Opening: 03.04.2025, 7 pm

Water comes in a variety of forms: It flows in rivers and oceans, drips from the sky as rain, is frozen rigid into huge blocks of ice or is intangible as a cloud of water vapor. It serves as an elixir of life and is a destructive force. The transitions are fluid. This year’s BBK Annual Exhibition is dedicated to the theme of water in all its facets and with all its scope for interpretation.

At the same time, the traveling exhibition Wasser für Alle by the Bremen Information Center for Human Rights and Development (biz) will be on display in the courtyard of the Künstler:innenhaus Bremen in April and May.

In the gallery and the rooms of the former restaurant in the Künstler:innenhaus, Fließender Übergang brings together 18 positions by Bremen artists. Using numerous techniques such as painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, film and video, installation and sound performance, the artists pose questions: What color is the surface of the water and what does it look like underneath? Who or what lives there? What keeps a river healthy and what happens when it overflows its banks? They let different river courses flow into each other as graphic drawings, or imitate the thoughts bubbling under the shower. Water is an everyday occurrence and a place of longing. The dreams and hopes of migrants flowing through piles of bureaucratic paperwork drip like rain or the melting water of ice. On the rain chain or in the concrete basin, ceramic drips into a rectangular puddle. Drop by drop, small actions accumulate into a political uprising. What story does a drop of water tell? Not only water flows through a leak, but also information and digital data. In hydrofeminist discourse, water serves as a metaphor for the dissolution of rigid boundaries and dualisms.

With contributions by the artists: Akkela Dienstbier, Veronika Dobers, Sulme & Jea-Nder Fluid, Nathalie Gebert, Alberto Harres, Sascha Kregel, Veronika Maier, Atsushi Mannami, Ulrike Möhle, Jana Piotrowski, Tine Pockels, Pio Rahner, Sabine Schellhorn, Marina Schulze, Hassan Sheidaei, Annemarie Strümpfler, Behshad Tajammol, Jiawen Uffline

The exhibition is curated by Clara Kramer

Accompanying Program

• 03.04.25 7 pm
  Opening
• 11.04.25 2—6 pm
  Workshop: Ears of Clay
• 12.04.25 2—6 pm
  Workshop: Ears of Clay
• 25.04.25
  Zines about human (rights) on the water
• 27.04.25 10am — 1pm
  Comics about too much water—or too little?
• 27.04.25 3 pm
  Artist talk with Clara Kramer
• 03.05.25 7 pm
  Desert Drain
• 06.05.25 3:30—6 pm
  Comics about too much water—or too little?
• 07.05.25 3:30—6 pm
  Comics about too much water—or too little?
• 08.05.25 7—9 pm
  Comics about too much water—or too little?
• 11.05.25 2—6 pm
  Dance theater about the connection between humans and water
• 17.05.25 7 pm
  TENTACLES TRAILS
• 22.05.25 6 pm
  Artist talk with Clara Kramer
• 25.05.25 3—6 pm
  Dance/Movement about the connection between bodies and water
• 24.05.25 3—6 pm
  Dance/Movement about the connection between bodies and water
• 24.05.25 From 6 pm
  Lange Nacht der Museen

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