Graduate School - Graduiertenschule / UdK Berlin

Research Ecologies 2026

encounters. disruptions. common grounds.

Call for Participation

for artistic and scientific doctoral candidates and researchers in the third cycle 

Are you in the middle of a messy middle of your research project? Are you looking for a space where your research process can breathe and your methodological approaches can be constructively questioned?

Following the inspiring and productive encounters of 2025, the Research Ecologies will continue in 2026 with the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). We understand the colloquium series as a curated ecology of togetherness – as a shared space where scientific and artistic researchers meet to exchange ideas at the intersections and irritations of their work, investigating in the process of creation.

Research rarely proceeds in a straight line. That is why this year we would like to pay special tribute to detours and unresolved issues. We are looking for artistically and scientifically open approaches in doctoral theses and projects that are currently in the making – perhaps thinking in many directions, still undecided or in productive chaos.

We invite you not to present something ‘finished,’ but to bring open questions and experimental formats, to listen actively, to think along with us, and to learn together. Through curated peer-to-peer exchange, we want to promote collective knowledge sharing and strengthen you in your individual research practices.

Apply by 22 February 2026

Research Ecologies 2026 will take place on several dates during the summer and winter semesters of 2026/27 at BAS on Einsteinufer.

5 May 2026, 5-7pm

9 June 2026, 5-7pm

2 July 2026, 10am – 5/6pm (summer intensive)

29 September 2026, 5-7pm

In order to foster the most rewarding encounters possible, the 2026 series will once again be curated by our team.

Further information: https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/translate-to-english-research-ecologies-call-2026/

Looking back at 2025 👀

We ended 2025 with FLOW STATES, our final Graduale exhibition and event programme held at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. With works by: Tekla Aslanishvili & Nikoloz Tabukashvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer and Anani Dodji Sanouvi.

Accompanying the exhibition was a catalogue text by Hanno Hauenstein, designed by Camilo Baquero Burgos 🙌

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Today is your last day to visit FLOW STATES!

Featuring works by Tekla Aslanishvili & Nikoloz Tabukashvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi and a catalogue text by Hanno Hauenstein, designed by Camilo Baquero Burgos 🙌

These photos are from opening night, featuring a performance by Anani Dodji Sanouvi: E’TOME – Counter-colonial curves from Éwé epistemology.

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Graduale 25: FLOW STATES

Liquid commons, or who manages our water? 💧

Join us for a workshop on the regional water politics in Brandenburg with activists of "Tesla den Hahn abdrehen" and artist and filmmaker Julia Lazarus:

🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏰ 5 - 7 pm
📍 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Language: German with English whisper translation

The exhibition continues until 05.10.2025.

image: © Julia Lazarus

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