Solaris Space

Solaris is a studio space run by an artist collective working across new media. Named after Lem’s novel, Solaris is a place for exploration of the unknown and impossible with a specific focus on combining digital crafts with unusual materials. Solaris celebrates a hands-on approach, supports small productions and fosters exchange between the artists.

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Current Residents:
Valerian Blos
Shu-Hua Chang
Hsiangfu Chen
Theresa Reimann-Dubbers
Catharina Dörr
Gosia Lehmann
Yün Liang

Former Residents:
Maryna Makarenko

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Under the title The desire for being many, the Berlin based spaces Neun Kelche and alpha nova & galerie futura and the artist Lillian Morrissey, will present a joint exhibition across multiple spaces and a programme of events for the period October-December 2025. Platforming intersectional FLINTA* artistic, activist and discursive critical approaches, the project will address the highly topical issue of reactionary, anti-feminist and LGBTQI-phobic backlash in contemporary right-wing politics. This trend can not only be observed internationally, but is also gaining ground across the EU and within German-speaking countries in the form of laws (e.g. the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media banned gendering in his office), the enormous success of anti-feminist influencers on social media channels, and the massive strengthening of right-wing parties and fascist movements in the consciousness of society as a whole–where this ideology is ultimately becoming normalised.

The project The desire for being many not only aims to take stock and highlight the dramatic reactionary-antifeminist developments of recent years, but also to create counter-publics and strengthen alliances of solidarity in the spirit of author, philosopher and activist Ewa Majewska. To this end, artists and cultural workers living mainly in Berlin will participate in the exhibition and the (artistic-discursive) supporting programme with an artistic (activist) contribution based on their often transnational background of experience. The result is a polyphonic, diverse network of positions that serves as a starting point for resistance against Backlash 2.0.


Opening:
8th November, 2025, 5 — 9 pm

Exhibition:
9th November until 5th December 2025

Taking the iconic phrase ‘Fake it till you make it’ as a starting point, the "Berlin Summer School of the Arts" course from Gosia Lehmann and Valerian Blos looked nto imitation as a strategy in context of art and design. The five day course navigated the borders between artistic research and hands on crafts.

Inspired by the social media phenomenon "Cake or Fake” in which people bake realistic cake replicas of daily objects, in order to test if the real among fakes can be found, each participant materialised their research into a bitter-sweet reality by prototyping and baking realistic cake artefacts. Hands-on, we investigated techniques, from prop-making to design prototyping and apply the knowledge to the “cake or fake” assembly.

The final result funneled into a participatory tasting-event and group show at Solaris Space Berlin.

Curation and Concept: Gosia Lehmann & Valerian Blos

Participants: Erin Gibbons, Ruby Holness-Fairhurst, Isabella Lola Jane Hardie, Zhangxizi Qiu, Rosa Leeder, Alina Jungclaus, Daniela Pacheco Camilli, Chenxi Chi

Opening:
FR. 15th August 2025, 19-22h

Solaris is excited to present a group-show, featuring perspectives from contemporary artists working across sculpture, moving-image and performance. In her work ‘Depressed Animals’ Elisa Jule-Braun is tracking the movement of animals in captivity and translates them into ‘smart objects’ such as drones or cleaning robots. Maryna Makarenko follows the ‘stalkers’- young men who are looking for spiritual experiences in the post-nuclear Chernobyl plant. While Emma Adler looks into esoteric beliefs and hatred substituting religions in New-Far-Right. Bitsy Knox is going to read her essay about Ornette Coleman and 70s TV show ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’.

The exhibition looks at erratic human behaviour from ‘outsiders’ perspective, giving the feeling of watching post-apocalyptic David Attenborough’s animal documentary on the weirdest of the Earth’s species. What unexpected twists await us in the next season? Buckle up- it’s going to be a wild ride!

Curation and Concept: Gosia Lehmann & Valerian Blos


Opening:
FR. 07.06.2024, 19-22h

Exhibition:
SAT-SUN, 08.-09.06: 12-18h
MON-THU, 10.–13.06: 14–18h

A showcase of ceramic works by Studio Valerian Blos, TRD Intra and Catharina Dörr.
Part of Berlin Design Week 2023.

At first glance, the ceramic works of TRD Intra and Studio Valerian Blos appear to come from different worlds: symmetric meets organic, mysterious meets precise, soft meets sharp. But both are explorations of forms that escape traditional category confines.
Form Garden unites the two practices in a hunt for the surprising and out-of-place. A selection of works will be on display at ‚Solaris Space‘ – a breeding ground for exploration of the unknown with a focus on combining digital crafts and unusual materials. The pop-up will be accompanied by an extraordinary ceramic piece which Catharina Dörr designed during her research project "Do Objects Have Gender?"

Vernissage:
12.04.2023, 18-22h

Exhibition:
13.–14.04: 12–18h

Loud cosmic bodies echo as whispers in the solar storm. We get lost in the maze of our own finger prints. A vacuum filled with visitors: ideas that linger in the back of our minds. Artefacts, waiting to be manifested. In colour from out of space. This planetary object of ours. It swallows, digests, preserves.

Solaris is very excited to host ‘High Weirdness’- a guest exhibition with Rosanna Graf, Emily Hunt and Antonia Freisburger.

‘High Weirdness’ will take you for a trip to the edges of human perception and comprehension; either through the vast universe of Antonia Freisburger’s paintings, magical tools to hunt for the unknown made by Rosanna Graf, or through the miniatures of domestic objects and nested stories of Emily Hunt’s ceramic figures. The exhibition plays with different aspects of ‘weird’ and glides on the borders between familiar and uncanny.

Vernissage:
15.09.2022, 18-22h

Exhibition:
Friday 16.09: 12 – 20h
Saturday & Sunday 17.09 – 18.09: 12 – 18h