utopienale 2025

when

utopienale IV takes place from 28 August to 10 September 2025

what

Visual art shows, panel discussions, and film programmes, inspired by the following themes:

Project Statement
Opening a New Discourse on Exile

locations

Find us at the following locations in Germany:

The Old School ICA, Havelberg

The Cordts Art Foundation – Schwanenwerder, Berlin

Floating University, Berlin

Halfsister, Berlin

Silent Green, Berlin

programme

DINNER TABLE DIALOGUE

by invitation only

28 August 2025
Norma Drimmer Studio, Berlin

GROUP SHOW AT THE OLD SCHOOL
Coming together of the core group of Utopienale participants
Reception gathering with informal opening speeches introducing the theme of “Exile.”

open to the public, free admission

29 August – September 10 2025
The Old School ICA
Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)

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EXHIBIT
“Ibirapitanga”
Dana László da Costa

open to the public, free admission

15 June – 10 September 2025
The Old School ICA
Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)

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CONVERSATIONS
‘Utopienale in Exile’ a day at Lake Wannsee

by invitation only – request invitation

30 August 2025
The Cordts Art Foundation
Inselstraße 2A, 14129 Berlin Schwanenwerder (map)

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OPEN HOUSE AT THE OLD SCHOOL IN HAVELBERG FILM PROGRAMME and SPEAKERS CORNER

open to the public, free admission

31 August 2025
The Old School ICA
Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)

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EXHIBIT
“Operation Swallow”
Natalia Vatsadze / Bouillon Group

open to the public, free admission

2 – 5 September
Opening – 2 September 19:00
Panel discussion – 5 September
Halfsister
Torgauer Str. 1, 10829 Berlin (map)

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BOOK PRESENTATION
“tense_intense. Parallel Media”
Kurt Hofstetter and Barbara Doser, with Bazon Brock

open to the public, free admission

3 September 2025
Silent Green
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin (map)

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EXHIBIT
“Exiles of the Psyche”
by Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens

open to the public, free admission

5 -7 September 2025
Floating University
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin (map)

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organisation

The utopienale 2025 curators:

Wolf Guenter Thiel
Azby Brown

guest curator: Gaston Meskens

what’s happening now

We are currently completing the programme of the utopienale. Watch this space for further updates and write us for more info at info@utopienale.org.