Exhibition · Installations · Sound · Dream Practices

Dreams That Wake is a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores dreaming as a space of memory, resistance, and collective imagination. Through installations, sound, VR, performance, and participatory practices, the project approaches dreaming not as a private experience, but as a shared territory where personal, political, and ancestral narratives intersect.

Unfolding at Bardo Projektraum, Dreams That Wake moves between waking and sleeping states, between what has been erased and what insists on remaining present. The exhibition engages with themes of displacement, migration, loss, care, and survival, understanding dreams as tools for sensing, remembering, and imagining worlds beyond rupture.

Dreams That Wake expands over time through workshops, talks, listening sessions, and an overnight collective dream experience. The works grow through participation, weaving together individual memories, embodied practices, and shared symbolic languages.

Exhibitions

How am I here?

Installation + VR. Mey Seifan (Tanween Company) & Basel Naouri (slowfuture)
An immersive virtual environment that reflects on presence, perception, and dislocation. Through VR technology and embodied experience, the work questions how we locate ourselves, physically, emotionally, and politically, within unstable and shifting realities.

Random Waters

Installation / Tiles. Elizaveta Bogachova
A material exploration of fluidity and transformation, where water becomes both subject and metaphor. The work reflects on unstable terrains, changing surfaces, and the constant negotiation between control and movement.

Juthori / Eternal Shadows

Installation (Photography + Embroidery). Tala Fasheh
Eternal Shadows unfolds from a space of waking where what has been erased refuses to disappear. The work traces fragments of lives in Gaza, gestures, routines, stories, and relationships to land and architecture that no longer exist physically, yet remain deeply present.

As part of Dreams That Wake, the installation expands through a participatory workshop rooted in Tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery, understood as both practice and language. Participants engage with stories, voice recordings, and cultural symbols, creating embroidered pieces that become part of the evolving installation. Through collective making, Eternal Shadows reflects on care, memory, and dreaming as acts of resistance against erasure.

Public Program

Vernissage
21.02.2026. 17:00 – 20:00

Tatreez (Palestinian Embroidery) Workshop. Led by Tala Fasheh
22.02.2026. 13:00 – 16:00

Talk With Elizaveta Bogachova and Harshini J. Karunaratne
26.02.2026. 17:00

Sleeping Journey / Dream Temple. Led by Annette
07.03-08.03.2026.

• 20:30 – 22:30 Collaborative Dream Incubation & Blue Lotus Ceremony
• 23:00 – 24:00 Sound Journey
• Overnight intentional sleep
• 08:00 Dream journaling
• 09:00 Breakfast (participants bring their own or eat nearby)
• 10:00 – 13:00 Dream Theater

Inspired by ancient dream incubation practices, this overnight experience invites participants into a shared dream space through sound, ritual, and intentional sleep. Dreams gathered during the night are collectively shared and transformed into an improvised Dream Theater the following morning.

RADAЯ Experimental Session. By Sofia Albanese
10.03.2026. 20:00

Finissage & Listening Session
14.03.2026. 18:00 – 21:00
Sonic Hinterlands: Tides of Crossing. Mohammad Abdulla & Basel Naouri

A sonic performance unfolding along imagined shorelines of the Red Sea, exploring crossings, displacement, and memory through field recordings, samples, and live sound capture.

Team

• Artistic Direction: Marcela Villanueva
• Curatorial Team: Harshini J. Karunaratne & Basel Naouri
• Installation Assistant: Keyur (TimeLab)
• Production & Communications Assistant: Marta Torres
• Mediation: Alejandra Atalah
• Gallery Assistant: Florencia Freis

Dreams That Wake is curated by Harshini J. Karunaratne and Basel Naouri and is a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva.
Supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin and carried out at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.

About Bardo Projektraum

Bardo Projektraum is a space in Berlin dedicated to artistic experimentation and cultural work rooted in lived experience. Its program is shaped by artists, curators, and cultural workers whose practices emerge from migration, displacement, feminist struggle, queer kinship, and decolonial imaginaries. Rather than showcasing diversity as a fixed category, Bardo functions as a platform for situated cultural production—supporting processes, research-based practices, and collective forms of knowledge outside institutional tokenism.

About Karne Kunst

Karne Kunst is a Berlin-based cultural platform and production structure that develops exhibitions, residencies, and public programs focused on contemporary artistic practices shaped by migration, feminism, and transnational perspectives. Karne works across curatorial, educational, and production formats, supporting artists and cultural workers through long-term processes, collaboration, and international networks.

📍 Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin

🕒 Opening hours: Wed – Sat, 14:00–18:00
🎟 Free entry · Some activities donation-based