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SomoS Arts, Berlin: an artspace and residency supporting artists, curators, and researchers.

11/10/2026

SCAFFOLD · Sound/Drawing Performance · Friday, October 16, 2026

SomoS presents a performance by visual artist Junghwan Cho (.chojunghwan) and Bahraini composer and musician Hameed Al Saeed (), considering the physical and emotional effects of urban architecture.

“Cities and buildings are often discussed in terms of development, property, efficiency, and economic value. But I want to look at them from the perspective of the body and everyday life.” — Junghwan Cho

Cho will draw with charcoal on paper stretching across the gallery floor. Al Saeed’s intense, brooding electronic improvisation will influence his movement and marks, while the drawing will suggest new directions for the music. Both artists set the pace and build tension together, aiming for a synesthetic effect between drawing and sound.

A selection of Cho’s new works will also be on view for the evening.

Doors: 6 PM
Performance: 7 PM
Admission free

SomoS Arts
Kottbusser Damm 95, 1. OG, 10967 Berlin
U8 Schönleinstraße

Junghwan Cho’s artist residency at SomoS is supported by the Busan Cultural Foundation ().

05/10/2026

“”For me, making art is a way of paying attention: to the city, to the body, and to the relationship between them.”” — Junghwan Cho

Korean artist Junghwan Cho (조정환 Cho Junghwan) works with painting and drawing to explore how urban spaces affect us. His architectural background and experience of Busan’s changing cityscape inform his attention to light, sound, surfaces, and the feelings that remain after moving through a place.

During his residency at SomoS in Berlin, Cho is working directly with the city, making drawings and sound recordings and exploring connections between painting, sound, and performance. Stay tuned for his performance later this month with SomoS alumnus, composer, musician, and producer Hameed Al Saeed.

His residency is supported by the Busan Cultural Foundation (부산문화재단).

Read more about Cho and his work on the SomoS website. Link in bio.

24/09/2026

With her solo exhibition "Yokai: A Third Perception" open at SomoS, we want to thank Hal Osawa for bringing the work together with such focus and care.

Our thanks also go to everyone who took part in the project and shared their stories with Hal, to those who helped realize the installation, and to the Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation for supporting her Artist-in-Residence stay in Berlin.

And thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening and has already spent time with the work. Seeing the installation encounter an audience, across different languages, interpretations, and ways of listening, is an important part of the project itself.

Yokai: A Third Perception is on view through September 26, 2–7 PM.
Admission free.

15/09/2026

Hal Osawa: Yokai — A Third Perception

Japanese multidisciplinary artist Hal Osawa works in painting, video, and installation. In the multi-screen video installation "through," she explores what happens when two people understand an exchange differently yet keep responding to one another, and how a new meaning can form between them.

The exhibition concludes Osawa’s residency at SomoS, supported by the Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation.

Opening: September 22, 6–9 PM
On view: September 23–26, 2–7 PM
SomoS Arts, Berlin
Admission free

14/09/2026

A visit to the fantastic Sculpture Workshop of the Kulturwerk des BBK Berlin, where SomoS resident artist Marguerite Harris has been developing new work.

The Paris-based American artist works across analog film, video, installation, sculpture, and media art. Combining historical technologies with digital processes, her work explores how technological change transforms our perception of movement, light, time, and image formation.

Thanks to Margerite and the Bildhauerwerkstatt!

08/09/2026

THE SUITCASE RESIDENCY
UK Artists Pack for Post-Brexit Cultural Survival in Berlin
Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 7 - 9 p.m.
On view: September 9 & 10, 2026, 2-7 p.m.
SomoS Arts, Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin

From 8–10 September, SomoS Arts hosts The Suitcase Residency, bringing six UK-based contemporary artists to Berlin for a compact experiment in cross-border cultural exchange.

27/08/2026

Tine Steen - Die kochenden Affen - Artist Talk / Exhibition
at SomoS

What does cooking have to do with becoming human? How have food preparation, divisions of labor, and social relationships shaped human development?

On September 3, 2026, 7–9 p.m., Berlin-based visual artist and comic author Tine Steen joins us at SomoS Arts for a reception and Artist Talk on her nonfiction comic "Die kochenden Affen," published by avant-verlag. The talk will be moderated by Paulus Fugers.

The book brings together cultural history, evolutionary research, and the format of a cookbook, tracing the history of food preparation far beyond the emergence of Homo sapiens. With humor and precision, Steen connects cooking to human evolution, labor, gender, and politics.

An exhibition on September 4–5, 2026, 2–7 p.m., extends the book into the gallery through larger-than-life cardboard figures based on its characters and themes.

📍 SomoS Arts
Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin
Free admission
More info: somos-arts.org

22/08/2026

XIMENA VELÁZQUEZ — ARTIST TALK
August 25, 2026, 7–9 p.m. / Doors 6 p.m.

Join us at SomoS for a public artist talk with Mexican artist Ximena Velázquez (), currently in residence at SomoS, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts (.council).

Working across video, performance, sound, textiles, and installation, Velázquez draws on migration, q***r identity, family memory, Mexican visual culture, ornament, and the aesthetics of femininity and excess.

During the evening, she will discuss recent projects and present excerpts from "Rosa Pastel," the ten-channel video installation she is developing during her residency. Reflecting on the decade since her migration from Mexico to Canada, the work turns the decorated cake into a charged image of celebration, expectation, femininity, and the grotesque.

The conversation is moderated by art historian and writer Daisy Nikoloska (.asm).

Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Doors 6 p.m. / Artist Talk 7–9 p.m.
SomoS Arts, Kottbusser Damm 95, Berlin
Admission free

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10967

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