During a four-day city trip to Berlin, we will visit artists’ studios, artist-run spaces, underground clubs, and private collections, offering a unique opportunity to immerse ourselves in the city’s dynamic art scene and engage with its rich international cultural network.
Your Guides
Anouk Declercq & Hendrik Leper
Accomodation
Students arrange this in groups. Information will follow.
Transport back & forth
Students are responsible for arranging their travel individually. The outward journey is preferably on Monday, November 10 (or arriving on the morning of the 11th), and the return journey on Friday, November 14 in the afternoon (or possibly a day later if you choose to extend your stay).
Book your outbound and return travel in time, as tickets become more expensive the longer you wait. Of course, we encourage you to travel in a climate-conscious way.
A form will be circulated later to submit your travel information for insurance purposes.
I, Hendrik, will be traveling on Monday, November 10 at 7:43 (arrival at 15:07) and returning on Friday, November 14 at 14:06 (arrival at 22:32).
Transport locally
We will visit places which are far apart. You are free to choose how you travel from one location to another, but keep in mind that Berlin is a large city.
We recommend a public transport pass valid for 7 days covering the whole city center (zone A) and the suburbs (zone B) for €44,60.
Buy your tickets here. Tickets, fare zones, and route maps of Berlin public transport &
more info about public transport at night
Financial
Entry tickets and fees are booked and covered by KASK. Participants will receive an invoice in November for €... , which must be paid by November 15, 2025.
Travel (to and from Berlin as well as within the city), meals, and any additional tickets are at your own expense.
The total cost is estimated to be around €500, depending on your individual choices and activities.
Communication
We will set up a WhatsApp group that anyone can join. Its purpose is to share updates and information while on site.
Program
The initial ideas for visits, discussions, workshops, etc. form a cheerful potpourri, but we’re confident that you’ll be able to identify a few clear threads within them.
planning (nothing is set yet!!)
Monday Nov 10
Tuesday Nov 11
Wednesday Nov 12
Thursday Nov 13
Bikeride to Grunewald (forest) & Teufelsberg with US Listening Station
Friday Nov 14
10am Boros Collection guided tour (15 participants)
Hainbach is a German composer and experimental electronic musician known for using vintage test equipment, tape machines, and obscure analog gear to create immersive ambient and avant-garde soundscapes.
Lucile Desamory is a Belgian artist, filmmaker, and writer known for her interdisciplinary work that blends visual art, sound, text, and film to explore themes of perception, memory, and the occult.
Elio J Carranza is a German–Argentinian non‑binary transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans experimental moving image, games, sculpture, and collective (play) ecologies exploring queer, trans*feminist, crip and more‑than‑human intimacies.
We would like to play their Spit City boardgame with you.
Rosa Barba is an Italian-German visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the materiality of film, the concept of time, and the interplay between image, text, and sound in sculptural installations.
Kwia is a cozy, queer‑friendly ambient listening bar, modeled after Japanese "jazz kissa," where guests take off their shoes and relax on cushions, enjoying intimate electronic and experimental music through a high‑fidelity sound system in a living‑room-style space.
Anorak is a democratically run non-profit contemporary art association in Berlin, sustained by its members whose support enables an experimental artistic program, a community space, fair artist compensation, and the continuation of Anorak’s activities.
Spore initiative is a cultural initiative that fosters climate justice, ecological regeneration, and education through collaborative projects and dialogue between earth protectors in the Global South and North, centered around the Spore House in Berlin as a hub for exchange, mutual learning, and the cultivation of shared values across diverse communities.
NEW FEARS is a Berlin project space founded in 2020 by July Weber that serves as a hybrid gallery and social platform at the intersection of choreography and visual arts, supporting experimental, body-focused performance, community events, and interdisciplinary exchange.
School exchange
We would like to visit and have an project with Weißensee Kunsthochschule.
Anouk is in close contact with Pauline Doutreluingne, guest lecturer in the Raumstrategien / Spatial Strategies program. Together, they are exploring the possibility of a short exchange or a collaborative project with her group of students. This initiative may take place within the context of the Floating University, where her students will create an in-situ artwork.
Institutes
MONOM is a spatial sound studio and performance venue in Berlin, located at Funkhaus, renowned for its immersive 4DSOUND system that enables artists and audiences to experience sound in three-dimensional space.
Haus am Waldsee is a contemporary art center that showcases international and local artists through exhibitions, performances, and public programs in a historic villa surrounded by a sculpture park.
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a private contemporary art collection in Düsseldorf and Berlin, focused on time-based media art such as video, performance, and digital works, supporting both established and emerging artists. Current show is MARK LECKEY: ENTER THRU MEDIEVAL WOUNDS. Free admission fro students.
