Pickle Bar Off-Site

Dedicated to an unlikely form of knowledge production–one where hospitality and discourse are inseparable—Pickle Bar, is a non-profit art space in Moabit, Berlin, under artistic direction of Anastasia Marukhina, with a focus on performative and discursive formats. Thematic programmes invite investigation and animation of the area between the roof of the mouth and the tongue, cutting across spoken word, poetry, and politics, and exploring the limits of ideologies and the edges of belief systems.

soft power is an independent art space, appropriating with its name a political term that describes and uses the influence which ›soft‹ assets such as culture and art can have on political and economic spheres. Through exhibitions and other formats, artistic directors Eva Herrmann and Linnéa Bake are working on critically examining ›soft power‹ as a conceptual framework, guided by the question how this ambiguous notion can be challenged and reclaimed from various artistic perspectives.