Residency weekend: 23-24. September, 2023
at Künstlerhof Frohnau and the surrounding forest

In Rebecca Solnit’s A History of Walking she reflects on the treadmill as allowing ‘travel to be measured entirely by time, bodily exertion, and mechanical motion. Space - as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience - has vanished.’ The contemporary cultural climate can be seen as a treadmill; consumption and over-production are paired with precariousness and elitism. When a pace is set, how can we begin to slow down and reroute?

ReRouting’s first walking residency is an invitation to Berlin-based artists and cultural practitioners to explore and attempt to exercise this question collectively over a weekend of walking together. The residency will take place at Künstlerhof Frohnau and the surrounding forest, which will become our studio and walking will be our method of exchange and encounter.

See residency open call information here.

Walking residents:

Viviane Tabach is a Brazilian curator and art mediator based in Berlin. Her work centers on educational methods within curatorial and artistic practices. Viviane’s research delves into what makes art institutions effective learning spaces and how the public can be better integrated into this context. She has co-founded and co-directed the art space Casa Aberta in São Paulo, where she organized transdisciplinary projects that integrated music, dance, visual arts, and other forms of expression. Currently, Viviane is a member of the collective Cruising Curators and coordinates the project Co-Making Matters, which has a space at Haus der Statistik in Berlin. Viviane Tabach was an art mediator (sobat) for documenta fifteen and co-edited the publication ‘Ever been friend-zoned by an institution?’, which explores the challenges, expectations, and discrepancies of the exhibition from the perspective of art mediation. In 2020, she worked as an art mediator for the Berlin Biennale and KW Institute for Contemporary Art and participated in the 11th Berlin Biennale’s Curatorial Workshop How Now to Gather. She has worked for institutions such as Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Sesc Pompeia, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, and others, and has collaborated with projects and spaces such as Buro Stedelijk, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Floating University, Brücke Museum, Arts of the Working Class, Hopscotch Reading Room, OSTEN Festival, Grassi Museum, and Pilotenkueche Art Residency. Viviane Tabach is currently pursuing two Master's degrees: Art in Context at Universität der Künste Berlin and Cultures of the Curatorial at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. She holds a postgraduate degree in Art: Criticism and Curatorship from PUC-SP, as well as a Teaching Practice and Bachelor of Visual Arts degrees from the Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual Paulista.

Pia Koh - I am a writer and chef from New York and based in Berlin. Although cooking is how I earn money, writing is normally how I identify myself, despite its being the opposite of profitable. I currently write fiction (novels so to speak) and recently spent a couple of weeks near Ammersee in a bee-house attempting to produce a short book, which is what I'm in the process of editing now.

Daniela Medina Poch, 1992 Bogotá, is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her works have been presented in venues and biennials such as CCA Berlin and The Line in London (2023); the XXII Bienal de Cerveira, Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, Fridays for future - documenta fifteen in Kassel, and in the digital platform of the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Academy (2022); The Listening Biennial in Berlin, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin (2021); Radical Sounds Latin America (2020); VI Bienal Internacional de Performance PerfoArtNet (2019) and XIV ARTBO Fair and at FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá (2018). Her works are part of the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, the Museo de Memoria de Colombia of Bogotá and Collecteurs: The Museum of Private Collections. Medina Poch holds an M.A. from the Berlin University of the Arts and is currently a fellow at Goldrasuch Künstlerinnen.

Derek MF Di Fabio (they/them) recently obtained a Master's in Art Praxis and Critical Theory at Dutch Art Institute with a dissertation on prison abolition as a quantum-transfeminism practice. Their work looks into the possibilities of bodies being present in space. It questions how knowledge is transmitted between bodies and generations, particularly looking at the power dynamics that dominate over them.

Di Fabio’s work includes workshops, stenographies, sculptures, audio walks, and events. It comprises experiences that can be lived again and anew through a shared memory that can no longer be circumscribed by who/how/where.

Their latest exhibitions and works occurred at Fondazione Pomodoro (curated by Eva Fabbris, Milan - IT, 2021) and “Bark” - Almanac Projects (Turin - IT, 2021). Since 2010 they have collaborated with Cherimus, an association that aims to contribute to developing the social and cultural patrimony of the Sulcis-Iglesiente region in southwest Sardinia, Italy, through art. They live and work in Berlin.

Jeremy Knowles (he/him) is a British artist addressing issues such as urbanism, surveillance technology, public space, and environmental change within his projects, which range in expression from photography, sound, and video art to workshops, installation, and public intervention. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from the University of the Arts London, under the directorship of Duncan Wooldridge and Mervyn Arthur, and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design from Oaklands College of Art. Jeremy is currently a student at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, where he also works in his role as Course Tutor, on the MA program Raum Strategien (Spatial Strategies) under the directorship of Nasan Tur and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.

Since 2016, Jeremy has been based in Berlin, where his practice has developed into a playful study of the built environment and the everyday. Jeremy’s projects draw patterns and humour from the randomness and repetitive non-events that characterise the mundane within our lives - the overlooked and often unnoticed aspects of our existence that make us human. By bringing greater prominence and visibility to the accidental and the comical, we are challenged by Jeremy’s projects to reconsider the weight of our daily interactions with things and people in the city and to meditate on what happens when we think nothing is happening.

Anna Ratcliffe is an art historian, exhibition maker and writer based in Berlin. She holds a position at ifa Galerie and is an independent curator. She has two upcoming exhibitions featuring Berlin-based and international artists on themes of ecology and our relationship to the more than human world. Sharing contemporary art with a wide audience is important to her. She supports the Curatorial Collective for Public Art with its events and workshops. Additionally, from 2020 to 2022, she ran Art Tours Berlin, which visited artist's studios, project spaces and galleries to demystify and engage people in the city's contemporary art scene. As a writer, she reviews exhibitions for Exberliner, Daily Lazy and B'SPOQUE magazine. From 2019-2022 she was the Assistant Curator at the project space DISKURS Berlin.

Nina Berfelde
is a self-taught photographer, camera woman, video artist and filmmaker. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and has worked over 15 years in the film industry, mostly but not solely in the realms of theatrical documentaries. She is an experienced writer, director, editor and producer. Her camera work evolves around candid, conceptual and experimental approaches. As integral as seeing the world through a lens, is her body moving through space and time – walking is a cinematic process and artistic practice. Both, the camera and walking, are instruments to channel & integrate interior and exterior worlds. Through this process, she tells stories of possible and necessary reconciliation. Multilinear time, transgenerational trauma, swamps as archive, the lands who moan and bury ferocities which have elapsed and were suppressed. By walking along the scars of history and channeling the stories murmured by trees, lakes, soil and breeze, Nina Berfelde (re-)creates collective dreams, exhumes unknown memories and weaves a ravel of context.

Curatorial team:

Sarah Messerschmidt is a writer interested in art, literatures, and critical theory. Her work spans prose, epistle and formal essay, through which she explores intertextual and interdisciplinary responses to moving image, and film as a form of writing. Sarah has been an affiliated writer with the Maumaus School in Lisbon (2021); ‘The Whole Life: An Archive Project’ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2022); and she was a Writer in Residence supported by the Kunstverein München (2022). Her recent publications can be found in Another Gaze, Artforum, Art Monthly (UK), Camera Austria, MAP, Mousse Magazine, Texte zur Kunst and Third Text.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her creative practice is centered around exploring different methods of working with artistic research including interview material, field recordings and recorded material from an organized site specific intervention. The research is then translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work. In 2019, Nour received the Emerging Artist Prize at the Sursock Museum in Lebanon, for a moving image piece entitled ‘Revisiting: Hold Your Breath’.  She recently completed the Sound Art 2020 scholarship that she was awarded by Lower Saxony and the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany.

Clementine Butler-Gallie is a curator with an interest in future spaces for and past stories of cultural exchange and encounter. She is the initiator of the ReRouting project which was started in response to a feeling that curatorial  spaces must open up, slow down, and reroute. She is co-organiser of the curatorial network 'Continued Conversations', curatorial researcher for Arts Cabinet, and an editor at JAWS journal. She has curated and collaborated with projects at HALLE 14, Leipzig; HKW, Berlin; Mansion, Beirut; Feldfünf, Berlin; CAP, Kuwait, among others.