Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt / Berlin

Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt Berlin / A project by Daily Lazy & frontviews


Curated by Charlotte Silbermann

With: Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Carsten Becker, Henning Bohl, Dominik Bucher, Gastarbeiter on the Planet, Vassilis H, Nico Ihlein, Johanna Jäger, Stelios Karamanolis, Tula Plumi, Max Schaffer, Peter Strickmann, Kostis Velonis, Moritz Wehrmann, Lily Wittenburg

Performance by Peter Strickmann 7th April at 5 pm
During the Mellow Toes listening session Peter Strickmann will present parts of his long run Schnarcharchiv (Snoring archive). This audio-collection consists of various kinds of conserved fatigue.

Kunstpunkt Berlin, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

29th March – 14th April 2019

With the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece), Kunstpunkt Berlin, Netzwerk

freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen



Gastarbeiter on the Planet

 Max Schaffer

 Henning Bohl

 Tula Plumi

Moritz Wehrmann

Carsten Becker

Johanna Jäger
Vassilis H


Kostis Velonis
 Dominik Bucher

 Johanna Jäger

Stelios Karamanolis,  Kostis Velonis

 Kostis Velonis

Nico Ihlein

 Lily Wittenburg

performance by Peter Strickmann


photographs by Carsten Becker



With the Slumber filter, images on Instagram can be transformed into milky veiled illusions.The state between waking and sleeping has collectively inscribed itself as a nebulous blur. The existential dichotomy of sleeping and not sleeping, which is brought together in the state of slumber, encompasses far more aesthetic approaches and artistic forms of confrontation than the strategies of fogging. Sleep and slumber touch on questions about the body in space, sensitize us to everyday environmental materials such as light, and affect rituals and life rhythms. Our individual sleep is not detached from social structures. How and when we sleep, as well as techniques of falling asleep, are deeply rooted in cultural processes and they are terretoritum of biopolitical conflicts. Against this background, the conditions of sleep change parallel to social change. New ways of life generate other possibilities of sleeping and this in turn changes the spaces and places where we can let ourselves fall, dream and escape from self-control.
The exhibition BED MANNERS brings together contemporary positions that take up metaphors and states of slumber. Materials such as mattresses, body states such as lying and spaces such as the hotel room appear in new contexts. References to surrealist strategies and echoes of prehistoric camps and shelters are taken up as well as discourses that question sleep as a purely anthropological category. Isn’t an archive something else than a bedroom for things and how does a butterfly exhausted from death struggle regenerate?