Group Exhibition: Emotion/In Translation | Ehem. Backshop am Gesundbrunnen

with Anne Nascimento, Anna Galasyuk, Yurii Boiko and Yuliia Kazhuk, Miriam Craddock, Catarina Palumbo, Mykola Lebed, Vahid Hosseni

The project grew out of an experience of “performing emotions” developed by the curators Yuliia Kazhuk(@yuliia.kjk) and Yurii Boiko (@_____y__u__r__i) in their shared practice. The idea moves beyond fixed “emotional states” toward a shared, dynamic emotional field marked by transitions and movement. To expand this exploration, multiple artists were invited to respond to the theme “Emotions / In Transition” through their works.
The exhibition unfolds over an eight‑day cycle, with each day highlighting a specific emotional tonality. The participating artists will explore emotions as a continuous, range-based movement — a process that exists as graduation, just as color- and sound-scales.
The exhibition will include works by artists based in Berlin and Toulouse and brings together several medias: performance, sculpture, video projection and sound.

 

About the Artists

Vahid Hosseni is a composer and researcher. His compositions have been praised as “outsiders to the dilemma of the unavoidable mimetic nostalgias of the present time”*, stemming from a “sense of clarity that proposes new solutions on how to survive a ground zero.” His primary concern in composition is the essence of sound and the particularities of human perception. He attempts to create a personal sound world through Persian music tradition in which he was formed and contemporary compositional achievements he has attained.

Mykola Lebed is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in music and sound, working at the intersection of acoustic and electronic music. His work blends elements of minimalism, free jazz, improvisation, ambient music and field recording.

Anna Galasyuk primarily works with metal, textiles, and various printing techniques.Recently, she has been extensively researching the concept of portals, which ontologically defi ne a spacetime where potential (possible) and real meet. While finding oneself within one, is it possible to perceive both sides simultaneously? This inquiry refl ects a readiness to encounter the future while simultaneously questioning whether the present is there to grasp.

Catherina Palumbo lives and works between Berlin and Rome. She is currently studying at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in the sculpture class of Albrecht Schäfer. Her artistic practice is based on collage as both a language and a form of thinking. This approach begins by taking an element from one context and reintroducing it into a new system of relationships, where each gesture of cutting and editing becomes a visual dialogue. She draws on personal and collective memory to select the objects that will question the space and those who inhabit it.

Miriam Craddock working principally in video, performance and installation. Miriam Craddock is an artist from Leeds currently based in Toulouse. She collects objects, stories and personal experiences among other detritus of life to investigate and weave into her nest. With a particular focus on nature and the relationship between humans and animals she uses allegorical characters to reveal the violence of our separation from the natural world in late stage capitalism. She presents an antidote to this violence romanticising monstrous beasts, infestations and symbiotic relationships. Love stories about bigfoots or termites becoming houses act as a connective tissue between her videos, sculptures, installations and drawings. Female bodies, hybridised with creatures, provide material for the characters in an attempt to subvert sexist notions that women are somehow ‘closer to nature’, more ‘magical’ and ‘mysterious’.

Anne Nascimento is a Brazilian artist, currently studying Fine Arts and Sculpture at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Working across stop-motion animation, performance, sculpture, and fi lm, she engages with found objects collected from the streets. By turning urban detritus into artworks, she explores the hidden potential of discarded materials. Her practice emphasizes intuition, memory, and the subtle forces shaping everyday life, revealing new stories within what is often overlooked.

Yurii Boiko and Yuliia Kazhuk:
YB: With our exhibition we want to open a space for emotions – a thing so common but not always deemed artistically relevant. To make them an object of art means for us to let them exist in their full autonomy, to let them transition through us as active forces, as multiple dynamic bodies that are normally pressed into one – that’s where mine and Yulia’s performance grows from.
YK: To step back from emotion is to situate it within a certain/defi ned space, where something deeply familiar and human, is reframed as a “state,” with its own beginning and end. Based on our performance with Yurii “Emotions/In Transition,” we propose a way of perceiving intimate sensations as waves, frequencies and gradients. Fluid, shifting, in constant motion, continuous like a liquid without a fi xed source or a predetermined destination.