My projects move across curating, performance, sound, and pedagogy. They are often collaborative and research-driven, using artistic formats to think through intimacy, power, and care. Rather than producing singular objects, these works create exhibitions, performances, installations, and toolkits that bring together artistic practice, critical inquiry, and public engagement.
Viral Intimacies
Exhibition, curatorial project
Viral Intimacies (11 September–16 November 2025) is an exhibition that reflects on how HIV/AIDS continues to shape intimacy, politics, and memory. Bringing together eleven artists, activists, and scholars, the project foregrounds decolonial and intersectional perspectives, centering voices long excluded from dominant HIV/AIDS narratives, including trans and cis women, people from the Global South, racialized communities, sex workers, and incarcerated people. Staged in one of Berlin’s most visible public sites, the exhibition challenged canonical histories of HIV/AIDS and expanded how these stories are told.
As part of the curatorial team, I contributed to shaping the exhibition’s conceptual framework and to developing a public program that unfolded alongside the artworks. Through screenings, talks, workshops, and performances, Viral Intimacies created spaces of encounter, dialogue, and solidarity.
Curatorial team: Madi Awadalla, Pascale Espinosa, Elisabeth Krämer, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Max Schnepf
Organized by: nGbK (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst)
Supported by: Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Embassy of Spain in Germany, Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung, “la Caixa” Foundation, Kéré Foundation
No Bouncers, No Waiting Lines, and No Tickets
Sound installation / audio portrait
No Bouncers, No Waiting Lines, and No Tickets (2023) is an audio portrait developed in collaboration with filmmaker Popo Fan that explores cruising as a queer practice of intimacy and collective presence in Berlin’s Hasenheide park. The work reflects on a hidden cruising grove in Hasenheide park that became a vital queer commons during the COVID-19 pandemic, when clubs and other nightlife spaces were closed.
As the physical conditions that once sheltered these encounters were later erased, the project meditates on loss, visibility, and the politics of desire in public space. Conceived as a sound installation, the work approaches cruising as an embodied practice that produces unruly counter-publics and alternative forms of sociality.
Collaboration: Popo Fan
Presented as part of: Constellations Festival Akt 6: Cruising at Hasenheide
Supported by: Poligonal
Darkroom Cruising Vocabulary
Educational toolkit
Darkroom Cruising Vocabulary is an educational toolkit that makes the often tacit practices of darkroom culture more legible. Developed by Gay Consent Lab, the project explores how desire, refusal, boundaries, and care are communicated in spaces where nonverbal gestures and bodily cues play a central role.
Both a practical guide and a critical reflection, the toolkit situates darkrooms within a queer lineage of communal pleasure, vulnerability, and collective responsibility. By articulating the codes that shape these encounters, it opens up conversations about consent, safety, and intimacy in queer nightlife and beyond.
Developed by: Gay Consent Lab (Mati Klitgård, Yoav Admoni, Madi Awadalla, Z Harris)
Design: Rishabh Jain
Hosted by: Sidekicks Berlin
Supported by: Queer Worldings (Lecken)
