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Current: Megan Francis Sullivan, «The Architects» on view through 31 Oct
Upcoming: Listening Session with @elisa_r_linn & @glutenfree92 23 Oct 18:00

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Diving into a neighborhood in the West! Stanford, Free University, and Weißensee students went for a daytime salon and community stroll in the Hansaviertel. 🪷

There, curator and entrepreneur Leonie Herweg has opened Grotto in 2024.

Architecturally, this neighborhood is a manifestation of West-Berlin, as it grew after WWII and before the Wall. Conceived for the International Building Exhibition Interbau in 1957, the iconic quarter exemplifies International Style and modernist living.

🪷 This is where Grotto dwells – a space for art, music, and encounters. Grotto connects neighbors of all generations, new visitors, and a certain entrepreneurial spirit with deliberate programming.

Exclusively for us, Leonie opened the otherwise closed Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church for a peek inside.

We also visited her 89-year-old neighbor, Hans Flaskamp. Hans lives in an atrium house, a home by Eduard Ludwig having retained its original substance faithfully – an idyll and an architectural gem.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this issue of the Temporary Communities series, and most of all, to Leonie and Hans for a most insightful tour with amazing glimpses! 🪷☕✨💕

@grotto.berlin #AlvarAalto #WaltherGropius #PierreVago #EduardLudwig #meganfrancissullivan #temporarycommunities
#stanfordinberlin #stanfordbosp #stanforduniversity #studyabroad

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NACHTRAG:

Im Zuge vom Tag des Offenen Denkmals fand am Sonntag in unserer Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche ein Konzert statt. Dieses wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Leonie Herweg, dem Kunstraum GROTTO und der Hansabibliothek veranstaltet.
Vielen Dank für das große Interesse an diesem Konzert!

Zusätzlichen Dank an Nik Ash für die Fotos

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Surprising great location for performances, Yes in a church. @leonieherweg @grotto.berlin @girlbecomesbird

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Berlin: Saturday, August 29, is the last day to see Heinz Peter Knes’s “Rosa Winkel, zweiteilig, 2026” in Grotto’s display window in the Hansaviertel. Almost destroyed during the war, this incredible neighborhood beside the Tiergarten was rebuilt by modernist architects for Interbau 1957.

Heinz’s two photographs show pink surfaces meeting black along diagonal seams—beautiful abstractions. Reflections of trees, bicycles, cars, and passersby create a wonderful kaleidoscopic effect. The street vitrine is one of my favorite forms of display: encountered day and night, it offers beautiful problems for exhibition-making as far as what and how to show, and how it will be interpreted and by whom.

Kirsty Bell wrote an accompanying text about this kind of sideways glance and how meaning depends on context. She describes photographs pulled from Heinz’s archive that invite renewed attention as “calling images”—open and uncertain, reappearing in another time and place.

The exhibition refers to the pink triangle, used by the Nazis to persecute homosexual men, then reclaimed by the gay liberation movement in the 1970s as a symbol of pride.

Heinz’s work points to Rosa von Praunheim’s 1971 film “It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives.” I only recently learned that the film catalyzed the modern gay liberation movement in Germany, provoking debate and contributing to new activist groups. I love how something of interest can open onto another, then onto an unfamiliar history, and then lead to other ideas and conversations.

Last night, Heinz and writer Julius Pristauz discussed the work’s urgency now. My very fragmentary German meant I understood almost nothing. I caught references to some of these ideas.

Another memory was triggered: I first met Heinz in Basel while writing a Frieze review of “Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault,” curated by Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Heinz, Jason Simon, Danh Vo, and Scott Cameron Weaver at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2013. Last night > Basel > led me to find a few photos from my archive. A few people will recognize the scenes from that delightful opening.

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26.08.26
Heinz Peter Knes, Julius Pristauz & Lukas Röder
Finissage + Artist Talk + Film Screening of •Scham•
19:00 - 22:00 hrs

With special thanks to Leonie Herweg

An event from @grotto.berlin
Hosted by @postpavillon

Heinz Peter Knes
Rosa Winkel, zweiteilig, 2026
Grotto exhibition (Altonaer Straße)
Image: Nick Ash

Lukas Röder
Scham, 2026
Film still

Lukas Röder
Scham, 2026
Film still

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I ❤️ MUSIC – die neue Listening-Session-Reihe im Hansaviertel!

Anfang August war @kk0ki zu Gast in der Hansabibliothek und hat gemeinsam mit uns die erste Listening Session von I LOVE MUSIC eröffnet. Gemeinsam mit @grotto.berlin präsentiert die @stbmitte in diesem Format musikalische Entdeckungen, spannende Gäste und bietet dabei ganz viel Raum fürs Fühlen. Kopfhörer auf, Musik an – und selbst entscheiden, wo ihr zuhört 🎧

Hier geht’s zum Programm:

🎶 08. September | 18–20 Uhr
Nora Kapfer @norakapfer
🎶 09. September | 18–20 Uhr
Mel e Logan (Chicks on Speed) · @mel_e_logan @chicksonspeed
supported by Girl Becomes Bird
📍 Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche im Rahmen der @berlinartweek
🎶 18. September | 18–20 Uhr
Eleni Poulou · @eleni.poulou
🎶 19. Oktober | 18–20 Uhr
Elisa R. Linn · @elisa_r_linn
🎶 20. Oktober | 18–20 Uhr
Heike-Karin Föll · @heikek3000
🎶 21. November | 18–20 Uhr
Museum of No Art · @museumofnoart
🎶 22. November | 18–20 Uhr
Mania Godarzani–Bakhtiari · @mancomania_
🎶 23. November | 18–20 Uhr
siddhartha lokanandi · @hopscotchreadingroom

🕕 Immer 18–20 Uhr
📍 Sofern nicht anders angegeben:
Hansabibliothek, Altonaer Str. 15, 10557 Berlin

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Ich war bei @grotto.berlin und habe mir ein sehr besonderes Ausstellungsstück angesehen, das thematisch super zu meinem Video über Madonna und den Rosa Winkel passt. :) Danke @mistersebastian für den Tipp 🫶🏻

#pinktriangle #berlin #pride #lgbt #art

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Always wanted to learn more about the so-called 'city of tomorrow' with its modernist architecture by Gropius, Aalto, Niemeyer & many others?

Come join us for an English walking tour and take a stroll through Hansaviertel with architect Maria Helena. There are a few upcoming tour in July and August via shop.grotto.berlin

Meeting point: 11:00, Hansabibliothek, Altonaer Str. 15, 10557 Berlin (U9 Hansaplatz)

Please note that tickets cannot be returned, if you are unable to attend the tour send us a message (the latest 48h) before the tour to mail@grotto.berlin and we will try and find a solution.

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