Performative Reading & Artist Talk: Krys Huba and Areez Katki

Name: Performative Reading & Artist Talk: Krys Huba and Areez Katki
Start: 2025-08-14T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Exhibition space: Kottbusser Str. 10 / Offices and studios: Kohlfurter Str. 41-43, 10999 Berlin, Germany

Schedule

Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Exhibition space: Kottbusser Str. 10 / Offices and studios: Kohlfurter Str. 41-43, 10999 Berlin, Germany | Berlin, BE

You are warmly invited to a performative reading followed by artist talks in the context of the current solo exhibitions by Krys Huba and Areez Katki at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
The two artists enter into a performative dialogue that explores the textual dimension at the heart of both their practices. It unfolds on the staircase — an architectural threshold that physically connects the two exhibition spaces transforming it into an activated in-between space. Through the exchange of written words and perspectives, Areez Katki and Krys Huba expand the narrative layers of their works by incorporating each other’s voices.
The performative reading will be followed by two conversations: Areez Katki will speak with Lusin Reinsch, an independent curator and program manager at Zilberman | Berlin. Krys Huba will be joined by Emily Nill an art writer and curator, currently pursuing a PhD at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics. These conversations deepen and contextualize the respective exhibitions, each rooted in deeply personal, poetic, and politically situated inquiries.
With “All of those records; tell me, bee” – the second chapter of the project Becoming B, curated by Marie-Sophie Dorsch – Krys Huba turns the gaze inward: Taking the poetic figure bee as a point of departure, the artist explores questions of queer identity and social belonging within normative societal structures. bee itself materializes in the exhibition only in traces, unfolding through paintings, poetic text fragments, and sculptural objects. Within the interplay of image and text, a web of shifting connections emerges between the works—never fixed, but continually reconfiguring into new formations.
Areez Katki organized “How to puncture the sky and hear the stones sing” like a redolent experience in three layers: top/middle/base. The artist presents his novel as an experiment with a prelude of spatial, sonic and literary works. They parallel the microhistories, fragments and poetics that will culminate in the novel that Areez Katki has been crafting for the past six years. By reflecting upon notions of embodied hybridity and the (extra)ordinary affects that traverse our oceans and skies, the artist’s role as a storyteller here attests to the plurality that emerges when there’s no ground upon which one may stand firm.
The Event will be held in English, admission free!

Where is it happening?

Exhibition space: Kottbusser Str. 10 / Offices and studios: Kohlfurter Str. 41-43, 10999 Berlin, Germany, Kohlfurter Straße 41, 10999 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

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