Bardo

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose

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The exhibition considers the pose not only as a visual gesture, but as a way of appearing, resisting, and contesting the gaze. Through photography, the body, archives, sound, performance, and writing, it raises questions about representation, desire, memory, and the image.

But Call Me Lolita connects Lima, Berlin, and Mexico City through a multilayered reflection on the archive, the body, the image, femininity, and the gaze.

Credits

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose is a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva . It was supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and presented at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.

“But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose — Opening

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Join us for the opening of “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose at Bardo Projektraum.

About

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Bardo presents exhibitions and related public programmes at Jessnerstraße 33 in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Marcela Villanueva

Founder and Director

Marcela Villanueva is an Argentine cultural manager, curator, and producer based in Berlin. She founded Karne Kunst in 2017 and leads Bardo Projektraum, bringing together curating, cultural production, project development, and public funding. Her work is rooted in feminist and migrant perspectives, with a focus on socially engaged contemporary art and creating lasting structures for artists and cultural workers.

Alejandra Borea

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Participating artist in “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose.

Alejandra Morote Peralta

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Participating artist in “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose.

ALOCOR #1: Flor Bobadilla Oliva

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Argentine singer and actress Flor Bobadilla Oliva performs live, followed by a collective listening session dedicated to music by FLINTA composers and performers from the Global South.

Doors open at 19:00. The concert begins at 19:30.

Amadalia Liberté

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Guest curator of Deseo en contra del despojo, the screening of eco-sensual and anti-extractivist short films presented as part of PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder.

Ana Palacio

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Ana Palacio is a visual artist and independent curator based in Argentine Patagonia. Her practice is concerned with environmental change, migration, urban development, and endangered species, drawing attention to the fragile relationships between living beings and their habitats.

In Archivum Naturae, her series YAJNA considers birds affected by human transformation of the landscape, placing natural life in tension with the visual languages of documentation, classification, and possession.

Website

Andrea Córdova Pellicer

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Andrea Córdova Pellicer is a Chilean artist, researcher, and writer based in Berlin. Her work moves across visual art, literature, autobiography, and hyperstition, exploring the narratives through which memory, desire, intimacy, and extimacy are constructed.

Through writing, installation, sound collage, and archives, she investigates how language can produce alternative realities and open spaces for other forms of subjectivity, belonging, and futurity.

Andrea Nosetti

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Andrea Nosetti is a sculptor and visual artist based in Buenos Aires. Her practice moves between objects and installations, bringing together varied materials and processes to explore boundaries between the natural and artificial, the recognizable and strange, and the decorative and sculptural.

For Archivum Naturae, Nosetti transformed a digital insect model through 3D printing, fragmentation, repetition, and changes of scale, turning an organic body into a structure suspended between fossil, artefact, and digital replica.

Archivum Naturae

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Archivum Naturae brings together Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti in a reflection on the ways living organisms are transformed into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.

Nature appears here not as an untouched landscape, but as a territory shaped by displacement, technological mediation, extraction, and survival. Birds from southern Latin America and digitally reproduced insects become traces of ecosystems under pressure, suspended between preservation and disappearance.

Two approaches to the natural archive

In her series YAJNA, Ana Palacio works with images of birds whose habitats have been altered by human intervention. Adopting the visual language of documents and scientific records, the works consider ecological imbalance as well as the violence embedded in observation, classification, and possession.

Archivum Naturae — Opening

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The opening of Archivum Naturae brought together works by Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti exploring ecology, archives, technological mediation, and the transformation of living forms.

Asucena Di Giovanni

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

Barbara Bielitz

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Project development and materiality for FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, together with Diego Gómez-Venegas.

Carolina Boettner

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Direction and coordination of FLUSSLAB — Edition 25.

Cecilia Andino

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

Consuelo Press

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Participating artist in “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose.

Contact

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General & press

Write to us at info@karnekunst.com .

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Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain. Opening hours vary by exhibition and event.

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CUIRTECA: Archive Presentation & Conversation

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The exhibition closes with the presentation of CUIRTECA , a living archive of Latin American queer cinema, followed by a conversation on queer memory, archiving, and activism with Gabriela Gioia.

This closing event connects the visual language of Unhousing with broader practices of queer preservation, circulation, and collective memory across Latin America and its diasporas.

Diana Moncada

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Participating artist in “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose.

Diego Gómez-Venegas

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Project development and materiality for FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, together with Barbara Bielitz.

Elisa Carreno

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Elisa Carreno is a Brazilian artist and curator. Her work gives material form to emotions and experiences that resist easy verbal expression.

Across painting, collage, and installation, Carreno explores sensory memory, cultural traces, repetition, and ordinary rituals. She works intuitively, letting colour, form, and material direct each piece as it develops.

Her Brazilian background surfaces in vivid colour, abstraction, and organic shapes that recall tropical plant life. These compositions create sensory encounters in which familiarity and joy coexist with vulnerability and connection.

Felipe Robles Neira

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Felipe Robles Neira is a Chilean visual artist based in Bilbao. His work explores queer experiences, non-normative temporalities, and relationships to home, creating spaces for dialogue and for the rewriting of histories, desires, pleasures, and fears.

His hybrid practice encompasses drawing, painting, installation, collage, text, textile, and video. Portraiture recurs throughout his work as a continuous act of capturing the queer subject.

FLUSSLAB — Edition 25

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FLUSSLAB — Edition 25 brings together seven international artists after several weeks of research, experimentation, and artistic production in Berlin.

Developed over residencies ranging from four to eight weeks, the works move across installation, sound, performance, interactive practices, material experimentation, and technology. The exhibition offers a glimpse into works in progress, new artistic directions, and the encounters and questions that emerged throughout the residency period.

Resident artists

Asucena Di Giovanni (Canada)
Cecilia Andino (Argentina)
Juliana Andrea Astudillo Palta (Colombia)
Kayla Jean Smith (United States)
Núria Planes Llull (Spain)
Pau Arissa Caellas (Spain)
Pedro Street (Brazil)

FLUSSLAB — Edition 25 — Opening

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Join us for the opening of FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, presenting the work of seven international artists after several weeks of research, experimentation, and artistic production in Berlin.

The evening offers a glimpse into works in progress, new artistic directions, and the encounters and questions that emerged throughout the residency period, across installation, sound, performance, interactive practices, material experimentation, and technology.

Gabriela Gioia

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Curator of Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia.

How Does a Book Sound?

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As part of “But Call Me Lolita,” Alejandra Borea opens a space for artists from the Latin American diaspora to meet, exchange ideas, and share experiences, methodologies, and practical approaches to transmediality.

Starting from the question of how a book might sound, the gathering invites participants to share materials and working strategies connected to expanded publishing formats, sound design as a narrative form, and listening as a form of reading and producing meaning.

Juliana Andrea Astudillo Palta

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

Katha Eitner

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Curator of PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder.

Kayla Jean Smith

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort

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LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort brings together painting, collage, embroidery, photography, assemblage, and participatory installation by Brazilian artists Elisa Carreno and Vanessa Neuber. Rooted in their experiences as Brazilian women living in Berlin, the exhibition asks when a place of residence becomes home.

The Portuguese word lar refers to home, but reaches beyond the physical structure of a house. Here, home is understood as something continuously assembled through memory, bodily gestures, relationships, domestic objects, food, friendship, language, and everyday rituals. Rather than presenting displacement only as rupture or loss, the exhibition considers how familiarity, protection, and belonging are created in new surroundings.

LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort — Opening

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Join us for the opening of LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort, with artists Elisa Carreno and Vanessa Neuber at Bardo Projektraum.

Marcela Villanueva

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Marcela Villanueva holds the artistic direction of Bardo Projektraum, the Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, and shapes the programme across its exhibitions and public events.

María José García Piaggio

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Participating artist in “But Call Me Lolita”: The Poetics of the Pose.

Mercedes Lozano

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Mercedes Lozano is an artist, researcher, and educator whose practice moves between artistic, academic, teaching, and curatorial work. Through transdisciplinary and situated methodologies, she explores relationships among bodies, territories, communities, memory, and the histories of South America.

Her projects combine art, archives, technology, and science to challenge inherited colonial narratives and develop other ways of understanding and inhabiting the present. She works both collaboratively and independently, creating research processes that become installations, images, moving-image works, texts, and spaces for exchange.

Núria Planes Llull

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

Pau Arissa Caellas

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

Pedro Street

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Participating artist in FLUSSLAB — Edition 25, following an artist residency in Berlin.

PINECENE — Opening and Guided Tour

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The opening of PINECENE began with remarks by Bardo Projektraum and artist Mercedes Lozano, followed by a guided tour led by Evelyn Hevia Jordán.

A social psychologist and historian specializing in oral-history archives, memory studies, and Colonia Dignidad, Hevia Jordán brought a critical perspective to the relationships between memory, violence, and historical accountability explored by the exhibition.

PINECENE — Shared Table: Practices for Defending Territories

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The closing of PINECENE took the form of a shared table centred on practices for defending territories, bringing together knowledge and lived approaches to agriculture, food, ecology, and resistance.

The gathering featured Quechua artist and researcher Daniela Zambrano Almidón, Chilean poet and activist Martina Rojas Dall’Orso, and Chilean-Ecuadorian ecologist and artist Antau Samper.

PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder

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PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder (PINOCENO: Tras el rastro de un despojo, desde Alemania al Sur) traces the entanglements between colonialism, extractivism, and transnational histories through pine plantations in the southern territories of Argentina and Chile, in Wallmapu—the ancestral land of the Mapuche people.

The pine appears as a living archive: both witness and intruder. Introduced as part of extractive economies, it reveals processes of land appropriation, monoculture, and the transformation of ecosystems into industrial infrastructures.

Postcard Collage Workshop

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Led by Elisa Carreno, this workshop explores postcards as gestures of care, remembrance, and affective connection across physical or emotional distance.

Probador de poesías #31

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Probador de poesías is an independent expanded-literature series organized by Regina Riveros. It offers authors a space in which to experiment with poetry, sound, and performance.

This edition features Verónica Stedile Luna, Carlos Soto Román, Ana Rocío Jouli, Alejandra Morote, and Alejandra Borea.

Project Review

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Consuelo Press opens an online project-review space with María José García Piaggio and Alejandra Morote Peralta to discuss photographic projects that work with archival material.

If you have a project in development or an archive you would like to share, write to consuelo.press@gmail.com .

Rehearsal for a Body

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Rehearsal for a Body, by Peruvian artist Andrea B. Tupac Yupanqui, explores how collective memories are activated, displaced, and transformed when a contemporary body enters into a relationship with an inherited image. The work understands the body as an archive in constant production.

Screening: Deseo en contra del despojo

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Deseo en contra del despojo presented a selection of eco-sensual and anti-extractivist short films curated by Amadalia Liberté.

The screening was followed by a conversation with the curator, opening a space to reflect on desire, territory, and resistance through moving images.

Sensitive Collage: Mapping Memories

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Led by Vanessa Neuber, this workshop combines collage and meditation to create visual maps of memory, emotion, and belonging.

Tin Wilke

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Tin Wilke is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Their practice explores the construction of collective memory, the politics of archives, dissident practices, and speculative counter-narratives.

Working primarily through collaboration, Wilke brings digital media into contact with analogue and organic materials, found footage, installation, performance, and experimental film. Their projects examine how historical systems of extraction and power persist in landscapes, technologies, and cultural memory while imagining other forms of ecological coexistence.

TINY DOORS, BIG STORIES

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Create a tiny door as a portal, memory, refuge, or entrance to an imagined world in this hands-on miniature workshop presented as part of LAR – Home ist nicht nur ein Ort.

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia

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Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia explores the intersection between queer identities and migrant experience through the idea of “unhousing”: the dismantling of symbolic structures that exclude in order to imagine new forms of belonging.

The exhibition understands the house as more than a physical space. It can be the body, the family, the country of origin, the territory one migrates to, or the cultural system that defines who is recognized, protected, or left outside.

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia — Opening

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Join us for the opening of Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia, an exhibition by Andrea Córdova Pellicer and Felipe Robles Neira presented at Bardo Projektraum as part of Cuir Pride 2026.

Vanessa Neuber

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Vanessa Neuber is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Berlin. She works with collage, installation, artist’s books, painting, poetry, and video.

Drawing on studies in design, art history, and analytical psychology, Neuber treats making art as a process of transformation and self-understanding. Her practice brings words into dialogue with images and connects dreamlike or concealed material with everyday life.

Discarded, ordinary, and unconventional materials often become symbolic forms in her work. Her artistic and curatorial research spans belonging, migration, feminism, mindfulness, sustainability, mythology, philosophy, and impermanence, inviting viewers to encounter familiar things differently and to understand art as mutable and alive.

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Hours

Opening hours vary by exhibition and event. Please consult the current programme before visiting.

Address

Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33
10247 Berlin

Writing & Autobiographical Art Workshop

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Led by Andrea Córdova Pellicer and Felipe Robles Neira, this workshop explores displacement, home, queer identity, and community through writing, collage, and graphic intervention.

The workshop invites participants to approach autobiography not as a fixed narrative, but as a material field where memory, desire, and belonging can be rewritten.