With Suzanne Lacy (artist, Los Angeles and London) and Alistair Hudson (Scientific and Artistic Director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)
As part of the exhibition Uncertain Futures (March 2 – May 4, 2025) at n.b.k., the American artist Suzanne Lacy talks to curator and museum director Alistair Hudson about the question what constitutes good socially engaged performance art. Initiated by Lacy and developed over a period of five years with numerous participants, the project Uncertain Futures (2019–) combines art, research, and activism, aiming to drive meaningful social change and influence policy and legislation. The project exemplifies Suzanne Lacy’s artistic practice: for over 40 years, she has brought together diverse groups in large-scale, meticulously choreographed performative works that foster public dialogue on pressing societal issues.
As one of the first participants in the Feminist Art Program founded by Judy Chicago (1970) and a student of Allan Kaprow, Lacy not only created […]
With Fabian Saul (author, composer, and musician, Berlin), Tanasgol Sabbagh (author and artist, Berlin), Franziska Aller (musician, Berlin), and Jonas Petry (musician and curator, Berlin and Leipzig)
Under the artist name SAUL, author and composer Fabian Saul creates musical works that resonate with his literary practice, such as his novel Die Trauer der Tangente (The Sorrow of the Tangent, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2024). His work – both in his writing and as editor-in-chief of the acclaimed magazine Flaneur – is shaped by a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, which he now brings to the stage of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) with There, years after.
In There, years after, SAUL’s solo album Homecoming and his debut novel Die Trauer der Tangente merge into a composition that interweaves music and language. Together with spoken word artist and author Tanasgol Sabbagh (parallelgesellschaft), drummer Jonas Petry (Welten), and bassist Franzi Aller (Conic Rose), […]
Performance by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ (*1987 in London) performance practice engages with desire, embodiment, and the affective charge between bodies. Through gesture and dance, his performances make the nuances of relationality tangible. The eight-minute, two-person performance Federico (2015) focuses on one of the simplest gestures of desire: the touch of two hands. Within the space formed between fingertips and palms of the hands, the performers alternate between intimate expressions and fleeting figures of abstract sensuous sociality. Each staging of the work emerges from close collaboration with the performers, shaped by the distinct dynamic of each duo. Baczyński-Jenkins’ work translates touch into a practice of haptic visuality that is as subtle as it is ephemeral.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Recent presentations of his work include: Gropius Bau, Berlin (2025); Kunsthalle Basel (Solo, 2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation Warsaw (Solo, 2018); Chisenhale Gallery, London (Solo, 2017). Baczyński-Jenkins is co-founder of […]