Centrum, Reuterstrasse 7, Berlin (2026)

Formerly used as a retail store and brothel, Centrum’s exhibition space is not a white cube, but owes its specific character to its tiled floor composed of red ceramic and grey stone tiles, and from the large shop window looking out into the street. Centrum offers a platform for the discourses in and around contemporary art as well as the opportunity to meet artists through artist talks, lectures,

and film screenings. We work with international and locally based artists, offering space and support for experimentation and for the development of new work.

26/01/2026

We are very excited to introduce Andrey Shental, whose solo show opens this Friday at Centrum as part or Vorspiel for CTM & Transmediale.

Andrey Shental is a Berlin-based artist and art writer working across film, landscape performance, environmental interventions, critical and fictional texts. Informed by a background in philosophy and a fascination with sublime natural forces, his practice explores questions of the domination of nature and the ideological biases embedded in techno-scientific systems. Through queer-ecological performative strategies, he often uses his own body to stage relations of attachment, submission, and dissolution that challenge pastoral imaginaries. In his films, Shental endows more-than-human agencies with political force, questioning anthropocentric hierarchies and merging natural and social histories.

Attachment issues , 30 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
*Opening: Friday 30 January, from 6 to 9:30 pm

visiting hours:
Saturday & Sunday from 2 to 7 pm
Centrum | Reuterstr. 7, 12053 Berlin

more at centrumberlin.com

22/01/2026

Andrey Shental | Attachment Issues

Opening: Friday 30 January 2026, 6 to 9:30 pm
pop up exhibition as part of Vorspiel CTM & Transmediale

The exhibition ‚Attachment Issues‘ centres on common psychological patterns of anxious and avoidant behaviour to critically reassess bucolic visions of “wild nature” as well as the human longing for the “more-than-human” world. These roles are not fixed identities but unstable positions that shift and reverse through relational dynamics. Is it possible to build a “secure” relationship with the natural Other or is it precisely the tension between these centrifugal and centripetal forces that binds humans and the natural world together?

This body of work is centred around a series of performances and interactions with plants developed by Andrey Shental between 2022 and 2025 and his collaboration with musician Ange Halliwell and photographer Janna Tatarova.

More information 👉centrumberlin.com

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26/11/2024

MEET THE ARTISTS 2/2
OPEN TABS, 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2024
Participating Artists: Vivienne Griffin, Cian McConn

*Opening: Thursday 28 November, from 7 pm*

Vivienne Griffin (they/them, b* Dublin) studied fine art at Hunter City University New York. Moving between experimental sound and art, through the digital and the human voice, Griffin is an anti-disciplinary artist who uses video, sound and sculpture. Recent performances include, A—Z, Always Coming Home, Matt’s Gallery 2024, Assembly, Somerset House with Úna Monaghan, Slug, Leipzig, 2023. Recent shows and events: The Song of Lies, Bureau NYC 2024, Coalescence, Showroom 2024, Quantum listening, Camden Arts, Centre with Ignota books, 2023, Transmediale, Berlin, 2023 On Paper, ECHO, Cologne, 2022. Vivienne won an Oram Award in 2021, are a resident at Somerset House Studios, London, and represented by Bureau NYC. They are now an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art.

Open Tabs is made possible with the kind support of Zeitgeist Irland 24 and the Arts Council of Ireland.

visiting hours:
Friday - Saturday from 2 to 7 pm, Sunday 2 to 6 pm
Centrum | Reuterstr. 7, 12053 Berlin
more at 👉 centrumberlin.com

Portrait image 📸 Jamal Springer Lynch
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25/11/2024

MEET THE ARTISTS
OPEN TABS, 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2024
Participating Artists: Vivienne Griffin, Cian McConn

*Opening: Thursday 28 November, from 7 pm*

Cian McConn (he/him, b* Galway, Ireland) completed his MFA at the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. He is a visual artist and performer whose non-hierarchical approach toward multimedia practice embraces image-making, text, performance and collaboration. Cian works with concepts of identity, persona and the performance of the self in relation to our mental health, ageing and wellness culture. McConn was awarded the visual artist bursary from the Arts Council Ireland in 2022 and was a resident at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in March 2023. Recent exhibitions and performances include ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety, Science Gallery London, I AS IN US with Vivienne Griffin (IRL), MNAC, and Bucharest, Augusto with Alessandro Sciarroni (IT), among others. He is currently based between Berlin and Ireland.

Open Tabs is made possible with the kind support of Zeitgeist Irland 24 and the Arts Council of Ireland.

visiting hours:
Friday - Saturday from 2 to 7 pm, Sunday 2 to 6 pm
Centrum | Reuterstr. 7, 12053 Berlin
more at 👉 centrumberlin.com

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23/11/2024

OPEN TABS, 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2024

Opening 29 November, 7 pm
Participating Artists: Vivienne Griffin, Cian McConn

Open Tabs brings together the work of Vivienne Griffin and Cian McConn. It employs improvisation and play, and uses intuitive strategies as well as somatic exercises to identify common ground as well as a space-embracing uncertainty. A new sound based work by Griffin as well as textile, ceramic and works on paper by McConn will be on display, as well as a commissioned exhibition text by Rebecca O’Dwyer.
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