SEEING GHOSTS & UNREALISH
25 – 28 June 2025, Culterim | Gesundbrunnen | Berlin
Opening: 25 June 2025, 6–9pm

SEEING GHOSTS and UNREALISH, two exhibitions curated by the international students of IESA Arts & Culture’s Master in Contemporary Art program in Paris.

Presented at our temporary project space CULTERIM | Gesundbrunnen, these end-of-year exhibitions explore how imagination, memory, and perception shape our understanding of reality and the unseen.

Though distinct in form and focus, both curatorial projects mirror each other conceptually - inviting us to reflect on the blurred edges between what is real, remembered, and imagined.

SEEING GHOSTS
An exhibition by Emma Bomprezzi, Wenjie Sun, Marie Meguro, and Yuanyuan Liu

Artists:
IyamaRi
Anna-Maria Podlacha
Cian McCarthy
Kurt Yau Kwok Keung

Have you ever felt drawn to something invisible - something you know exists, yet can’t touch or see? Like you’ve just seen a ghost?

Set in Berlin - a city layered with memory - SEEING GHOSTS examines the spectral through photography and video. From the remnants of the Berlin Wall to Stolpersteine beneath our feet, the city vibrates with unresolved histories.

Ghosts - metaphorical and real - linger in these spaces. The exhibition explores how trauma, memory, and silenced voices continue to haunt the present. Drawing from the theories of hauntology and the "spectral turn," the works blur boundaries between presence and absence, visibility and erasure.

UNREALISH
An exhibition by Helen Grace Alexandrowski, Can Li, and Qijia Jiang

Artists:
Marta Djourina
Toni Mauersberg
Cora Wöhlenstein

UNREALISH bends reality. Shifting, distorting, and fragmenting, the works on view question where perception ends and unreality begins.

Working across photography, painting, textile, and sculpture, the artists explore abstraction and imagination as tools for navigating contemporary experience.

Rooted in the legacy of surrealism and Sartre’s writings on “unreality,” the exhibition invites us to dwell in ambiguity. These works do not offer illusion or escape—but instead propose instability and transformation as essential parts of how we experience the world.

Opening hours:

Thu: 11am – 8pm
Fri: 11am – 8pm
Sat: 11am – 8pm

Location:
CULTERIM | Gesundbrunnen
Brunnenstraße 105–109, 13355 Berlin–Wedding
Near S+U Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen

Presented by:
IESA Arts & Culture