Entropy Exhibition
The theme of this year’s LABA fellowship is Entropy. Over the last several months, Jewish and Muslim artists came together each week in a shared studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. With the guidance of instructors from both faiths, the group approached the concept of entropy from scientific, theological, and philosophical perspectives, connecting it with their own artistic practices.
Exhibition Program 2025
You can visit this year’s exhibition from Oct 24 to Dec 14 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Str. 10/d, 10999 Berlin.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 2–7 pm.
A series of talks, performances, and encounters will accompany the exhibition.
Events
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In seven stages, artist and researcher Cory Tamler is spending the autumn walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke river from its source area in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Each walk experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of getting to know the Panke and archiving the encounters. On Sunday, Oct 26th as a special addition to the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival, participants are invited to join the third walk, a 7.5km segment crossing from Bernau into Berlin. Designed and led in collaboration with dramaturg and writer To Doan, this walk is an exercise in speculative thinking with the Panke: as we move through fields and forests, past dismantled castles and abandoned buildings, behind shopping malls and ponds rich with wildlife, we find ways together to care for and carry the stories that arise. The group will meet at 11am and will not return to Berlin until approximately 4:30pm. Walk size is limited; please RSVP.
When: Sat, 26th Oct, 11am - 4:40pm
Where: S-Bahn Friedrichstr. Exact location will be shared after RSVP.
RSVP requiredLanguage: English, German interpretation is possible.
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“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
Launching Bad Cousins, an audio series co-hosted by Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler. Beginning with a deceptively simple question - why are the Abraham Accords named after Abraham? - Bad Cousins is a whirlwind tour of geopolitics, theology, pop culture, and anthropological theory that picks up on Abraham both as a symbol of monotheistic universalism and the grandfather of two very specific peoples: the Arabs and the Jews. We look at the dodgy undersides of this story but also ask - can the Middle East find a progressive Abrahamism, one that includes everyone? Produced by Guli Dolev-Hashilon and published by Kollo Media.
When: Sat, 1st Nov, 7pm - 9:30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid, who grew up in Haifa, shares selected monologues from his solo play Between the River and the Sea, co-written and directed by Isabella Sedlak. Based on his own life story, the show premiered last April at the Maxim Gorki Theatre. An audience Q&A will follow.
When: Thu, 6th Nov, 7pm - 8:30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
In seven stages, Cory Tamler spends the autumn walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke River from its two tails in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Some stages are walked with the public, others with smaller groups of companions. Many walks are designed with collaborators. Each walk considers the Panke as an interlocutor and experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of encountering the river and recording the encounters. This walk is co-led with choreographers Marion Storm and Elvan Tekin.
When: Fri, 7th Nov, 12pm - 6pm
Where: Will be shared with RSVP
RSVP required
Language: English, with support in German and French available. -
In Lay All Your Love on Me, Nicole Wysokikamien turns the Jewish wedding ritual into a loose choreographic score, while fulfilling her grandma’s dream of seeing her under a chuppah. Created and performed by Nicole Wysokikamien, with costume design by Sofia Papadópulos and dramaturgy by Ariel Efraim Ashbel.
When: Sat, 8th Nov, 7pm - 8pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English, Spanish, Hebrew -
“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
In Lay All Your Love on Me, Nicole Wysokikamien turns the Jewish wedding ritual into a loose choreographic score, while fulfilling her grandma’s dream of seeing her under a chuppah. Created and performed by Nicole Wysokikamien, with costume design by Sofia Papadópulos and dramaturgy by Ariel Efraim Ashbel.
When: Sat, 8th Nov, 6pm - 7pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English, Spanish, Hebrew -
“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available
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“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
In seven stages, Cory Tamler spends the autumn walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke River from its two tails in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Some stages are walked with the public, others with smaller groups of companions. Many walks are designed with collaborators. Each walk considers the Panke as an interlocutor and experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of encountering the river and recording the encounters. This walk is co-led with performer and scholar Alex Viteri.
When: Thu, 4th Dec, 1pm - 5pm
Where: Will be shared with RSVP
RSVP required
Language: English, with support in German and Spanish available -
“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
Performance at the intersection of eroticism and war, dreams and history, mystical creatures, projections, agency and victimhood; One pole and two movers, Annabel Paran and Marlen Pflüger, working off of an inter textual landscape.
When: Sat, 6th Dec, 7pm - 8pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
How can one remain connected, relevant, or contemporary when the very resources we consume images, news, technologies, and rhythms of attention are designed to detach us from what truly concerns us? The struggle to stay present unfolds within an economy that constantly disperses our focus, transforming relevance itself into something that must be fought for. this project reflects on how the effort to stay connected and present can dissolve into an experience of entropy. You have seen this before, becomes a personal practice of writing, collecting, painting, moving, and shouting holding attention against skewed feeds, constant news noise, and routines that train us to look away.
Concept and Performance: Nazanin Bahrami
Sound : Ernesto Ruiz-Vicente
Video: Navid Javan Shojamofrad
When: Thu, 11th Dec, 7pm - 8pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
An evening with yiddish.berlin collective - dedicated to discussing the relations between Yiddish and German antisemitism with different presentations, one of them relating to the exhibition project of artist Guli Dolev-Hashiloni.
When: Thu, 11th Dec, 8:15pm - 9:15pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: Yiddish, English -
“Since 2014, I’ve marked the names of each person Israel kills in Gaza. Every Thursday at 14:00, I will be in the gallery space to add new names to Witness. Your presence would be warmly welcomed.” - Ruth Sergel
Every Thursday, 2pm - 3pm
Language: English, American Sign Language is available -
How can one remain connected, relevant, or contemporary when the very resources we consume images, news, technologies, and rhythms of attention are designed to detach us from what truly concerns us? The struggle to stay present unfolds within an economy that constantly disperses our focus, transforming relevance itself into something that must be fought for. this project reflects on how the effort to stay connected and present can dissolve into an experience of entropy. You have seen this before, becomes a personal practice of writing, collecting, painting, moving, and shouting holding attention against skewed feeds, constant news noise, and routines that train us to look away.
Concept and Performance: Nazanin Bahrami
Sound : Ernesto Ruiz-Vicente
Video: Navid Javan Shojamofrad
When: Sat, 13th Dec, 7pm - 8pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
An evening of embodied, myth-infused meandering through Eurasia, where elemental forces act as both deities and catalysts across history, spirituality, and imagination. Through re-remembered mystical technologies, sound, and ritual, a Muslim and a Jewish artist, Mudassir Sheikh and Nimrod Astarhan, insist on holding tensions of coexistence and contradiction. Blending sacred and playful, serious and absurd, the work draws on mythology, science, and irony to connect closely linked locales, creating a space where dialogue resonates through myth and sound without seeking resolution.
When: Sat, 13th Dec, 8:30pm - 10pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English
Tours
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When: 14th Nov, 2.15 pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
Join artist Guli for a unique Yiddish tour — a one-time opportunity to experience the exhibition through a language often wrongly deemed as bad, and full with humor and Jewishness.
When: 19th Nov, 5 - 6.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: Hebrew -
Join Israeli artist Guli for a chance to experience the exhibition — featuring three Israeli artists — in Hebrew. During the tour, we’ll walk through the works of the eleven fellows and take time to discuss the artworks and Jewish-Muslim relations in Germany today.
When: 18th Nov, 5 - 6.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: Hebrew -
ENG description below
La artista y Mar’a’yeh Fellow Nicole Wysokikamien invita a visitantes hispanohablantes a acompañarla en un recorrido guiado por la exposición. A lo largo de la visita, Nicole compartirá los impulsos creativos detrás de cada obra y de sus autoras/es, deteniéndose tanto en las singularidades de cada pieza como en los hilos que las conectan.
El recorrido también se adentra en el proyecto LABA como conjunto, sus dimensiones institucionales y políticas, y en las prácticas de cuidado, escucha e imaginación que sostuvieron el trabajo colectivo. Más que ofrecer una explicación minuciosa de cada obra, la visita busca destacar los vínculos y el esfuerzo compartido que hicieron posible el proyecto, sin idealizarlo, sino mostrándolo en su complejidad y su realidad.
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Artist and Mar’a’yeh Fellow Nicole Wysokikamien invites Spanish-speaking visitors to join her for a guided tour of the exhibition. Throughout the visit, Nicole will share the creative impulses behind each work and its makers, pausing on both the particularities of each piece and the threads that connect them.
The tour also explores the broader LABA project—its institutional and political dimensions—and the practices of care, listening, and imagination that supported the group’s collaborative process. Rather than offering a detailed explanation of each work, the visit aims to highlight the relationships and shared effort that made the project possible, without idealizing it, but presenting it in its full complexity and reality.
When: 22th Nov, 5 - 6.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: Spanish -
Guided Tours with Annabel Zoe Paran
Artist and Mar’a’yeh Fellow Annabel Zoe Paran invites visitors to join her for guided tours offered in English and Hebrew, tracing the threads that connect the exhibition’s many voices.
Moving between personal reflection and shared inquiry, the tours offer insight into the research, processes, and intentions behind each work, while opening space to reflect on the experience of the Jewish–Muslim Mar’a’yeh group—its inner dialogues and solidarities.
The tour touches on the institutional and political questions the group faced, as well as the care, listening, and imagination that shaped their collaborations. The tours seek not only to explain the works, but to honor the relations that made them possible.
When: 26th Nov, 3.30 pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
The Entropy group exhibition displays works from eleven artists who work across disciplines. The relationship between displayed object and artistic work or practice varies widely in the group: for some of the artists the object is the goal; for others it is a gesture towards performance, social and relational methods, or artistic research; for many, it lies somewhere between. This tour with Mar’a’yeh fellow Cory Tamler, an artist and researcher working in performance and social practice, focuses on the elements of the artists' works that are not immediately visible nor readily representable in the gallery setting. It makes space for discussion of how the world outside, not least the political climate and the complexities of Muslim and Jewish identities in Berlin, can (fail to) enter the white cube.
When: 27th Nov, 5 pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
When: 29th Nov, 5pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
When: 29th Nov, 2pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
When: 29th Nov, 3.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
The Entropy group exhibition displays works from eleven artists who work across disciplines. The relationship between displayed object and artistic work or practice varies widely in the group: for some of the artists the object is the goal; for others it is a gesture towards performance, social and relational methods, or artistic research; for many, it lies somewhere between. This tour with Mar’a’yeh fellow Cory Tamler, an artist and researcher working in performance and social practice, focuses on the elements of the artists' works that are not immediately visible nor readily representable in the gallery setting. It makes space for discussion of how the world outside, not least the political climate and the complexities of Muslim and Jewish identities in Berlin, can (fail to) enter the white cube.
When: 30th Nov, 2 pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
Artist and Mar’a’yeh Fellow Ioana Lungu invites visitors to a guided tour in English and Romanian, exploring how stories of Jewish–Muslim coexistence are remembered, reimagined, and carried across time through art, mythmaking, and emotional geography.
Drawing from her installation on Ada Kaleh, a now-erased island that once embodied vibrant intercultural and interreligious life, the tour unfolds as a meditation on memory, loss, coexistence, and daily gestures of pluralism that defy the borders and ideologies around them. In dialogue with the wider Mar’a’yeh exhibition, the tour will reflect on how the cohort navigates these entangled inheritances today, through mourning, imagination, and re-mapping identity, to explore how art can serve as a tender act of remembering and resistance in a time of division and grief.
When: 4th Dec, 5.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
Artist and Mar’a’yeh Fellow Ioana Lungu invites visitors to a guided tour in English and Romanian, exploring how stories of Jewish–Muslim coexistence are remembered, reimagined, and carried across time through art, mythmaking, and emotional geography.
Drawing from her installation on Ada Kaleh, a now-erased island that once embodied vibrant intercultural and interreligious life, the tour unfolds as a meditation on memory, loss, coexistence, and daily gestures of pluralism that defy the borders and ideologies around them. In dialogue with the wider Mar’a’yeh exhibition, the tour will reflect on how the cohort navigates these entangled inheritances today, through mourning, imagination, and re-mapping identity, to explore how art can serve as a tender act of remembering and resistance in a time of division and grief.
When: 11th Dec, 5.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English -
Guided Tours with Annabel Zoe Paran
Artist and Mar’a’yeh Fellow Annabel Zoe Paran invites visitors to join her for guided tours offered in English and Hebrew, tracing the threads that connect the exhibition’s many voices.
Moving between personal reflection and shared inquiry, the tours offer insight into the research, processes, and intentions behind each work, while opening space to reflect on the experience of the Jewish–Muslim Mar’a’yeh group—its inner dialogues and solidarities.
The tour touches on the institutional and political questions the group faced, as well as the care, listening, and imagination that shaped their collaborations. The tours seek not only to explain the works, but to honor the relations that made them possible.
When: 12th Dec, 3.30pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: Hebrew -
When: 13th Dec, 2pm
Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Language: English
