Solaris Space

Solaris is a studio space run by an artist collective working across new media. Named after Lem’s novel, Solaris is a place for exploration of the unknown and impossible with a specific focus on combining digital crafts with unusual materials. Solaris celebrates a hands-on approach, supports small productions and fosters exchange between the artists.

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Current Residents:
Valerian Blos
Shu-Hua Chang
Hsiangfu Chen
Theresa Reimann-Dubbers
Catharina Dörr
Gosia Lehmann

Former Residents:
Maryna Makarenko

Solaris is excited to present a group-show, featuring perspectives from contemporary artists working across sculpture, moving-image and performance. In her work ‘Depressed Animals’ Elisa Jule-Braun is tracking the movement of animals in captivity and translates them into ‘smart objects’ such as drones or cleaning robots. Maryna Makarenko follows the ‘stalkers’- young men who are looking for spiritual experiences in the post-nuclear Chernobyl plant. While Emma Adler looks into esoteric beliefs and hatred substituting religions in New-Far-Right. Bitsy Knox is going to read her essay about Ornette Coleman and 70s TV show ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’.

The exhibition looks at erratic human behaviour from ‘outsiders’ perspective, giving the feeling of watching post-apocalyptic David Attenborough’s animal documentary on the weirdest of the Earth’s species. What unexpected twists await us in the next season? Buckle up- it’s going to be a wild ride!

Curation and Concept: Gosia Lehmann & Valerian Blos


Opening:
FR. 07.06.2024, 19-22h

Exhibition:
SAT-SUN, 08.-09.06: 12-18h
MON-THU, 10.–13.06: 14–18h

A showcase of ceramic works by Studio Valerian Blos, TRD Intra and Catharina Dörr.
Part of Berlin Design Week 2023.

At first glance, the ceramic works of TRD Intra and Studio Valerian Blos appear to come from different worlds: symmetric meets organic, mysterious meets precise, soft meets sharp. But both are explorations of forms that escape traditional category confines.
Form Garden unites the two practices in a hunt for the surprising and out-of-place. A selection of works will be on display at ‚Solaris Space‘ – a breeding ground for exploration of the unknown with a focus on combining digital crafts and unusual materials. The pop-up will be accompanied by an extraordinary ceramic piece which Catharina Dörr designed during her research project "Do Objects Have Gender?"

Vernissage:
12.04.2023, 18-22h

Exhibition:
13.–14.04: 12–18h

Loud cosmic bodies echo as whispers in the solar storm. We get lost in the maze of our own finger prints. A vacuum filled with visitors: ideas that linger in the back of our minds. Artefacts, waiting to be manifested. In colour from out of space. This planetary object of ours. It swallows, digests, preserves.

Solaris is very excited to host ‘High Weirdness’- a guest exhibition with Rosanna Graf, Emily Hunt and Antonia Freisburger.

‘High Weirdness’ will take you for a trip to the edges of human perception and comprehension; either through the vast universe of Antonia Freisburger’s paintings, magical tools to hunt for the unknown made by Rosanna Graf, or through the miniatures of domestic objects and nested stories of Emily Hunt’s ceramic figures. The exhibition plays with different aspects of ‘weird’ and glides on the borders between familiar and uncanny.

Vernissage:
15.09.2022, 18-22h

Exhibition:
Friday 16.09: 12 – 20h
Saturday & Sunday 17.09 – 18.09: 12 – 18h