Galerie And presents Späti Project, an exhibition by New York-based Belgian artist, musician, and filmmaker Daniel Jodocy. At the center of the exhibition is a documentary in which Jodocy, who has lived in Berlin for the past three years, films six senior members of the city’s counterculture community, most of them regulars at a particular Späti in Kreuzberg. Speaking in their homes and at sites meaningful to them, they tell their stories: of life before and after the fall of the Wall, of artistic projects, of unconventional lives built largely outside the economic mainstream, and of a community defined by creativity, friendship, and refusal of the dominant culture. The film is shown in the gallery’s screening room on a regular schedule throughout the exhibition. In the gallery’s street-facing space, Jodocy has created a kinetic sound installation. An apparatus hanging from the ceiling, slowly rotating. Wooden balls on strings swing out from it and strike bottles, ceramic jars, and metal pots. The balls bounce off one thing and into the next, creating a delicate, ambient soundscape. It is a space to sit, think, and watch the world go by. Together, the two rooms create an environment that honours a way of life rapidly disappearing from Berlin: counterculture as a genuine creative community built around the sharing of ideas and the sharing of time.

On Saturday, September 12, the gallery hosts a special evening bringing together the five surviving participants of the film for a public conversation. Following a screening of the documentary, they will speak about their lives, their reactions to seeing themselves on film, and what their stories mean now. The evening is conceived as a recreation of the Späti itself - an informal gathering over drinks, good company, and the sharing of stories.

The music in the film is by the Dizzy Ventilators, a group Jodocy co-founded. Editorial support came from Croatian-French documentary filmmaker Veljko Vidak. 

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The exhibition is part of the official program of Berlin New Media Week and Hart Week