CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
Artist Scientist DIALOGUE With Margherita Pevere and Germán Joosten
Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee + online (Zoom)
Thu, 21 May 2026, 7:30 pm CET
Hybrid: on-site (limited places) and online (Zoom)
Registration is required for both formats.
“Their world-building power lies in holding”: ponds and their ecology is marked by apparent stillness. The small water bodies that constellate the urban territory of Berlin unfold their intricate ecology in an apparent absence of motion, so different from the perpetual flow of rivers or the large tidal motions of lagoons. Drawing from her performance practice, artist Dr Margherita Pevere places the capacity of ponds to “hold” and transform living and dying matter at the heart of her research in the context of the ongoing research project Chrysalis. Artists in Labs.
Her main research partner is Dr Germán Joosten, postdoctoral scientist in environmental anthropology at the Jeschke Lab for Ecological Novelty at Freie University Berlin. His work explores conflicts and future narratives around human-environment relations for the project POUNDER. Pollution in Urban ponds, eco-evolutionary Dynamics, and Ecosystem Resilience, run by the IGB and ARL Leibniz institutes.
In the talk Margherita and Germán will present their exchange across art and science, share the results and observations on their recent workshop Pond Codex: Of Life and Death in Berlin’s Small Water Bodies, and bring the audience into the shallow but powerful depths of Berlin small water bodies.
About CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
During 2025 and 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, kindly supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. Building on Berlin’s unique status as a global centre for arts and sciences, we aim to create new synergies based on topics of current research. In collaboration with a consortium of scientists from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and other instutions, Art Laboratory Berlin is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for several internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – including Margherita Pevere. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin
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