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Participating artists:
Lisa Mayr \ Liva Voigt \ Luki Haak \ Okezi Iteire \ Max Grund \ Leif Klinger \ Mimo Rapp \ Nadine Aber \ Toto Wolsky \ Sarah Letalik \ Raga Rahman \ Susanna Cutini \ Aurore Plassais \ Genesis Kahveci \ Dimitrios Mavroudis \ Florence Kallenborn \ Carla Maruscha Fellenz \ Jonna Sophie Baumann

Period (opening hours):
Thu, Fri, Sat: 3 pm – 6 pm

Venue:
oqbo
Brunnenstr. 63
13355 Berlin

FINISSAGE: Sat 1 August 2026,
, 3 pm – 6 pm

According to a new theory put forward by neuroscientists David Eagleman and Don Vaughn, dreams play a crucial role in maintaining brain function during sleep. This biological defence mechanism is therefore thought to play a crucial role in preserving human eyesight as well.

Dreams thus offer scope for recontextualisation, fusion and revaluation. The speculative elements of the works on display challenge fixed attributions by fragmenting them: the play on ambiguity and situational interpretability opens up levels for decolonial world-building, in which normative and exoticising regimes of gaze are undermined.

Through provocative visual schemata, the materialist conditions of identity production are negotiated. The juxtaposition of state policies of control and fluid identity opens up a complex discursive space in which tensions are explored.

The planned group exhibition brings together artistic practices from Anna Ehrenstein’s class at the HGB Leipzig, which operate from queer, decolonial and power-critical perspectives and explicitly engage with the production, denial and shifting of visibility. The starting point is the assumption that recognition within hegemonic cultural systems is not neutral, but is tied to normative expectations of legibility, identity and representation. The exhibition brings together the class’s various works, ranging from photography and performance to video installation and sculpture.

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