17–25 September 2026
Book Launch + Vernissage: 17 September, 18:00
Bardo Projektraum, Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin

What happens when a book leaves the page and becomes a space to inhabit?

Making Places Inbetween is an exhibition-as-book in which chapters are transformed into collaborative, multi-vocal artworks. Moving between Italy, France and Chile, the project brings together narratives of placemaking shaped by migration, border regimes, memory and resistance.

Developed from a book project by artist and researcher Melanie Garland, the exhibition approaches migration not as a series of isolated movements, but as a constellation of interconnected experiences. Inspired by the oceans connecting the different sites explored in the project, Making Places Inbetween proposes an archipelagic perspective: stories, encounters and forms of solidarity emerge across geographical borders, linking communities and places through water, memory and movement.

At the intersection of art and anthropology, theory and practice, the project also asks how migration can be researched and represented without reducing complex experiences to fixed narratives. Through sound and art installations, photography, collective listening, workshops and artistic activations, the book expands into the physical space of Bardo Projektraum.

Rather than presenting research as something finished, Making Places Inbetween creates a space for encounter and exchange. Visitors are invited to move between stories and methodologies, and to consider how places are created, inhabited and transformed by communities on the move.

The project features conversations with Elizabeth Andrade, Adolfo Estalella, Davide Franceschini, Inti Gallardo, Melanie Garland, hn. lyonga, Carla J. Maier, Cristian Ochoa, Kathy O’Hare and Myriam Perrot.

BOOK LAUNCH + VERNISSAGE

Thursday, 17 September 2026, from 18:00

19:00 — Book conversation with hn. lyonga, Melanie Garland and collaborators

20:00 — Collective Listening Session / Waterscape Performance and vinyl release

The opening brings the book into conversation with some of its contributors while sound and collective listening extend its narratives beyond the written page.

WORKSHOPS & ACTIVATIONS

Multimodal Workshop
Saturday, 19 September, 15:00–17:30

A collaborative workshop for people working at the intersections of art and anthropology, aesthetics and ethics, and theory and practice.

Participants are invited to bring a project they are currently developing and reflect collectively on methodologies, artistic research and collaborative practices from decolonial, postcolonial and feminist ethical perspectives.

The workshop is open to artists, students, researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds and disciplines. It will be held in English or Spanish, depending on participants, and participation is free.

Registration: Send a short introduction to your project and your interest in the workshop to m@melaniegarland.com by 14 September. Places are limited.

Artwork Activations
Sunday, 20 September, 14:00–18:00

An afternoon of storytelling, performative guided tours, listening experiences and informal conversations with artists and curators.

There is no fixed schedule and no registration is required. Visitors are invited to drop in throughout the afternoon and encounter the works in a more intimate and conversational setting — over tea and cake.

FINISSAGE

Thursday, 24 September, from 18:00

19:30 — Collective Vinyl Listening Session

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Making Places Inbetween is a book project by Melanie Garland.

The exhibition is curated by Alejandra Atalah, with spatial design collaboration by Francisco Mondaca Molina and documentation by Pablo Hassmann.

Presented at Bardo Projektraum, a project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva.

Making Places Inbetween is supported by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and transcript Verlag.

Bardo Projektraum is supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Making Places Inbetween
Exhibition-as-Book
17–25 September 2026

Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33
10247 Berlin

Opening hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 14:00–18:00

Admission free.

More information about the project, workshop registration and activations:
https://melaniegarland.com/MAKING-PLACES-INBETWEEN