exhibition view at the 'Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin', 2025; ©Anna Kubelík, Foto: Frank Peters
art from infestation
BeFallen
“BeFallen” is a series of large-format prints for which a mixed technique of relief and intaglio printing was used. (Hahnemühle Paper, 106x78cm) The printing blocks are based on spruce bark. This was harvested in the summer of 2024 in the forest near Feldbuch (Upper Franconia, Germany) - right next to the Kubelíkhof. The bark comes from dead trees infested by bark beetles. The prints visualise the traces of the bark beetles, known as feeding galleries, as aesthetic lines.
The series is part of the long-term project “ART FROM INFESTATION”, which deals with material aesthetics, ecology and questions of the coexistence of humans and non-humans. The beetles are not portrayed as pests, but as gravitators, as architects of a different narrative.
In 2025 the prints were created in the BBK printing workshop in Berlin and embossed with charcoal, colour and gold pigments. Each print is an image of change, a trace of what passes and remains.
Anna Kubelík is an artist and Professor of Artistic Experimental Representation & Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz. She is Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her artistic research, she deals with more-than-human expression and its spatial-sound contextualization. www.annakubelik.com
→ “BeFallen - Art From Infestation” will be presented as part of the special exhibition “Symbiotic Wood”. The exhibition is part of the “More than Human” series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It was developed in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for the ＿matter Festival 2025.
* Further prints can be viewed and purchased on request at the studio: info@annakubelik.com
Curation: Karola Dierichs
Curatorial Assistance: Jessica Farmer
Coordination and Co-curation: Achim Stiegel; Claudia Banz, Curation of the Series »More-than-Human. Design after the Anthropocene«
Coordination ＿matter Festival 2025: Sophia Gräfe
Coordination Assistance: Laura Niklas
Production: Julia Blumenthal
Production Assistance: Mareen Baumeister, Nick Geipel, Nicholas Plunkett
Lighting Design: Caspar Pichner
Graphic Design: Nuri Kang
audio work
ME+BeFallen
“ME+BeFallen” is a literary and acoustic work about the decay and transformation of a spruce forest in Upper Franconia. It is told from five different perspectives. The perspectives are spruce, bark beetle, forest farmer, mushroom picker in a dystopian near future, and mycelium in a utopian distant future in the Chthulucene. Five accompanying texts, which can be heard via headphones, are paired with Anna Kubelík's prints. The result is a multi-perspective narrative structure about forest loss, change, and new connections between species.
Tarik Goetzke wrote and produced all texts. Anna Kubelík narrated them all, voicing every character — from the delicate spruce to the mycelial we.
The texts draw inspiration from current forestry science, multispectral anthropology (Tsing, Haraway), and personal experiences in Anna Kubelík's mother's forest. This project raises questions about responsibility, change, and new forms of coexistence between species in the Anthropocene and beyond.
Tarik Goetzke is an author, audio artist, and theater director. He works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of ecology, narration, and auditory immersion.
Following ME+Rome (Villa Massimo, 2017) and ME+Beijing (Goethe-Institut, 2018), ME+BeFallen is the third collaborative audio project by Goetzke and Kubelík.
→ “ME+BeFallen” will be presented as part of the special exhibition “Symbiotic Wood”. The exhibition is part of the “More than Human” series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It was developed in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for the ＿matter Festival 2025.
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