when
utopienale IV takes place from 28 August to 10 September 2025
what
Visual art shows, panel discussions and a film programme, inspired by the following themes:
exile
the beginning of a diaspora
psychic migration
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
OPENING
28 August 2025
The Old School ICA
Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)
Reception gathering with informal opening speeches
EXHIBIT
“Ibirapitanga”
Dana László da Costa
15 June – 10 September 2025
The Old School ICA
Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)
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FILM PROGRAMME
the film programme will be organised simultaneously in Havelberg and Berlin
28 – 31 August 2025
• The The Old School ICA, Schulstraße 3, 39539 Havelberg (map)
• Berlin venue to be confirmed
> more info to follow
‘a day at the beach’ (by invitation only)
DIALOGUE with panel members and audience
“Trajectories of Exile”
Introduced by Franziska Seifert, Azby Brown, and Wolf Guenther Thiel;
Moderated by Gaston Meskens
30 August 2025
The Cordts Art Foundation – Schwanenwerder
Inselstraße 2A, 14129 Berlin (map)
EXHIBIT
“Operation Swallow”
Natalia Vatsadze
2 – 5 September
Halfsister
Torgauer Str. 1, 10829 Berlin (map)
> more info to follow
BOOK PRESENTATION
“tense_intense. Parallel Media”
Kurt Hofstetter and Barbara Doser, with Bazon Brock
3 September 2025
Silent Green
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin (map)
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EXHIBIT
“Exiles of the Psyche”
Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens
installation with soundscape
6-7 September 2025
Floating University
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin (map)
> more info to follow
CLOSING PERFORMANCE RECEPTION
TINKEBELL & Ashley Zelinskie
8 September 2025
venue to be confirmed
> more info to follow
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.