The exhibition series POINTS of RESISTANCE moves on to its next chapter «POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace», the final exhibition in Berlin’s historic Zionskirche before the church closes for several years of renovations, featuring over 30 international artists.

Featuring:

Andreas Blank – Jonas Burgert – Tony Cragg – Wojtek Doroszuk – Nezaket Ekici – FRANEK – Asta Gröting – Sven Helbig – Stefan Höller – Olaf Holzapfel – Huang Jia – Nikita Kadan – William Kentridge – Ola Kolehmainen – Via Lewandowsky – Bernd Lohaus – Sarah Loibl – Boris Mikhailov – Fiona Pardington – Angelika Platen – Gerhard Richter – Stefan Rinck – Arsen Savadov – Katharina Sieverding – Vadim Zakharov

⨻ Ukrainian Video Program ⨻

In the context of the 4th edition of «POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace», a video program featuring works by Ukrainian artists will be shown. To support these artists, we present editions of video stills and a graphic novel by Russian designer and illustrator Sofia Kolovksaya. Proceeds are going exclusively to Ukrainian and Russian artists and cultural workers. 

Featuring:

Piotr Armianovski – Fantastic Little Splash – Oksana Karpovych – Dana Kavelina – Yarema Malashuk & Roman Himey – Oleksiy Radynski – Mykola Ridnyi

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⨻ «Points of Resistance IV: SKILLS FOR PEACE» is curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch, Constanze Kleiner and Daniel Marzona in cooperation with David Elliott

⨻ Ukrainian Video Program is curated by Kateryna Filyuk

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Come join us for the opening on April 7th | 6 PM | @ Zionskirche!

This series of exhibitions takes as its starting point the remarkable history of the Zionskirche as a crucial point of resistance. It was the place of activity of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who tried not only to stop the Nazi preparations for war, but also publicly denounced the persecution of the Jews. During the GDR era, the Zionskirche was a shelter for dissenters with democratic views.

Since Easter 2021, the initiators of POINTS of RESISTANCE have been inviting artists and thinkers from a variety of locations and perspectives to engage with the many possibilities and meanings of resistance in today’s complex world.

«POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace» takes its name from the still life SKILLS, by the renowned German composer Sven Helbig. Created in the style of baroque vanitas painting, it depicts, among other things, a vaccine vial, a skateboard, his iPhone, and the cables of his first computer under the neutered protective gesture of Hermes, the messenger of the gods, in addition to the common attributes of the still life genre. 

The exhibition lives in the field between hymn and melancholy, dealing with the underlying question: what's the one idea any person on earth can relate to in today’s secular present? It is peace, one should think. We should have the skills for it – after all that was.