Crystal Z Campbell is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who uses time as material. Campbell’s works explore the underloved –– persons, places, and things worthy of more attention. Using archival, historical, and personal memory as muse, their work may manifest in embodied forms, tactile works, and works that exist beyond touch.
Makahiya
Digital Video, 10:23 min., English with German subtitles, 2024
Makahiya, a Tagalog word that translates to “shame” or “shyness,” is a short experimental film recorded in the Philippines –– Crystal Z Campbell’s mother’s ancestral homeland. The film travels via a sentient plant (mimosa pudica) found across tropical landscapes, entangling touch and sentience with colonial history, landscape, and archival memory in the aftermath of catastrophe and US militarization.
Galerie im Körnerpark
27 June – 7 October 2026
Galerie im Körnerpark
Schierker Straße 8
12051 Berlin
With works by Ana María Millán, Anaïs Senli, Ella C Bernard, Kamal Aljafari, Martins Kohout, Nooshin Askari, Xenia Bond, Zuzanna Czebatul
Bärenzwinger
19 February – 10 May 2026
Bärenzwinger
Im Köllnischen Park
10179 Berlin
With Ran Zhang and Lolo & Sosaku
Galerie Im Turm
11 February – 15 March 2026
Galerie im Turm
Frankfurter Tor 1
10243 Berlin
Screening programme with video works by Crystal Z Campbell, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, John Smith, Laura Nitsch, Marta Popivoda.
With a shadow intervention from Anaïs Senli & Eduardo da Conceição.
Kunstraum Bethanien/Kreuzberg
18 October 2025 – 11 January 2026
Kunstraum Bethanien/KreuzbergMariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin