Halfsister Berlin
Torgauer Straße 1
10829 Berlin, next to Südkreuz
July 18
at 6PM
Roots and Rails
ფესვები და რელსები
Installation and video projection by
Kristine Gogaladze & Lilli Kuschel
Residency exchange between Germany and Georgia
Organised by Halfsister Berlin and GeoAIR Tbilisi
Supported by Kunstpunkt Stiftung Herpel: KSH
Lilli:
200 Trees is a visual research project tracing the political lifelines of urban trees in Tbilisi, Georgia. The video installation presents early film sketches recorded by Lilli Kuschel during an artist residency in April 2025. Amid construction sites, threats of deforestation, and growing protest, the trees stand as witnesses, as allies of a civil society fighting for public space, democratic participation and environmental justice. The emerging film explores ecological struggles and activist practices within the urban fabric. The film project is funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds.
Kristine:
Before arriving in Berlin, I thought I was leaving it all behind — home, the railway, the landscapes I had worked through again and again.
But on the very first day, I found myself living in a room that used to be part of a factory — a space where train parts were once produced.
Rust, tracks between the walls, a dead streetlamp in the yard — all subtle echoes of the past I intended to forget.
What I tried to abandon at the beginning of this Residency revealed itself again, quietly, insistently — in materials, in space, in silence.
Lilli Kuschel is an artist, filmmaker and camerawoman based in Berlin. Her work focuses on urban spaces and ecologies, architecture, the „More-than-human“ and cohabitation. She is an educator at the University of Arts Berlin, where she teaches experimental film and media art. She is co-founder of the film production company Expander Film Berlin.
Kristine Gogaladze is an artist based between Tbilisi and Khashuri, Georgia. She works primarily with video and installation. Her practice explores themes of place, city, memory, and movement — often through the lens of the railway as a symbol of transition, connection, and lingering presence.