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Philosophicum Hohenkarpfen | Proximity and Otherness | On the Human Relationship to the World | Symposium
Nähe und Fremdheit – Zum Verhältnis des Menschen zur Welt
Proximity and Otherness | On the Human Relationship to the World
24. Oktober 2026
Philosophicum Hohenkarpfen
"Das diesjährige Philosophicum am Hohenkarpfen widmet sich einem Thema, das den Menschen in seinem Verhältnis zu sich selbst, zu anderen und zur Welt auf grundlegende Weise betrifft: der Spannung von Nähe und Fremdheit. (...) Das dritte Philosophicum am Hohenkarpfen lädt dazu ein, diesen Fragen im gemeinsamen Gespräch nachzugehen. Aus philosophischer Perspektive sollen Gefühle als eine grundlegende Dimension des menschlichen Weltverhältnisses in den Blick genommen werden – als Medium von Nähe, als Ausdruck von Fremdheit und als Schlüssel zum Verständnis unseres In-der-Welt-Seins." (Textauszug: Philosophicum Hohenkarpfen)
Mit Zlatko Valentic - Gäste: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg), Prof. Gabi Schillig (Berlin)
More information coming soon.
Philosophicum Hohenkarpfen
Hafnarborg Museum | Iceland | Spássian / Margins | Exhibition
Spássian / Margins
Hafnaborg Exhibition from August 27 – November 01, 2026
The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Arts, Hafnarfjörður (Iceland)
Opening August 27, 2026
curated by Katrín Björg Gunnarsdóttir & Úlfur Bragi Einarsson
More information coming soon.
Hafnarborg
Kommunale Galerie Berlin | It's a Balance Trick – Zeitgenössische Kunst zwischen Gleichgewicht und Instabilität | Group Exhibition
It´s a Balance Trick – Zeitgenössische Kunst zwischen Gleichgewicht und Instabilität
Ausstellung vom 28. Mai bis 13. September 2026
Eröffnung am Mittwoch, den 27. Mai 2026 um 18 Uhr
„It's a Balance Trick" versammelt künstlerische Positionen, die Gleichgewicht nicht als statischen Zustand, sondern als dynamischen, oft prekären Akt des ständigen Aushandelns begreifen. Die Künstler:innen untersuchen den fragilen Moment des Kippens sowohl im Werk als auch in der Ausstellung: Über drei Monate hinweg kommen und gehen Werke, verlassen das Gebäude oder kehren zurück. Installationen, Performances und partizipative Interventionen schaffen neue Dialoge zwischen Kunst und Publikum.
Künstler*innen_ Thomas Behling, Anna Borgman, Wiebke Elzel, Catherine Rose Evans, Simon Faithfull, Tom Früchtel, Ya Wen Fu, Noa Heyne, Kennedy & Swan, Csilla Klenyánszky, Nadja Verena Marcin, Gabi Schillig, Natalia Stachon, Morten Straede, Sophia Pompéry
Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Hohenzollerndamm 176
10713 Berlin
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Simon Faithfull, Entanglement with a Tectonic Rift, 2022
Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Japan Foundation | Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln | Fragile Landscapes – もろやかな景色 | Exhibition
Fragile Landscapes
What touches between body and clouds
もろやかな景色
からだと雲の狭間にふれるもの
Gabi Schillig & Yui Kawaguchi
As part of the dialogue exhibition at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne, Gabi Schillig and Yui Kawaguchi create a transforming space—a fragile landscape of fabrics, words, sound, and movement in which memory, transformation, and transience can be physically experienced.
Is carrying, enveloping, holding something a constraint or a liberation? Are clothing and fabric protective shells—or membranes that connect us to the world? And does all suffering and joy ultimately pass away like the morning dew?
Inspired by the Japanese Hagoromo legend and Grimm's The Six Swans, the artists explore the hidden power of “carrying” – and reveal a notion of transience that runs like an invisible thread through German and Japanese myths. Two stories in which a magical garment, a second skin made of fabric, transforms the lives of its wearers.
Soft, fleeting fabrics, light, space, and movement create a breathing architecture—permeable, layered in space, flowing, flowing in time, and finally dissolving. The inside becomes the outside, the self becomes the world. The softness of the materials blurs perceived boundaries: between you and me, nature and human, inside and outside. The exhibition transforms life and language into an experience of freedom.
In this translucent landscape, performative narrative and architectural fragility merge into a poetic web in which fabrics carry words, movements leave memories, and space becomes a resonating body for the fleeting.
March 11 – June 26, 2026
Opening on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 7 p.m.
with a performance by Yui Kawaguchi
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Since 1995, the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne has been organizing dialogical exhibitions, in which works by one Japanese and one German or German-based artist are shown. The aim of the exhibition is to deepen artistic exchange and to realize a jointly developed concept. The selection was made by a Japanese-German jury of experts. The theme for the 2026 exhibition has been set as 移ろい、無常、あわい “transience.” / Images © Yui Kawaguchi, Gabi Schillig
Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln
Yui Kawaguchi
Pina Bausch Zentrum | BDA Wuppertal | Talk
Ein Gespräch zum geplanten Neubau des Pina Bausch Zentrums in Wuppertal, in Kooperation mit dem Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA / Wuppertal) mit Gabi Schillig, Jan Kampshoff und Andre Rethmeier/Christoph Schlaich – moderiert von Marina Kirrkamm und Holger Hoffmann (BDA).
4. Februar 2026 – 20.15h
Pina Bausch Zentrum Förderverein e.V.
Kurt-Drees-Straße 4
42283 Wuppertal
Pina Bausch Zentrum Förderverein e.V.
HEAD Genève, Switzerland | Animals Inside | Conference
The conference "Animals Inside" is initiated and organized by MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture, HEAD – Genève (HES-SO) / Javier Fernández Contreras, Youri Kravtchenko
17 November 2025
HEAD – Genève, Avenue de Châtelaine 7
1203 Geneva, Sitzerland
"The Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) at HEAD – Genève studies the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity, paying particular attention to human–non-human entanglements. This includes the dynamic relationships between humans and animals within the domestic sphere — a relationship that has transformed radically across time and geography.This conference invites designers, architects, historians, researchers, artists, and theorists to explore the history of objects and furniture designed for pets in domestic interiors, from antiquity to today. We aim to investigate when and how animals entered the home, and more crucially, when their presence began to transform its design through specific furniture and objects created for their use.From the ornately crafted birdcages of imperial courts to Victorian aquariums, and from today’s wall-mounted cat gyms to AI-powered talking buttons for dogs — these objects offer a unique lens through which to examine changes in domestic space, material culture, design, and our understanding of interspecies cohabitation." (text by HEAD Genève)
HEAD MAIA Genève - Animals Inside
deutscher werkbund berlin | Triennale der Moderne | boundaries & transitions | Hiroyuki Unemori, Gabi Schillig, Kay Fingerle & Ludwig Heimbach | Talk
A talk and dialog between Hiroyuki Unemori (Toyko), Gabi Schillig, Kay Fingerle & Ludwig Heimbach at deutscher werkbund berlin within the scope of "Triennale der Moderne".
The title ‚boundaries and transitions‘ relates two central concepts: “boundaries” as places of demarcation and determination, and “transitions” as nuances of movement, change, and transformation. This connection opens up perspectives on transformation—both in artistic practices and in contemporary architecture, theory, and performance.
The four artists and architects have a strong connection to Japan in their work: Hiroyuki Unemori runs his architecture firm Unemori Architects in Tokyo, Kay Fingerle and Ludwig Heimbach both received the Villa Kamogawa scholarship from the Goethe-Institut in Kyoto, and Gabi Schillig has been working regularly in Japan since 2023 to further develop her artistic research on “Topologies of Softness.”
They present selected works and discuss spaces between cultures and disciplines in which boundaries arise, become permeable, or shift. In their work, they focus primarily on those interstitial spaces in which cultures, disciplines, and materials overlap and new meanings emerge.
November 7, 2025 at 19h
deutscher werkbund berlin
Goethestr. 13
10623 Berlin - Charlottenburg
©️Hiroyuki Unemori - Houses / Photo: Kai Nakamura
werkbund berlin
triennale der moderne
unemori architects
kay fingerle
ludwig heimbach
Maj van der Linden Gallery | SCHNITT | Sensing Space | Magazine Launch & Exhibition
On October 9, 2025, Schnitt and MAJ VAN DER LINDEN Gallery invite to an evening that combines publication and exhibition: the launch of Schnitt’s third issue, dedicated to the theme of Senses, and the opening of the group exhibition Sensing Space.
Both the magazine and the exhibition seek to expand this perspective by stimulating other modes of perception. Sensing Space brings together works that explore how architecture, design, and art can be experienced through different sensory dimensions - from the tactility of materials to the recollective power of smell, from atmospheric qualities to embodied forms of encounter. Perception is rooted in our own bodies, thresholds, and intimate taproot of selfishness, and in Sensing Space, these solitary perceptions begin to resonate collectively.The exhibition unfolds as a curated collection of sensory experiences, inviting visitors to reconsider how space can be felt, smelled, and touched, as much as it can be seen.
Participating artists, designers, and architects include_Studio Jumi, Marlies von Soden, Gabi Schillig, 27 87, Tina Bobbe, Iammi, Julika Hartz, Bêka & Lemoine, and Yasmin Bawa.
LAUNCH AND VERNISSAGE
Thursday October 9, 6 - 9pm
ON DISPLAY
October 9 - November 13
OPENING TIMES
Fridays & Saturdays 2 - 6pm
or by appointment
LOCATION
MAJ VAN DER LINDEN
Veteranenstraße 15
10119 BERLIN
Image: Yasmin Bawa by Margaret Flately
SCHNITT
Maj van der Linden Gallery
Kyushu University | Graduate School of Design | Fukuoka, Japan | Forum for Contemporary Practices | Artist Talk + Workshop
Topologies of Softness & the Sphere of the In-Between:
Space, Body, Materiality, Dialogue, Relational Ethics
Gabi Schillig is a visual artist whose sculptural works, performances, and actions explore the intersections of art, architecture, and design. She is also a professor of spatial design and exhibition design at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. In her talk and workshop topologies of softness & the sphere of the in-between: space, body, materiality, dialogue, relational ethics, Schillig will share insights into her practice, followed by a hands-on exercise inviting participants to actively engage with her methods.
Alongside the event, the performance video 'Do You Think Something Soft Can Protect Something?', 2024 (18:11min) by Soh Souen and Gabi Schillig will be presented in the Visual & Audio Lounge from October 2 to 9.
Within her artistic practice, Gabi Schillig explores space as an extension of the living body. In her work, bodies, spaces, and actions are mutually dependent and intimately connected. For Schillig, space and body are never static or immobile but alive, ephemeral, and in constant transformation. It is shaped by individual bodily experiences as well as by collective (inter)actions that, in turn, contribute to forming societies and the world we inhabit.
Schillig’s work focuses on the creation of soft, ephemeral environments: textile shells, spatial structures, pliable skins, and at times, barely perceptible membranes that challenge rigid spatial boundaries. These soft architectures act as mediators, dissolving binaries of inside and outside, self and other. They invite tactile, embodied dialogues and open new ways of being in, perceiving, and transforming space. These qualities hold the potential for transformation and foster an openness toward an ethics of care, resilience, and coexistence.
Schillig´s practice unfolds across various media—through fragile materials, textiles, drawings, experimental photography, installations, performative activations, and video.
Date＆Time – Talk & Workshop_
Monday, October 6th, 2025, 18:30 -20:00
Venue_
Kyushu University, Ohashi Campus, Printing workshop room 207, 2F, 4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minamiku, Fukuoka, 815-8540
Please register here:
https://forms.office.com/r/C6jBuXhJJc
Forum for Contemporary Practices
Kyushu University
Saruya Artist Residency | Fujiyoshida, Japan | Artist Residency
For September 2025 Gabi got invited as a resident artist at Saruya Artist Residency in SARUYA in Japan, located at the bottom of Mt. Fuji in the city of Fujiyoshida. Since 2017, SARUYA has received more than 30 artists from all over the world. Saruya aim is to foster cultural and artistic exchanges between Japanese artists and foreign artists in the fields of painting, mixed visual media, dance, performance, video.
Saruya Artist Residency
