Guided Tours

Kira Dell & Laura Seidel guide participants through *Fiction makes me nauseous*: a panoramic setting in which personal stories, auto-theory and social analysis intertwine. The curators explain the performative interventions and explore how first-person perspectives bring political discourses to life.

SUNRS demonstrates how, in *Infinite Sequence*, painting and moving images present the body as a canvas for desire and distance. The curatorial tour explores methods of shared authorship, focusing on profound reflections on formal experimentation, censorship and visibility.

Tetiana Kornieieva explains how Ukrainian and Syrian diasporic visual worlds enter into dialogue with one another in ATLAS / Атлас / أطلس. Through video, installation and sound, a polyphonic system of knowledge emerges, which can be explored during the curatorial tour. The focus is on poetic approaches to migration and memory.

Harshini J. Karunaratne contextualises MY BODY IS_An Archive as a collection of performances, photographs and videos that explores migration as an embodied practice. The guided tour examines ‘creaturehood’ as an artistic strategy with political implications; participants gain insights into collective working methods.

Meeting point: CANK, 1st floor, Karl-Marx-Straße 95

Saturday | 4 July 2026 | 2.00 pm | English

Sunday | 5 July 2026 | 1.00 pm | Spanish
 

Eden.exe explores the boundary between humans and algorithms. In her curatorial tour, Julia Sysalova explains her process of co-curation with the temporary AI curator Noah 33. The tour focuses on the merging of organic and synthetic matter, and explores the feedback loop of the age-old question: “Which came first — the creator or the creation?”.

In *Excessive Romanticism*, Zuzanna Tetera explores memory, morality and the fragility of women’s life stories. Through intimate research, she demonstrates how biographical fragments can be reinterpreted politically. Her guided tour encourages critical reflection on narratives and ambivalent practices of remembrance.

At the Genezarethkirche, Annika Reketat combines sound, installation and performance for the exhibition *Leaking Matters*, in which leaks—as points of seepage—interweave the inside and the outside. Her curatorial tour explores the connections between privacy and ritual, and demonstrates how permeability and circulation generate productive new relationships.

The Habitus∩Habitat route explores the porous boundaries between nature, humans and non-humans through a series of stops. Alena Trapp interprets cages, glass sculptures, ceramics and hybrid figures as non-human agents. Participants gain sensory insights into speculative in-between worlds and alternative forms of coexistence.

Along the QueƏrgang city walk, Tobi Allers (KultTour) weaves together a narrative about visibility, occupying space and glitches from various stops along the route. The route explores the potential of private versus public space, and presents technical glitches as performative moments of disobedience. Together, the works depict queer identity as a fluid practice.

Der Rundgang Family Matters von Reinhold Steinle stellt Stationen vor, die Stimmen, Bilder und intime Erzählungen mit Fürsorge und generationsübergreifender Erinnerung verknüpfen. Vorgestellt werden musikalisch - fotografische Archive, partizipative Kartografien sowie Arbeiten, die Themen wie die Sehnsucht nach Geborgenheit und das Verblassen von Erinnerungen aufgreifen. Zusammen formen sie ein Geflecht familiärer Verhältnisse als Raum von Verletzlichkeit, Widerstand und Heilung.

A guided walk through North Neukölln with Bahia Mahra, bringing the stories of the Palestinian community and the Arab diaspora to life on the streets. In keeping with this year’s festival theme, OUT/SIDE/IN, the tour combines the historical context of the diaspora with insights into cultural influences and traditions, local realities with experiences of exile, and decades of solidarity and resistance. It concludes with a group discussion.