AKTIONALE 5 – Naked Being - FEHLZEIT (Time Out / Absence)
Curated by Larissa Nod and Peter Schlangenbader
Exhibition dates: August 15 – September 6, 2026
Opening: Friday, August 14, 2026, 7 pm
Performance HAUT (Skin): Zam Johnson · Viktoria R. Müller · Larissa Nod · Peter Schlangenbader
POETRONIC: Zam Johnson · Peter Schlangenbader
AKTIONALE 5 is intended as a reflection—a call to us all not to let ourselves and our wonderful world be led to the slaughter time and time again.
Since 2010, AKTIONALE – Das nackte Sein (The Naked Being) has opened an artistic window every four years onto the great questions of our existence. With its fifth edition at the Verein Berliner Künstler (Association of Berlin Artists), the exhibition series continues its discourse on vulnerability, transience, and the conditions of being human. Through individual artistic positions, diverse perspectives on the human being—on our inner depths, our longings, and our future—meet and engage with one another.
AKTIONALE – Das nackte Sein was initiated by Peter Schlangenbader in 2010. Together with rotating co-curators, he develops a new edition every four years, sharpening our view of humanity and the times we live in through a variety of artistic approaches.
The fifth edition is titled FEHLZEIT (Time of Absence). The term signifies the absence of the essential: the loss of empathy, responsibility, truthfulness, and humanity in an era of profound change. Artificial intelligence, social divisions, wars, and ecological crises are altering our perception of the present and the future. The exhibition serves as a reflection on these developments and as an invitation to ask what defines us as human beings.
The exhibition brings together contemporary artistic positions that explore questions of humanity through diverse artistic languages. Abstract lines of thought, subjective realms of experience, and social reflections open up multi-layered perspectives on the present and on shifting concepts of identity and reality.
Finissage: Sunday, September 6, 2026, 4 p.m.
Artists
Bernadette Arnaud · Steffen Blunk · Merit Fakler · Zam Johnson · Viktoria R. Müller · Larissa Nod · Nele Probst · Martin L. Reiter · Corinna Rosteck · Katrin Salentin · Peter Schlangenbader · Anita Staud · Klaus Theuerkauf · Ila Wingen