07.11.2025
ნოემბერს, 7 საათზე
ნატა ტალიკიშვილის სთენდაფი
გეპატიჟებით ნატა ტალიკიშვილის სთენდაფ შოუზე ბერლინში.
ნატა ტრანსგენდერი პერფორმერი და აქტივისტია.
თუ ერთხელ მაინც ყოფილხართ ნატას შოუზე,
გეცოდინებათ, რომ იქ დროისა და სივრცის
შეგრძნება ქრება და მას უჩვეულო ურბანულ
თავგადასავალში მიყავხართ, სადაც ნაცნობი უბნები
და ადამიანები ახალ ფორმებსა და შინაარსს იძენენ.
სთენდაფი გაიმართება Halfsister-ში, ქართულ ენაზე.
Many thanks to FEMINIST TRANSLOCALITIES for making
this event possible. The show will be held in Georgian and
recording of it will have English subtitles.
Photo by Anna Dziapshipa
01-02.11.2025
Open studios by
Sophia Tabatadze,
Ana Tabatadze and
Claudia J. Ford
Schöneberger Art
Studio and gallery tour
Opening hours:
Saturday, 2–8 p.m.
Sunday, 12–6 p.m.
02.09.2025
Operation Swallow
Natalia Vatsadze/Bouillon Group
Opening at 19:00
Opening hours 3-5 September 17:00 – 21:00.
What spaces do I belong to?
What spaces belongs to me?
The words “homeland” and “mother tongue” seem to suggest directions for finding answers to these questions. Seem? What?
Georgian Natalia Vatsadze is a descendant of deported Pontic Greeks from one country to another during the era of building nation states. “Building a nation state” is still a reason for deportations, wars, political and forceful arguments. But what then belongs to us? Our memory? Like a swallow – a bodily memory of space in motion, navigation in which leads us to home. Traces and words about me-spaces, my sensations become navigation in motion. But then how do you answer the questions who am I and where am I?
Motions in Natalia’s artistic and activist practice produces traces, gestures, objects, things, documents of motions – these are not answers, but continuations of the search through exchange and active sharing with Others and attention to what is happening now. This process of exchange is very much in need of doubts and conversations, because it is a process of reformulating the questions above.
Text: Denis Esakov
(Bouillon Group members Teimuraz Kartlelishvili and Vladimer Lado Khartishvili’s works will be presented as part of an installation.)
The exhibition is a Part of UTOPIENALE https://www.utopienale.org/contact/
18.07.2025
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.
13.07.2025
Shifts
Yedam Ann
Sophia Tabatadze
Saša Tatić
15:00
Presentation of a website by
Sophia Tabatadze
15:30
Reading by Yedam Ann
16:00
Ghost Database by Theemetra Harizani
Ghost Database is a case-study project focused on the ritual of coffee cup readings. The core purpose is to re-approach ceremonies as an inherited social technology capable of unlocking poetic interpretation and expression.
Amazing Georgian dips prepared by Dirtikla
Yedam Ann / 8mm draught / 8mm Luftzug
Publication and object
8mm draught / 8mm Luftzug is a publication that forms part of the artist’s archive, developed through her ongoing research and artistic practice. It is a collection of writing sketches that reflect her experience of diasporic placelessness and geopsychological disorientation. The publication was created in parallel with the making of her new installation work, A building with a revolving door, but only stairs. In Half Sister, she will read excerpts from the publication and present a small-format object.
Sophia Tabatadze / 366 Drawings
Drawings
Part of the 366 drawings will be shown and new website with these drawings will be presented. These drawings can be purchased or borrowed for one year
On January 1st, 2024, after a long pause Sophia Tabatadze picked up drawing again and gave herself an assignment to draw every day throughout the whole year. Luckily it was also a leap year.
When reality gets boring go back to abstraction
when abstraction gets boring go back to reality
This text, written on the drawing from 25.07.2024 explains her drawing process.
Saša Tatić / I LOOK AND FEEL SEEN
Installation
Installed across the gallery window, this work captures a moment of self-awareness, at once intimate and collective. The phrase inscribed lingers between affirmation and longing, mirroring the gaze it receives and a surface that reflects as much as it reveals.
About the participants:
Yedam Ann is an artist based in Berlin. She challenges and deconstructs quintessential design and placeness. Her artistic research frequently examines urban landscapes in the context of technology and digital environments, often addressing essentialized identities and the museumification of cities. Her interventions into social dynamics are often translated into an installative and dramaturgical practice involving spatial installations, video, and performance.
She has presented solo exhibitions at Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul and the Wewerka Pavillon in Münster. Her works have been shown at KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf, IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht, Ars Electronica in Linz, and Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin.
Sophia Tabatadze is an artist and curator. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, she lives since 2008 in Berlin. At the age of 20, she went to study in Amsterdam and obtained bachelor’s degree at the Rietveld Academy in 2002. At the age of 40, she completed a one-year course for curatorial training at CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
From 2022 she runs a studio and artist-run event space in Berlin called Halfsister.
Sophia has shown her work internationally, presented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in Istanbul Biennale in the same year. She also participated in Museum shows such as Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Tartu Museum, Estonia, Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, France; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia.
Saša Tatić, a Bosnia-born artist, makes transparent the roles she carries – as a daughter, sister, heiress, and member of the Balkan diaspora – to create resonance and affinities in relationships with home and belonging communities. Text in her works, as a mediator, often carries content that offers various possibilities for identification. Whether spoken through poetry or integrated into visual forms, her everyday life, experiential encounters, and accompanying emotional states thus become the subject of the narratives. Starting from personal experience but transcending the autobiographical, her practice calls for an open dialogue by pointing to the complexity of cultural differences arising from changes in the living environment.
She is one of the co-founders of the artistic association Fully Funded Residencies e.V, advocating for equality and inclusion. She is a member of the feminist and left-oriented organization CRVENA in Sarajevo. She lives and works in Berlin and visits Bosnia whenever she can.
12.07.2025
Fofflohmarkt am Rote Insel
10 – 16 Hours
THIS PROJECT WAS CANCELLED
On this day we will be selling various posters that we
found in Halfsister’s cellar
27-28.06.2025
AFTER PROJECTION
Curated by: Montika Kham-on
With: Seawon Park (Won), Paloma Schnitzer, Laurenzio Tani and Montika Kham-on
“Everything exists as an image, if projected.”
Projection is often seen as a neutral act: light meets surface, and meaning emerges. But what if projection is not about showing, not about transmitting, but about arrival, possession, or invasion? What comes after projection, after the screen, after clarity, after intention?
This project reimagines projection not as narrative delivery, but as a site of uncertainty, transformation, and reception. We invoke the idea of nimitr, not as internal imagination, but as a vision received, a signal or apparition that enters the body and unsettles it. In this sense, the body is not a screen, but a black box: a medium through which images emerge unpredictably.
We seek new apparatuses, tools, rituals, or spaces, that resist clarity, that fracture the illusion of immediate understanding. These are not transparent media, but unstable, noisy, tropical carriers of images. We ask:
What is the ontology of projection, and what might emerge if we refuse the surface altogether?
Our methodology treats projection as ritual, atmosphere, and glitch. It embraces delay, error, and opacity over resolution. Light, shadow, and reflection are used not to clarify but to confuse and expand the field of reception. The screen is no longer flat or passive; it becomes porous, absorbing, echoing, or leaking.
Within this redefined space, nimitr becomes a method: the image arrives unexpectedly, perhaps non-human, perhaps haunted.Artists working in After Projection are invited to build or misuse tools of projection, to explore the agency of the image, not by what it shows, but by what it does. Projection becomes a medium of possession and ontological instability, resisting propaganda and spectacle through mess, mysticism, and the unknown.
21.06.2025
Fete de la Musique
Antoanetta Marinov
14:00 – 18:00
Lila Veil
20:00 – 21:30
Antoanetta Marinov
GESUNGENES RETROSPEKTIVE (SUNG RETROSPECTIVE)
Antoanetta Marinov looks at the songs that have accompanied her from childhood as a retrospective.
The conceptual artist Antoanetta Marinov will be singing on 21 June 2025 as part of the Fete de la Music through the streets of Berlin with the microphone in hand.
Around 14:00 she will reach the project space ‘Halfsister’ and there the singing will continue inside the space and the passers-by will be able to hear it through the closed door.
With the sung retrospective there will be a publication and a CD.
Lila Veil
No matter what language she sings in and she sings in many, Lila Veils songs are colored with melancholy, and her soft voice can carry you into a world of dreams and memories.
Lila Veil is a Berlin-based Georgian musician. Her musical upbringing began in her childhood, growing up in the rural mountains of Georgia. The melodies sung to her by her mother and family still echo in her voice today. With loops of guitar, synth, and drum machine, she finds her own way of transforming these melodies into something new—a blend of acoustic sounds with a delicate touch of electronics accompanied by her touching singing voice.
Her music is best described as indie/ambient/experimental folk, and she recently released her first album, featuring eight songs. Links: https://linktr.ee/LilaVeil_Music
13-14.06.2025
Between Homes by
Raphaela Gilla
Exhibition and Ocean Spirit Performance
“The new internal home – here & now & far beyond.”
You are invited to experience abstract ink and oil pastels paintings, the
sound of the ocean and an inspiring, empowering atmosphere.
Join us to share your thoughts and experiences of being between homes
over art, drinks and snacks.
Between Homes Exhibition explores the situation of being in between
homes. It is a space of transition. A space of freedom, where definitions
dissolve and the soul can breathe. It is an invitation to pause, reflect,
and reconnect with the unconditional home within us through a deep
connection to the universal mother nature, to spirit, and to our own
creative essence and then mirroring it to the external world.
In this exhibition, spiritual artist, vocal medium, music creator, and poet
Raphaela Gilla shares her personal journey through a collection of
energetic paintings (2024–2025), channeled poetry, and live
performance. Born in Israel and now based in Berlin and London,
Raphaela’s work is a transmission of emotional and spiritual frequencies
expressing longing, freedom, grief, transformation, rebirth, death and
new beginning.
27.05-01.06.2025
Willkommen by
Hannah Eve Rothbard
Vernissage & Panel Discussion
May 27 at 18:30h-20:30h
Open hours:
Tues-Fri 15h-18h,
Sat-Sun 14h-19h
& by appointment
Hannah Eve Rothbard is a multimedia artist, curator, and writer from South Florida and based primarily in New York. She is currently a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, Germany for the 2024-2025 academic year working on a painting project exploring the contemporary regeneration of the German Jewish community.
She holds a BFA in Studio Art from New York University with a minor in Urban Design and Architecture Studies. Rothbard has exhibited at venues including 80 Washington Square East Gallery (NY), High Line Nine Galleries (NY), the New York City Poetry Festival (NY), Soft Times Gallery (CA), the Jerusalem Biennale (IL), and she has held residency at the Materia Prima Foundation (Italy).
graphic by @onlinekatia
25.05.2025
Active Window 1
Sophia Tabatadze and
Hildegard Skowasch.
You are invited to see site-specific window piece
made at Halfsister by two Berlin based artists
Sophia Tabatadze and Hildegard Skowasch.
Join us and share some drinks and thoughts with us!
About Sophia Tabatadze
Sophia Tabatadze is an artist and curator. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, she lives since 2008 in Berlin. At the age of 20, she went to study in Amsterdam, and obtained bachelor’s degree at the Rietveld Academy in 2002. At the age of 40, she completed a one-year course for curatorial training at CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
From 2022 she runs a studio and artist-run event space in Berlin called Halfsister.
Sophia has shown her work internationally, presented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in Istanbul Biennale in the same year. She also participated in Museum shows such as Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Tartu Museum, Estonia, Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, France; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia.
About Hildegard Skowasch
Born 1958 in Essen (Germany), Hildegard studied art as well as roman languages (1978-1987) at the University of Fine Arts and the Westphalian Wilhelms University both in Münster. During her studies, she spent one year in France at the École Supérieure d’Art, Nord – Pas de Calais / Dunkerque – Tourcoing. Her first exhibitions were hosted at the Landesmuseum in Münster and at the Ostwall Museum in Dortmund.
Since then, her works have been shown internationally, from Wien to New York, from Helsinki to Istanbul and, most recently, in Gdansk (Poland).
30.04-04.05.2025
Why am I soft in the middle?
10 fragments of crisis
Curated by : Tina Natsvlishvili
Opening: 30 April, 19:00
Opening hours: May 2, 3 and 4 between 14:00-18:00
Participating Artists: Anja Ronacher, Anna Witt, Bernd Oppl, Emma Kling, Imre Nagy, Linus Riepler, Lorenz Kunath, Matthias Ramsey, Sophia Tabatadze, Xenia Hausner
Crises are universal. Everyone experiences moments of uncertainty, doubt, and inner turmoil. In artistic practice, these moments often run deeper—when the value of one’s own work comes into question, when self-doubt lingers, and the fluctuating visibility becomes a constant challenge.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Paul Simon’s song ‘You Can Call Me Al’. While the song reflects, somewhat ironically, on a midlife crisis and a sense of disorientation, the title here points to the fragility and uncertainty that often accompany both artistic and existential states of crisis.
This exhibition opens a space for works that emerged in times of personal or artistic upheaval, or that reflect on the inner experience of navigating such states.
It is about the struggle with identity, about moments of loss, vulnerability, and quiet resistance. The works on view are rooted in deeply personal conditions, yet, at the same time, they hold something universally familiar.
Especially now, in a time of global instability, it feels more urgent than ever to make room for the personal. What does an existential shift feel like for someone whose medium is expression? How does uncertainty, rupture, or inner conflict take shape in visual form? The exhibition brings together ten artistic positions that reflect both the depths and the quiet hopes accompanying an artistic existence.
30.03.2025
Open studio and reading by
Antoanetta Marinov
10-17 Hours
A THEATER
A PRAYER
AND A DOVE
06.03.2025
Artist’s Talk and Open Studio
by Claudia J Fo
WOKE WORK
collage in progress on gender, race, & environmental justice
In the abyss of our current global crises, we must always remember that we are not inextricably bound to these environmental and social dysfunctions; another world is possible writes Claudia J Ford.
As an artist and academic Claudia is moved by the awesome beauty of the natural world. Our planet is an incredible canvas for the development of our human species, as individuals and as the human collective. Simultaneously, she is motivated by the incredibly damaging force that humans have been in terms of environmental and social destruction, and our decimation of the Earth’s co-inhabitants – mineral, plant, and animal. In her opinion, that which humans have generated on Earth so far is not wholesome enough. We can and we must do better to care for each other and our planetary home.
“Woke Work” is named in reference to the reclamation of a term that comes from African American culture. To “be awake” and to “stay woke” is a well-established tradition of her culture. The foundation of Claudias project is to respond to the question: How do we reclaim the true meanings of the word woke in its established origins within Black liberation?
This collage project continues her themes of zoetic entanglement and its environmental, gender, race and social justice challenges. Zoetic means relating to life, vital, alive, or living. She has started a new project on gender and reproductive health justice that explores the simultaneous damage that patriarchy has wrought on the female body, female spirit, and the maternal Earth. This gender justice project begins with a declaration of the absolute right of autonomy for the female body and for conception and pregnancy including unfettered access to safe termination of pregnancy through abortion. This is also her attempt to reinvigorate discussion of the critical role that the gender non-binary plays in this struggle.
BIO
Dr. Claudia J. Ford is a professor of Environmental Studies at State University of New York, Potsdam, a Fellow of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, a Fulbright Scholar, a SUNY PRODiG Faculty, and a Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Ford holds degrees in biology, medicine, business administration, fine arts, and a PhD in environmental studies. Claudia is sought after for public speaking and lectures, and she teaches and creates responsive mixed media and collage visual arts projects across the subjects of environmental humanities and literature, traditional ecological knowledge, spiritual ecology, entheogenic plant medicine, women’s reproductive health, and sustainable agriculture.