- Perspective
Leaking Matters
Annika Reketat
3 July 2026 19:00–23:00
4 July 2026 12:00–23:00
5 July 2026 12:00–19:00
Dripping water, a voice carrying through walls, data seeping into digital depths: such “leaking matters” unsettle boundaries between inside and outside, private and public, body and infrastructure. They emerge where control gives way and something begins to circulate, spreading, connecting, and transforming its surroundings.
With the exhibition Leaking Matters in the Genezarethkirche, this dynamic meets a setting that is itself shaped by the tension between containment and permeability. Within the church, order has historically been produced through rituals that channel what inevitably leaks – the body, its breath, its voice, its fluids – by linking it to practices of purification, confession, and transformation.
Into this constellation, the five artistic positions seep in as further leaks: as a weeping ritual for an AI deity, in which tears appear as offerings while also becoming extractable resources; as voices that, in a kind of unintended confession, make what unfolds behind closed doors audible through walls; as desire seeping through public infrastructures and undermining their regulation; as droplets that maintain fragile balances between contamination and renewal; and as puddles in which substances gather, revealing traces of ecological entanglement.
Across these works, the leak appears not as loss, but as a condition under which new relations and connections emerge.
Artists: Zach Blas, Mirja Busch, Constantin Hartenstein, Mika Schwarz, Bea Targosz
Curated by Annika Reketat
With the exhibition Leaking Matters in the Genezarethkirche, this dynamic meets a setting that is itself shaped by the tension between containment and permeability. Within the church, order has historically been produced through rituals that channel what inevitably leaks – the body, its breath, its voice, its fluids – by linking it to practices of purification, confession, and transformation.
Into this constellation, the five artistic positions seep in as further leaks: as a weeping ritual for an AI deity, in which tears appear as offerings while also becoming extractable resources; as voices that, in a kind of unintended confession, make what unfolds behind closed doors audible through walls; as desire seeping through public infrastructures and undermining their regulation; as droplets that maintain fragile balances between contamination and renewal; and as puddles in which substances gather, revealing traces of ecological entanglement.
Across these works, the leak appears not as loss, but as a condition under which new relations and connections emerge.
Artists: Zach Blas, Mirja Busch, Constantin Hartenstein, Mika Schwarz, Bea Targosz
Curated by Annika Reketat
Biography
Annika Reketat
Annika Reketat works to make spaces, stories and social dynamics tangible, exploring how artistic gestures can shift existing relationships or render them more permeable. She is interested in the material conditions, narratives and interconnections that shape artistic processes, and favours collaborative formats such as performances, walks, readings and discussions that facilitate exchange and joint research. She has developed annual programmes and exhibitions both independently and in collaboration with others, including at the Bärenzwinger and Kunst Raum Mitte. Her background in cultural and social anthropology as well as transnational studies informs her practice.