Berlin Art Institute and ART PROJECT REVOLUTION Present: correct me if i’m foreign during Berlin Art Week 2026
A multimedia exhibition on language, migration, and belonging opens at Berlin Art Institute this September, bringing together the collaborative exhibition correct me if i’m foreign and the annual BAI Open House, featuring the BAI Open Studios and BAI Fellows Exhibition.
In a city where languages meet, collide, and reshape everyday life, Berlin Art Institute (BAI) and ART PROJECT REVOLUTION (art collective) present correct me if i’m foreign, a multimedia exhibition exploring how language shapes belonging, visibility, and exclusion in migrant experience.
Opening on Wednesday, September 09, 2026, during Berlin Art Week, the exhibition brings together works by ART PROJECT REVOLUTION, Dasha Buben, Jeiryung Lee, Katarzyna Sienkiewicz, Polina Ryman, Monika Błaszczak, Nadja Kracunovic, and Lola Szlupowicz (Vrogini). Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, the artists examine what becomes altered, softened, or erased in translation across languages, institutions, and media systems.
“Through this collaboration, BAI opens its space to artistic practices that address migration not as an abstract subject, but as a lived reality shaped by language, access, and visibility. Presented alongside the BAI Fellows Exhibition and Open House, correct me if i’m foreign reflects our commitment to international exchange, dialogue, and artistic voices that challenge how we understand belonging,” Stephanie Jünemann and Ralf Schmitt, directors of Berlin Art Institute.
correct me if I’m foreign
correct me if i’m foreign invites audiences into a space of interruption, uncertainty, and fragmented understanding. Through personal testimonies, multilingual recordings, bureaucratic documents, manipulated media headlines, and fragmented subtitles, the exhibition reveals how language can create borders and control perception.
Inside the exhibition space, temporary walls divide and interrupt movement, echoing the bureaucratic, social, and linguistic barriers migrants encounter while navigating unfamiliar systems. Some texts remain untranslated, others are intentionally incomplete, while grammatical mistakes and linguistic inconsistencies are left visible rather than corrected.
Rather than presenting multilingualism as harmony, the exhibition treats it as friction: a space where meanings shift, collide, and resist simplification. Viewers are invited to move through the limits and possibilities of understanding, encountering language not only as communication, but also as a structure of access, exclusion, memory, and survival.
“Language can open a door, but it can also become a border. With this exhibition, we wanted to keep mistakes, fragments, and untranslated moments visible, because they are part of the migrant experience and part of how we understand belonging,” Dasha Brian, founder and director of ART PROJECT REVOLUTION.
Performance Night: Soliloquy by Monika Błaszczak
As part of the exhibition’s Performance Night on Friday, September 11, 2026, ´Soliloquy´, a durational performance by Monika Błaszczak.
Soliloquy is a movement practice and choreographic project studying the ghosts carried by the body. For Berlin Art Week, a new iteration unfolds as a durational performance in which the dancer offers movement gifts to those present and to figures who have shaped her, including the ghost villages in the Carpathian Mountains, distant ancestors, and the surrounding environment. Visitors may enter and leave at any point during the performance.
Event Details
Opening Reception + BAI Open House & Open Studios:
Wednesday, September 09, 2026 | 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates:
correct me if i’m foreign: September 10 – 18, 2026
BAI Fellows Exhibition: September 10 – 18, 2026
Closed on Monday, September 14, 2026
Performance Night:
Soliloquy by Monika Błaszczak
Friday, September 11, 2026 | 6:00 – 10:00 pm
Opening Hours:
During Berlin Art Week:
September 09, 2026 | 6:00 – 9:00 pm (Opening reception)
September 10 – 13, 2026 | 12:00 – 6:00 pm
September 11, 2026 | extended hours until 10:00 pm for performance night, including Soliloquy by Monika Błaszczak
After Berlin Art Week:
September 15 – 18, 2026 | 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Location: Berlin Art Institute
Address: An der Industriebahn 12–16, 13088 Berlin, Building 404 | Top Floor
Admission: Free and open to the public
About Art Project Revolution
ART PROJECT REVOLUTION is a multidisciplinary political art foundation dedicated to amplifying the voices of migrant artists, women, and queer creatives. Rooted in experiences of displacement and shaped by a team of Belarusian and Ukrainian cultural practitioners, the foundation works at the intersection of art, activism, and community-building.
ART PROJECT REVOLUTION curates exhibitions that challenge systems of censorship and exclusion, produces public programs and integration events, and develops workshops that empower artists and cultural workers in exile. As an art collective, it also creates short films exploring human rights, migration, and identity, using visual storytelling to center personal narratives and lived experiences.
Bridging artistic practice and social impact, ART PROJECT REVOLUTION builds connections across borders and communities, advocating for a world in which creativity remains unrestricted and deeply political.
More information can be found on the APR Website.
404 | BAI is the display & project space of the BERLIN ART INSTITUTE. 404 is derived from the numeric designation of the building while also referring to the well-known HTTP status code: 404 Not Found, familiar from the internet.
