ONE EYE OPEN
opening
6:00 PM
artists
- Rosa Aiello
- Marlene Zoë Burz
- Sarah Blais
- Lua Ray
- Jule Fechner
What happens when motherhood leaves little time, divides one’s attention, and makes everyday life a constant presence? ONE EYE OPEN brings together works by Rosa Aiello, Marlene Zoë Burz, Sarah Blais, Lua Ray and Jule Fechner, whose artistic practices unfold at the intersection of motherhood, professional life and everyday routines. Interruptions and fragmented time shape their processes and the works that emerge from them.
The exhibition brings together photography, video and installation, presenting different artistic approaches that emerge from similar lived realities. How does artistic practice change when attention is directed towards several things at once? And what forms and perspectives emerge precisely from this condition?
Additional program: A Writing Workshop for Mothers with Paulina Czienskowski
In the first two years after giving birth, everyday life, thought and memory undergo profound changes. Everything seems fragmented, disconnected, and to flow into everything else. Emotions, too, are not always reliable. Who does one remain in the world? How does one archive oneself? Where does one find oneself again, if not in one’s child?
Paulina’s writing workshop opens up a protected space for these and other questions. Just as the postnatal state, and all the years that follow as a mother, are ongoing processes, so too can writing become a process of searching for words to describe a self that is gradually shedding its layers. Intuitive, associative, fragmentary. A form of (autofictional) writing in which anything is possible and nothing is required.
Together, we will write and move between connection and continuation, exploring what it means to resist the standardisation of time—and, with it, the capitalist system. One stands out, one falls out of step—the personal becomes political, if it hasn’t already.
Please bring whatever you prefer to write with (a laptop or pen and paper).
Writer Paulina Czienskowski became a mother in 2021. In the period that followed, she created, among other works, the short radio play Zur Welt for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Fragments of the piece later found their way into her novel »dem mond geht es gut«, published by Aufbau Verlag in 2025.
Date: 28 November 2026, 11am – 2pm
Participation fee: €30
Registration: By email to Jule Fechner at j.fechner@aff-galerie.de
Visit
Address
AFF Galerie e.V.
Kochhannstraße 14
10249 Berlin
opening hours
During the exhibition
Saturday & Sunday 3 – 6pm
and by appointment
transport
M5, M6, M8, M10
Landsberger Allee / Petersburger Straße
S41, S42, S8, S85, S9
Landsberger Allee
U5
Frankfurter Tor
society
members
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Julia Autz
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Julia Brigasky
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Philipp Czampiel
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Friederike Eden
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Jule Fechner
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Florian Grosse
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Miguel Hahn
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Lennart Hölscher
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Maidje Meergans
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Marcel Maffei
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Weeteng Poh
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Natascha Pohlmann
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Lua Ray
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Saskia Reis
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Indra Schwarz
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Sarah Straßmann
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Svenja Wiese
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Franca Wohlt
media partner
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Photography in berlin
