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

Curation: Nina Prader.

Faggamuffin Bloc Party presents Black History Season Workshops! These workshops are a first look and invitation for Queer people to explore the history, practice and play of Carnival and Soundsystem practices.

Workshop #3: J’Ouvert: playing the citizen
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. 

A place never fully held, the BPA// Exhibition 2025 at KW, will show works by second year BPA// participants produced over the course of their working period with the program.

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.

KW and BPA// Berlin program for artists founded their partnership in 2020. BPA// is a two-year independent mentoring program that fosters exchange between emerging and established Berlin-based artists. Founded in 2016 by Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny, and Willem de Rooij, BPA// organizes studio visits, public talks, and presentations.

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. Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change. is an activating exhibition filled with bold ideas, imaginative reflections and daring performances. It brings together artists whose work is driven by energy and eccentricity — with movement, the body, choreography and theatricality at its core. The exhibition encourages desire, to feel, to take the stage, to make noise, to listen, and to collectively imagine new possibilities.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Wrecking the El Faro

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.

Curated by Sönke Kniphals

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 Carenage, Will Fredo, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Tra My Nguyen, Julija Zaharijević and Esvin Alarcón Lam. Curated by Will Fredo.

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.

Scenographic Intervention, with Xavier Robles de Medina, for the conference Gardens in Transition at SAVVY Contemporary. A Collaboration with Berlin Program for Artists.

The conference takes place in the framework of the 15-month-long programme TRANSITIONS, funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning.

Performative Lesung von Felisha Maria Carenage, Luiza Furtado und Anne Meerpohl, (mehrsprachig), Gewölbesaal

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.

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.

Alternative kuratorische Methoden  
mit Azadbek Bekchanov, Edna Bonhomme, Mawena Yehouessi, Felisha Maria Carenage
Einblicke und Fragen werdem ausgetauscht, die sich aus der Erfahrung mit alternativen, von Künstler_innen betriebenen Räumen ergeben haben, aus der Mitorganisation von Arbeitsgruppen, die sich mit Fragen der kuratorischen Kontrolle und der kuratorischen Freundlichkeit befassen, und aus Strategien des sorgsamen Umgangs mit Sprache und Kritik im Hinblick auf dekoloniale Methoden für Europas Kultur- und Bildungsräume.

Reading and Installation at FREIRAUM, Museum of Applied Arts, Hamburg. Part of OPEN, Festival of participative spaces.