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Nilra Zoraloglu presents her performance-lecture "Ground, Redrawn. An Experiment in Speculative Cartography" as part of our final Research Ecologies event for 2026: Restless Grounds, Ecologies of Memory and Matter (in English). Held in collaboration with EqualACT: Artistic Research, Make it Feminist!

🗓 29. September
🕙️ 10-5pm
📍 bat-Studiotheater, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin
🌐 For the full programme, see link in bio
👉️ Please register via equalact@hfs-berlin.de and let us know if you'll join for the full day, or part.

Nilra Zoraloglu’s performance-lecture explores how maps frame territory, making some conditions visible while leaving others out. Drawing on Frédérique Aït-Touati’s idea of a “moving Earth,” it asks how changing environmental conditions can be made visible when conventional maps tend to fix territory in place. The talk moves into an animated projection using climatic and environmental data, turning the room into a temporary space for experiencing change through scale, movement, and time.

Nilra Zoraloglu is a Berlin-based artist, architect, and spatial researcher working across architecture, ecology, soil, and experimental forms of spatial representation.

#linkinbio @equalact.berlin @hfs_ernst_busch @udkberlin_gender.diversity @udkberlin @tu_berlin @cue.tu.berlin @nilrazoraloglu by @nilrazoraloglu

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early July/ Aalto‘s little gem taken in Helsinki by @nilrazoraloglu

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somewhere between moving, starting, leaving, starting again by @nilrazoraloglu

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taken in São Miguel Island by @nilrazoraloglu

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🌱 by @nilrazoraloglu

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Venice inspo notes <3 taken in Biennale D'arte di Venezia, Arsenale by @nilrazoraloglu

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TRACE MATTER: A Slow Encounter with Urban Soil

I’m so excited to invite you to a special workshop, part of the Copenhagen Architecture Biennale, created in collaboration with Transfer Collective. 🌱

On 20 September 2025, we’ll slow down and explore the urban ground of Refshaleøen’s Sønder Hoved, once a bustling shipyard, now a creative waterfront. Together, we’ll listen to what this industrial soil remembers and reveals.

Using soil chromatography, we’ll transform earth samples into colorful patterns that make visible the hidden life of the ground, microbes, minerals, and textures.

20.09.2025
12:00–14:00
Transfer, Sønder Hoved, Copenhagen

Limited spots here:
https://billetto.dk/no/e/trace-matter-a-slow-encounter-with-the-urban-soil-billetter-1309695

#TraceMatter #CAB25 #CopenhagenArchitectureBiennale #TransferCollective #Refshaleøen #SoilChromatography #UrbanMateriality #ArtWorkshop #CopenhagenEvents taken in København, Denmark by @nilrazoraloglu

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missin’ the studio grind <3

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#BerlinArtist #SculptureArt #StudioLife #BerlinCreatives #ArtIsWork #SculptureStudio by @nilrazoraloglu

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August House, June ‘25

💛 taken in Johannesburg, South Africa by @nilrazoraloglu

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For the last two years, I have been elbow-deep in clay, glaze, and geological daydreams- chasing cracks, crusts, and weird little relics. 🗿

#berlinartist #berlinartscene #contemporarysculpture #ceramicart #sculpturalceramics #clayandglaze #materialexploration #slowartmovement #abstractgeology #contemporarycraft #fragmentedforms #processbasedart #geologymagic #ceramicprocess #artberlin #studiopractice by @nilrazoraloglu

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Istanbul, 2025

A man guards construction site behind a green curtain.

#35mm #35mmphotography #analogphotography #documentaryphotography #filmcamera #urbanstories by @nilrazoraloglu

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Back to the times when I walked way tooo much, almost out of Berlin.

This artistic research, berl-/birl-, explores swamp soil, a dynamic and discordant threshold between land and water, as a material-discursive ground to co-produce knowledge about the earth’s agency through the alternative image making, namely soil chromatography.

‘berl-/birl-‘, 2024
16 Fine Art Prints , 25 x 25cm (each)
June 6-9 at Haus der Statistik, Berlin

This soil portraits installation was developed during the “What if...?” residency, initiated by the Berlin State Commissioner for Nature Conservation and Landscape Preservation.

Thank youu so much @koppernock for exhibition photos, and @robert_koepke_ making everthing smoother with great curation.
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#artisticresearch taken in Haus der Statistik by @nilrazoraloglu

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