Curatorial Tour with Janine Pauleck

The Politics of Being Heard exhibition asks what it means to be heard – in everyday life, by institutions, and in artistic contexts. It focuses on dealing with barriers that hinder or prevent access: physical, structural, and social. The Bärenzwinger (Bear Pit), a listed building with limited accessibility, becomes part of the discussion itself. The exhibition is intended to be an open process: it makes structural exclusions visible and asks how spaces need to be designed so that more people feel heard – not as an exception, but as a natural part of cultural public life. The artistic contributions reveal that exclusions are deeply rooted in social structures, and opens new perspectives on visibility, responsibility, and care. In multimedia installations, videos, photographs, textile works, and sculptures the artists make it possible to experience the multi-layeredness of accessibility – and to question the conditions under which participation in art and society is possible.

Sunday, 19.10.2025, from 14:00

Two bus tours, two U-Bahn tours, and a tram tour each take you to four or five galleries in several districts. The tours start at 2 pm, last for around four hours, and conclude with a meet-up at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.
The tours offer unique opportunities to learn about the inner workings of the 37 municipal galleries. On site, gallery directors, curators, and/or artists will welcome you, talk about the current exhibitions, and introduce the gallery’s program focuses.

The tours are partially barrier-free. We endeavour to cater to diverse needs and concerns and are happy to receive any relevant information. Please contact us at mail@kgberlin.net or phone us on 0179 1272 790.
Further information and registration (by confirmation email) by latest 12 October 2025 at mail@kgberlin.net

More infos about the tours

As a counterpoint to the omnipresent mood of doom and gloom, this exhibition features art that embraces humour as an artistic strategy. While superficial clownery fades into irrelevance, subtle, sharp, and often dark humour is gaining traction as an important antidote. It offers fresh perspectives and becomes a generative force, making space for laughter even in places marked by fear and uncertainty. The exhibition. The exhibition soaks in the turmoil of the world and explores humour as a source of insight and as a possible way of reconciling with the shortcomings of the present.

Join the curators on a tour through four exhibitions in the context of Berlin Municipal Galleries’ Kommunalen Kapitale – Aktionstage: Vera Mercer – Life in Focus // An Exhibition of Works, Pfelder – gold, Simone Zaugg – Urban Reflections, and Sharon Kivland – The Bloody Radicals at ZAK Centre for Contemporary Art.
 
The meeting point is the entrance area at Centre for Contemporary Art. Admission and tour are free of charge.

Guided tour through the exhibition: Lilian Morrissey – The Audacity

Berlin-based artist Lillian Morrissey´s textile works focus on medieval kings, authoritarian politicians, oligarchs, and key figures of the New Right, expressing the backlash of a system believed to have been overcome. Her tapestries, embroidered on cotton, are the result of intensive journalistic research, but at the same time they are humorous caricatures of a time in which reality seems to have overtaken satire. Between fabric and thread, Morrissey takes up the didactic function of medieval tapestries. Morrissey confronts viewers with a visually condensed chronicle of often male-charged gestures of power. The artist´s figures see themselves as brave and righteous champions, but behind this self-image lies a brutal, egocentric, and patriarchal reality. Morrissey´s work unfolds a coherent critique of the staging of power and the dynamics of domination, whose forms change while their ideological foundations remain alarmingly constant.

What does sleep reveal about our relationship with our bodies, time, and caretaking in a world defined by constant availability and acceleration? This exhibition tour with Thea Herold (German Sleep Foundation), participating artists, and curator Lena Fließbach offers new insights into sleep from artistic, social, and scientific perspectives.