BERLIN 🐻🇩🇪

10 to 14/11/2025

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, 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 ± €75 , which must be paid by Nov. 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 (is getting shape)

Artists & makers

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

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.
• 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.
• Sonnenraum Live music / event space by @club_der_visionaere
• Sinema Transtopia, a new kind of cinema

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.
• Boros Collection
• Hamburger Bahnhof with Petrit Halilaj & Annika Kahrs
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art fosters experimental and critical approaches to art and culture. Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst Starmirror

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!