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Times Art Center Berlin curates a range of public programs through collaborations with artists, curators, and other organizations.

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  • Wednesday
    Sep 15, 2021
    4:00 pm–8:00 pm

Exhibition Opening: Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings)

The exhibition Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings) explores the Chinese diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean as a starting point to consider systems of kinship and ontologies of encounter.

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  • Saturday
    Jul 17, 2021
    2:00 pm–8:00 pm

Finissage of ANGST, KEINE ANGST / 畏无所畏 / FEAR, NO FEAR

  • Finissage

Times Art Center Berlin presents the finissage of Fear, No Fear on Saturday, July 17, 2021. The final day of the exhibition features a program of open-air performances and a special online screening.

  • Jun 10, 2021

On Fear

  • Discourse

A conversation between the artists Iyad Dayoub, Pınar Öğrenci, Vangjush Vellahu, and curator Antje Majewski

  • Wednesday
    May 12–Saturday
    Jun 12, 2021

Online Screening: Panic — The Moment of Fear

  • Screening

As part of the opening of the second chapter Panic – The Moment of Fear in the exhibition Angst, Keine Angst, Times Art Center Berlin presents a screening of selected works from May 12, 2021.

  • Saturday
    May 01–Friday
    May 07, 2021

Online Screening: Uncertainties — Walking on Unstable Grounds

  • Screening

As part of the first chapter Uncertainties: Walking on Unstable Grounds in the exhibition Angst, Keine Angst, Times Art Center Berlin presents a week-long screening of nine works from May 1 till May 7, 2021.

  • Wednesday
    Apr 07, 2021
    1:00 pm–6:00 pm

Online Opening: Angst, keine Angst

  • Opening

Times Art Center Berlin presents the group show Angst, Keine Angst. The exhibition focuses on the present global state of collective fear and anxiety and will unfold in three chapters.

  • Saturday
    Jan 30–Saturday
    Feb 06, 2021

Online Screening: The Fault Zone, Volume I: Y(our) Movement

  • Screening

As a coda to the exhibition Readings From Below, Times Art Center Berlin presents The Fault Zone, Volume I: three short videos based on conversations between artist Hao Jingban, filmmaker Jiang Meng, and curator Su Wei.

  • 2020
      • Monday
        Nov 02–Monday
        Nov 30, 2020

      Why an archive?

      • Discourse

      A film series to complement the exhibition Readings From Below, in collaboration with the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art

      • Wednesday
        Sep 09, 2020
        12:00 pm–8:00 pm

      Exhibition Opening: Readings From Below

      • Opening

      Curated by Ariane Beyn

      The exhibition Readings From Below explores how artists engage us in new readings of our complex present by making use of the virtual potentials of archives.

      • Wednesday
        Aug 19–Wednesday
        Aug 26, 2020

      Conflictual Topography III

      • Screening

      For the third iteration of the public program Conflictual Topography, organized by Heidi Ballet, and on the occasion of the exhibition of Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South, Daniela Ortiz’s film The Empire of Law is screened online between August 19 and August 26, 2020

      • Jun 19, 2020

      Conflictual Topography II

      • Discourse

      The series Conflictual Topography, organized by Heidi Ballet, was originally conceived as a public program during the exhibition of Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South and was later adapted to the exceptional months we are living through. Heidi Ballet talks with Xiang Zairong, a researcher, theorist, and sometimes curator, about Chinese farmer’s markets, the ongoing pandemic, food, and face masks in Europe and in China.

      • Monday
        May 25–Saturday
        May 30, 2020

      Conflictual Topography I

      • Screening

      The Conflictual Topography public program that was organized by Heidi Ballet and that was planned to take place during the exhibition of Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South came to a halt due to the coronavirus crisis. In a revised program, the artists of the original program will be revisited under new circumstances, to discuss how the world is being reshaped. In May 2020, Times Art Center Berlin is screening Urth (2016) by Ben Rivers and The Empirical Effect (2010) by Rosa Barba, accompanied by a conversation with Heidi Ballet.

      • Friday
        Feb 14, 2020
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Zhou Tao: Winter North Summer South

      • Opening

      Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai

      Times Art Center Berlin presents Zhou Tao’s solo project “Winter North Summer South”, developed from the commissioning of Guangdong Times Museum in 2019. Having spent nearly two years in between the oasis and the Gobi village, the artist captured modernist obsessions and utopian desires to turn deserts into habitat.

  • 2019
      • Saturday
        Nov 30, 2019
        5:00 pm–8:00 pm

      1-Year Anniversary with Friends & Books

      • Discourse

      Times Art Center Berlin celebrates its first anniversary with friends and books. Exactly one year ago, we opened to the public with the inaugural exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei, at Potsdamer Strasse. This summer, we moved to our permanent location at Brunnenstrasse.

      • Saturday
        Sep 28, 2019
        1:00 pm–5:00 pm

      Floating Constellation: Border-Crossing Exchanges Within and Beyond Asia

      • Discourse

      The 8th Para-curatorial Symposium
      Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Mia Yu

      The two-day symposium casts light on the processes of cross-border exchanges and complicates the understanding of the post-Cold War reality beyond the East-West dichotomy.

      • Friday
        Sep 27, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman

      • Opening

      Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng

      Departing from a fictitious encounter of three artists in 1979, the exhibition tells stories of women who search for their artistic voices, and whose identities haunt them while empower them—regardless of their various cultural, geographical and historical contexts.

      • Friday
        Sep 20, 2019
        6:00 pm–8:00 pm

      Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin

      • Discourse

      The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta
      Edited by Hou Hanru & Xi Bei

      Times Art Center Berlin presents its first exhibition catalogue published by Sternberg Press at Friends with books: Art Book Fair Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof. The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta is the catalogue of the namesake inaugural exhibition of Times Art Center Berlin, founded in November 2018.

      • Thursday
        Apr 25, 2019
        6:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Kan Xuan: Racing Gravels

      • Opening

      Curated by Tan Yue

      The exhibition Racing Gravels assembles a series of new works by video artist Kan Xuan, informed by her parallel career as a commercial video director. The artist’s singular visual lexicon merges playful subtlety with metaphorical profundity, articulating vivid situations filled with contradictions: a metaphor for living in the society of the spectacle amidst rapid commodification and technological acceleration.

      • Saturday
        Apr 13, 2019
        8:00 pm–9:00 pm

      Performance by Isaac Chong Wai

      • Performance

      Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises
      (Part 2)

      In this performance, Isaac Chong Wai will take the history of protests – through its repetitive expressions and actions – as the point of departure. Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises is a continuation of Chong’s investigation how past ideology can be interpreted and improved upon by future generations.