The House of Orion: Julia Fiedorczuk and Alexandra Grant in conversation

Name: The House of Orion: Julia Fiedorczuk and Alexandra Grant in conversation
Start: 2026-06-09T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin, Germany

Schedule

Tue, 09 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin, Germany | Berlin, BE

As part of the accompanying programme to the exhibition Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, writer and poet Julia Fiedorczuk and artist Alexandra Grant come together for a conversation about literature, visual art, ecology, and collaboration across disciplines and borders.
The discussion will focus on the artists’ recent collaborations, including Grant’s interpretation of selected passages from Fiedorczuk’s novel The House of Orion in her painting Mintaka, currently presented within the exhibition Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness. The conversation will also offer insight into two upcoming publishing projects developed together with X Artists’ Books.
Rooted in a shared commitment to women’s rights, social and environmental justice, and transnational dialogue, the evening explores how artistic and literary practices can respond to the urgencies of the contemporary world.
More information about the exhibition Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness: https://www.kindl-berlin.de/ausstellungen/iliggocene
Event in English
Free entry
About the speakers:
Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, and professor at the University of Warsaw. Her work explores the relationship between human beings and their planetary environments and emphasises the world-making power of literature. She is the author of novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, and essays, including The House of Orion, Under the Sun, and A Cyborg in the Garden: Introduction to Ecocriticism. Fiedorczuk is the recipient of the Wisława Szymborska Prize and has been nominated for the Nike Literary Award and the Julian Tuwim Lifetime Achievement Award. Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages and presented at literary festivals worldwide.
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who, through an exploration of the use of text and language across various media - including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography - probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with artists, writers, and philosophers, often developing intricate paintings and sculptures inspired by specially commissioned texts. Her collaborators have included author Michael Joyce, actor Keanu Reeves, artist Channing Hansen, and philosopher Hélène Cixous, among others. Having spent significant parts of her childhood and adolescence living in Mexico, France, and Spain, Grant’s artistic practice is shaped by questions such as: How do the languages we speak and the images we see shape the way we think and exchange ideas? And how can artists and writers contribute to culture in an increasingly technology-driven world?
[Background Credits: Alexandra Grant, Mintaka, (after Julia Fiedorczuk’s “The House of Orion”), 2026. Silkscreen, acrylic paint, acrylic ink, sumi ink on paper. Photo ©Andrea Rosetti. Courtesy of the Artist and carlier | gebauer Berlin/Madrid.]