Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

About Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

The new podcast by Gallery Weekend Berlin is hosted by renowned art critics Enuma Okoro (FT Weekend) and Silke Hohmann (monopol). It will bring monthly deep dive conversations with artists and other protagonists from Berlins vivid art scene to you. Produced by art/beats.

Publisher

Enuma Okoro & Silke Hohmann

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2025

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

17 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Episode 17 – Kerstin Brätsch

   In this episode, Silke Hohmann speaks with artist Kerstin Brätsch about what happens when painting slips out of its frame: into rooms, books, glass, mosaics, children's play, inner images, and forms of address that are not entirely rational. Beginning with the brushstroke as the painter's signature, Brätsch reflects on what it might mean to question, counteract, or even undo one's own hand. The conversation follows a practice shaped by movement between Berlin and New York, by teaching and collaboration, and by a fascination with the unstable line between belief and disbelief. At the center is a question that reaches beyond painting itself: what can art become when it is not only looked at, but entered, used, trusted, or remembered? Brätsch speaks about Baubau at Gropius Bau, a freely accessible space for children built from color, light, atmosphere, and open-ended elements, as well as works in which painting passes into textiles, glass, mosaic, marbling, Stucco Marmo, and fossilized gesture. Along the way, the conversation touches on visual attraction, provisional truths, spiritualist references, deep time, and the strange moment when an artwork seems to shift from object into presence. Brätsch's first solo presentation with Galerie Thomas Schulte, Die Sein: Para Psychics Expanded (Excerpt), will be on view in Berlin from September 11 to November 7, 2026. Presented during Berlin Art Week, the exhibition brings works from her Para Psychics series into the gallery's Corner Space, where drawing, architecture, floor, window, and image become part of an immersive environment.

2. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Episode 16 – Andreas Eriksson

   In this episode, Enuma Okoro speaks with Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson about a practice rooted in perception, memory, materiality, and the natural world. Moving between painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, and drawing, Eriksson describes how visual sensations, walks through the landscape, and memories find their way into the studio. From an early childhood memory of becoming snow-blind to the bronze casts of birds that collided with his studio windows, the conversation traces how formative experiences of perception, vulnerability, and loss inform his fascination with illusion, reflection, and the shifting boundary between what we see, feel, and know. Eriksson’s work will be shown in two exhibitions at two galleries in Berlin in September: Horizontal Fold at Barbara Wien and a parallel presentation at neugerriemschneider with Korean painter Kim Chong Hak. Together, they offer a chance to encounter his recent work outside the intimacy of the studio and within new spatial and artistic contexts.

3. 

   23 Apr 2026

   Episode 15 – Berni Searle

   In episode 15, writer and curator Enuma Okoro speaks with South African artist Berni Searle (b. 1964, Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives and works) about the layered languages of the body, memory, and perception. Working across photography, video, and sculpture, Searle explores how narratives are constructed and sustained through history, identity, and place, often against the backdrop of colonialism, apartheid, and their afterlives. “I don’t think art alone can change the world,” she says, “but it has a role to play.” Using her own body as a point of departure, she develops works that move between presence and absence, visibility and concealment. In her Colour Me (1998-2000) series, she covers her body in spices such as turmeric and paprika, materials that carry traces of trade, migration, heritage, and cultural memory. They also discuss Searle’s contribution to the Venice Biennale, shaped by the vision of the late curator Koyo Kouoh, that continues to resonate beyond her passing, committed to making visible voices and perspectives long considered peripheral. Ahead of that, her work can be experienced firsthand in Berlin : Searle’s exhibition at PSM Gallery opens during Gallery Weekend Berlin on May 1, 2026.

4. 

   14 Apr 2026

   Episode 14 – Jorinde Voigt

   In Episode 14 sprechen Kunstkritikerin Silke Hohmann und die Künstlerin Jorinde Voigt (*1977, Frankfurt am Main, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) zunächst über Berlin: Was macht die Stadt aus und worin liegt ihr besonderes Potenzial? In ihrem Atelier in Oberschöneweide zerlegt Voigt Wahrnehmungen in ihre grundlegenden Bestandteile und entwickelt algorithmische Abfolgen – Handlungs- und Aktionssequenzen, mit denen sich eine Situation innerhalb eines definierten Möglichkeitsspektrums durchspielen lässt. Die Zeichnung dient ihr dabei als zentrales Medium, um unterschiedliche Ebenen und Aspekte gleichzeitig nebeneinander sichtbar zu machen. So entstehen Werke, die nicht nur analytisch strukturiert sind, sondern auch die Vielschichtigkeit von Erfahrungen in einer eigenen visuellen, poetischen Sprache zum Ausdruck bringen. Ausgangspunkt kann zum Beispiel ein Spaziergang durch den botanischen Garten sein oder Ludwig van Beethovens Sonaten. Zum Gallery Weekend Berlin bringt Voigt den Himmel in die großzügigen, hallenartigen Räume der Galerie Judin in der Potsdamer Straße. Warum gerade das Blau des Himmels jetzt und heute uns etwas darüber verrät, womit wir es eigentlich zu tun haben, erfahren wir in dieser Folge des Podcasts – welche Farbe die Wände in ihrer Ausstellung „Non-Fiction“ haben werden, zeigt sich erst vor Ort.

5. 

   2 Apr 2026

   Episode 13 – Heimo Zobernig

   In dieser Episode besucht Kunstkritikerin Silke Hohmann den österreichischen Künstler Heimo Zobernig (*1958 in Mauthen, Kärnten) in seinem Wiener Atelier. Das Gespräch beginnt mit einer Reise in die Vergangenheit: zurück in Zobernigs Kindheit auf dem Bauernhof, zu den Ursprüngen seines künstlerischen Denkens, wo frühe Vorstellungen von Räumen und Tunneln den Grundstein für ein Werk von großer formaler Konsequenz legten. Zobernig zählt zu den bekanntesten und vielseitigsten österreichischen Künstlern der Gegenwart. Seine Arbeiten greifen die Formen der Moderne auf, spielen sie durch, verschieben und hinterfragen sie. So entstand über Jahrzehnte ein umfangreiches Œuvre, das Malerei, Skulptur, Installation und Video umfasst. Welche Fragen ihn umtreiben - unter anderem wie schwierig es ist, jegliche Bedeutung aus dem Werk zu vertreiben - wird im Dialog mit Silke Hohmann deutlich. Außerdem erfahren wir, warum das Jahr 1977 für Zobernig ausschlaggebend ist und welche Rolle IKEA-Regale und Shakespeares Hamlet in seiner Ausstellung zum Gallery Weekend Berlin in der Galerie Nagel Draxler spielen.

6. 

   10 Mar 2026

   Episode 12 – Anne Duk Hee Jordan

   In dieser Folge spricht Silke Hohmann mit der Künstlerin Anne Duk Hee Jordan (*1978 in Korea, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Hamburg). Jordans Werk bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Ökologie. In raumgreifenden, multisensorischen Installationen verbindet sie Skulptur, Video, Klang und kinetische Elemente zu immersiven Environments, die komplexe naturwissenschaftliche Zusammenhänge sinnlich erfahrbar machen. In ihrem Projekt A Human Reconciliation with Water wendet sich Jordan dem kürzesten Fluss Deutschlands, der Pader, zu. Was geschieht, wenn wir beginnen, ihn als Gegenüber zu begreifen, sogar einen Vertrag mit ihm zu schließen? Und wie fühlt sich eigentlich der Fluss selbst? Gemeinsam mit Silke Hohmann folgt die Künstlerin seinen Strömungen bis in die Tiefen des Meeres, auf den unerwarteten Spuren der Verbindungen zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. Was Science-Fiction, Tiefsee und Sümpfe miteinander verbindet, und warum wir vielleicht schon bald keine Jakobsmuscheln mehr essen wollen, erfahrt ihr in Episode 12 des Gallery Weekend Berlin Podcasts. Vor ihrer Einzelausstellung in der Berlinischen Galerie 2027, zeigt Jordan zum Gallery Weekend Berlin in der Galerie alexander levy einen Remix bislang in Deutschland ungesehener Arbeiten, die thematisch um Wettersysteme und klimatische Zustände kreisen.

7. 

   27 Dec 2025

   Episode 11 – Kapwani Kiwanga

   Host Enuma Okoro interviews artist Kapwani Kiwanga, who discusses her multidisciplinary practice that examines historical structures of power and knowledge through sculpture, installation, film, and performance, revealing the importance of exhibition locations.

8. 

   3 Dec 2025

   Episode 10 - Miriam Cahn

   Host Silke Hohmann interviews artist Miriam Cahn about her exhibition "Traumbefehl" and its exploration of trauma, humanism, and the relationship between humans, nature, and power structures.

9. 

   2 Oct 2025

   Episode 9 - Thomas Zipp

   Silke Hohmann interviews Thomas Zipp, a painter and sculptor, about the intersection of art, science, and music in his work, exploring psychological and philosophical concepts related to consciousness and perception.

10. 

    9 Sept 2025

    Episode 8 – Katharina Grosse

    Writer and curator Enuma Okoro interviews artist Katharina Grosse about her expansive painting practice and its power to reconfigure our perception of space and reality.

11. 

    29 Aug 2025

    Episode 7 – Mischa Leinkauf

    Art critic Silke Hohmann interviews Berlin artist Mischa Leinkauf about his public art interventions that reveal hidden societal rules and control systems.

12. 

    12 Jun 2025

    Episode 6 – Simon Denny

    Journalist Silke Hohmann interviews artist Simon Denny, who delves into his internationally acclaimed work that transforms complex contemporary issues into multi-layered installations.

13. 

    28 May 2025

    Episode 5 - Nadya Tolokonnikova

    Art critic Silke Hohmann interviews artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova about the inseparable connection between her art and political activism, revealing how critique shapes her artistic practice.

14. 

    1 May 2025

    Episode 4 - Melissa Joseph

    In our next episode, Enuma Okoro sits down with artist Melissa Joseph to dive into her upcoming exhibition No Words at Soy Capitan. The exhibition opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin is the first solo presentation in Europe by the New York-based artist. They explore the artist’s journey as a wanderer, her reflections on global unrest, and how Dante’s Inferno and her time spent in Berlin shaped her latest work. Melissa shares how felting — her favorite medium — allows her to translate thought into texture, offering a quiet, tactile form of visual poetry. Together, they reflect on the importance of staying present, and the resilience it takes to keep creating through dark times. Tune in to hear Melissa’s thoughts on belonging, curiosity, and why even a pocket can become a political space.

15. 

    24 Apr 2025

    Episode 3 – Zuzanna Czebatul

    Bildhauerin und scharfsinnige Beobachterin von Macht, Ideologie und kultureller Mythenbildung – Zuzanna Czebatul spricht mit uns über ihre künstlerische Praxis. In ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung bei Dittrich & Schlechtriem mit dem Titel „All the Charm of Rotting Gum“, die zum Gallery Weekend Berlin eröffnet, denkt sie den Pergamonaltar als konzeptuellen Raum neu. Ihre Arbeiten fordern dazu auf, kulturelle Mythen, staatliche Macht und die Fragilität vermeintlich dauerhafter Strukturen zu hinterfragen. Im Gespräch mit der Kunstkritikerin Silke Hohmann spricht Zuzanna über Berlin als widersprüchliche Bühne, über das Verblassen von Monumenten und die Poesie im Bröckeln. Über Uniformen als Auslöschung des Subjekts, das Verhältnis von Körper und Staat, über Pillen als utopische Objekte und die Frage, wie viel von den Versprechen der 90er eigentlich noch übrig ist. Ein Gespräch über Maßstab, Macht, Mythos – und darüber, warum der einzige Weg manchmal mitten hindurchführt.

16. 

    17 Apr 2025

    Episode 2 – Monica Bonvicini

    In this episode, writer and curator Enuma Okoro speaks with the renowned artist Monica Bonvicini, who has been living and working in Berlin since the mid-1980s —a city she deeply loves. A bold and uncompromising voice in contemporary art, Bonvicini’s work challenges the boundaries of power, gender, sexuality, and the politics of space. For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025, she presents her exhibition “It is Night Outside” at Capitain Petzel, spanning three floors with new metal and leather sculptures, glass works, paper collages, and a striking video installation addressing themes of space, identity, and resistance. Mirror works and chain reliefs further enrich the show, continuing Bonvicini’s exploration of language, material, and the body. This episode offers a dive into her creative process—where architecture is a spacethat is ever truly empty or neutral. Tune in for a powerful conversation on measurement tapes, hammers, and the forces that shape our world.

17. 

    9 Apr 2025

    Episode 1 – Marianna Simnett

    The very first episode of Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast is out now! We’re kicking off the series with British-Croatian artist Marianna Simnett, known for her bold, unsettling, and deeply imaginative works. In the opening episode, Marianna Simnett (born 1986) talks about her unique upbringing on a boat, her lifelong connection to animals, and how she radically reimagines Greek mythology through a feminist lens in her latest video work, Leda Was a Swan. Here, Leda is no longer a passive victim, but a complex, self-empowered protagonist. Photo: Christoph Voy, Studio Marianna Simnett, 2025

Who has been a guest on Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

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• Kapwani Kiwanga
• Miriam Cahn
• Thomas Zipp
• Katharina Grosse
• Mischa Leinkauf

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5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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44

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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