Dear all, friends, comrades, colleagues, collaborators and art-enthusiasts,

As Soft Gardens comes to a close, I’d love to invite you to two special events:
today’s Tea Talk and tomorrow’s finissage. These are the final moments of a truly joyful few weeks, and I’d be thrilled to see you there.

In this third edition of my newsletter, you’ll also find a little preview of what’s coming up next: the Open Studios in Tempelhof this May.

intro:

The search for a story about another place has brought you here.
Is it a place of dreams or is it the place from a story that has been entrusted to you?

Whatever it is, you are here now.

The light has a warm temperature that permeates the whole room.
You hear voices ...the voices of the stones, the voices of the weather and the voices of the water.

The room speaks.

3.5.25 ✿ 16:00 - 18:00 TEA TALK
On staying soft and being gardens
with Suza Husse, Kallia Kefala and Kim Bode
in English whisper translation and German

This talk between the artists and the researcher poet gives insights into themes and methods which inform the exhibition, such as softness as political and artistic strategy, queer ecologies and imagination as a method of worlding. We will drink our favourite teas and visit the beings in the Soft Gardens. In exchange for songs, snacks, poems and gossips they offer what they know about being gardens – in aquatic, amphibian, terrestrial and extraterrestrial worlds.

With their cosmogenic feelers, their crawling through different times and spaces, their resilience and mutability they inspire modes of staying soft which might be helpful, even healing in the tectonics of the present.

4.5.25 ✿ 15:00 - 19:00 CLOSING WITH DRINKS

We’ll gather one last time in the space, sharing drinks, unhurried conversations, and a gentle goodbye to the works and the setting that’s held them these past weeks. Whether you’ve already visited or are coming by for the first time, it would be lovely to see you and celebrate the closing together.


For further information on the exhibition please visit:
https://bureau-of-transitioning-landscapes.net/

OPEN STUDIOS IN TEMPELHOF: 24 and 25 of May

In May, I’ll be opening my studio during Open Studios Tempelhof, together with my friends and fellow artists Lydia Miligkou and Orestis Giannoulis.

It’s a nice chance to come by, visit our workspaces, see what we’ve been working on — from new experiments to recently finished pieces — and have a chat over a drink, or simply wander through the studios.

My studio-building, the Zebrahaus, is part of a historic industrial area by the Teltow Canal, just south of Tempelhofer Feld. The building gets its name from its striped façade, made of alternating layers of light and dark brick. Built in 1926 as an extension of the former Telegraph Office (originally designed in 1912 by Otto Spalding), it once had its own tram connection and direct canal access for transporting cables and telecom equipment.

Since the end of 2022, Zebrahaus has been home to 32 artist studios, 5 writing rooms, and the project space TOP e.V., made possible by Berlin’s Arbeitsraumprogramm.

Join us for Open Studios Tempelhof

Looking forward to seeing you at the exhibition or otherwise!

With excitement,
Kim