concrete & feathers unfolds in the space between weight and lightness, permanence and fragility, the built, grounded and the fleeting, the dense and the delicate, the hard and the soft. 

How can heaviness cradle fragility, and how can hard surfaces hold traces of softness, how can solidity meet lightness - and how can fragile materials, like our bodies and our lives, bear unexpected strength? 

concrete & feathers takes place as an experimental exhibition within Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße - an austere partly subterranean architectural fragment of 1970s concrete, hidden within Berlin’s gallery district. The students of Raumklasse will develop experimental spatial works that intervene in space through installations, sculptural objects and ephemeral bodily gestures that stretch our perception of materiality, immateriality (and digitality). We will explore how our lives and societies simultaneously grounded and in constant transition, both fragile, vulnerable and resilient. 

Concrete, with its associations of architecture, with its gravity and promise of endurance, the urban, the man-made, the industry stands alongside contrasting materialities (as feather) lightness, the organic, nature, symbols of flight, fragility and impermanence. 

Together, the works in the exhibition should form a poetic spatial dialog and grammar of contrasts — inviting us to walk, pause and feel how mass and space, sound and silence, density and transparency can coexist within the same field of experience. Together, we want to form a language of tension and tenderness, asking us to listen with our bodies and all our senses as much as with our eyes. The exhibition should be conceived as an immersive encounter and a shifting landscape of opposites. Visitors might navigate through thresholds of weight and suspension, discovering how materials and forms can shift our sense of orientation and gravity. concrete & feathers should become not only an exhibition but a spatial meditation on how we inhabit spaces and interact with matter and life. 
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The exhibition project will be realised in collaboration with studierendenWERK BERLIN, represented by Claudia Brieske (project manager for visual arts in the Culture & International Affairs department) and Isa Zappe (UdK graduate, artist and photographer) at Kunstraum Potsdamer Strasse. The exhibition will be expanded through an open call to students from all Berlin universities to bring in additional perspectives and deepen the dialogue between different artistic positions. 

→ Open Call „Soft Archives“ / Photography