We are delighted to invite you to another event in our INTERACT dowtown series:

Third Space

HAUNT | Berlin | 23 May - 12 July 2025

Vernissage

Fri 23 May 2025 5 – 9pm

Opening hours

Wed – Sat 2 – 6 pm and by personal appointment

The exhibition Third Space invites viewers to delve into the fluid and evolving nature of identity through the lens of migration. It brings together Berlin-based artists whose works examine the complexities of existing between cultures, navigating shifting landscapes of belonging, and grappling with the ever-changing nature of identity in transit. At its core, the exhibition is shaped by Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the Third Space—a transformative realm where cultures intersect, identities blur, and hybridity emerges. Here, migration is not just about crossing borders, but also about the internal landscapes that shift along the way. The self, exposed to multiple cultural currents, becomes fluid, continuously reshaped by encounters, losses, and reinventions.

INTERACT downtown | 28 May 2025

Fragments of Solidarity: Ethics, Evidence, and Echoes of Resistance

On the fragility of images, the risks of testimony, and the ethics of visibility. 

As part of the exhibition Third Space, this public discussion brings together artists and researchers working at the intersection of activism and representation to reflect on the challenges of engaging with testimonies — visual, verbal, and mediated — that emerge from contentious collective actions. Focusing on the example of Palestine solidarity movements, where images, slogans, interviews, and protest artifacts circulate transnationally to mobilize support, we will explore how such materials can serve as powerful tools of solidarity, but also how they risk being detached from their original contexts, misread, instrumentalized, or weaponized to discredit the very movements they represent. What responsibilities arise when reworking or curating these fragments of protest into artistic or academic projects? How can we navigate the tensions between amplification and appropriation, between documentation and exposure? What ethical frameworks can guide us when working with vulnerable materials that may endanger participants or be co-opted for purposes of repression? The discussion seeks to open a "third space" — between artistic creation and political urgency, between bearing witness and critical distance — where we can rethink the role of visual and verbal testimonies in shaping imaginaries of solidarity. It invites participants to reflect on issues of authorship, consent, narrative framing, visibility, and the evolving meanings of protest media as they travel across platforms, audiences, and political landscapes. Rather than offering fixed answers, the conversation will provide a shared space for grappling with the dilemmas, limits, and possibilities of making resistance visible — and audible — through arts in ways that honor its complexities. 

With: Timo Herbst, Rebecca Pokua Korang, Lilian Mauthofer, Jannis Julien Grimm

More infos here: https://frontviews.de/exhibition.php?exhibition_id=141