GRAVITY EASE CONTRACT
curated by David Douard at Halle am Berghain
Nils Alix-Tabeling / Emmanuel Beguinot / Ellen Cantor / Dennis Cooper / Stephan Dillemuth / Rochelle Goldberg / Estelle Hanania / Richard Hawkins / Agata Ingarden / Mélanie Matranga / Rafael Moreno / Jean-Luc Moulène / Rolf Nowotny / Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel / Susan Philipsz / Julia Scher / Erwan Sene / Akeem Smith / Naoki Sutter-Shudo
Scenography by Celeste Burlina
1 – 24 May 2026
Please find the floor plan, list of works, texts and images here
The group exhibition Gravity Ease Contract curated by David Douard, brings together artists who tell intimate stories that draw on their own experiences and focus on the outside world, as if seen through the cracks in their very own private rooms. From this perspective, the artists capture echoes of the outside world, such as music, videos, and fragments of popular culture, which seep through the walls and invade their daily lives.
Although reality and the news are only present in the form of crackling fragments, presented for themselves without additional commentary, they attempt to make an incision in the exhibition. In response to this confrontational reality, chimeras, creatures, and avatars emerge and are projected outward—beings that seem to come to life and bear witness to a unique relationship with the world; an imaginary metamorphosis that corrupts reality as an act of political resistance.
Identity is expressed through both the contemplation of thoughts in motion and a body filled with density and gravity, searching for balance. This reveals a multiplicity, whether embodied or expressed metaphorically through doppelgängers, ventriloquists, or puppets. This relationship weaves reflections on architecture and lifestyles, on what constitutes a refuge, a nest, or a threshold, and on what protects us from the outside. It reveals something dormant: a latent presence in the midst of transformation.
David Douard
Location
Halle am Berghain
Am Wriezener Bahnhof, 10243 Berlin
Public Opening
1 May: 12 – 3 pm
Opening Hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin
1 May: 4 – 8 pm
2 + 3 May: 12 – 8 pm
Regular Opening Hours
4 – 24 May: Friday – Sunday, 2 – 8 pm and on request
Tickets
10 € / reduced 8 €
Card payment only

from the series Who’s Talking?
2014-16
Courtesy Estelle Hanania
The second chapter of HOUSE is created in cultural partnership with the Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris.
The exhibition is financially supported by the Fondation Pernod Ricard, the
Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Autotelic Foundation, the Berlin auction house Grisebach, konzept live, LaFlor Studios and the private donors Yoram Roth, Christopher Seagon, and others.
Various others supported with creativity, skill, craft, labour and dedication: Georgina Pope, Yann-Vari Schubert, Celeste Burlina, Frederick Hornof, Joao Tinen, Leonie Chelsea Lang, Marie Steinmann, Daniel Bornmann, Baptiste Perotin, Lou Ferrand, Krischan Makswitat, Team MWB, Team FMP Agency, Team LaFlor Studios, Schopp Competence, the respected galleries of the represented artists and Team Berghain OstGut.

MAMA BED, 2003
Bedstead, steel, wood, foam, plastic, 2 monitors, 2 surveillance cameras, VHS player, VHS tapes, cables, bed sheets, books, leather whip
223 x 132,8 cm (floor plan bed)
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Esther Shipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul

ZERO NOCTIS, 2026
mixed technics on paper, artist frame in wax
39 x 29 cm
Courtesy the artist

UNTITLED, 2026
Door, doorpeephole
200 x 150 cm
Courtesy the artist

Frau auf Tier (woman on animal), 1987/88
Lithograph
54 × 63 cm
Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank K 200, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

ÉCORCHES, LE BUISSON, 2022
Béton ciré, perles de culture, argent 45,5 (h) x 27 x 26 cm / 44,5 (h) x 25 x 25 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

THE BALL (& SATELLITES), 2026
Stainless steel ball, black silicone tubing acrylic resin, clay, loudspeakers, amplifier frequency filters, found objects, aluminium, carved wood, plywood, plastic, perforated steel sheet, acrylic paint, airbrush, paint
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist

If I left a message on her answering machine, she said she would heal me, 2021
Clay, bronze, chalk, glitter, glass bowls
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

ENEMY, 2018-2025 (5 PARTS)
Epoxy, metal wire, hair and thorns
appr. 7 x 35 x 8 cm
Courtesy the artist


0991 The Chimeras of Gerard Nerval, 2017
collage and acrylic on panel
122 x 91.5 x 2.5 cm
Courtesy Galerie Buchholz

SLOW FRESH FOUNT, 2021
Four channel sound installation and six steel barrels
3 minutes 12 seconds
Dimensions variable 3 + 2 AP
Courtesy the artist and Konrad Fischer Gallery

To be titled one, 2026
Resin, 3d printed ub resin, acrylic paint, mixed fabrics
45 x 45 x 40 cm
To be titled two, 2026
Resin, 3d printed ub resin, acrylic paint, mixed fabrics
45 x 55 x 55 cm
Courtesy the artist
Exhibition Photography at Halle am Berghain: Noshe