Not I
With works by Daria Blum, Hanne Darboven, Gina Folly, William Gaucher, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Monika Sosnowska, Ilaria Vinci, Xie Lei, Urban Zellweger.

With a film by Samuel Beckett

10 JAN until 14 FEB 2026
Opening – 9 JAN 2026, 6-8 pm

“NOT I is based on the film of the same name by Samuel Beckett, in which a disembodied female voice named Mouth recites a monologue. Mouth pours out involuntary memories: fragments of ideas, recurring images, a sentence heard long ago that she must relive over and over again. The past emerges like a cascade, and the language mimics the chaotic flow of memory. Images appear, overlap and repeat themselves in an attempt to grasp meaning or escape it.

In addition to several younger artists, such as Daria Blum, Urban Zellweger, William Gaucher and Xie Lei (who recently was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp), works by Mike Kelley and Monika Sosnowska, among others, will be on display. The central exhibit is Martin Kippenberger’s large installation Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald (Engl. transl. Now I’m going to the birch forest, because my pills will soon take effect), which will be shown in Berlin for the first time. 

Samuel Beckett’s 1973 film NOT I, famously performed by Billie Whitelaw and directed by Anthony Page, will be presented in the basement space.”