Chromatic

Index
Season  4



E.3


E.9        Eyeless Seeing, Lungless Breathing - UPCOMING
E.8        Feedbacks and Residues
E.7         Postnature

E.6         Surrender
E.5         Fever

E.4         Surfaces 

E.1         E.3         Divination
E.2         Transmutation  

E.1          Suspension  


          Season  3



E.24      
CW x Postklub Satellite

E.23      A Desperate Vitality

E.22      On the Verge

E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners

E.20      Talking Nature

E.19        Invisible to the Eye

E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia

E.17        Belonging

E.16        Collective Utopias

E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED

E.14        Light Exciter

E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night

E.12        Enigma

E.11         Chronicles

E.10        Equal Distance

E.9          Syntax

E.8          Spectrum

E.7          Gelgit

E.6          Of Memories and Dreams

E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»

E.4          Trembling Ground

E.3          Tumultuous

E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine

E.1               E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24  
   110 × 3:33:08

E.23      Glaring Light

E.22      She-Pigeon

E.21       Presence of the Absent

E.20     Sunken Temple

E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak

E.18       Anatolian Leopard

E.17       Phantom Power & Eribòz

E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations

E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning

E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin

E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»

E.12        The Matter of Memory

E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3

E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release

E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration

E.8          Troubled Relations

E.7          The Ruins of Empire

E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty

E.5          The Hungry and the Restless

E.4          Haunted / Desert

E.3          Looking Back and Moving Forward

E.2          Liquid Machine

E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!

             




Chromatic Wednesdays is a monthly interdisciplinary event series based in Berlin, organized by visual artist and filmmaker Emre Birişmen and sound artist Melih Sarıgöl. The series brings together various artistic practices, including performance, sound, moving image, and panel discussions, in thematically structured programs at different venues across the city. 

Chromatic Wednesdays, which previously centered around the Apartment Project space in Neukölln, will transition to a mobile and decentralized structure for its upcoming fourth and fifth seasons. This shift aims to encourage stronger collaborations, emphasize site-specific thinking, and build new connections that reflect the social and cultural fabric of Berlin.

             Current Team:                     Emre Birişmen – Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl –  Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Beril Ece Güler - Graphic Design / Production Asisstant


Current Advisory Board Season 4:                     Korhan Erel, Florian Wüst,  Anette Maechtel

Current Partner Spaces:                          Refuge Worldwide, anorak  e.V.,  Flutgraben, Top e.V., Errant Sound, nGbK,

Moderation:                                         Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer
Past Advisory Board Members                    Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann
                
Past Team Members
                    Merey Şenocak, Ece Gökalp , Gökçe Berndt, Soliane Malefond 
Suat Can Beldek, Gabriela Seith, Berk Asal, Selda Asal
Cemre Bayatlıer, Bengisu Caglayan

Email : chromaticwednesdays@gmail.com
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Season 4
Episode 9

Theme:
Theory and Practice

30 September ´26
@nGbK


EYELESS SEEING, LUNGLESS BREATHING  


Ruba Salameh
Alia Hamdan
Mazen Kerbaj
Gabriela Manda Seith

EYELESS SEEING, LUNGLESS BREATHING
Season 4, Episode 9
Chromatic Wednesdays

Free Entrance

Theme:  Theory and Practice


30.09.2026 19:00 @ngbk_berlin
Stadtwerkstatt
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13
1st floor (access via escalator)
10178 Berlin

Free Entrance

in collaboration by neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), and curated and moderated by Gabriela Manda Seith

19:00 Doors Open
19:30 Yamm (Open Sea), video by Ruba Salameh
19:40 On Drones and Foxes, lecture by Alia Hamdan
20:10 Lungless, performance by Mazen Kerbaj
20:40 Conversation with Ruba Salameh, Alia Hamdan and Mazen Kerbaj, moderated by Gabriela Manda Seith

The eyes are an extension of the brain – quite literally so as they originate from the same tissue. Forming a unit, we can imagine the eyes as the brain turned outward. What we see feeds the brain and what our brain has absorbed shapes how we see the world. Taking this relationship between seeing, perceiving and knowing into account, the event engages our senses to recognize images of violent erasure and annihilation in Palestine and Lebanon despite their denial.

The contributions invite us to ask: What does it mean to engage in seeing without eyes, hearing with the resonating body, and speaking without a voice to express what is unseen? And how can memories of a ‘before’ or past experiences of violence make us perceive the present in a different light?

The event starts with Ruba Salameh’s video work Yamm that centers on a billboard showing the sea of Gaza in East Jerusalem. Overlaying different realities, it raises questions about a colonial system of displacement, fragmentation and erasure. The event continues with Alia Hamdan’s lecture that revolves around the negative of seeing, asking: What is it to have eyes today but fail to see? Mazen Kerbaj’s performance Lungless reflects the inability to speak in the face of war’s violence through the transformation of outrage and grief into sound creating sonic alarm. The evening concludes with a talk that brings together all of the artists in one conversation.

THEME: THEORY AND PRACTICE

The episode invites to explore the relationship between theories and practices of seeing, hearing, sensing and perceiving. Where does one end and the other begin? Through film, lecture and performance, the contributions by Ruba Salameh, Alia Hamdan and Mazen Kerbaj address different senses that blur and transgress the boundaries that usually separate fields of theory from practice; that detach sensory perception from intellectual engagement. The program delves into the question: How does art connect bodily perception, theoretical approaches and discourse in a way that one nourishes the other?


ARTIST BIOS


Born in Beirut and based in Berlin, Alia Hamdan is a researcher in aesthetic politics and practitioner in performance and video. Her work engages Lebanese aesthetics, Global South politics, and intersections of visual, urban, and performative thought. She holds Master’s degrees in Philosophy (Paris I–Sorbonne) and Urban Research (Paris X–Nanterre). She has taught aesthetics and art history at universities in Beirut and was a resident at Schloss Solitude in 2023. Her recent performance The Body Is Here, Offscreen (2025) was presented in Lisbon and Brussels.

Ruba Salameh is a Berlin-based visual artist with a B.A. and M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Initially working across diverse mediums such as video, installation, and collage, Salameh has more recently dedicated herself to abstract painting. Her artistic practice employs techniques of erasure and over-layering to build complex, textured compositions. Salameh’s work has been featured in exhibitions at Gazelli Art House, London; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien; Zawyeh Gallery, Dubai; Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, amongst others.

Mazen Kerbaj is a comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. Kerbaj is the author of more than 15 books, and his short stories, drawings, paintings, videos, live performances and installations have been published and exhibited internationally. As the co-founder of Irtijal and Al Maslakh, he is a key player of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. In Berlin he co-founded Graphème, a publication for experimental music scores. As a trumpet player, he pushes the boundaries of the instrument beyond recognition.

Gabriela Manda Seith is a researcher and curator focusing on art in relation to migration, ecology, gender, and post/decolonial issues from an intersectional perspective. She has (co-)curated exhibitions and projects at institutions including the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Neues Museum Nürnberg, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Goethe-Institut Sarajevo, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo.



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