art exhibition October 18th 2025 – Forckenbeckstraße 9–13, Berlin
Borders are ever present. They separate, protect, organise and define. Some are visible, like walls, fences or national frontiers. Others remain invisible: social codes, mental blocks or cultural divides. Borderline experiences arise in those moments when we encounter such boundaries – when we question them, cross them, or are held back by them.
This exhibition gathers photography, performance, painting and craft in dialogue. Each medium traces its own encounter with borders – sometimes resisting, sometimes dissolving them, sometimes transforming them into something unexpected.
In our own lives, boundaries are constant companions. They appear as physical, emotional or psychological thresholds. Illness, loss, desire or a new beginning can all become moments of confrontation. Identity, origin or gender may be felt as limits, shaped by external expectations or inner conflict. Art makes these intimate experiences visible – showing what it means to carry a boundary, to be confined by it, and to overcome it.
In society, too, borders are inscribed in norms and conventions. They mark what is acceptable and what must remain hidden. Erotic and intimate expressions often collide with these limits, moving between fascination and taboo, freedom and stigma. Art exposes these tensions, confronting the ways in which intimacy and sexuality are framed, silenced or celebrated.
Yet borders are not natural facts; they are constructed. They mirror power, ideology and fear. Art can challenge and dismantle these structures – or provoke by testing them. It creates openings for alternative realities, where subcultures emerge and the intimate becomes political.
This exhibition is an invitation to reflect, to confront and to envision. Whether through painting, photography, installation, performance or digital media, what matters is a personal engagement with the theme – and the courage to reveal, to question, and to transcend boundaries.
Event Information
Venue: Industrial space, Forckenbeckstraße 9–13, Berlin.
- The exhibition opens at 4pm and runs until 4am. Entry is strictly 18+. ID required at the door.
- From 4pm to 10pm the focus is on art – photography, performance, painting and craft – all works are available for purchase.
- From 10pm onwards the evening transforms as we open the BDSM playroom.
- Admission is free. Capacity is limited and entry will be subject to availability.
Confirmed Artists
Bunn, Kennie – I am a writer and therefore an observer and an exhibitionist. As an observer, I observe the many ways of BDSM in others and myself. As an exhibitionist, I expose my thoughts, experiences, and desires. In this way, I believe I gain insight into various layers of needs, wants, and the sweet dangers that the world of BDSM offers. My style is direct, and I tend to reveal all my thoughts and theories in great detail. Through the process of writing, I discover new insights and desires, or I observe what readers take from my stories and discover about themselves.
Fritzi die Große – explores vulnerability, sexuality and emotion through voice, piano and intuitive somatic movement. Her performances create safe spaces with clear boundaries, where hidden feelings can surface and be expressed. From shame and anger to desire and fragility, her art transforms confinement into release – expression instead of depression.
Harms, Daniel – is a Berlin-based artist known for his large-scale conceptual paintings. Drawing on personal experience, he explores themes of alienation and connection through bold exaggeration, vibrant colours and abstract forms. He will exhibit “Poltergeist”, a piece of over 4m in length.
Henne, Patrick – lives and works in Berlin.
Jall, Tobi – studied cinematography at the renowned Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and as a scholar at PWSFTviT in Łódź, Poland. My greatest curiosity lies in people and their processes – how things are done and created. I hold a deep appreciation for light, wood and music.
Kahn, Andreas M. – My work explores self-imposed mental boundaries – the feeling of confinement, the struggle to break free, and the repeated failure to do so. I translate this tension through the imagery of cages and the constriction of a glass container, like an aquarium, to reflect the cycle of restriction and attempted liberation.
Kossow, Dr. Stephanie – is a physician, psychotherapist and sexual medicine specialist, as well as author and speaker. She explores boundaries of norms and intimacy in her work. For the exhibition, she proposes a German reading from her book Das Gute an (schl)echtem Sex, a kink-aware, feminist guide to sexual medicine, offering insights into sexual dysfunctions, attachment and relationship dynamics, and various forms of sex and couples therapy. The accompanying series of anatomical illustrations, painted with menstrual blood, examines the fine line between collective power, pain, and the crossing of material and social borders.
Piccolo, Maëlys – is a French visual artist based in Berlin since 2018. Beginning her journey as a model in 2012, she discovered her passion for photography in 2016. Through hands-on experience and collaborations, she honed her skills, expanding into videography and editing. Her work explores emotions and personal stories, aiming to normalize what is outside the norm and transform intimate experiences into universal art.
Lyden – shows “Borderline Obedience”, a series of self-portraits. The work exposes a boundary inscribed into the body over millennia, between sexuality and autonomy, object and subject.
Maximum Tension –
Sebastian’s Laboratory – Sebastian’s work is often associated with fetishcore, a visual and cultural trend described by Harper’s Bazaar as “the aesthetics of the Domina.” While rooted in traditional fetish motifs, his photography seeks to lift kink imagery out of the underground and into public visual culture, elegant, emotionally charged, and unapologetically embodied. At the core of his practice lies a desire to connect with people whose energy and intensity might not cross his everyday path, and to create images that transform these encounters into timeless narratives.
Siren de Sade – Siren de Sade is an internationally acclaimed opera singer, renowned for her commanding presence on the world’s grandest stages. For this night, Siren de Sade presents a unique reinterpretation of the iconic Habanera from Carmen. Her performance blends the raw sensuality of live opera with a striking visual element: latex.
Sophie’s Heads – The sculptures belong to the series “Emotional Heads” and come from the early phase of this body of work. Each head was created in direct response to an intense emotional experience. The rough shaping and subsequent refinement of facial features served both as a release of inner tension and as a process of reflection and engagement with personal emotions.
Surface Tension – a photo collaboration of three artists. This series examines the border between appearance and reality; health and decay; perfection and collapse. It remains on the surface, where control, image and tension meet. The work questions how far the surface can stretch before revealing the instability beneath.
Tan, Christian – aka the naked cellist, from the Netherlands. The reason why I became the nakedcellist was a joke that got out of hand, and heartbreak. But it resulted in some of the most amazing performances I have been part of. I love this contrasts of sophisticated debauchery, I have played with my beloved symphony orchestra in the Philharmonie wearing white tie, and I have played naked in KitKat. Photography is another medium I like to express myself in, and being part of fetish scene circles made me meet some amazing people who have been part of my photoshoots.
Teaca, Vlada – Originally from Moldova, I have been living across Europe since the age of 18. My path in photography has been entirely self-taught, driven by curiosity, experience and passion. I aim to deepen my practice, expand my creative horizons, and explore new ways of expressing concepts, emotions and the human condition through photography.
Terra, Lilith – a self-taught photographer based in Berlin, draws on over 25 years in psychiatry and psychotherapy to create works that probe the depths of human experience. Her images capture the tension between light and shadow, self and other, evoking voyeuristic intimacy and dreamlike poetry. With raw intensity, Terra blurs the line between artist and muse, inviting viewers to confront unspoken desires and the complexity of inner worlds.
UCM.One – United Content Management.ONE has a catalogue of over 400 motion pictures and 17k music titles. UCM.One is specialised in music and film marketing and theatrical distribution.
Wunder, Christina – “Passing through” illuminates the extremes of childbirth, depicting the first seconds after delivery. The child, wrapped up cozily, has just transversed the birth canal from the oceans of the womb to the vastness of this world. The mother, high on oxytocin and recovering from her pain, is submerged by her love, and at the same time in an utter state of vulnerability. Her leg still suspended in the air hints at the fact that her birth related injuries are being tended to and stitched up. There is no more extreme and liminal experience than birth, bringing with it the deepest love and the deepest pain, all wrapped into one.
Zerbe, Stephanie – The work reflects the tension between extremes, wanting everything and nothing, craving company yet longing to be alone, seeking challenge yet wishing to escape. It moves between drive and exhaustion, strength and fragility, pride and doubt, belonging and alienation. Laughter hides a silent scream; emotion meets numbness; darkness meets vitality. A demon. A struggle. Two demons. A war. Yet within it, passion. This is my photography, my art, my path.
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