Halfsister Berlin
Torgauer Straße 1
10829 Berlin, next to Südkreuz

17.01-01.02 2026
Mutual Orbits

Part of Vorspiel 2026
a citywide programme by spaces and
initiatives around transmediale
and CTM festivals

Opening:
January 17th from 6-10 PM

Open between 4-8 PM on 
January 18, 24, 25 and 31st and February 1.

Participating artists:
(from the Goldrausch Programme 2025):
Brenda Alamilla, Yedam Ann, Kodac Ko,
Sarah Reva Mohr, Paulette Penje,
Belén Resnikowski, Victoria Sarangova,
Sophia Tabatadze, Marie Zbikowska.

This exhibition invites you to sense how dynamic
relationships give form to what is felt but not
always seen: in the everyday, in togetherness,
on smaller and bigger scales of our perception.
Selected photographs, video and sound works,
objects and performances will be showcased at
Halfsister Berlin, echoing resonances and tensions
of our times and the spaces we interact with.

Image: Kodac Ko
Photo Credit: © Kodac Ko, Water Body, Body Water, 2025, Sound installation

Short bios of the participating artists

Brenda Alamilla
Brenda Alamilla (*1987, Mexico City) is a transdisciplinary visual artist. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig with Prof. Tina Bara and at the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin. Her work spans photography, performance, and writing, engaging with decolonial and feminist approaches. She investigates violence and its relation to power structures.
Her work has been published by Der Greif and Magnum Photos, among others, and was exhibited internationally at venues including Arcitun Gallery, Errant Sound, f/STOP Festival Leipzig, Spoiler Zone, Zentrale für Kunst, and ZK/U Berlin. In 2023, she co-curated Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths at ZK/U Berlin.

Yedam Ann
Yedam Ann (*1992, Seoul) Yedam Ann explores personal and social routes through the rhythms of commuting and movement. Within these pathways, She discovers landscapes of non-place, capturing how these are intensified by technology and infrastructure. Through the lens of a digital diaspora, she explores the disappearing physicality of place and the field of geopsychological disorientation. These interests find translation in space installation, writing, performance, and video. Her work has been exhibited at Post Territory Ujeongguk (Seoul), Wewerka Pavillon (Münster), KIT – Kunst im Tunnel (Düsseldorf), IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht), Ars Electronica (Linz), and Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten (Berlin).

Kodac Ko
Kodac Ko (*1986 in Jeju, South Korea) is an audio-visual artist. Her work engages with diverse forms of communication; drawing from her own experiences of migration, it reveals how language can both bridge and deepen distance. Her works have been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Photography Braunschweig, the Glaskasten Sculpture Museum in Marl, and the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea), and have been shown at the 10th Cairo Video Festival and the 41st Kasseler Dokfest.

Sarah Reva Mohr
What memories do we choose to carry forward? And what stories fade into silence?
Sarah Reva Mohr (*1987) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses filming, installation and writing. She utilizes moving images, audio and her own written material to create objects and video installations, asking which factors influence our memory making and how hierarchies are constantly reproduced. Her works have been featured in several exhibitions in project spaces and institutions, such as Synnika Space (Frankfurt /M.), Fabrica Del Vapore (Milan), Space One (Seoul, South Korea), NoDepressionRoom (Munich), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt/M., with the Open Creek Hotel), amongst others. 

Paulette Penje
Paulette Penje (* 1984 in Berlin) studied Sculpture and Public Art at the Hochschule der Bildenden. Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, and participated in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. After having completed her studies, she received a fellowship from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. As a performance artist, Penje explores site-specific experimental art. She has developed works both for public spaces and for institutions, including projects for Mayer Pavillon, Berlin, DIEresidenz in Die, France, the Saarland Museum – Moderne Galerie, the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, BETON Berlin, the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, and Random Institute, Zurich. She is a recipient of the X-treme Women Art Prize, Berlin, and has been nominated for the 2025 Robert Schuman Art Prize.

Belén Resnikowski
Belén Resnikowski (b. 1989, La Paz, Bolivia) is a Berlin-based artist working across video, sculpture, and collage. Her practice explores memory and belonging from a migratory perspective, creating ephemeral and dreamlike imagery that unfolds through layers of vulnerability and resilience. Following her reception of the Mart Stam Preis in 2023 and a Cusanuswerk scholarship, she continues her work as a 2025 Goldrausch Fellow. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Every Woman Biennial in New York and the Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival in Tokyo.

Victoria Sarangova 
Victoria Sarangova (*1985 in Kalmykia, a south-western Russian republic) works with sound, video, text, and embroidery. Her frequently site-specific installations explore progress, memory, and identity. She graduated with a BA in Performance Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins, London, and an MA in Art in Context from the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her work has been shown at venues and festivals such as Spore Initiative, CTM 2024, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, and Sound/Image 2023 in London. Sarangova is a co-founder of the MU Collective, a group of artists from Kalmykia.

Sophia Tabatadze
Sophia Tabatadze’s drawings blend imaginary and real worlds, embracing the unpredictability of their outcomes. In 2007, Tabatadze represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale and was also part of the Istanbul Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Tbilisi History Museum.

Marie Zbikowska 
Marie Zbikowska (born in Potsdam in 1978) studied fine art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 2016 to 2022. She addresses the resources of time and energy as well as the conditions of artistic productivity between everyday life, care and work in the studio. Her media are photography, video and performance, her materials wax and plaster. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv, Villa Merkel in Esslingen, the State Gallery in Stuttgart and Parrotta Contemporary Art in Cologne. Zbikowska received a project grant from Internationale Maifestspiele of the State Theatre in Wiesbaden and another from the Kulturamt Wiesbaden. She was also nominated for the Klein Collection Photo Art Prize.