Laslo

Laslo is a symbiotic, ever-changing, mycelial network of multidisciplinary artists from all corners of the world who work with and through one another. Laslo is everyone and it is no one. Like Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico, Laslo speaks in many voices and refuses singular authorship, creating a collective fiction that makes real forms of togetherness possible.
For 48 Stunden Neukölln, Laslo opens its porous body.
What emerges is a collective exhibition in constant mutation of visual work, sculpture, installation, all of it still becoming and in constant negotiation. Alongside these, performances and a film screening activate the space.
Laslo rejects the figure of the isolated artist and insists instead on interdependence: on community as infrastructure and as a means of survival, understanding artistic practice as inseparable from the conditions of its making, shaped by the ongoing violences of capitalism.
To make and show work today, be it in Berlin, in Germany, or beyond, is increasingly shaped by precarity: rising costs while resources shrink, and the systematic dismantling of cultural support structures, all happening in tandem with the hardening of the broader political climate, marked by the resurgence of fascist, exclusionary forces. In such conditions, the arts are often among the first to be defunded and instrumentalised.
Laslo exists within this pressure.
The works presented here are formed within these realities, carrying their tensions and contradictions, offering no real answers or resolutions, but a space to hold every question and in which to imagine and subsequently create a better world collectively, refusing isolation and silence.
Visitors are invited to become part of a collective body in formation and to resist passive spectatorship and commodification.
Laslo is a practice on the possibility of otherwise.