Exhibition from June 26, 2023 to October 6, 2023 // Vernissage on June 25, 2023 from 6 to 9 pm

Sebastian Acker, Claudio Beorchia, Andreea Chirica, Jorn Ebner, Albrecht Fersch, Manaf Halbouni, Pascal Mayet, Benedikt Stoll, Patrick Timm. A project by the artist group msk7 (Mona Babl, Kati Gausmann, Ricarda Mieth, Anja Sonnenburg).

The exhibition RESIDENZPFLICHT I-X brings together works by the artists* who lived and worked successively as artist-in-residence at 10 newly built modular refugee shelters in Berlin in 2019 and 2022.

The invited artists were each housed for 4 weeks in a mobile residential studio that changed location with each residency and was centrally placed at each of the 10 shelters for refugees. The aim of RESIDENZPFLICHT was to temporarily open up the self-contained accommodation for approaches and developments in contemporary art.

The spectrum of artistic projects ranged from temporary sculptural installations, recordings in graphic novel format, a poetic musical piece, research on the topic of nothingness, a participatory offer for filming in front of a green screen to the establishment of a temporary post office with personal letter delivery to Iran.

The exhibition RESIDENZPFLICHT I-X brings together these diverse artistic approaches of the fellows and provides insight into the different experiences during the residencies. Works created during the residency will be on display, as well as artistic works developed after the residency experience. The mobile yellow residential studio in which the artists lived and worked during their residencies will be located in the park at Schloss Biesdorf during the exhibition.

The four-week residencies were described by the fellows as very intensive and were determined by a constant confrontation with themes such as foreignness, being observed and being an observer. In the panel discussion at the exhibition's finissage, the concerns of the programme and the experiences of the participants will be discussed and critically questioned from different perspectives.

In 2018, the project RESIDENZPFLICHT was awarded 2nd prize and the realisation recommendation in the Berlin-wide open art-in-building competition for the Modular Accommodation for Refugees, offered by the State of Berlin, represented by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, commissioned by the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing (Department V) in coordination with the State Office for Refugee Affairs. RESIDENZPFLICHT was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing.

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