Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia. Art Exhibition

Contemporary art, queer memory, migration and belonging at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

July 17 – 24, 2026
Opening: July 17, 2026, 19:00
Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin

Karne Kunst presents Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia, an exhibition by Andrea Córdova Pellicer and Felipe Robles Neira at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin, presented as part of Cuir Pride 2026, a program by Vierte Welle curated by Gabriela Gioia.

Through a body of nine works, Unhousing explores the intersections between queer identities and migrant experience through the notion of “unhousing”: the dismantling of symbolic structures that exclude, in order to imagine other forms of belonging, intimacy and community.

In a month marked by public celebrations of queer life, the exhibition turns toward quieter but equally urgent questions: What does it mean to belong when the idea of home has never been neutral? Who is allowed to inhabit a house, a body, a language, a family, a territory? And what kinds of futures become possible when the structures that once contained us begin to fracture?

About the Exhibition

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia understands the house as a symbolic structure. It can represent the body, the family, the country of origin, the territory to which one migrates, or the cultural system that defines who is recognized, protected, or excluded.

When these structures limit the expanded existence of dissident identities, a process of unhousing is activated. This process does not only imply displacement or loss. It also opens a space for invention: a movement through which exclusion can be disarticulated and new forms of inhabiting can be imagined.

The queer experience and the migrant experience share a liminal condition. Both place pressure on the fantasy of a fixed home. Both expose the fragility of belonging when it is organized through borders, norms, bloodlines, gender, language or national identity. In Unhousing, displacement — territorial, affective and symbolic — becomes a site of political and creative potential.

The exhibition proposes the fracture of the “normative house” as a visual and conceptual gesture. Across the works, home appears not as a stable origin, but as a contested image: something remembered, broken, desired, refused, reconstructed or collectively invented.

Rather than presenting uprootedness as a final condition, Unhousing approaches it as an act of creation. The exhibition asks how queer and migrant subjects produce spaces of relation when the inherited structures of belonging are no longer enough.

Artists

Andrea Córdova Pellicer

Andrea Córdova Pellicer is a Chilean artist, researcher and writer based in Berlin. Her work moves across visual arts, literature, autobiography and hyperstition, exploring the narratives through which memory, desire, intimacy and extimacy are constructed.

Her practice creates spaces where personal experience intersects with collective histories, allowing non-fiction and speculation to function as tools for understanding and transforming reality. Through writing, installation, sound collage and archives, she investigates how language can produce alternative realities and open spaces for other forms of subjectivity, belonging and futurity.

Writing occupies a central place in her work as method, material and territory of research. Her use of the “cursi” becomes a strategy to sustain the tension between experience, non-fiction and desire within a single sensitive surface, challenging the languages of power through emotional excess.

Felipe Robles Neira

Felipe Robles Neira is a Chilean visual artist based in Bilbao. His work explores queer experiences, non-normative temporalities and relationships to home. Through his practice, he creates spaces for dialogue and for the rewriting of histories, desires, pleasures and fears.

He understands his artistic practice as an act of making space within the hegemonic and cisnormative structures of the contemporary art world, allowing room for other narratives through a hybrid approach that encompasses drawing, painting, installation, collage, text, textile and video.

Portraiture is a recurring presence throughout his work, functioning as a continuous act of capturing the queer subject. His artistic process is also a site of sensitive, autobiographical, emotional and intellectual inquiry.

Public Program

Opening: Unhousing

July 17, 2026, 19:00
Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

Opening of Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia, an exhibition by Andrea Córdova Pellicer and Felipe Robles Neira presented at Bardo Projektraum as part of Cuir Pride 2026.

Writing & Autobiographical Art Workshop

July 18, 2026
Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

Led by Andrea Córdova Pellicer and Felipe Robles Neira, this workshop explores displacement, home, queer identity and community through writing, collage and graphic intervention.

The workshop invites participants to approach autobiography not as a fixed narrative, but as a material field where memory, desire and belonging can be rewritten.

CUIRTECA: Archive Presentation & Conversation

July 24, 2026
Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

The exhibition closes with the presentation of CUIRTECA, a living archive of Latin American queer cinema, followed by a conversation on queer memory, archiving and activism with Gabriela Gioia.

This closing event connects the visual language of Unhousing with broader practices of queer preservation, circulation and collective memory across Latin America and its diasporas.

In the Framework of Cuir Pride 2026

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia is presented as part of Cuir Pride 2026, a program by Vierte Welle curated by Gabriela Gioia.

The broader program includes screenings at Lichtblick Kino, among them the Short Film Program “Cuir Pride” on July 16, featuring six Latin American queer short films from Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, and the screening of Silence Is a Falling Body by Agustina Comedi on July 23.

Cuir Pride brings together cinema, exhibition, archive and community-based practices to reflect on queer memory, Latin American visual culture and the political possibilities of gathering.

Visit

Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin

Exhibition dates: July 17 – 24, 2026
Opening: July 17, 2026, 19:00

More information:
https://www.viertewelleff.com/cuir-pride/
https://cuirteca.com

About Karne Kunst

Karne Kunst is a Berlin-based platform for contemporary art, cultural programs and artistic research shaped by Latin American and Caribbean diasporic practices. Through exhibitions, residencies, publications and public programs, Karne Kunst creates spaces for artists, curators and cultural workers engaging with memory, bodies, territories and the political urgencies of the present.

Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia is presented by Karne Kunst at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin, as part of Cuir Pride 2026.

Queer Art, Migration and Diasporic Practices in Berlin

Presented at Bardo Projektraum, Unhousing: An Enclave for Queer Utopia continues Karne Kunst’s commitment to contemporary artistic practices that emerge from migration, memory, feminist and decolonial perspectives.

Rather than treating queer identity or migration as fixed categories, the exhibition approaches both as living processes of transformation. At Bardo, these questions unfold through visual art, writing, archive and public conversation, creating a space where belonging can be questioned, displaced and imagined otherwise.