performance art

The video still shows a close-up of an eye that is staring directly into the camera. The pupil reflects light source.

they have lost paradise

wtf is that?

That sounds like a letter, a manifesto, a trail of lost academicism, a flirting, a tutorial, a performative writing, a conjuration.

The fifth iteration of the Accessibility Note exhibition series will bring to GAVU the Berlin-based, sex-positive, transdisciplinary, genderbender collective COVEN BERLIN. Through memes—yes, the pictures with text anybody can make…

A mannequin head with a green wig, a mirror and makeup.

Bedtime – The Photos

Dziewczyństwo & COVEN Berlin presented Bedtime, an exhibition and sleepover series, at Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, Poland, from 7 September to 7 October 2018, curated by zofia nierodzińska. The bed…

An image of a dark room with grey walls and a purple carpet floor. On the left side of the frame, a glowing LED rainbow hangs down from the ceiling. On the right, a screen with a person in a blonde wig and white outfit using a handheld microphone looks out at the room.

LUCKY – The photos

COVEN is so proud of LUCKY’s amazing run this summer! Here is a photographic sum-up of the incredible artists, speakers, facilitators, and audience members who graced nGbK with their hard…

A waist-up picture of a person standing in front of of graffiti'd walls. They have brown skin, dark hair, are wearing glasses, and are looking at the camera, unsmiling. They are wearing a pink outfit with white accents and a black bodysuit underneath.

To the not-so-lucky: An Interview with Travis Alabanza

For the closing of our exhibition LUCKY at the nGbK, we invited artist Travis Alabanza to give a final toast, The Obituary for the Not-So-Lucky. In this notice of death,…

Bedtime

Dziewczyństwo & COVEN Berlin present Bedtime, an exhibition and sleepover series at Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, Poland, 7 September – 7 October 2018. The bed is a virtual monument to dreaming…

LUCKY

Everything in life is luck, or so we’ve heard. If you work hard, you will succeed—you just need to wait for your big break and play your cards right. Success…

Live performance documentation. In a dimly lit room with a black floor and veiled dark blue windows, four dancers in white t-shirts and diapers stand in a cluster, mostly with their backs to the camera, while another dancer facing forward, is semi illuminated by a spotlight on a white sheet behind them.

EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS

Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….

INTERVIEW WITH FEMINIST ARTIST AGATA CARDOSO

It’s hard to miss Agata Cardoso’s work, amongst the familiar sea of stereotypical saccharine images that claim to summarize femininity today. Working solely in analogue, her photography is a hypnotic…

DESTROY, DISCOVER; UNLEASHED

A lot of my work is focused on detaching myself from ‘the known self’. It’s about breaking free from what we think we know about ourselves, what we think is…