Our writer Sophie Jung looks at four of the twelve special projects presented as part of the new ›Featured‹ section within the 12th edition of Berlin Art Week. An exploration of disparate venues, each with a unique perspective on contemporary art

Sounds, notes, and music sit at the heart of Annika Kahrs’s practice. A new work by the artist will be on view at Schering Stiftung to coincide with Berlin Art Week.

For some time now, artist Elske Rosenfeld has been exploring dissident politics and artistic practices in the former GDR and the period around 1989/90. Her work features simultaneously in two exhibition projects at the nGbK, both on view during Berlin Art Week. We spoke with Rosenfeld about US civil rights activist Angela Davis and the power of embrace, about historiography and depots, about dissidence, dissonance, gaps in funding policy and the problem with the word ›collective‹.

During Berlin Art Week, Ligia Lewis presents her new piece ›Still not Still‹ at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. We spoke to Lewis about difference, creating images on stage and »fugitive aesthetics«.

Thea Djordjadze’s often fragile-looking installations—on view in a solo show at Gropius Bau during Berlin Art Week—are anything but easy to grasp. But decidedly unstable and precarious as they are, they offer a certain freedom of interpretation that has become increasingly rare.

At the heart of Alexandra Bircken’s work is the human body in all its vulnerability, but also its drive for self-destruction. For Berlin Art Week, Bircken is showing a large, site-specific installation at Kindl—Centre for Contemporary Art.

Reflecting on the Chinese diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean, ›Más Allá, el Mar Canta‹ is a group exhibition about what emerged from the ruins of coloniality in the region. We spoke to the curator Pablo José Ramírez about this intricate history and the flip side of coloniality.

Vivian Suter has now spent more than three decades working in her garden in Guatemala, where nature intervenes in her paintings and contributes to their creation. After a 2017 presentation of her work at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel comes ›Bonzo’s Dream‹ at Brücke-Museum in Berlin. Suter’s first institutional exhibition in Germany puts her work in dialogue with pieces by artists associated with the »Brücke«group