Stephanie Comilang
Search for Life
11 SEP – 31 OCT 2026
Opening – 10 SEP 2026, 6–10 pm
Stephanie Comilang, Installation view of „Coordinates at Dawn“
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 2025 – 2026
Photo: Alwin Lay
Copyright Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Stephanie Comilang, Berlin and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Stephanie Comilang, „Salt“, 2025
Beaded curtain
166 × 121 × 3.5 cm
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Courtesy of the Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Stephanie Comilang, „Sucre“, 2025
Beaded curtain
166 × 121 × 3.5 cm
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Courtesy of the Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, ChertLüdde presents Search for Life, a solo exhibition by Stephanie Comilang. The exhibition centers on Search for Life II, a two-channel video installation projected onto a beaded curtain that transforms the gallery into an immersive underwater environment, where shifting light and shadow are cast over a variety of sculptures.
Stephanie Comilang, Still from „Search for Life II„, 2025
Commissioned by TBA21, Sharjah Art Foundation and The Vega Foundation
Courtesy ofThe Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin and Daniel Faria, Toronto and Fundación TBA21, Madrid and Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah and Vega Foundation
Moving across multiple geographies and communities, Search for Life II, commissioned by TBA21, Sharjah Art Foundation and The Vega Foundation, traces the intertwined histories of the pearl as both material commodity and speculative protagonist. Assuming the role of narrator, the pearl connects the stories of Badjao (Sama-Bajau) Indigenous pearl divers in the Philippine Archipelago, pearl farmers in China, and a second-generation Emirati-Filipina K-Pop dancer living in Dubai, where natural pearl diving was the region’s primary source of wealth before the discovery of oil. Through these intersecting narratives, the work explores migration, labor, diaspora, and technology, continuing Comilang’s distinct practice of „sci-fi documentaries“.
Clemen Parrocchetti
Un orlo a giorno per il mio diario (A hemstitch a day for my diary)
11 SEP – 31 OCT 2026
Opening – 10 SEP 2026, 6–10 pm
Clemen Parrocchetti, „Telaio infranto (Il cuore della vita) / Broken Frame (The Heart of Life)„, 1978
Embroidered jute tapestry, foam rubber covered in fabric, appliqués and mixed media
195 × 205 × 8 cm
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Clemen Parrocchetti Archive, Borgo Adorno AL
As part of Berlin Art Week, ChertLüdde presents Un orlo a giorno per il mio diario (A hemstitch a day for my diary), the second exhibition by Clemen Parrocchetti (Milan 1923–2016) at the gallery in Berlin.
Clemen Parrocchetti, Installation view of „À JOUR“
Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, 2024-2025
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Clemen Parrocchetti Archive, Borgo Adorno AL
Clemen Parrocchetti, Installation view of „À JOUR“
Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, 2024-2025
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Clemen Parrocchetti Archive, Borgo Adorno AL
Clemen Parrocchetti, „Liberazione / Liberation“, 1974
Embroidery, harmonica, pins, paint, wood
54.3 × 21 × 25 cm
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Clemen Parrocchetti Archive, Borgo Adorno AL
A rebellious and nonconformist artist, Parrocchetti’s artistic practice was rooted in the radical Italian feminist movement that emerged in the 1960s. Using techniques traditionally associated with domestic labor, such as hemstitching and embroidery, her work with fabrics and other media confront issues of women’s subordination, including reproductive rights, divorce, domestic violence, and sexual liberation. This left a profound legacy, which still reverberates to this day, circulating with renewed attention across institutions.
