These Are the Only Times You Have Known

The exhibition “These Are the Only Times You Have Known” presents the work of eleven international artists who were awarded the Berlin Senate’s Visual Arts Grant in 2019.

The title of the exhibition underscores the contemporaneity of the positions assembled in the exhibition, while at the same time pointing to the individual artistic achievements, each of which formulates questions about the present, past, and future in its own way.

The range of artistic positions they represent is aimed at the examination of different layers of time, hidden narratives, and issues of belonging and performativity.

A preoccupation with questions of temporality is an important aspect for many of the exhibited works: for some is how knowledge can be preserved and passed on, other focuses on the genesis of communities or on the connection between material, body, and form and associated movements of form-giving and loss of form.