hi felisha
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 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 program.
Curator: Lara Scherrieble
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.
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.
Featuring Jhawahn Thomas.
Support by Van Abbemuseum, NL
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
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.
J'Ouvert: playing the citizen
02.11.25 12:00 – 15:00
Ruby Cruel, 250 Morning Lane London, E9 6RQ
Trinidad & Tobago’s J’Ouvert movement signals the opening of Carnival Monday, the opening of a spirit. Evolving from different practises, whose spirits does this dutty mas liberate, and in what way? In diasporic, creole societies, what can even be called tradition?
For LGBTQ+ individuals of African and Caribbean heritage.
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.
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.
Design: Studio Pandan
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
- Review: TAZ
- Review: Berlin Art Link
- The Berliner
- E-Flux
- DAAD
- About: The Racial Imaginary - The New Yorker
- The Racial Imaginary Institute
Design: Studio Pandan
Design: Luiza Furtado / Medusa Studio
Santa Maria Paraffina: myth § trope § glitch
24.04.25 – 01.06.25; 19:00
VBKÖ-Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Maysedergasse 2/28, 1010 Wien, Austria
Fri & Sat 14–18:00
Using Maria Paraffina as a collective alter ego, Felisha Carénage, Luiza Furtado and Anne Meerpohl revel in the absurdly demonic tropes of femininity inherent to their hometown seaside spaces.
Design: Luiza Furtado / Medusa Studio
El Faro
16.11.24 09:30 – 18:00
Performative intervention to the Dekoloniale Stadttour 2024. With Luiza Furtado, Tekel Sylvan and Earl Ward, Jr.
Wir würdigen bislang vernachlässigte widerständige Personen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart und folgen den Spuren der jahrhundertelangen Berliner Versklavungs- und Kolonialgeschichte. Unsere »Dekoloniale Stadttour« endet schließlich im Museum Nikolaikirche.
El Faro: Mas Camp
15.11.24 10:00 – 15:30
Spreeufer 6, Berlin
Wrecking the El Faro
Heimatschutz
El Faro: Dreamer & Goner invoked
14.11.24 20:15 – 20:25
St. Nicholas' Church Museum, Nikolaikirchpl., 10178 Berlin
Dreamer and Goner, the two main figures in my intervention, El Faro, are being invoked in the Nikolaikirche Museum at the opening event of this year's Dekoloniale Festival & Academy. In this work, I'm grateful to be supported by 1000 Mokos, Alice Yard, Barazani Berlin and BPA // Berlin program for artists.
Colportage
🔥Winnetou ist n Splasher!🔥 at Regionale VII
20.09.24 – 06.10.24;
Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck, Königstraße 11, 23552 Lübeck
Curated by Sönke Kniphals
🔥Winnetou ist n Splasher!🔥 at INVERSION-CONVERSION
22.06.24 – 20.07.24; 15:00 – 18:00
BPA// Raum, Sophienstraße 21, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, 10178 Berlin
INVERSION-CONVERSION
22.06.–20.07.2024
Opening hours: Friday – Saturday, 15:00–18:00 and by request.
BPA// Raum is pleased to present INVERSION-CONVERSION, a group show featuring works by BPA// participants Felisha Maria Carénage, Will Fredo, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Tra My Nguyen, Julija Zaharijević and Esvin Alarcón Lam.
Madwoman
MADWOMAN?!
23.05.24 18:00 – 21:00
250 Morning Ln, London E9 6RQ
MADWOMAN?! >>> PRIVATE VIEW NEXT THURSDAY MAY 23rd, 6-9pm
Current Ruby Cruel resident artist Felisha Maria Carenage will use illustration and garments to explore gendered violence in public and private space while engaging the prescriptive language used in mental health care systems in Germany, the Caribbean and the UK.
DORA IXORA // fajalobi
26.04.24 – 27.04.24; 12:00 – 21:00
Savvy Contemporary, Reinickendorfer Str. 17, 13347 Berlin
Scenographic Intervention, with Xavier Robles de Medina, for the conference Gardens in Transition at SAVVY Contemporary. A Collaboration with Berlin Program for Artists.
Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning
11.11.23 17:30 – 21:30
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning.
Performative Lesung von Felisha Maria Carenage, Luiza Furtado und Anne Meerpohl, (mehrsprachig), Gewölbesaal
Unbehagen Pflegen
hotgirlinvenice
10.11.23 18:00 – 21:00
Vierte Welt, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin
Powerpoint Karaoke on the Ethics of Exclusion, for the 'Decolonising the Institution' edition of Talking Objects Lab's La Palabre series.
Unbehagen Pflegen
Fluctoplasma: Unbehagen Produzieren
27.10.23 18:00 – 19:30
MARKK, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, 20148 Hamburg
Perspektiven auf den intersektionalen Kulturbetrieb
Wie schaffen wir eine Community übergreifende Solidarität? Und wie funktioniert intersektionales Arbeiten? Auf diesem Panel kommen Clara Laila Abid Alsstar aus der aktivistischen Kunst, Felisha Maria Carenage aus dem universitären Kunstkontext, Melissa Kolukisagil aus der intersektionalen Club- und Festivalsarbeit und Nina Prader aus der Independent Publishing Szene zusammen, um sich über die aktuelle Lage und ihre Wünsche an die Kunst- und Kulturszene austauschen... Wie umgehen mit den unterschiedlichen Momenten der Konfrontation, wie Räume des solidarischen Miteinanders und der critical friendship schaffen? Moderation: Quyên Vo
Altstadtrundgang: Wer in Deutschland Leben Will
13.08.23 12:30 – 14:00
Stadt- und Schifffahrtsmuseum Warleberger Hof, Kiel, Germany
An old town walk to accompany Sugarworks: architecture, salonability and exoticism around 1773 2023 with the artist Felisha Carenage.
The tour begins with a visit to the exhibition 1773. The artist will focus on discomfort in public space, exploring not just the infrastructure of memory culture within Kiel's historical old town, but strategies of Negative Care which she has employed in the decade of her time in Kiel's Fine Art University. This walk is an extension of the dialogue from the Sugarworks intervention - addressing exclusion mechanisms in art and cultural institutions which feature language, visual language, immigration policy, etc.
Accompanying Sugarworks Zine downloadable here.
Unbehagen Pflegen
CCC - Alternative Curatorial Methods
04.08.23 – 06.08.23;
aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6 · 10999 Berlin
Panel at summer symposium, hosted by the nGbK working group „Curating through Conflict with Care“ (CCC)
Alternative Curatorial Methods
with Azadbek Bekchanov, Edna Bonhomme, Mawena Yehouessi, Felisha Maria Carenage
These art-workers will share insights and questions developed from experience with alternative artist-run spaces, co-organizing working groups to address questions of curatorial control and curatorial kindness, and strategies of taking care with language and critique towards decolonial methods for Europe’s cultural and education spaces.
Nein. Badgyal Hauntologies
24.03.23 18:00 – 21:00
Studio Dem, 241 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Flyer cover design: Káschem Büro
Drawing Breath
27.08.22 11:00 – 12:30
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Steintorpl., 20099 Hamburg
Reading and Installation at FREIRAUM, Museum of Applied Arts, Hamburg. Part of OPEN, Festival of participative spaces.
Flyer cover design: Káschem Büro