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atb#102, Along the Archive, Against the Grain

Opening Friday December 1 from 7pm

Exhibition open: Saturday Dec 2 and Sunday Dec 3 from 3-8pm

Along the Archive, Against the Grain

Can an archive be multiple, messy or intangible? In this exhibition, it’s in the water, the tree branch, the spatial matter. Archiving happens in sound, or silence, inside and outside our bodies. It speaks of violence, of surveillance or of resilience. And rather than claiming objective truths, the show asks what an embodied, or sensitive, approach to the practice of archiving might look like.

Each of the works activates the archive in a different way. Like chemicals, archives take on meaning in communication; at least they require excavating, being brought to light. In this sense, along the Archive, against the Grain explores individual relationships to the archive as a site of study, memory and resistance.

The exhibition arises from a collective inquiry carried out during the seminar “FILMS, ARCHIVES + IMAGINATIONS. Filmic Research in Collaboration” by Anna Lauenstein and Leon Vatter at Studium Generale, University of the Arts Berlin.

along the Archive, against the Grain presents works by Fadi Aljabour, Sana Al Kurdi, Auge, Vincent Carter, Elsa Estrella, Zach Hart, Agata Hörttrich, Emma Hutton, Freja Lassen, Lilly Merck, Raphaëlle Red and Paloma Schnitzer.

Tutors of the seminar: Lena Kocutar + Teresa Hoffmann

The seminar was supported by “Freiraum 2022/23 – Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre”

Thanks to Flóra Tálasi (Studium Generale, UdK)

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atb#101, Nadja Abt & Charlotte Bonjour

Opening: Friday 28 October, from 7pm

Exhibition: 29 October – 26 November 2023

open by appointment on: 01783298 106

or: mailto@after-the-butcher.de

In their duo exhibition Charlotte Bonjour and Nadja Abt present works from the last 2 years. Both artists start from stories, which are used as material for collages: In Charlotte Bonjour’s works, we follow anxiety-ridden cell phones into a surreal universe. During her time in Portugal, Nadja Abt created a sea woman who fights against the patriarchal systems surrounding her.

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finissage

after the butcher – showroom for contemporary art and social issues cordially invites you to the finissage of the exhibition 

What are all the cornflowers in the world against a Berlin blue factory?

Johanna and Helmut Kandl

22 October 3-7 p.m.
from 5 p.m.: Lecture: Sodium-ion batteries, switchable glasses and modern medical technology: What else Berlin blue can do! by Dr. Alexander Kraft, chemist and chemical historian, followed by a discussion.

contact: 0178 3298 107 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

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atb#99, romain löser & wendelien van oldenborgh

Opening: Friday August 18, from 7pm
Exhibition: August 19 – September 17
visit by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de or +49 178 3298 106 

This exhibition brings together two artistic voices in an attempt to neither emphasise nor deny clearly existing differences in form and content. Romain Löser and Wendelien van Oldenborgh belong to different generations, and when it comes to measuring possible harmonies or dissonances between their artistic practices, it is easy to see that both work mostly in different media, each with their own themes, techniques and conceptions of the public. Nevertheless, their joint appearance at after the butcher does not merely reveal vague professional sympathies or interests. Anyone who takes a serious look at the works by both artists shown here in spatial interlocking, can see a comparability in the movements with which they treat the sharp complexities in the contradictions they each convey.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Clemens Krümmel:
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During the opening on 18 August, Lina Campanella performed Clemens Krümmel’s text, producing hiphop and gabber beats that refer to van Oldenborgh’s film and the contrasts and polyphony of both artists’ works.

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atb#98, ENCORE UN EFFORT_2023_AN EFFORT AGAIN

Katharina Karrenberg and Olivier Guesselé-Garai

Opening: 23 June 2023 from 7 pm,

8 pm: performance THANKS … because …  with Katharina Karrenberg 

Exhibition: extended to 13 August 2023

Finissage: Sunday August 13, 3-6pm – at 5pm: Performance Part II:

THANKS … because …  with Katharina Karrenberg

Open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de or: 0178 3298 106

The exhibition ENCORE UN EFFORT _2023_ AN EFFORT AGAIN brings together various works from the two artists’ ongoing artistic processes. 


Katharina Karrenberg’s work deals in depth with manifestations of structural and social violence. She reflects on these structures of violence as a fundamental condition of current, capitalist power, both multinational corporations and state power apparatuses such as the military, police and secret services…, they camouflage themselves, are permanently present, yet often invisible, are maintained biopolitically, then again visible by their disguises, uniforms and embody “the state-sanctioned, group-differentiated susceptibility to premature death” (after Ruth Wilson Gilmores). 
Structures of violence do not lie around somewhere inaccessible and unchanging, but actively intervene in our daily dealings with people, animals and things and are thus also actively changeable. With her works, Katharina Karrenberg develops a radical critique of these omnipresent relations of violence, of various –[un]visible, concealed but also performative approaches and forms of repression and open death violence. The exhibits simultaneously reflect their mutual otherness–their abstraction, their concretion and their respective specific materials, in which the hostile coldness of neo-capitalist relations becomes tangible.

Olivier Guesselé-Garai develops a very personal artistic language in which social questions are subtly negotiated. He examines an everyday object, such as the refrigerator, by disassembling and reassembling it, questioning its function and structural qualities, discovering abstract parts and forms that were previously hidden, so to speak. It is a playful process and at the same time Olivier Guesselé-Garai also understands the artistic work as a form of resistance, where the affirmation of being through consciousness and its quiet strength uses poetry, joy and love to invite us together and above all in otherness to reflect on our world.

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atb#97 A Call to a Relationship 

Elisa T. Bertuzzo and Sambaran Das

curated by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann 

Exhibition: May 20 – June 18

Opening: May 19, 2023 from 7pm

open by appointment: mailto@after-the-butcher.de 

or +49 178 3298 106



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showroom for contemporary art & social issues

after the butcher is a project space by artists for artists. Those invited to do a show will be asked to develop a work for this space. The showroom will be an opportunity and platform to present work of not so well-known artists. We are very much looking forward to a good collaboration with the artists and other cultural laborers in Berlin. [MORE]

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atb#95 Jeremiah Day – Vs. The War Yet To Come 

Performance, 15 February, 7pm sharp 

Anti-Iraq-War-Protest, Rome, 2003

atb#95 Vs. The War Yet To Come – Jeremiah Day

Performance, 15 February, 7pm sharp 

After The Butcher, showroom for contemporary art and social issues, is happy to invite you and your friends to a performance of American artist Jeremiah Day, marking the 20th anniversary of the largest protests in human history on 15 February 2003.   

Both the largest gathering of people in political action in one place, Rome, and as well the largest coordination of people internationally assembled in opposition to the US-plans to invade Iraq. 15 million people in the streets of 800 cities on every continent participated. 

The World Social Forum and thousands of anti-war initiatives paved the way for this action, whose meaning cannot be limited to its usefulness.  

The democratic protest against the US government and its war coalition did not prevent the war, which unfolded in violation of international law. This war marks a corner stone in recent political history. It has brought neither democracy to Iraq nor peace to the Gulf region; on the contrary, it has fuelled radical Islamism, increased social contradictions in the region and triggered new refugee movements. The seeming acceptance of this aggression also bears greatly on other violations of international law that followed in the years after, those today – as in Ukraine, and those potentially to come.    

The Exhibition Aggregatzustände will be open after the Performance until 10pm

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