Masters (38 min) by Shaun Motsi is a speculative short film that explores the production and dissemination of knowledge in online formats situated between education and entertainment. The film brings together multigenerational, Black diasporic characters navigating the institutionalization of Black perspectives within the cultural and media mainstream. It examines the emerging format of online edutainment and how established practices of knowledge production and dissemination often perpetuate racist hierarchies.
Thursday 12 noon–8 pm, Tuesday–Friday 12 noon–6 pm
No sales on April 26 and 27 or May 1, 2026 (Labor Day)
To mark World Book Day on April 23, 2026, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) is launching a special sale featuring publications from the series “n.b.k. Ausstellungen,” “n.b.k. Diskurs,” and “n.b.k. Berlin.”
During the sale period until May 3, all books on offer can be purchased at half price – EUR 9.90. Members of the n.b.k. receive an additional special discount.
The n.b.k.'s publication program includes exhibition catalogs, monographic and thematic publications, artist books, and theoretical writings, as well as interview volumes, historical readers, anthologies, and series of writings.
With Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Junior Professor for the Ethics of Digitization, University of Oldenburg) and Paul Feigelfeld (Professor for Digitality and Cultural Mediation, Mozarteum University Salzburg), moderated by Christine Watty (journalist, Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
What once appeared as the promise of technocratic governance – the potential for rational, efficient, and neutral politics – is increasingly revealing itself as a playing field for new authoritarian systems. Digital infrastructures such as social media and AI-based applications are developed, operated, and controlled by tech monopolies. One consequence of this enormous concentration of power is that a small elite can heavily influence public opinion and political decision-making. These actors increasingly use algorithmic control, content visibility, and prioritization to spread right-leaning libertarian views that serve their own market interests. At the same time, new data-driven systems increase the potential for behavioral manipulation and surveillance, giving authoritarian and proto-fascist regimes the infrastructure they need to consolidate and maintain their power.
Against this backdrop, Anna-Verena Nosthoff […]
With Klaus Theweleit (cultural theorist, Freiburg), moderated by Katja Nicodemus (film critic and journalist, Die Zeit)
Produced during the exhibition Memory Is a Strange Bell at n.b.k. in context of Leonie Nagel’s displayed collage series Jedes Blatt eine Antwort auf das Entscheidungsproblem, this short film has been created in collaboration with Berlin youth theater participants. The project takes the game “Truth or Dare” as its starting point to explore inherent dynamics of decision-making and negotiation. The group develops an open script through improvisation, filming the process collaboratively. Negotiations regarding rules, decisions, and the game’s trajectory become integral to the work itself. The resulting experimental short film premieres at n.b.k. at the close of the exhibition.
Free admission
With Kaity Fox, Keta Gavasheli, Alison M. Gingeras, Juliana Gleeson, Susanne Huber, Talia Kwartler, Christian Liclair, Tala Madani, Catherine McCormack, Lucy McKenzie, Nicole Wermers
Concept: Leonie Huber, Anna Sinofzik
Coordination: Krisztina Hunya, Michaela Richter
Misogyny can be understood “as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology” – explains Kate Manne, moral philosopher and contributor to the current issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Therefore not rooted in the attitudes of individuals, misogyny rather stems from a men’s world that fundamentally constitutes social relations. While it is largely undisputed that the art world has historically been such a male-dominated sphere, it is often assumed today that the feminisms of the past decades have had an impact, and that at least the sectors of contemporary art positioning themselves as left-wing and progressive no longer fit this image. Nevertheless, female and nonbinary artists remain underrepresented in exhibitions and […]