BERLIN 🐻🇩🇪

10 to 14/11/2025

During an inspiring four-day city trip to Berlin, we immerse ourselves in the vibrant heart of the art scene. We visit an Erasmus+ partner institute, leading museums, private collections, meet artists in their studios, and let ourselves be surprised by artist-run spaces and alternative art initiatives. And who knows, we might end the day in a Berlin club. This trip offers a valuable opportunity to immerse ourselves in Berlin’s creative energy and connect with its diverse cultural network.

Your Guides

Anouk Declercq & Hendrik Leper

Accomodation

Students will sleep in flats and arrange this in groups.

Transport back & forth

Students are responsible for arranging their travel individually. The outward journey is preferably on Monday, Nov. 10 (early morning to arrive at 14:00), and the return journey on Friday, Nov. 14.
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, Nov. 10 at ±5:00 (arrival at 13:06) and returning on Friday, Nov. 14 at ±7:00 (arrival at 15:00 in Gent).

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 for ± €50.
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.

Map

Google Map > Berlin Art Attack.

Program

The program is mostly set. It’s a lively mix of activities, but we’re confident you’ll recognize a few clear themes running through it.

Calendar

School exchange

We’ll visit the Weißensee Kunsthochschule, where Pauline Doutreluingne, guest lecturer in the master’s program Raumstrategien / Spatial Strategies, will give us a guided tour. Afterwards, we’ll have an exchange with a group of her students, taking the form of a collective game.

That game Spit City by Elio J Carranza is an experimental pen-and-paper role-playing game in which players collaboratively create a fictional world and identity. From a queer, trans*feminist, and crip perspective, the game explores alternative ecologies and social structures. It encourages collective imagination and results in a hand-drawn map that reflects the players’ choices. Spit City is accessible, adaptable, and offers a playful, reflective way to engage in conversations about identity, community, and coexistence.

Artists & makers

• Margot Hofmans (alumna mediakunst) 3D Design & Art Direction @ Field Berlin
• 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.

Also possible: Rosa Barba, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Melanie Bonajo, …

Artist run initiatives & spaces

• 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. Check Insta for program.
• 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. Check insta for program.
• ACUD MACHT NEU operates three spaces at Kunsthaus ACUD: the Club, Studio and Gallery. The aim is to offer room for discourse, exchange and experimental artistic formats.

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.
• 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.
• The Boros Collection is a private collection of contemporary art housed in a former World War II bunker in Berlin. The collection features installations, sculptures, and photography by international artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The striking interplay between the bunker’s raw architecture and the contemporary artworks makes it one of the leading venues in Berlin’s art scene.
• Hamburger Bahnhof with Petrit Halilaj & Annika Kahrs.
  Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) stages immersive, large-scale installations and his first opera that negotiate collective dreaming and the emancipatory power of art, notably in his 2025–26 Berlin solo show “An Opera Out of Time”.
  Annika Kahrs (b. 1984, Achim, Germany) creates immersive video and sound installations that probe the boundaries of music, investigating how acoustic information functions within social, cultural and political structures.
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art fosters experimental and critical approaches to art and culture. Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst Starmirror
• Sinema Transtopia, a new kind of cinema
• Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien is an exhibition space for contemporary art with a focus on current social and cultural issues. expo: Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder – Learning from Weeds (open daily 10:00 – 20:00)
• Gropius Bau is a historic neo-Renaissance exhibition venue, designed in 1881 by Martin Gropius. There are two shows on view:
  Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, presents 454 black-and-white photographs, many shown for the first time, arranged as a “constellation” that invites visitors to explore freely and form their own connections between the portraits.
  Ligia Lewis is a Berlin-based artist and choreographer known for her politically charged, interdisciplinary works exploring race, gender, and resistance. At Gropius Bau, her exhibition I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR… presents new and existing pieces combining performance, film, and installation. Central to the show is Wayward Chant, a live, evolving work staged in the atrium.
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt is a leading space for interdisciplinary art and discourse. The current exhibition, Global Fascisms explores the global rise of far-right ideologies. Featuring works by around 50 international artists, it examines fascism’s aesthetic and social mechanisms. The show connects historical and contemporary contexts, from propaganda to digital radicalization.
• HAU / Hebbel am Ufer is a renowned contemporary theater and performance venue in Berlin known for its experimental, interdisciplinary, and politically engaged productions. From 12 to 23/11 they host a Retrospective by choreographer Jefta van Dinther titled A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction with The Moving Image – A Series of Video Works for free at HAU2.

Concert halls

• silent green Kulturquartier is an event venue and independent project that has found a unique home in Berlin in the historic premises of the former crematorium in Wedding.
• Sonnenraum Live music / event space by @club_der_visionaere

Walks / Bike rides

• Grunewald (forest) & Teufelsberg with US Listening Station

Further details will follow as the plans develop.

Take care of yourself and each other!