Starting October 2, 2025, CSR.ART, in collaboration with Berlin’s Galerie Z22, will present the two-part exhibition project “Z22 GOES BIKINI” at the iconic Bikini Haus. In two separate chapters, each with its own opening reception, the project will showcase artistic positions in painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media that explore questions of urban presence, perception, and identity. The title thus not only refers to the physical relocation of the gallery’s program into another space but also to the movement between artistic worlds, their different media, and diverse lines of inquiry.
At the heart of this two-part exhibition project lies the idea of how art can renegotiate perception, identity, and urban life. Juxtapositions of the various works open up new spaces of resonance, where the personal intertwines with the political, the playful with the rigorous, and the documentary with the staged.
In the first part of the exhibition (October 3–15), Silvio Ukat’s humorous animal figures encounter the mathematically structured wood reliefs of Lars J. Fischedick. Lavely Miller’s psychologically charged paintings invite introspection.
Frank Massholder, with his project “Floors for Art,” makes the accidental and unconscious visible, while Benka’s large-format paintings address the fragility of humanity in the digital age.
The second part of the exhibition (October 16–31) shifts the perspective more strongly toward the urban environment and social stagings. Joax brings performative energy into the space with his steel sculptures. Katerina Belkina condenses in her photographic image-spaces the dissonance between body and mind, closeness and distance. Nadia Valeska investigates questions of identity through painting, while Gott & Gilz, with their at-first provocative-looking series “F.O.T.Z.E.N.,” develop feminist image strategies oscillating between pop aesthetics and critique. Complementing these, Frank Massholder, with his photographic “Trilogy of a City,” creates urban passages and transitions that become metaphors for social life.
Z22 GOES BIKINI thus understands itself as an exhibition project in literal motion: not as a closed narrative, but as a choreographed sequence of artistic positions that seeks to set questions of perception, identity, and urbanity in motion.
Opening I:
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 6–9 PM
Artists: Silvio Ukat, Lars J. Fischedick, Lavely Miller, Die Böden zur Kunst, Benka
Opening II:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 6–9 PM
Artists: JOAX, Nadia Valeska, Katerina Belkina, GOTT&GILZ
Exhibition dates:
Saturday, September 4 – Friday, October 31, 2025
Open Monday to Saturday, 10 AM – 7 PM
Venue:
CSR.ART Contemporary Show Room
@BIKINI BERLIN, ground floor left, entrance facing Zoo Palast Cinema
Budapester Str. 38–50
10787 Berlin
