CONCRETE AND FEATHERS

How can heaviness cradle fragility, and how can hard surfaces hold traces of softness? How can solidity meet lightness — and how can fragile materials, like our bodies and our lives, bear unexpected strength?

Concrete & Feathers explores how artistic processes can generate resonance in an increasingly harsh and crisis-laden world while cultivating resilience, and how spaces, matter and life itself can be experienced as both fragile and resilient. The works unfold in the space between weight and lightness, permanence and fragility, the built and the fleeting, the dense and the delicate, the hard and the soft.

The exhibition takes place during Gallery Weekend 2026 at Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, an austere, partly subterranean architectural fragment of 1970s concrete hidden within Berlin’s gallery district. Concrete, with its associations of architecture, gravity, endurance, the urban and the man-made, stands alongside contrasting materialities: lightness, the organic, nature, symbols of flight, fragility and impermanence.

The exhibition explores perception, embodiment and spatial experience, navigating overstimulation, uncertainty and moments of retreat. Across liminal spaces and transitional architectures, it traces the delicate balance between fragility and resilience, exposure and protection, self and others, creating immersive encounters that evoke resonance, intimacy, collective connection and a sense of being held.

Together, the works form a poetic spatial dialogue and vocabulary of contrasts, inviting us to walk, pause and feel how mass and space, sound and silence, density and transparency coexist. Concrete & Feathers becomes not only an exhibition but a spatial meditation on how we inhabit spaces and interact with matter and life.

A project by Raumklasse - Class for Spatial Design and Exhibition Design at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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FORGIVE ME, FATHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED

ZWISCHEN RÄUMEN

STADT ALS ZUSTAND

RITES DE PASSAGE

RAMP — AN ASCENT

ÜBERSÄTTIGUNG — STATE OF SUPERSATURATION

FOR A MOMENT, WE — CHOREOGRAPHIES OF TOGETHERNESS

ACQUAINTANCES

PLEATS OF MATTER, PLEATS OF SOUL

EQUILIBRIO — UMBILICO

COUNT YOUR SHEEP

ORGAN

LIKE A BUCKET MIGHT HOLD WATER

FREEDOM FETISH

HOW AM I DOING?

SHAPES OF THE VOID

YOU DREW MY BODY, I DREW YOUR BODY

IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON

+ SHADOWS SHAPING FORMS SHAPING SHADOWS

+ MATERIAL WORLDS – SYNTHETIC NARRATIVES

supervised by_ 

Professor_ 
Gabi Schillig 
in cooperation with Claudia Brieske, studierendenWERK

Artistic Associate_ Enzo Zak Lux 

Lecturers_ Stefan Roigk (Sound), Immo Schneider (Graphic Design & Exhibition Graphics), Nicolas Stephan (3D Modelling) 

Tutors_ Nelly Möller., Lars Sorger

Workshop for Prototypes & Modelbuilding_ Elke Schneider 
Workshop for Mechatronics_ Nils Kreter 

Artistic Advisory Team / Kunstraum Potsdamer Strasse_ Hannes Schützler, Uli Westphal, Juan Pablo Gavria Bedoya, Zoltan Kunkel 

Thanks to the Metal Workshop / UdK Strasse des 17. Juni / Marcel Wältring

CONCRETE AND FEATHERS

How can heaviness cradle fragility, and how can hard surfaces hold traces of softness? How can solidity meet lightness — and how can fragile materials, like our bodies and our lives, bear unexpected strength?

Concrete & Feathers explores how artistic processes can generate resonance in an increasingly harsh and crisis-laden world while cultivating resilience, and how spaces, matter and life itself can be experienced as both fragile and resilient. The works unfold in the space between weight and lightness, permanence and fragility, the built and the fleeting, the dense and the delicate, the hard and the soft.

The exhibition takes place during Gallery Weekend 2026 at Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, an austere, partly subterranean architectural fragment of 1970s concrete hidden within Berlin’s gallery district. Concrete, with its associations of architecture, gravity, endurance, the urban and the man-made, stands alongside contrasting materialities: lightness, the organic, nature, symbols of flight, fragility and impermanence.

The exhibition explores perception, embodiment and spatial experience, navigating overstimulation, uncertainty and moments of retreat. Across liminal spaces and transitional architectures, it traces the delicate balance between fragility and resilience, exposure and protection, self and others, creating immersive encounters that evoke resonance, intimacy, collective connection and a sense of being held.

Together, the works form a poetic spatial dialogue and vocabulary of contrasts, inviting us to walk, pause and feel how mass and space, sound and silence, density and transparency coexist. Concrete & Feathers becomes not only an exhibition but a spatial meditation on how we inhabit spaces and interact with matter and life.

A project by Raumklasse - Class for Spatial Design and Exhibition Design at the Berlin University of the Arts.

arbeiten von_ 

ausgestellte arbeiten_

FORGIVE ME, FATHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED

ZWISCHEN RÄUMEN

STADT ALS ZUSTAND

RITES DE PASSAGE

RAMP — AN ASCENT

ÜBERSÄTTIGUNG — STATE OF SUPERSATURATION

FOR A MOMENT, WE — CHOREOGRAPHIES OF TOGETHERNESS

ACQUAINTANCES

PLEATS OF MATTER, PLEATS OF SOUL

EQUILIBRIO — UMBILICO

COUNT YOUR SHEEP

ORGAN

LIKE A BUCKET MIGHT HOLD WATER

FREEDOM FETISH

HOW AM I DOING?

SHAPES OF THE VOID

YOU DREW MY BODY, I DREW YOUR BODY

IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON

+ SHADOWS SHAPING FORMS SHAPING SHADOWS

+ MATERIAL WORLDS – SYNTHETIC NARRATIVES

supervised by_ 

Professor_ 
Gabi Schillig 
in cooperation with Claudia Brieske, studierendenWERK

Artistic Associate_ Enzo Zak Lux 

Lecturers_ Stefan Roigk (Sound), Immo Schneider (Graphic Design & Exhibition Graphics), Nicolas Stephan (3D Modelling) 

Tutors_ Nelly Möller., Lars Sorger

Workshop for Prototypes & Modelbuilding_ Elke Schneider 
Workshop for Mechatronics_ Nils Kreter 

Artistic Advisory Team / Kunstraum Potsdamer Strasse_ Hannes Schützler, Uli Westphal, Juan Pablo Gavria Bedoya, Zoltan Kunkel 

Thanks to the Metal Workshop / UdK Strasse des 17. Juni / Marcel Wältring