Built For Drifting at SPOILER / Berlin

Artist(s): Asma Ben Slama, Anna de Castro Barbosa & Titi M. Cerina, Maxime Chabal, Manuel Cornelius, Antoine Dochniak & Lou Oberto, Nelson Heinemann, Antonin Sambussy, Coco Schütte, Millie Schwier, ana zeno de courcy, Ko Sin Tung
Curator: Maxime Chabal
Art space: SPOILER
Address: Birkenstraße 1, 10559 Berlin
Duration: 02/10/2026 - 04/10/2026
Ko Sin Tung, Puzzle and perplex - the problem solver, 2025; Nelson Heinemann, BACCHANAL BASIN I, 2026; Antoine Dochniak & Lou Oberto, 1st movement ( Marion ), 2026; Maxime Chabal, When the abyss winks back, 2026
Maxime Chabal, Grey Waters, 2025
Ko Sin Tung, Puzzle and perplex - the problem solver, 2025
Nelson Heinemann, CEREMONIAL LOTIUM TANK II, 2026
Antoine Dochniak & Lou Oberto, 1st movement ( Marion ), 2026
Antoine Dochniak & Lou Oberto, 1st movement ( Marion ), 2026
Antoine Dochniak & Lou Oberto, 1st movement ( Marion ), 2026
Asma Ben Slama, Phantom Dead, 2026
Anna de Castro Barbosa & Titi M. Cerina, Of Rush and Lies, 2026 ; Antonin Sambussy, Il résonnait comme la peau d’un tambours, 2026
Antonin Sambussy, Il résonnait comme la peau d’un tambours, 2026; Millie Schwier, Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf, 2026; Anna de Castro Barbosa & Titi M. Cerina, Stainless, 2026
Anna de Castro Barbosa & Titi M. Cerina, Stainless, 2026
Millie Schwier, Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf, 2026; Coco Schütte, Looney Tunes, 2026; Manuel Cornelius, self-portrait as an unloved building, 2023; Nelson Heinemann, CEREMONIAL LOTIUM TANK I, 2026;
Manuel Cornelius, self-portrait as an unloved building, 2023; Nelson Heinemann, CEREMONIAL LOTIUM TANK I, 2026; Antonin Sambussy, Il résonnait comme la peau d’un tambours, 2026
Manuel Cornelius, self-portrait as an unloved building, 2023
Antonin Sambussy, Il résonnait comme la peau d’un tambours, 2026
Nelson Heinemann, CEREMONIAL LOTIUM TANK I, 2026
Coco Schütte, Looney Tunes, 2026
Coco Schütte, Looney Tunes, 2026
ana zeno de courcy, RUST, Performance with Kyte Levin Brüggmann, Elle Burgess, Zeynep Bafralı, 2026

The exhibition Built for Drifting emerges from a quiet contradiction. The works appear forged through rigour and shaped from industrial and standardised materials, yet these familiar forms already contain the means of their own deviation.

Strict lines and functionality begin to falter, the forces that hold them in place tire out, jam, and lose their grip. What emerges is something softer, something carrying a sort of tenderness. Surfaces bend. Assemblages sag. Forms lean towards one another, or pull away. Something shifts within the material without ever fully breaking from what holds it in place. Desire does not arrive as an opposition, but as a subtle disturbance: a shift within the efficiency of the form itself.

A construction, in its attempt to hold itself together, begins to produce the conditions of its own displacement. What was made to contain starts to let things through. What was meant to support becomes fragile. Forms become porous, their surfaces holding traces of weight, contact and resistance. Bodies emerge not as figures but as tensions between what holds and what gives way. Matter becomes a site of negotiation between discipline and impulse.

The exhibition takes shape where this rigidity begins to release and structure begins to drift. Things lose their intended destination, becoming open to other uses, other ways of being, and other forms of proximity.