EXHIBITIONS
MINHO LEE – “MY GENES” REVISITED
Memory Between Photography & Machine
Artist Talk & Work Presentation
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Doors open: 6 PM
Artist Talk: 7 PM
At the close of his artist residency at SomoS, South Korean photography-based artist Minho Lee presents large-scale prints from a new iteration of his acclaimed My Genes, a series developed through earlier photographic works, reprocessed through machine-learning systems.
In conversation with Daisy Nikoloska, writer and cultural researcher, Lee will discuss photography as a fact-based medium, the instability of identity, and the transformation of inherited memory through image, surface, and digital systems.
Works on view:
May 27–30, 2026
2–7 PM
AARON RIGAL – DECEPTIVE CADENCE
Painting Solo Exhibition
On view July 4 – 11, 2026, Tue-Sa, 2-7 p.m.
Opening reception: July 3, 6 -9 p.m.
As part of the 48h Neukölln Festival, SomoS presents Deceptive Cadence, a solo exhibition by British artist Aaron Rigal. Working in oil through layering, scraping, rubbing, and revision, Rigal creates paintings in which earlier states remain visible beneath the surface. His images seem to move toward recognition, only to slip back into ambiguity.
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BERLIN ARTIST RESIDENCY – OPEN CALL
SomoS AIR Program for Artists, Curators & Researchers is accepting applications. We provide a friendly, mature and professional cosmopolitan community and surroundings in the creative heart of Berlin, aiming to support artists in their development. Inquiries for specific periods are welcome. Visit the Residency page for more information.
SOMOS VIRTUAL ARTIST RESIDENCY – OPEN CALL
SomoS Virtual Artist Residency aims to connect and to inspire, distinguished by its deep integration of experienced curators and art professionals. Tailored to the unique journey of each artist, we pride ourselves on our fluid and sensitive approach, ensuring that every creative endeavor is nurtured to its fullest potential. Join our platform where ambition meets expertise, and where your artistic vision is propelled by personalized support and engaged professional insight. Find out more about our Virtual Artist Residency.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Minho Lee
Minho Lee is a Korean artist and curator whose work moves between photography, exhibition-making, and music-based formats. Emerging from an early engagement with image-making and visual direction, he developed projects that connect contemporary art with electronic music culture in Seoul and Berlin. His recent work reflects a sustained interest in how contemporary art enters everyday visual culture.
Inês Barros
Portuguese artist Inês Barros works across art, design, and ecological research. Her wearable and site-responsive devices translate movement, touch, and environmental processes into new forms of connection with nature. At SomoS, she will develop a wearable ecological device for the Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg through field research and on-site experimentation.
Birgit Moffatt
Birgit Moffatt is a German artist based in New Zealand whose installations and sculptures draw on migration, memory, and belonging. Using textiles, natural fibers, and found urban materials, she will research eastern Berlin’s landscapes and brutalist architecture at SomoS to develop new works around the idea of home.
Elaine Qi
New York City–based artist Elaine Qi works across video, installation, performance, photography, and sound. At SomoS, she develops Corrupted, researching pain, piercing, and bodily visibility through collaborations with Berlin-based piercers and clients.
Jessica Swney
New Zealand–based artist Jessica Swney develops textile works through handcrafted and experimental processes. Building on weaving techniques learned in Morocco, her SomoS residency explores storytelling, women’s voices, sustainability, and the cultural value of making by hand.
Pascal Ungerer
Irish painter Pascal Ungerer researches Berlin’s architecture and histories during his SomoS residency. Using photographic documentation of the city as source material, he will develop a new series of paintings alongside works produced in Berlin.
Souha Dougui
Souha Dougui is a Tunisian curator and visual artist whose project explores light as an artistic medium and form of urban connection. At SomoS, she researches light art in public space through workshops, interventions, and collaborations centered on care and encounter.
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