Turning Space is a creative and conversational platform initiated by Catriona Collins. Based in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Turning Space hosts an artist-focused programme that unfolds through public talks, exhibitions, performances, and other unconventional forms of contribution.
Culture is fundamentally unruly, layered, biased, and constantly shifting. The programme aims to hold nuance and difference, to host contradiction, and to make room for further discussion.
The public talks series is guided by curiosity toward the structures that shape culture and the shifting conditions through which meaning is produced. Designed to be intimate and collaborative, conversation becomes a way of working with complexity rather than simplifying it.
Up to four exhibitions are presented each year, each realised by an artist as a solo show. Every exhibition culminates in a public talk that begins with the artist’s work and opens outward into discussion.
Alongside these, the programme remains open to listening-based events, sound and spoken word performances, and other responsive formats that emerge in relation to the lines of enquiry.
We aspire for all Turning Space gatherings to offer a setting for people to meet and think together, to test ideas, question inherited narratives, and trace inspiring connections across disciplines.
What are we talking about?
Between Frames
On plural meaning, performing roles, and unstable value
Between Frames explores how meaning changes as it moves across roles, disciplines, and cultural systems. This enquiry celebrates creative practices that enable multiple readings and reinterpretations — through acts of translation, role-play or subversion.
Futures in Friction
On uncertain times and shared futures
Futures in Friction explores how we live with uncertainty — socially, ecologically, emotionally — in ways that are unevenly distributed and unequally endured. Resisting the idea of the future as singular or linear, this enquiry approaches it as plural, entangled, and shaped by histories of extraction, resistance, and responsibility. It asks what kinds of futures are being imagined, by whom, and for whom.
Overexposed
On image fatigue and the metabolism of digital culture
Overexposed looks at our relationship with mass media, digital messaging, and the algorithmic systems that shape how we see and are seen. This enquiry explores what it means to create, challenge, withdraw, or adapt in a landscape built on attention.
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CONTACT
Turning Space is always interested in hearing from individuals, including those in the early stages of their research or practice, who would like to speak and contribute to our talks.
We welcome speakers from all disciplines, including artists, designers, and architects; those working in the art and design market, collections, and provenance; and practitioners from fields such as social services, ecology, climate science, activism, and technology.
Contributors are invited to speak from their own perspectives and experiences. If you are researching or working within a particular field and feel your perspective might resonate with the lines of enquiry being explored, we would be glad to hear from you.