NEWS
Solo show
“(im) Possible Antidote” part of the program “Ecosystems of Care”
18. 06. – 23. 07. 2025
Pförtnerhäuschen (Gatekeeper’s House)
Danziger Strasse 101/103/105
10405 Berlin
Opening hours:
Wed–Sat: 4–9 pm
A Prater Galerie project, curated by Helena Doppelbauer
“(Im)Possible Antidote” is a site-specific art project that explores the tension between what seems unattainable and the potential to overcome it. By researching the site and observing how plants can heal, the project focuses on phytoremediation—the use of plants to detoxify contaminated soil and restore ecological balance. Plants with detoxifying properties are central to this process, offering cures for both soil and body.
group show
Éter
20. 7. – 30. 12. 2024
Galeria VNBM| Viseu
With the artists: 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗘́ 𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗔 , 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗡𝗔 𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗦 , 𝗗𝗜𝗢𝗚𝗢 𝗣𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔̃𝗢 , 𝗚𝗔𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗔 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔, 𝗝𝗢𝗔̃𝗢 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗜𝗥𝗢𝗭 , 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗔 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗠 , 𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗘 , 𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗥𝗢 𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗔
𝗘́𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝘦́ 𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘰 𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢̂𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘢́ 𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢̀ 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗰̧𝗮̃𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮 𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘩𝘰𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘴, 𝘦𝘮 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘶, 𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦̂𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘴 2 𝘶́𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦́𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘴.
group show
RE:VISION – 20 Jahre Kunstverein Tiergarten
13. 9. – 26. 10. 2024
Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin
Solo show
RESILIENT GARDENS
4. May – 30. June 2024
at at 𝘝𝘕𝘉𝘔 – arte contemporânea, Viseu, Portugal
Artist in Residence
25. March – 28. April 2024
at at 𝘝𝘕𝘉𝘔 – arte contemporânea, Viseu, Portugal
The Senses of Plants / Die Sinne der Pflanzen
3. March – 2. June 2024
Opening: 2. März 2024, from 17:00 at Villa Merkel in Esslingen am Neckar
The thematic group exhibition “The Senses of Plants” shows research-based, non-anthropocentric perspectives on the senses, abilities and intelligence of plants from the point of view of international young artists under the artistic direction of Julia Katharina Thiemann at Villa Merkel in Esslingen am Neckar. In the diverse artistic works by Anais Karenin, Marisa Benjamim, Suzette Bousema, María Castellanos and Alberto Valverdes, Patricia Domínguez, Špela Petrič, Miriam Simun, Saša Spačal, Anton Vidokle, Zheng Bo and others, alternative ways of interacting with plants and trees are aesthetically presented, conveying ecological, philosophical and, not least, social and political issues.
KUNSTAUKTION
07.10.2023, 19:00 Uhr
St. Matthäus-Kirche, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin
PREVIEW
September 29-October 6, 2023 Tue-Sun, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
KUNST HILFT HELFEN Hilfe für Flüchtlingshilfe
ST. MATTHÄUS-KIRCHE, im Berliner Kulturforum
With the artists: Nevin Aladag Kani Alavi, Martin Assig, Marisa Benjamim, Liane Birnberg, Norbert Bisky, Johanna Diehl, Paula Döpfner, Lea Draeger, William Engelen, Thomas Florschuetz, FRANEK, Johannes Geccelli, Surya Gied, Andreas Greiner, Katharina Hinsberg Irene, Hoppenberg, Iwajla Klinke, Fabian Knecht, Bettina Krieg Mischa Kuball, Jeewi Lee, Via Lewandowsky, Maximilian Magnus, Sajan Mani, Jakob Mattner, Jenny Michel, Philipp Modersohn, Michael Müller, Winfried Muthesius, Navid Nuur, Marc Pouzol, Brigitte Riechelmann, Annika Rixen, Miguel Rothschild, Hella Santarossa, Sonja Schönberger, Marc Siebenhüner, Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn Strawalde, Lars Teichmann, Daniel Thurau, Michael Triegel, Jorinde Voigt, Sibylle Wagner, Raul Walch, Robert Weber, Ina Weise, Albrecht Wilke, Xoooox, Andrea Zaumseil
Tasting En Plein Air – Edible workshop
“Tasting En Plein Air” (“Verkostung unter freiem Himmel”) is inspired by the open-air painting of the Impressionist movement (from French: en plein air: “im Freien”). In her workshop, artist Marisa Benjamim combines the beauty of nature with the sensual experience of taste. During a walk through the green islands of the Kulturforum, the participants collect eatable pigments/plants under her guidance, with which they draw and then taste the artworks.
Free to attend, the workshop will be held in english.
Program: Marisa Benjamim (www.marisabenjamim.com)
Location: Baumschule auf der Piazzetta
Registration: info@baumschule-kulturforum.de
Photo by Andrés Galeano
Spritz – The Taste of Kulturforum – Edible Installation
3rd September from 14:00 – 17:00
Tag im Grünen St. Matthäus-Kirche im Kulturforum, Berlin 2023
LAND ART BRANITZ – INTERVENTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN LOST PLACES
Stiftung Fürst-Pückler Museum Park und Schloss Branitz
2nd June 2023 at 11:30
Meeting point: flower garden between stables and Branitz Castle
Artists: Marisa Benjamim, Suntje Sagerer, Reiner Maria Matysik, Daria Wartalska & Prisca Wüst
Curator: Jan Hufenbach
Edible lecture “Rezepte zum Widerstand”, Cooking together, Geko – Gesundheitkollektive Berlin, 2022
6th August 2022, Saxdorf Parish Garden
This project was part of the artist-in-residence project Diesseits von Eden curated by Hannes Langbein and Keumhwa Kim. Diesseits von Eden is a project of the St. Matthäus Foundation as part of the theme year, “Lebenskunst- Kulturland Brandenburg 2022”.
Exhibition “Blumenstrauß aus Saxdorf” and Edible Installation “Tasting en Plein Air”
6th August 2022, Saxdorf Parish Garden
This project was part of the artist-in-residence project Diesseits von Eden curated by Hannes Langbein and Keumhwa Kim. Diesseits von Eden is a project of the St. Matthäus Foundation as part of the theme year, “Lebenskunst- Kulturland Brandenburg 2022”.
Edible Performance “Floristaurant – The Taste of Eden”
26th July 2022, Saxdorf Parish Garden
This project was part of the artist-in-residence project Diesseits von Eden curated by Hannes Langbein and Keumhwa Kim. Diesseits von Eden is a project of the St. Matthäus Foundation as part of the theme year, “Lebenskunst- Kulturland Brandenburg 2022”.
Food and Justice
Zu Community basierter Kunst, Teil #2
Lecture Performance “Rezept zur Widerstand”
Freitag, 13. Mai 2022
OKK – Organ kritischer Kunst – organ of critical arts, Prinzenallee 29, 13359 Berlin.
Interview for the Kulturmitte Magazin
Gemeinsam Pflanzen essen – Marisa Benjamims „Edible Installations“
Photo @ Mizu Sugai
Visual essay “Rezept zur Widerstand” for Umbigo Magazine edition #79
Não toques nos objectos imediatos
5 March – 7 May 2022
Espaço Adães Bermudes, Alvito ( PT)
With the artists: Catarina Lopes Vicente, Daniel Fernandes, Inês Teles, Isabel Madureira Andrade, Manuel Fonseca, Marisa Benjamim, Manuel Borges
Yūgen APP – Porto Design Biennale
2 June – 25 July 2021
Instructions of Yūgen App propose different modes of thinking and feeling different arrangements of planetary coexistence, invite us to forge intimate kinships with nonhuman life-worlds that dwell in the blurred boundaries between technology and ancestral wisdoms and force us to reflect on endangered nature and our relationship with it by proposing face-to-face encounters with nature and non-human beings.Theexercises propose that we listen—and observe, smell, touch, speak—to the land, the water, the air not with the aim of distantly understanding, grasping, or exploiting, but to resonate, to vibrate, to be together.
https://portodesignbiennale.pt/en/events/yugen-app
“Hortus Deliciarum” recipe for Umbigo Magazine
Art in Quarantine – UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times.
Amuse-bouche. Der Geschmack der Kunst
19 February – 17 May 2020
Is the taste of art sweet, sour, bitter, salty or even umami? What role does our sense of taste play in social interactions and as an artistic material? Museum Tinguely continues its series on the senses in the arts with a group show bringing together work by international artists who address our sense of taste as a possibility for aesthetic perception. Featuring works by, among others, Janine Antoni, Marisa Benjamim, Otobong Nkanga, Emeka Ogboh, Shimabuku, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and Elizabeth Willing.
https://www.tinguely.ch/en/ausstellungen/aktuell-vorschau.html
Mediterranean Trilogy Conference
Documentation of the edible installation made in August 2018 Alvito
Centro Cultural Raul de Carvalho, Alvito, Portugal
(day 1) 1.11.2019 from 14:30 – 18:00
(day 2) 2.11.2919 from 9:30 – 18:00
Terreno – Urban eco-biographical actions
Performative edible installation | 26 October at 16:00
Hiroshimastrasse 25 Berlin, Germany
Part of the project »Licht Luft Scheiße [Light Air Shit]. Perspectives on Ecology and Modernity« proposes a diverse series of twentieth-century concepts and practices that resonate with our current ideas of sustainability. They are both historical references and points of departure for novel or updated reflections on alternative ways of living in the globalised world. In light of the on-going destruction of Planet Earth we must fundamentally rethink our relationship to the biosphere and all non-human beings.
Beitragende / Contributors: Mojisola Adebayo, bankleer, Silvia Baptista, Julia Bar-Tal, Daniel Bejarano, Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Brett Bloom, Luca Bogoni, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Marco Clausen, Bonnie Fortune, Paula Gioia, Ekhart Hahn, Guy Hazwi, Naomi Hennig, Marc Herbst, Nicolas Humbert, Initiative Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg und Commons-Abendschule, Hagit Keysar, Marion Louisgrand Sylla, Jumana Manna, Barbara Marcel, Kerstin Meyer, Sabine Meyer, Camila Nóbrega, Jan Rolletschek, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Blanka Stolz,Marisa Benjamim, Wen-Ling Chung, Marcos Garcia Pérez, Moritz Gramming, Daniela Zambrano Almidon, Michelle Teran, Yvonne Volkart, Werner Wiartalla, Nicole Wolf, Florian Wüst.
Licht Luft Scheiße
dé-jardiner
gr_und art space
7 June from 7pm: Vernissage as part of the ” Rendez-vous im Garten” program
Berlin, Germany
Eau Florale – Performance
Roskilde Festival
July, Roskilde, Denmark
Artist talk – The Taste of Flowers in the frame of the Symposium ” taste and food culture”
5-6 April, Basel, Switzerland
Trilogia Mediterrânea
Edible Installation
Casa da Praça; Alvito, Portugal
Amuse-bouche. Der Geschmack der Kunst
2 June – 28 October 2018
The 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1), with the title Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Curated by Katherina Gregos, featured 104 artists and took place in 7 venues around the city of Riga and 1 venue in Jurmala.
https://www.rigabiennial.com/en/riboca-1
Watch your Bubble!
Art and Science- in cooperation with Humbolt Universität and Einstein Foundation School of Mind and Brain, Gallery Nord – Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (DE)
24H Brl/Wro,
Ulica Ofiar Oswiecimskich 14, Wroclaw (PL)
Good Friends
Kunstpunkt Berlin Galerie für aktuelle Kunst; Berlin