LUCKY

An image of a dark room with grey walls and a purple carpet floor. On the left side of the frame, a glowing LED rainbow hangs down from the ceiling. On the right, a screen with a person in a blonde wig and white outfit using a handheld microphone looks out at the room.

LUCKY – The photos

COVEN is so proud of LUCKY’s amazing run this summer! Here is a photographic sum-up of the incredible artists, speakers, facilitators, and audience members who graced nGbK with their hard…

A waist-up picture of a person standing in front of of graffiti'd walls. They have brown skin, dark hair, are wearing glasses, and are looking at the camera, unsmiling. They are wearing a pink outfit with white accents and a black bodysuit underneath.

To the not-so-lucky: An Interview with Travis Alabanza

For the closing of our exhibition LUCKY at the nGbK, we invited artist Travis Alabanza to give a final toast, The Obituary for the Not-So-Lucky. In this notice of death,…

Exhibition view of Laure Prouvost, “Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing”, Palais de Tokyo (22.06.2018 – 09.09.2018) Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia (Paris / Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London / New York) Photo by Aurélien Mo. Photo shows a central fountain of pink breasts in a room with a wet white floor lit with natural light, a variety of objects clutter the surrounding white walls.

Dedications to Trespassing

In the beginning of this month, two days after my performance for LUCKY, I got to see a show by the artist Laure Prouvost currently on view at Palais de…

An image of installed art. A cement tire sculpture is visible in the foreground, and other artwork can be seen through the center and around the sides of the sculpture.

LUCKY Collective Statement and Exhibition Guide

COVEN BERLIN met four years ago with the idea of pursuing a sex positive, genderbending, non-dogmatic project based on feminism, art, and love. It was born around a kitchen table…

A sketch in blue ballpoint pen of a person with a head covering holding an object. A yellow-green ghost is to the right of the figure. The left side of the frame is blank. The levels of the image have been adjusted to make the contrast appear more extreme.

The Little Gaze

Last winter I came to visit my partner in Berlin. I noticed that I was spending a lot of time thinking about which homeless person to give my money to….

A digital screen with a still from nicola awang's video, depicting a black woman eating blonde hair extensions. On the wall behind the screen, blonde hair extensions are draped.

refahmation: an interview with artist nicola awang

The other week, nicola awang was kind enough to schlep her computer to a cafe and let me record a conversation we had about ‘refahmation’, her video installation piece currently…

The floorplan for the lucky exhibition superimposed over an idyllic green landscape of hills in a sunset. the effect is meant to be ironic.

LUCKY – An Alternative Exhibition Guide

The text is a mash-up of references to House of Cards, Batman, and The Princess Bride, with a touch of Sense & Sensibility. Prologue It’s sunny, it’s hot…

A tan paper cover with the words "Join the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)" in black letters in two half circles.

Joining the KSK: a radical guide on getting your shit together

One of the LUCKY installations is a small lavender desk where you can sit down and read a zine, compiled by Inga Zimprich of Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe (Feminist Health Care Research…

Three Wheel of Fortune tarot cards next to each other on a medium wood surface. The wheel in the first is red with clouds around it, the wheel on the second has dragons on a moving wheel, and the third has orange with a sky in the background.

Belief: The Shimmer is Real

She sits in a silent room, reading cards. Mattresses, cushions, and pieces of cloth-covered foam are evenly spread throughout the space like beds for 50 ghosts. The only things moving…

Two faces with a disco ball, stars, lightening, and futuristic elements

Silk, Slime, and Steam

I find art openings to be strange experiences. Silky tops, glasses in hand, crowds of people shifting positions, noise noise noise. It’s difficult to see the art, to focus into…