Carénage

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Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change.

31.01.26 – 20.09.26;

Van Abbe Museum, Stratumsedijk 2, Eindhoven

Senior Curator Zippora Elders transforms the Van Abbe Museum‘s historic building into a resonant chamber, an intergenerational music club and a stage for all.

Featuring (performative) installations by:

Jack O’Brien, Felisha Carénage, Simon Fujiwara, Göksu Kunak, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Finn Kaino Ma’atita & Jerrold Saija, New Theater Hollywood (Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff), Selma Selman, SERAFINE1369, Miloš Trakilović, Tori Wrånes, and a soundsystem by Kantarion Sound.


bye felisha

By these shores I was born

12.02.26 – 21.03.26;

Y Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

By These Shores I was Born borrows its title from Kamau Brathwaite’s poem “South.” Each artist has claimed the “I” in the exhibition’s title to reflect on their experiences and understanding of home.

Shannon Alonzo, Felisha Carénage, Giorvana Hadeed, Ryan Huggins, Simone Kennedy Doig, Stanton Taylor, Rodell Warner

Curated by Dr. Marsha Pearce

Exhibition opening: By these shores

10.02.26 18:00 – 22:00

Y Gallery, 26 Taylor St, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Image: from Ryan Huggins’ Sky Bar Exterior, 2026

Performance: Yellow Bird (Choucoune)

11.01.26 12:00 – 12:30

Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

With Yellow Bird (Choucoune), Felisha Carénage engages with the figure of the Moko Jumbie—a Caribbean stilt-walking spirit guardian with roots in West African traditions. The one-off public performance unfolds on Auguststraße, between KW’s front house and Kunst Raum Mitte, the two institutions hosting the 2025/26 BPA// exhibition, in which the artist participates.

Support by Van Abbemuseum, NL

Show & Tell: BPA// 2025

07.01.26 18:00 – 19:00

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, front house (meeting point) & Kunst Raum Mitte, Auguststraße 21, 10117 Berlin

Felisha Carénage, Stanton Taylor, and Prateek Vijan present their works in the BPA// Exhibition 2025 A place never fully held.

BPA// 2025. A place never fully held

06.12.25 – 11.01.26;

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin & Kunst Raum Mitte, Auguststraße 21, 10117 Berlin

KW Institute for Contemporary Art and BPA// Berlin program for artists, in collaboration with Kunst Raum Mitte, are pleased to present the exhibition A place never fully held. The exhibition extends along Auguststraße: at the front house and courtyard of KW, at Kunst Raum Mitte, and on the facades of both institutions.

Umut Azad Akkel, Felisha Carénage, Will Fredo, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Tra My Nguyen, Stanton Taylor, Rexy Tseng, Prateek Vijan, Hana Yoo, Julija Zaharijević

Curated by Lara Scherrieble

Exhibition Opening: BPA// 2025. A place never fully held

05.12.25 19:00 – 22:00

KW Institute for Contemporary Art KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin & Kunst Raum Mitte, Auguststraße 21, 10117 Berlin

KW Institute for Contemporary Art and BPA// Berlin program for artists are pleased to present the BPA// Exhibition 2025 – A place never fully held, featuring works that second year BPA// participants produced over the course of their working period with the program.

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The Librarian/s

13.11.25 19:00 – 21:00

Lady Liberty Library, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin

As librarian-in-research Felisha Carénage engages with her romance novel stacks & their custom cabinet, The Librarian. A new edition of Lady Liberty Library's Transmission publication will be launched upon Carénage's presention of a recent, resultant painting on desire.

Curation: Nina Prader.

Dreamer & Goner

MAS CAMP: Making Dreamers & Goners

12.06.25 – 26.06.25; 19:00

Barazani.berlin, Spreeufer 6, 10178 Berlin

A solo presentation at Barazani.berlin. by Felisha Carénage, curated by Isabel Raabe. Featuring costumes for a performance commissioned by Dekoloniale Berlin in 2024, as well as recent artworks. The exhibition is accompanied by Private & Public guided tours. 

Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Zusammenhalt, Berlin.

Further support has come from BPA// Berlin Program for Artists, 1000 Mokos and Alice Yard. 

Violent Island Girl

Reading FOR REAL FOR REAL

17.05.25 15:00 – 17:00

daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, 10969 Berlin

Reading from iFlora, a unique commissioned artist book. Part of the program for For Real For Real, a DAAD exhibition in collaboration with The Racial Imaginary Institute.

Readings by Tracy Biga MacLean, Maslen Ward, Asad Raza, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Baff Akoto, Felisha Carénage, Logan February, Nasima Sophia Razizadeh, Ann Sundberg, Rune Steenberg, Ann O'Connor, Isadora Knutsen, Nandini Majumdar, Tiphanie Yanique, among others

Free entry.

FOR REAL FOR REAL

15.05.25 – 27.07.25; 18:00

daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, 10969 Berlin

Tue–Sun 12–19:00 / daadgalerie / free admission

FOR REAL FOR REAL, organized by Claudia Rankine, The Racial Imaginary Institute and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program of readings, talks, and screenings.

With John Akomfrah, Baff Akoto, Lotte Andersen, Mary Jo Bang, Alvaro Barrington, Catherine Barnett, Sarah Benson, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Black Visual Grammar, Diane Borger, Julie Boukobza, Garrett Bradley, Rizvana Bradley, Dionne Brand, Susan Briante, Jericho Brown, Felisha Carenage, among others

Curated by John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, Russell Salmon, Mathias Zeiske

Design: Studio Pandan