The group-exhibition Earthlings at Solaris looks at erratic human behavior from ‘outsiders’ perspective, giving the feeling of watching post-apocalyptic David Attenborough’s animal documentary on the weirdest of the Earth’s species.  In her work ‘Depressed Animals’ Elisa Jule-Braun is tracking the movement of animals in captivity and translates them into ‘smart objects’ such as drones or cleaning robots. Maryna Makarenko follows the ‘stalkers’- young men who are looking for spiritual experiences in the post-nuclear Chernobyl plant. While Emma Adler looks into esoteric beliefs and hatred substituting religions in New-Far-Right. 

As a performative event at Project Space Festival Berlin Artist, writer, and radio producer Bitsy Knox will give a lecture entitled twice repeated, love and death surface from its din, which considers the collapse of information hierarchies through the braided loci of four events: a TV cult soap opera parody, a Harmolodic recording, an airplane hijacking, and a public transit strike.

Solaris is a project space run by artists working across new media. It is a small but versatile space that holds community meetings, screenings and exhibitions. Solaris was founded in 2020  by Valerian Blos, Chen Hsiangfu, Gosia Lehmann and Theresa R Dubbers.

Named after Stanisław Lem’s novel, it is a place for exploration of the unknown and impossible, with a specific focus on combining digital crafts with unusual materials and storytelling. One of the main objectives of Solaris is to maintain a community of friends and to be a welcoming and open space. Solaris celebrates a hands-on approach, provides a framework for independent cultural productions and fosters exchange between the artists.