We are four Berlin-based curators who have been collaborating in irregular rhythms for years
in different constellations and projects. Lorena, Anaïs, and Sylvia were part of the curatorial and production team for the exhibition Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile at
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in 2018. They invited Sonia to be part with a workshop within
their program of events. One year later, Anaïs made her exhibition The Heavy Air That Surrounds Us at Galerie im Turm, inviting Sonia to join her in the writing of an audio piece.
During the pandemic, Anaïs, Sylvia, and Sonia developed the project Aliens Are Temporary – A
Mutating Tale, which took place at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and was followed by another exhibition at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch. A program of events took shape under the name of “mutations”. One of them was a reading group lead by Lorena.
Conversations about a new project started between the four of us in late 2023. The desire to work together again was matched by the wish to create something that could move grow across Berlin, in different places and at different moments. As we talked, the possibility of bringing together several community galleries across the city emerged. From there, what we now call Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder— Learning from Weeds began to take shape. We are joined and inspired by many artists and collaborators; by the teams at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Galerie im Turm, Bärenzwinger, and Galerie im Körnerpark; and by accomplices from other venues and spaces across the city. All of them appear and take root alongside us, guided by weeds, intuition, trust... and uncertainty.
Anaïs Senli
Anaïs Senli is an artist and independent curator. She likes to explore notions of collectivity, relationality, identity, and otherness to investigate the complex symbiotic relationships that interconnect us. She has a garden where she grows lettuce and nettles.
Anaïs Senli is an artist and independent curator. She likes to explore notions of collectivity, relationality, identity, and otherness to investigate the complex symbiotic relationships that interconnect us. She has a garden where she grows lettuce and nettles.
Lorena Juan
Lorena Juan is a researcher and curator based in Berlin and Freiburg. She reads about geological phases of planet earth before sleeping and enjoys studying the weedy entanglements of language.
Lorena Juan is a researcher and curator based in Berlin and Freiburg. She reads about geological phases of planet earth before sleeping and enjoys studying the weedy entanglements of language.
Sonia
Fernández Pan
Sonia Fernández Pan writes, curates, makes podcasts, and moves in migrant rhythms. Berlin is where she spends most of her time, a city full of weeds opposing censorship and official lies.
Fernández Pan
Sonia Fernández Pan writes, curates, makes podcasts, and moves in migrant rhythms. Berlin is where she spends most of her time, a city full of weeds opposing censorship and official lies.
Sylvia Sadzinski
Sylvia Sadzinski curates, researches, writes, teaches and lectures. Although her last name means the planter in Polish, she doesn’t enjoy gardening — but she loves creating spaces and moments of coming together.
Sylvia Sadzinski curates, researches, writes, teaches and lectures. Although her last name means the planter in Polish, she doesn’t enjoy gardening — but she loves creating spaces and moments of coming together.
Bärenzwinger
19. Februar - 10. Mai
2026
Weirder, Taller, Uglier, Louder – Feral Possible, around Karl-Marx-Straße and Carrer Cobalt ist der dritte Teil der Ausstellungen im Rahmen des Projekts Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder – Learning from Weeds / Von Unkraut lernen. Ermöglicht durch Mittel der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt: Spartenoffenen Förderung, Fonds für Kommunale Galerien (KOGA).
Bärenzwinger
Im Köllnischen Park
10179 Berlin
Mit Ran Zhang und Lolo & Sosaku
Galerie Im Turm
11. Februar - 15. März
2026
Uglier, Louder, Taller, Weirder – Hearing the Weeds grow / Das Unkraut wachsen hören ist die zweite Ausstellung im Rahmen des Projekts Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder – Learning from Weeds / Von Unkraut lernen, die das Unkraut aus dem Schatten des Dickichts holt und es ins Zentrum einer neuen Erzählung stellt. Unkraut erscheint hier nicht nur als Untersuchungsgegenstand, Medium oder Metapher, sondern wird zu einem aktiven Prinzip, zu einem selbstbestimmten Adjektiv und Verb. Wir fragen: Wann ist etwas, eine Handlung, ein Zustand „verunkrautet“? Was bedeutet es, aktiv zu „unkrauten“ in Kunst, in Institutionen, in Sprache und im Alltag?
Galerie im Turm
Frankfurter Tor 1
10243 Berlin
Screening-Programm mit Videoarbeiten von Crystal Z Campbell, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, John Smith, Laura Nitsch, Marta Popivoda
mit einer Schattenintervention von Anaïs Senli & Eduardo da Conceição
Kunstraum Bethanien/Kreuzberg
18. Oktober 2025 - 11. Januar 2026
Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder - Learning from Weeds / Von Unkraut lernen ist der erste Teil einer Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsreihe, die in mehreren Berliner kommunalen Galerien in den Bezirken Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Mitte und Neukölln stattfindet.
Es ist ein kuratorisches Projekt, das sich intuitiv und unmittelbar von Unkraut inspirieren lässt. Es umfasst Veranstaltungen, die wir „Sprouts“ (Sprossen) nennen, sowie Ausstellungen, die in unterschiedlichen, manchmal unregelmäßigen Rhythmen stattfinden
Kunstraum Bethanien/Kreuzberg
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor
Bus 140, M29