Exhibitions and Public Programmes

List of projects

2025

• Inherit AR labs x TA T
  Artist researchers and fellows of the Centre for Advanced Studies “inherit. heritage in transformation.”
• Muddy Measures. When Wetlands and Heritage Converse
  Curated by Margarete von Oswald, Yoonha Kim and Juliana Robles de la Pava. In cooperation with the Centre for Advanced Study “inherit. heritage in transformation” and the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity.”
• anatomia publica. Open Stage for Scientific, Aesthetic, and Social Research Practices
  Curated by Paz Ponce

2024

• Tim Otto Roth: Theatre of Memory
  Curated by Felix Satter. An installation by the artist Tim Otto Roth in cooperation with Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
• Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories
  Curated by Felix Sattler. In cooperation with CMUK and Nick Byaba/Parrot Tree Caretakers Association Uganda. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Kunsthochschule für Medien.

2023

• UnBinding Bodies. Lotus feet and Corset (2nd Leg: TA T)
  See 2022: The TA T edition was slightly modified and adapted to TA T exhibition spaces.
• Marlene Bart: Theatrum Radix
  An exhibition by the artist Marlene Bart in cooperation with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
• Flinn Works: Marejesho
  Curated by Flinn Works in collaboration with TA T/HZK, Old Moshi Cultural Tourism Enterprise Tanzania, Berlin Postkolonial, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin – SPK and Zentralarchiv der SMB Berlin and Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen.

2022

• CTM Festival 2022: Fronte Violeta with Martha Kiss Perrone “What is Not / O Que Não Está”
  Created as part of the CTM Radio Lab under the direction of CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Sound Art in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio and The Wire magazine.
• Rachel Rossin: The Maw Of
  Curated by Nadim Samman, produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin in cooperation with Whitney Museum NYC
• UnBinding Bodies. Lotus feet and Corset (1. Leg: MARKK Hamburg)
  Curated by Prof. Dr. Jasmin Mersmann, Dr. Evke Rulffes and Felix Sattler, in cooperation with MARKK Hamburg and the Art University Linz, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung and the Alfred Töpfer Foundation.
• Daoula – Sheen. Capsules of Knowledge and Practices
  Knowledge about West African wild silk in international communities.  Curated by Dr. Laurence Douny, Dr. Karin Krauthausen and Felix Sattler. A project of the Cluster of Excellence „Matters of Activity“ in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, the Weissensee School of Art and the AG Mikrobiologie of HU Berlin. With a film installation by Thabo Thindi.

2021

• COSMOS 1939: Georges Salles/Walter Benjamin
  By Jean-Michel Alberola with a guest appearance by Aura Rosenberg and Frances Scholz. Curated by Caterina Flor Gümpel and Zora Schiffer
• Virchow im Trichinentempel
  Curated by Anna Szöke
• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: Helmholtz Voocaal
  Chamber opera, curated by Felix Sattler
• Stretching Materialities
  Curated by researchers of the project “Object Space Agency”, Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” of HU Berlin. Direction: Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle and Clemens Winkler
• Animal Topographies. Audio stories about animals in Berlin
  Audio plays of the project seminar „Animal Topographies“ at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the HU Berlin under the direction of Dr. Britta Lange and Dr. Mareike Vennen
• Kein schöner Archiv: Natürlich blond
  By and with: Michael Annoff & Nuray Demir. In the context of the series “Kein schöner Archiv: Unfassbare Geschichte(n)”. Sponsored by the Senate Chancellery of Berlin – Cultural Affairs.

2020

• Treating and Trading Animals. Parasitology between Ecology and Economy
  Curated by Katharina Otto and Felix Sattler
• Oliver Thie: Die Wahrheit über den Ursprung der Welt
  Curated by Felix Sattler. Supported by loans from the Mineralogical Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

2019

• Zoology in Pictures. The Wall Charts of the Zoological Teaching Collection
  Curated by Dr. Gerhard Scholtz, Professor for Comparative Zoology at the Institute of Biology
• Dafna Maimon: Wary Mary
  Performance on epidemology, gender and discrimination, curated by ASSEMBLE (Adela Yawitz, Anna Gien) in dialogue with the Zentrum für transdiziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt-Universität (Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Dominique Hurth: soundless voices, bitten tongues and haptic hands
  Performance and installation on the biographies of Lise Meitner, Elsa Neumann and Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, in dialogue with the collection of historical physical instruments at the Humboldt-Universität, curated by Felix Sattler
• Meshwork of Things. The Sammlungsschaufenster of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  Permanent exhibition, interactive “Chamber of Curiosities”: 80 Objects, 24 Collections, 1 Digital Guide. ∞ Connections. Curated by Felix Sattler, Sarah K. Becker, Jessica Korp based on an idea by Felix Sattler and Dr. Jochen Hennig
• AugenWerk – Ørenslyd
  Exhibition and performance lecture on colour theory and perception in philosophy, physics and the arts. Contributions by Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller, Ingo Nussbaumer, Prof. Edvin Østergaard and Hubert Schmidleitner. Curated by Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller

2018

• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: Sinus
  See 2015, restaging of the chamber opera SINUS, expanded to an exhibition
• Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest
  Exhibition cycle, curated by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with and supported by the Ernst Schering Foundation
• Temporary Object Laboratory
  Preview of the Helmholtz Centre’s future research infrastructure. With Angela Strauß, Sebastian Doering and Oliver Thie, with objects and historical instruments from mineralogy, physiology and psychology
• The Dead, as far as [    ] can remember
  Knowledge and controversies about colonial violence, decolonial resistance, human remains and objects from the former colonies in museums and collections. Contributions by Flinn Works with Sarita Lydia Mamseri, Berlin Postkolonial e.V., Tal Adler/Anna Szoeke (CARMAH/Traces), leftvision e.V., curated by Felix Sattler in cooperation with the partners

2017

• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: Sinus
  See 2015, restaging of the chamber opera SINUS, expanded to an exhibition
• Replica Knowledge. An Archaeology of the Multiple Past
  Research and exhibition project on the history of knowledge of replicas from the Aegean Bronze Age, in cooperation with the Winckelmann Institute for Classical Archaeology and the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung”, curated by Dr. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw and Felix Sattler, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in the programme “International Museum Fellowship” and Cluster of Excellence BWG

2016

• Michel Verjux: Gestaltanatomie
  Light installation for the anatomy theatre, Gallery Weekend, in cooperation with Galerie xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin
• Anatomie Gestalten!
  Anatomic models from the teaching of Prof. Dr. Manfred Zoller, curated by Felix Sattler with Ines Liszko and Mona Wischhoff
• Orobates. Nach 300 Millionen Jahren reanimiert.
  Curated by students from HU and TU, designed by students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, in cooperation with the Phyletisches Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, project lead: Prof. Dr, John Nyakatura, Felix Sattler, Michael Ott und Matthias Schmitt, funded by Volkswagen Stiftung, Daimler Benz Stiftung and Cluster of Excellence »Bild Wissen Gestaltung«
• Longing for Landscape. Landschaftsfotografie im Anthropozän
  Photography, European Month of Photography, curated by Curatorial Collective Berlin, Hanna Dölle, Katherina Perlongo, Annika Turkowski
• GRRLT. Abseits der Norm
  An exhibition on the “Gurlt’schen Missbildungssammlung” (Gurlt Teratological Collection), curated by Mona Wischhoff, Sarah K. Becker und Alina Strmljan

2015

• Luis de Belle: Failed Dioramas
  Installation, photography, curated by Felix Sattler
• On the Edge. Artists in Dialogue with Humboldt University Collections
  Curated by Dr. Sara Barnes, in cooperation with Dr. Jochen Hennig and Felix Sattler, funded by Schering Stiftung
• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: Sinus
  A chamber opera in three acts as an apparative reinterpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz “Apparat zur künstlichen Zusammensetzung von Vocalklängen” – a first electro-acoustic synthesizer from the 1950s. Curated by Felix Sattler, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
• Anja Nitz: Wunderkammer Charité
  An artistic portrait of the old Charité. Curated by Felix Sattler

2014

• Moritz Fehr: Inversion
  32-channel sound installation for the anatomy theatre with recordings from the Tierstimmenarchiv (Animal Voice Archive) of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Curator: Felix Sattler, in cooperation with the Tierstimmenarchiv, Dr. Karl-Heinz Frommolt
• Unsere Tiere
  Seventeen positions in the artistic and scientific context. Curated by Dr. Michael Fehr (UdK Berlin, Kunst im Kontext), Dr. Frank Steinheimer, Dr. Renate Schafberg (both: ZNS, MLU Halle/Saale) and Felix Sattler
• The Making of … Ghosts. Stimmen und Erscheinungen in Archiven des Ersten Weltkriegs
  Exhibition with recordings from the Lautarchiv of the HU, curated by Philip Scheffner and Dr. Britta Lange, in cooperation with Dr. Jochen Hennig / Lautarchiv der HU, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the DFG
• Wilhelm Nöller. Forscher, Lehrer, Praktiker
  A portrait of the veterinarian Wilhelm Nöller (1890–1964)
• Mensch Macht Pferd. Von Zügellosigkeit und Züchtigung
  Curated by students of the seminar “Vielfalt der Wissensformen”. Project lead: Dr. Cornelia Weber, in cooperation with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Alles bleibt anders. Eine Ausstellung zu Kulturtechniken im Digitalen
  Curated by Sarah Katharina Becker, Arkadij Koscheew, Mona Wischhoff, funded by BMBF “Wissenschaft im Dialog”

2013

• Humanimal. Mythos & Realität
  Hybrid Beings in Science and Art. Curated by students of the seminar “Vielfalt der Wissensformen”, project lead: Dr. Cornelia Weber, in cooperation with Museum für Naturkunde Berlin