saber Rhaleb (Musician)

Italienske Palatset, Växjö, Sweden, 2020

GLOSSARY OF ROTATING ACTIONS

Janine Eggert & Ash Moniz

KELDER, London, 2019

THE VALUE OF FLOWERS

Daniel Kiss, Manuela Leinhoss, Carola Uehlken, Adriano Costa

Part One, Cologne, 2019

PIERRE-FEUILLE-DRAPEAU: ATTAQUE SUR LE MONDE RÉEL

- Une programmation de films entre activisme et fantaisie

Screening with Arthur Debert, works by Ismail Bahri, Ma Ming, Shana Moulton, Pilvi Takala, Wermke Leinkauf

Musique Volantes, Metz (France), 2018

BABEL LELAB

Interdisciplinary Festival, Hangzhou, 2018

Collaboration with Lola Göller, Benjamin Zuber & Arthur Debert

THE MOBILE HOUSE TURNS WITH THE SUN

Niklas Goldbach, Verena Issel, Marion Orfila, Martijn in 't Veld

House of Egorn, Berlin, 2018

BABEL

Artistic Director, Construction Coordinator

Invited artists: John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal, Daniel Bickett, Arthur Debert, Kyoung Jae Cho, Isak Han, special guest Soja Juretschko, Brad Henkel, Nana Pi Aabo Larsen, Andreas Hoem Roysum, John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal, Capucine Vandebroeck, Marion Orfila, Dietrich Meyer, Lola Göller, Michael Pohl, Sara Björg Bjarnadóttir, performers: Chloe Kwiatkowski, Guðrún Benónýsdóttir, Ingileif Franzdóttir Wechner, Michael-David Blostein, Sigurrós Eiðsdóttir, Sigrún Gyða, Simon Bittner, Ma Yongfeng, Anne Brujean (Club Sandwich), Tiphaine Calmettes, Hanwei Li, Vincent Scheers, Chen Hangfeng, Saverio Tonoli, Franziska Klötzler

Babel Berlin, 2017 - 2018

NEUSCHWANSTEIN

Performance with Arthur Debert

Nachrichten aus der Gegenwart 2 (News from the Present 2)

curated by Sabine Huzikiewiz (Depot 4.9), Kunsthallen Rottstrasse, Bochum, 2016

LIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

2015 - 2016, Artistic Director

Exhibitions:

FALSE FIRMAMENT 空 Berndnaut Smilde (Amsterdam)

LIGHT GAP 隙光 Li Qing (Beijing)

THE COOLING EFFECT 冷却塔 Mou Huan (Beijing, Düsseldorf)

DRINKING A DRINK, SINKING A SHIP 看一看想一想 in cooperation with V Art Center, CAC Chronus Art Center, Goethe Institute Shanghai and the Academy of Fine Arts Münster, with: Catharina Cramer, Nicholas Grafia, Susanne Griem, René Haustein, Niklas Heidemann, Philipp Höning, Daniel Hundt, Seungyho Jung, Sumi Kim, Christian Klement, Luisa Kömm, Johannes Leßke, Sebastian Liebl, Ill Jong Park, Jan Partke, Roman Podeszwa, Hanna Schneider, Meike Schulze-Hobeling, Stephanie Sczepanek, Katharina Siemeling, Vakho Sikharulidze, Kyoung Jae Cho, Manuel Talarico

LIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, Shanghai