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Curated Exhibition 04 – 05 / 2026

Decade x Dialogue
10 years pilote!

April 30 – May 03, 2026
Opening April 29, 7 pm

Performance #1 7.30 pm by Stefanie Loveday & Betty Böhm
Performance #2 8.30 pm by Olga Hohmann „Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens“

Kunstquartier Bethanien / Projektraum
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin

with Antonia Breme, Attilio Tono, Betty Böhm, Bignia Wehrli, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Catherine Rose Evans, Cécile Dupaquier, Charlotte Bastian, Claire Laude, Dana Engfer, Daniela Zeilinger, Jessica Rimondi, Kama Sokolnicka, Kathrin Ganser, Katja Pudor, Nadine Ethner, Olga Hohmann, Prinz Gholam, Sadith Silvano, Sarah Straßmann, Selke Chlupka, Stefan Klein, Stefanie Loveday, Theresa Schubert

Curatorial guidance by Cassandra Mehlhorn

In 2026, the independent artists’ collective pilote marks its tenth anniversary with the group exhibition Decade x Dialogue. Bringing together current and former members alongside invited artistic positions, the exhibition initiates a polyphonic exchange that reveals the collective’s evolving working relationships visible while opening them to new perspectives. Conceived as both a process-oriented survey and a discursive platform, Decade x Dialogue reflects on collective practice between shared history and future artistic inquiries. The exhibition addresses key questions at the intersection of humans and nature, examining the increasingly ambiguous entanglements in a technologically shaped present. It questions presumed hierarchies, illuminates co-existence and hybridization, and positions humans as part of larger processes. Particular attention is given to processes of temporality and sedimentation, understood as the continuous inscription of experiences, images, and material as well as the immaterial traces of individual and collective spaces of memory. The participating artistic positions, research and reflect on traces both as relics of past actions and as active agents in the production of future meaning. Another focus lies on artistic engagements with archives—as epistemic structures, poetic repositories, and critical infrastructures of visual culture. Here, archives are not conceived as static sites of preservation but as dynamic systems of reorganization, overwriting, and the renegotiation of history. In this context, spaces are examined in both their physical and virtual dimensions: as hybrid fields of experience between analog and digital spheres in which perception, memory, and presence are newly configured. Images are no longer understood as discrete objects but as processual entities moving through continuous transformations, distributions, and recontextualizations. Decade x Dialogue thus positions itself as a reflective space in which artistic practices engage with the material, technical, and discursive conditions of their own present.
Founded in 2016, pilote is a collective of internationally active artists connected through Berlin, who collaboratively develop site-responsive exhibition formats. Initially conceived as an artist-run gallery, it later evolved into a mobile curatorial exhibition project operating across changing locations. At the core of pilote’s practice is a collective approach described as a polyphonic co-existence: participating artists maintain their individual positions while working together thematically and curatorially on joint projects, often in collaboration with guest curators and additional contributors. Rather than functioning as a traditional gallery, the collective understands itself as a flexible structure for production and presentation that experiments with exhibition formats and different media. It connects photography, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance alike.
The core members of the pilote collective are Betty Böhm, Dana Engfer, Catherine Rose Evans, Kathrin Ganser, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Stefan Klein, Claire Laude, Sarah Straßmann and Attilio Tono.

Text: Kathrin Ganser / Cassandra Mehlhorn, 2026
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Curated Exhibition 25.10. – 29.11.2025
–> Artist Talk with Diana Thun, Michael Schäfer, Kathrin Ganser, Daria Lou Nakov
29.11., 5 pm in the exhibition Not a Moment, Not A Place,Villa Heike Kunstverein

Not A Moment, Not A Place
Villa Heike Kunstverein, Berlin
Trio Show with Daria Lou Nakov and Ralf Brueck
curated by Michael Schäfer & Sarie Nijboer
Opening: 25.10.2025, 5 pm
Exhibition: 25.10. – 29.11.2025
https://www.villaheikekunstverein.de

More info here Pib & photography-now

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Curated Exhibition 04 – 05 / 2026
10 years pilote!, Studio Bethanien Berlin
28.04. – 03.05. 2026
(Gallery Weekend Berlin)

„20 Jahre Künstlerstiftung Kaufbeuren“ – Jubiläumsausstellung der Preisträger:innen, Künstlerstiftung Kaufbeuren
Sonderausstellung Preisträger:innen 2005 – 2025
Eröffnung: Fr, 28.11.
28.11. – 12.12. 2025

Pilote solo series / 2025 – 2026
tba, pilote: wanders, ongoing solo series by artists of pilote
more info coming soon!

Curated Exhibition 10 – 11 / 2025
Not A Moment, Not A Place, Villa Heike, Berlin
Trio Show with Daria Lou Nakov and Ralf Brueck
curated by Michael Schäfer & Sarie Nijboer
Opening: 25.10.2025

recently
Exhibition & Talk 09 / 2025
Situations – pilote: wanders series, Talk (by invitation only) hosted by Constanze Schweda & pilote, Sub Tei, Berlin
Opening: 13.09.2025 (Berlin Art Week)

Juried Group Exhibition 08 -10 / 2025
Kunstausstellung hosted by the City of Kempten, Residenz Kempten

Exhibition & Auction 05 / 2025
Yardt Sale, vol. 2, SAP Annual Auction & Exhibition, curated by Ilyn Wong, SAP Space, Berlin
SAP Space
Donaustraße 50
12043 Berlin
Opening: May 1, 6 pm
01.05. – 18.5.2025

Artist Book 05 / 2025
Die Gelben Seiten, curated by Daniel Hahn & Johannes Mundinger, raumwww, Berlin
Gallery Weekend 02.– 04.05.2025
Cell Phone Box, Wildenbruchstraße, Berlin
Selected Original Drawings by 130 artists

Duo-Exhibition 09 / 2024
Voyage Voyage / Token
KATHRIN GANSER | VALERIO CERASANI

Culterim Gallery Gesundbrunnen
Brunnenstraße 107
13555 Berlin

Opening: September 21, 6 pm
Talk & Finissage: September 28, 6 – 8 pm

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Exhibition 07 – 08 / 2024
Pilote Artist Collective
pilote : Y

© Claire Laude

Y
Loop – Raum für aktuelle Kunst
With works by Betty Böhm, Selket Chlupka, Dana Engfer, Catherine Rose Evans, Kathrin Ganser, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Stefan Klein, Claire Laude, Sarah Straßmann, Attilio Tono.
curated by pilote contemporary in coop. with Rüdiger Lange

B-Part Am Gleisdreieck
Luckenwalder Str. 6b
10963 Berlin
www.loop-raum.de / @loopraum
Opening: Friday, 26.07.2024, 18 Uhr
Exhibition: 27.07. – 24.08.2024
Finissage: Artist Walk & Talk, 24.08.,16 Uhr

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Exhibition 03 – 06 / 2024
Friends!

Höhmannhaus 2019 © Kathrin Ganser & VG Bildkunst

Friends!
H2 – Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg
Benjamin Appel ǀ Olaf Otto Becker ǀ Mauro Bergonzoli ǀ Johanna Diehl ǀ Daniel und Geo Fuchs ǀ Hamish Fulton ǀ Kathrin Ganser | Anja Güthoff ǀ Andy Heller ǀ Herbert Holzmann ǀ Christian Hörl ǀ Karen Irmer ǀ Magdalena Jetelová ǀ Max Kaminski ǀ Per Kirkeby ǀ Christofer Kochs ǀ Sebastian Lübeck ǀ Heike und Jiri Mayr ǀ Bernhard McQueen ǀ Andrea Motta ǀ Beate Passow ǀ Maximilian Prüfer ǀ Christof Rehm ǀ Natalija Ribovic ǀ Michael H. Rohde ǀ Elham Rokni ǀ Norbert Schessl ǀ Kerstin Skringer ǀ Horst Thürheimer u.a.

curated by Thomas Elsen – Director of H2 – Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg

Opening: March 2, 2024, 11 a.m.
Introduction: Jürgen K. Enninger, Consultant for Culture, World Heritage and Sport, Dr. Christof Trepesch, Managing Director of the Augsburg Art Collections & Museums, Herbert Scheel, Chairman of the Friends of the Art Collections.

Exhibition duration: March 2, 2024 to June 30, 2024
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, closed on Mondays

Artist Talk with Thomas Elsen (Director of H2-Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst)
30.06.2024, 2 pm / 14 Uhr
H2 – Center for Contemporary Art,
Beim Glaspalast 1, Augsburg

https://kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de/friends
http://www.kunst-braucht-freunde.de/

recently

Auction & Exhibition 04 – 05 / 2024
Auction
yardt SALE vol. 1 | 24.04 – 01.05.24 | first annual SAP Space auction

Exhibition 04 / 2024
The Pool
pilote contemporary & Galerie Monica Ruppert (Frankfurt a.M.) during Berlin Gallery Weekend, and will take part in Sellerie Weekend.
Opening: April 25, 7 pm
Exhibition: April 25 – 28, 2024
Opening Hours: 12 am – 6 pm

Culterim Gallery
Brunnenstraße 107, 13355 Berlin Gesundbrunnen
www.pilote-contemporary.com

With works by Betty Böhm, Dana Engfer, Catherine Rose Evans, Kathrin Ganser, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Stefan Klein, Claire Laude, Sarah Straßmann, Attilio Tono et. al.