The exhibition celebrates Berlin’s queer legacies and traces the remnants of the gallery’s previous inhabiter, Deko Behrendt, while also flourishing in the present moment. Amid the gallery’s renovation, the artist duo Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano came to preserve layers of wallpaper to produce unique artworks hanging once again from the build- ing’s walls. Renewed with various motifs of celebration, these works become the emotional landscape for the personali- ties captured in the close and intimate camera of Annette Frick. Documenting Berlin’s multiple subcultures, her analog monochrome images reveal moments of carnivalesque joy and freedom in the lives of people existing outside the heteronormative orders of urban society. Among Frick’s portraits of drag queens, performers and friends are also the largescale floral sculptures of Halilaj and Urbano. Correlating with significant dates from the couple’s past, these flowers bring forth the show’s underlying desire to commemorate the personal histories connected to a place as it continues to adapt, evolve and bloom.

Sofía José Salazar Rosales (b. Ecuador, 1999) is an artist who stitches together her ancestral heritage to produce evocative sculptural works. Referencing the displacement of people and goods, her objects hold social and economic connotations of the trans-Atlantic trade routes. Products of containment inhabit the gallery to express the compassionless systems of colonialism and late capitalism. Delicately woven with the environmental exploitation of the region she comes from, one of Salazar Rosales’s objects hangs from the ceiling in a beaded produce bag filled with concrete bananas. An object awaiting transportation, the work is left to continually resist the weight it has been given. This analogy is witnessed in the cultural artifacts recreated in the gallery, transforming the space into a place to gather memories and lived experiences. By using various methods of preservation, fossilization and reproduction, Salazar Rosales imbues in her work an overwhelming sense of empathy that navigates the visitor through the space.