Oshin Siao Bhatt, Yevgeniy Fiks, Tore Hallas, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian & Mahsa Saloor, Clara Sika Helbo, Saodat Ismailova, Kyuri Jeon, Aziza Kadyri, Flo Kasearu, Björn Larsson & Carl Johan Erikson, Albina Mokhryakova, Adina Pintilie, Ajla R. Steinvåg, Anna Tereshkina, Anna Uddenberg

The exhibition explores the political and technological challenges affecting bodies today. The artists examine how the body becomes a site for ideological and political power, looking at strategies of resistance against state control. Focusing on legal, somatic, and cognitive aspects, they reveal how laws and norms are used as tools for the oppression of “unwanted” or “unconventional” bodyminds.
The New Subject at the KINDL is the fourth and final exhibition of a series of interconnected shows.

Curators: The Creative Association of Curators TOK (Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits)

16.10., 18:00
Guided tour with Ulrike Gerhardt (Curator, Berlin)
In German
Free admission
Registration

23.11., 12:00 – 17:15
Symposium Contested Bodies: Navigating Control, Resistance, and Technological Impacts
Curators, artists, and researchers, including Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits (Curators, TOK), Micha Frazer-Carroll (Writer and Researcher, London), Ulrika Flink (Curator, Stockholm), Clara Sika Helbo (Artist and Designer, Copenhagen), Caitlin Berrigan (Artist, Writer, Researcher, Berlin), Anan Fries (Artist and Performer, Berlin), and Avi Feldman (Curator and Lawyer, Director of Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin), will share their insights on the intersections of bodily autonomy, legal frameworks, and technological innovation.
In English
Free admission

15.1., 19:00
Adina Pintilie in conversation with Thibaut de Ruyter (Architect, curator and art critic, Berlin)
In English
Free admission

KINDL with The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies shows us bodies as battlegrounds, through a collective exhibition of artists from all over the world that depicts how unfair and painful the impact of societal rules can be on us. Crossing different scenarios and places, bodies are limited, judged, tortured, studied, left in pain, disassembled.
Beatrice Sacco, thecolumbist.com, 5.11.24

Booklet The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies

As part of

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

Björn Larsson & Carl Johan Erikson are supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Adina Pintilie’s project was supported by Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin.

Kyuri Jeon’s project was supported, in part, by the  Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.