Berlin, the Bitch and the Witch

Beneath the bridge
a conclave gathers.
Bitches and witches build a barricade,
the rising smoke hexing the messages of the street.

Berlin, the Bitch and the Witch conjures a collective spell against the circuits of capital that shape and exhaust life in the contemporary city. In the Western world, magic is often used as a metaphor for the mystical, the sacred, and the imaginative, challenging ‘rational’ or ‘scientific’ frameworks of understanding. Here magic is a method. The exhibition gathers artist-magicians who work with movement, sound, irony, fiction, and irreverence to reveal what capitalism renders invisible: care, madness, healing, resistance, and interconnection. Like a circle around a fire, these works open a shared space where Bitches and Witches reclaim knowledge, protect one another, and imagine new forms of survival within Berlin’s monsters, ruins, and rhythms. The show does not ask for permission, it lights it up.

Curated by Arantxa Ciafrino
Curatorial assistance: Tatjana Rotfuß