Himmel unter Berlin - An exhibition series in Berlin's darkest places
In the past, a large part of the city was connected by cellars. In Tempelhof, you could walk for kilometers underground along entire blocks. Some of these cellar systems still exist today.
The event takes you to previously inaccessible, secret places in the Berlin underworld—former cellars, vaults, or industrial facilities opened exclusively for this art project.

Sewing Machine Orchestra - Singer sewing machines, objects charged with collective memory and family histories, evoke a transfigured past brought back to the present and decontextualized. In Sewing Machine Orchestra, twelve domestic machines, collected and diverted from their utilitarian function, become the protagonists of a choreography orchestrated by computer and amplified by contact microphones.

Directly inspired by the performance of the same name, this installation reveals the sound and light potential of this familiar object. Unsettling in the agitation it generates, the work evolves in a crescendo of sound: like a polycephalic mechanical monster, the machines come to life with increasing intensity, filling the space with a low tone.

The omnipresent light accentuates the spectral effect of the installation. It transcends the overall choreography and casts the shadows of these ghostly objects, symbolically reanimating an industrial and domestic past. This hybrid work invites us to take part in an unsettling experiment on our links to collective memory and its materiality.

Martin Messier
Sewing Machine Orchestra
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PRISMA 2026

This year’s edition of PRISMA is dedicated to the ‘Inner Light’, the flame that burns at the very core of all beings. A reflection on what makes us unique, but also on what unites us, on a journey that reveals the many perspectives of a force that pulses within every particle.

The inner light burns in immense darkness, in exact proportion to the care it is given. In this edition of the festival, we sought to nurture the brilliance and intensity of a matter that is a synonymous with existence itself. Soul, wisdom and science. A celebration of encounter and the discovery of what connects us, even when everything seems to separate us or make us fade away.

In 2026, PRISMA invites us to look inward in order to better understand what exists outside. To explore the boundary between the visible and the invisible, between matter and spirit, between the individual and the universe. To recognise in every manifestation of life a possibility for knowledge, creation and transformation.

It is said that Goethe’s last words were ‘more light’, perhaps because it is in light that all true discovery begins. May that light never go out, to paraphrase Steven Patrick Morrissey, a genius whose flame is as volatile as that of a candle on a windy night.

tele-present wind (Mars wind version) by David Bowen is a collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The piece consists of a series of 126 x/y tilting mechanical devices connected to tall dried grass stalks installed like a field in the gallery. The mechanisms will tilt, move and sway based on data collected from the wind sensor on the Perseverance Mars rover.

David Bowen
tele-present wind (Mars wind version)
PRISMA Festival 

Schemerlicht Festival

From 9 to 19 October, the Goffertpark will be transformed into an audiovisual art trail. The theme of this year’s edition is ‘Conscious Beings’. This year, the trail runs not only through the park, but also through your own consciousness. Fourteen artists explore how perception arises, where attention begins, and what happens when your familiar way of seeing is momentarily disrupted.

In SHRINK 01995, Lawrence Malstaf depicts a human body being slowly vacuum-packed and vertically suspended between two transparent plastic layers. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. 

The confrontation with this vulnerable, moving body makes us acutely aware of our own bodies and our presence. We almost empathise with the person in the installation and, as a result, become aware of our own breathing, boundaries and physicality. SHRINK 01995 brings us so close to a direct, physical experience of consciousness: the realisation that we are not merely observing, but are ourselves a body that feels and perceives.

SHRINK 01995
Lawrence Malstaf 
Schemerlicht Festival

Until 16 December 2026

Urgent times. Emergent futures.

EMERGENCE[Y] brings together artists, scientists, technologists, and collaborators to explore how we adapt to a world in flux. In an age marked by ecological collapse, technological acceleration, and social upheaval, adaptation becomes not only a biological imperative but a creative and ethical act. This Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition asks: how might we not only survive through change but emerge in a critically reimaged future?  

tele-present wind (Mars wind version), created by artist David Bowen in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that uses data collected from the wind sensor on the Perseverance Mars rover.

The exhibition has been curated by Science Gallery Head Curator Tilly Boleyn, with input from a team of academic experts and young people.

David Bowen
tele-present wind (Mars wind version)
Science Gallery Melbourne