In 2026, the independent artists’ collective pilote marks its tenth anniversary with the group exhibition Decade x Dialogue. Bringing together current and former members alongside invited artistic positions, the exhibition initiates a polyphonic exchange that renders the collective’s evolving working relationships visible while opening them to new perspectives.

Conceived as both a process-oriented survey and a discursive platform, Decade x Dialogue reflects on collective practice between shared history and future artistic inquiries.

Betty Böhm - Trying to burn the past, 2026, Video Still, 4K Video Loop, 5’53 min

The exhibition addresses key questions of contemporary artistic practice at the intersection of the humans, machines and nature, examining the increasingly ambiguous entanglements in a technologically shaped present. Particular attention is given to processes of temporality and sedimentation, understood as the continuous inscription of experiences, images, and material as well as the immaterial traces of individual and collective spaces of memory. The participating artistic positions reflect on traces both as relics of past actions and as active agents in the production of future meaning.

Another focus lies on artistic engagements with archives—as epistemic structures, poetic repositories, and critical infrastructures of visual culture. Here, archives are not conceived as static sites of preservation but as dynamic systems of reorganization, overwriting, and the renegotiation of history. In this context, spaces are examined in both their physical and virtual dimensions: as hybrid fields of experience between analog and digital spheres in which perception, memory, and presence are newly configured.

Dana Engfer - Hnattferðir (Lesende), 2025,
Photo Print on Chiffon, 199 x 128 cm

The exhibition addresses the conditions of contemporary digitality and the circulation of images within networked media ecologies. Images are no longer understood as discrete objects but as processual entities moving through continuous transformations, distributions, and recontextualizations. Decade x Dialogue thus positions itself as a reflective space in which artistic practices engage with the material, technical, and discursive conditions of their own present.

Catherine Rose Evans - Gravity Blanket, 2023, found glacial erratics, carpet, 350 x 300 cm,

Photo: © Catherine Rose Evans and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Founded in 2016, pilote is a collective of internationally active artists connected through Berlin, who collaboratively develop site-responsive exhibition formats. Initially conceived as an artist-run gallery, it later evolved into a mobile curatorial exhibition project operating across changing locations. At the core of pilote’s practice is a collective approach described as a polyphonic coexistence: participating artists maintain their individual positions while working together thematically and curatorially on joint projects, often in collaboration with guest curators and additional contributors.

Kathrin Ganser - Marian (Mariannenplatz #7), 2019, Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, Distance Frame, 102,5 x 87,5 x 3,5 cm,

Photo: © Kathrin Ganser and VG Bild Kunst, Bonn

Rather than functioning as a traditional gallery, the collective understands itself as a flexible structure for production and presentation that experiments with exhibition formats and connects different media. These include photography, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance. The core members of the collective are Betty Böhm, Dana Engfer, Catherine Rose Evans, Kathrin Ganser, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Stefan Klein, Claire Laude, Sarah Straßmann and Attilio Tono.

Attilio Tono - MW13, 2016,
Carrara marble, beeswax, 60 x 35 x 18 cm

The exhibition Decade x Dialogue is an invitation to celebrate the first decade of pilote, showcasing the work, relationships and networks that the collective has built over the last ten years.

Decade x Dialogue

Group Exhibition

April 30 — May 3, 2026 (Gallery Weekend Berlin)

Kunstquartier Bethanien / Projektraum Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Opening: April 29, 7pm

Curatorial guidance by Cassandra Mehlhorn

Current pilote members:

Attilio Tono, Betty Böhm, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Catherine Rose Evans, Claire Laude, Dana Engfer, Kathrin Ganser, Sarah Straßmann, Stefan Klein

Former pilote members & guest artists:

Antonia Breme, Bignia Wehrli, Cécile Dupaquier, Daniela Zeilinger, Jessica Rimondi, Katja Pudor, Kama Sokolnicka, Nadine Ethner, Olga Hohmann, Prinz Gholam, Sadith Silvano, Stefanie Loveday, Theresa Schubert

Performance #1

Stefanie Loveday & Betty Böhm

„Riding (in)audible currents“

7:30pm

Performance #2

Olga Hohmann

8:30pm

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