Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Yeşim Akdeniz, Silke Albrecht, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Fiona Banner, Rebekka Benzenberg, Huma Bhabha, Juliette Blightman, Shannon Bool, Leda Bourgogne, Andrea Bowers, Ulla von Brandenburg, Thorsten Brinkmann, William N. Copley, Taína Cruz, Natalie Czech, Hanne Darboven, Thea Djordjadze, Hans- Peter Feldmann, Magdalena Frauenberg, Sabrina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Melissa Gordon, Vivian Greven, George Grosz, Nicolás Guagnini, Anthea Hamilton, Anton Henning, Katie Holten, Dorothy Iannone, Jella Jess, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Chris Johanson, Sven Johne, Markus Karstieß, Thomas Kiesewetter, Christoph Knecht, Takehito Koganezawa, Terence Koh, Ola Kolehmainen, Friedrich Kunath, Robert Lucander, Christian Marclay, Ana Mazzei, Florian Meisenberg, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Oscar Murillo, Donja Nasseri, Marcel Odenbach, Hans Op de Beeck, Phung-Tien Phan, Anys Reimann, Daniel Richter, Megan Rooney, Halvor Rønning, Leunora Salihu, Karin Sander, Oscar Santillan, Hedda Schattanik, Berit Schneidereit, Marie Schubert, Ana Segovia, Philip Seibel, David Shrigley, Amy Sillman, Ruben Smulczynski, Mikołaj Sobczak, Alec Soth, Corin Sworn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Katja Tönnissen, Anna Virnich, Cornelius Völker, Theresa Weber, Alex Wissel

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Miettinen Collection
Marburger Str. 3
10789 Berlin

Visits and guided tours are possible every Saturday between 12:00 and 18:00 and by appointment: info(at)miettinen-collection.de

The Philara Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of a selection of its works at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin. This is part of a friendly dialogue that encompasses a reciprocal presentation by the Miettinen Collection in Philara’s exhibition space in Düsseldorf, as well as other collaborations in Potsdam and Helsinki. 

The exhibition In anderen Händen focuses on improvisation, humour, joy, desire, and resilience in dealing with contemporaneity. The works on show express impulsive feelings, physical presence, immediacy or are devoted to the stream of becoming. Using improvisation and humour – or different perspectives on the everyday – they help us to abandon our position as consumers. In addition, they often bring us humorous relief, unrestrained joy, or new sensitivities, or convey the uncanniness of everyday life, thereby reaching ‘the edge of language’.[1]

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[1] In ‘Stages of Laughter 2’, Amy Sillman compares painting with improvisational theatre: ‘And painting, like improv, is about getting on the edge of language.’ https://www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201501_StagesofLaughter.pdf

Saâdane Afif, Anton Bachleitner, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Marcel Dzama, Antoni Fałat, Valérie Favre, Hans-Peter Feldmann, FORT, Rochelle Goldberg, Dan Graham, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Leila Hekmat, Lili Huston-Herterich, Martin Honert, Rebecca Horn, Jella Jess, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Anna K.E., Eva Koťátková, Friedrich Kunath, Lap-See Lam, Rosa Loy, Florian Meisenberg, Laure Prouvost, Hedda Schattanik, Andreas Schmitten, Wael Shawky, Mikołaj Sobczak, Emma Talbot, Kara Walker, Günter Weseler, Dardan Zhegrova

The Philara Collection is pleased to present Cutting the Puppeteer’s Strings, an extensive group exhibition spanning across 1.700sqm focusing on marionettes and marionette theatre, shadow plays and puppetry, and associated aspects of staging, display and characters in contemporary art - where the traditional craft of puppet theater is currently receiving special attention. The exhibited works pose questions, sometimes in a humorous way, about our possibilities for action at both private and political levels as well as provide approaches for rethinking. At the same time, they shed light on our innermost desires, wishes and feelings. The exhibition brings together works from the Gil Bronner collection, loans and new works created specially for the exhibition, which are complemented by a cooperation with the Marionettentheater in Düsseldorf.

Exhibition curators: Julika Bosch, Hannah Niemeier, Dana M. A. Bulic