Exhibition: Archive of Divine Possessions

Ort:
TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater, Rotunda
Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13/Haus 3, 10115 Berlin

Ausstellungseröffnung: 5. Mai 2026, 18 Uhr

As part of her fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg inherit. heritage in transformation, artist Bhasha Chakrabarti presents her new body of work, Archive of Divine Possessions at the TA T. The exhibition is part of the ongoing cooperation between inherit and the TA T. Fellows of inherit are invited to undertake a studio residency at the TA T, where they develop their research projects and publicly share the outcomes as works in progress. Conceived as a large-scale installation spanning the rotunda and the adjoining gallery spaces on the ground floor, Archive of Divine Possessions brings together textiles, painting, collage, video, and sound. At its centre is a singular collection of found textiles and objects, which the artist explores through acts of archiving, painting, collage, moving image, and spatial arrangement. The exhibition opens up questions around memory, touch, care, and the afterlives of objects. Moving between personal history, material transformation, and institutional display, the installation invites visitors to encounter different material and sensory registers: textile surfaces, moving images, sound, and spatial constellations that offer multiple points of entry into the work. Rather than offering a fixed reading, the exhibition proposes the archive as a space of transformation in which memory, absence, and material knowledge remain in motion.