Description
Curatorial Tour - Instinct#20 | Radical Empathy *Queer Perspectives on Conflict, Resilience, and Connection
Group exhibition
During this curatorial tour, we will guide you through artworks that engage with conflict as a generative force and explore “Radical Empathy” as an active, transformative practice. Together, we will consider how empathy can be learned, challenged, and reimagined through queer artistic perspectives.
The tour will examine how artists create spaces that embrace difference, resist dominant narratives, and invite us to remain open to discomfort, connection, and change. Moving beyond passive understanding, these works propose empathy as a relational encounter—one that has the potential to reshape how we live with and through conflict.
instinct #20
__ viewing 02.–12. April
__ Artists
Matthias Bade
Josch Hoenes & Tomka Weiß
Heami Lee
Paul Harfleet
Owa Mesa
Dylan Mitro
Monika Popiel & Paweł Świerczek
Lars Reimers
Tejal Shah
Andrey Shental
__ Performance
Ahmed El Gendy
Dumama
__ Guests (workshops / panel)
Joshua Amissah
Antke Engel
Jan Großer
Lo Höckner
Mati Klitgard
__ Film
Prinz in Hölleland (1993) von Michael Stock
__ Cooperation
Schwules Museum Berlin
Salzgeber Verleih
__ Curatorial Team
Eric LeRouge
in collaboration with
Neo Seefried & Kristijan Radakovic
*The exhibition instinct#20 Radical Empathy serves as an artistic reflection on two we are village projects, Conflict and Resilience and Queer Connect. Bringing these earlier initiatives into dialogue, instinct#20 Radical Empathy revisits their ideas, processes, and contexts, transforming them into a new curatorial framework that invites renewed interpretation.
Program
__ Thursday 2/04
Opening 18:00–22:00
Performance von Dumama – 18:00
__ Saturday 4/04 – 17:00
Performance von Ahmed El Gendy
__ Sunday 5/04 – 16:00–17:00
Curatorial tour n English with Eric LeRouge & Kristijan Radakovic
__ Monday 6/04 – 14:00–18:00
instinct meets stretch festival (closed event)
__ Friday 10/04 – 19:00–21:00
Panel Discussion Between Care and Confrontation
Moderation: Neo Seefried
Guests: Joshua Amissah, Antke Engel, Jan Großer, Mati Klitgard, Eric LeRouge
__ Saturday 11/04 – 16:00–18:00
Workshop with Lo Höckner
Beyond Overwhelm – Somatic tools for shifting from individual struggle to a collective one
__ Sunday 12/04 – 15:00–16:00
Curatorial tour in English with Eric LeRouge & Neo Seefried
__ Sunday 12/04 – 17:00–20:00
Screening Prinz in Hölleland (1993) by Michael Stock
With the director present, followed by a Q&A.
°° all events are free of charge
About Instinct
Instinct.berlin is an arts organization that presents exhibitions with queer artists twice a year at the Village, a community center for queer people in Berlin. These exhibitions, along with performances and talks, encourage interaction between artists and the local community.
The residency program allows artists to engage intensively with the vibrant atmosphere of the Village and build a bridge between their work and the wider queer community. This collaboration enriches the cultural dialog and supports the development of queer art projects, benefiting both the artists and the community at large.
The event is part of our Art Bridge Berlin project, which supports the inclusion of queer artists with refugee or migration experience.
Visit www.instinct.berlin for a list of artists, program details, and opening times.
