The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication, and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science, and technology.
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Welcome everyone to our next opening of a new exhibition SIGNS OF THE TIMES by artist researcher Karolina Żyniewicz gathers material and immaterial traces of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2021, she has collected discarded masks from public spaces in Berlin and other places and invited people to share their memories of that time. The masks later underwent microbial and genetic analysis in several laboratories, linking human recollections with nonhuman data. Through a residency at Kontejner in Zagreb, Żyniewicz developed a performative installation that merges biological research and digital inscription, reflecting on remembrance, forgetting, and the interdependence of human and technological agencies. During the exhibition opening hours at Art Laboratory Berlin, Żyniewicz will perform her transcription from Thursdays to Saturdays, while being present Sundays to talk to visitors, and if they wish, lead further interviews that may contribute to future iterations of this research project. More information HERE!
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Between April 2025 and December 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin: Artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, and Margherita Pevere. The four chosen artists are all well known for their outstanding artistic research at the interface of art, science, and technology. Each is highly experienced in integrating art with new technologies and collaborating with scientists in fields such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, climate science, soil ecology, and biodiversity. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovations. More information HERE.
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Signs of the Times
- Artistic Research
- Karolina Żyniewicz
In “Signs of the Times”, artist and researcher Karolina Żyniewicz has gathered masks and memories from the COVID-19 pandemic, blending human stories with microbial traces. Developed through residencies in Berlin and Zagreb, the project explores remembrance, forgetting, and the interplay of human and nonhuman matter through performative, technological, and biological processes.
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ART SCIENCE MEET UP
- Research Exchange and Get-Together
- With Fara Peluso, Jemma Woolmore, and Matthias Rillig
Art Laboratory Berlin and the Rillig Lab host another Art Science Meet Up. The public session features interdisciplinary talks on soil, pollution, and global ecological change. A later brainstorming session invites artists and scientists to collaboratively design experiments, followed by group discussion and informal networking across art, science, and environmental research contexts today.
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CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies
- Workshop with Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Artist Margherita Pevere and anthropologist Germán Joosten invite participants to engage with the life cycles of Berlin’s ponds and small lakes. Focusing on Daphnia, a keystone grazer that shifts between clonal and sexual reproduction, the workshop explores how this organism reflects urban water health and futures. Through hands-on sessions and speculative storytelling, participants adopt a more-than-human, pond-centered perspective on Berlin’s aquatic ecosystems.
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Duelling Epistemologies
- How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
- Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
- With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
ALB is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. The new project is an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories at all three universities of Berlin, the University of the Arts Berlin, and the Charité. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, and critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.
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IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Open Work Meetings
The colloquium is an integral part of the ongoing discursive programme at Art Laboratory Berlin and was conceived and initiated by Regine Rapp in early 2022. The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.
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