Mélissa Antier Cardenas | Sara Lucia Castillo | Katya Kanke | Sofía Mariaca

Ouroboras

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Exhibition from September 11th – October 03rd, 2026.​​​​​​

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Friday September 11th

19:00 | Opening

 

Saturday September 26th

15:00 | Poetry Session & Screenings

 

Sunday September 27th

14:00 – 18:00 | Wet Felting Workshop

14:00 – 16:00 | Embodied Voice Workshop  

 

Saturday October 03rd

16:00 | Closing

Sound Performances and live music   

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The first time I came to Germany, I tried to make sense of my foreign presence in this country.

I looked at an image of a snake eating its own tail, an alchemical symbol for endless cycles and the relationship between birth and death…but I cannot help but think that it must hurt to bite yourself in order to become a symbol…a token. I wonder … What if we listened to the snake? How does it feel to change skin every season? Which paths did you cross before? What did those landscapes look like? 

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Ouroboras deepens our different diasporic experiences through textiles, painting, installation and photography. Melissa Antier Cárdenas, Sara Lucía Castillo, Sofía Mariaca and Katya Kanke come together in the Vorfluter Space to share charms and intimate stories of  protection, uplifting adaptability with tenderness and fantasy. The photograph of a friend, hair from a loved one, bees, wool, wax and earth enter in dialogue, not only to evoque memories but also to energize our present. We invite guest artists and the audience to give life to an open program, activating the shared space with video, reading, performance and sound, expanding the many manifestations of existing in shifting identities and territories.

 

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Mélissa Antier Cardenas (1999, FR) is a polyform artist of Mexican Reunionese roots. Her practice dialogues between painting, performance, and fibber art. She has been based in Berlin since 2023 where she teaches art and is engaged with the collective Ciudad Migrante.

 

Sara Lucia Castillo (2001, CO) multidisciplinary artist, currently studying at UdK and FU Berlin. She works across painting, sound, poetry and performance.

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Katya Kanke (1985, RU) Currently lives and works in Hamburg. An artist working in the genres of photography and performance, she explores themes of corporeality, trauma, and crisis.

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Sofia Mariaca (2001, BO) is a Bolivian artist studying in Weissensee School of Art. Using materials such as textiles, old photographs, hair, and earth, she seeks to weave personal stories with collective memories. She has made a one year exchange in La Esmeralda in Mexico City.