FORKED ⋔ Group exhibition at Trust in Berlin

FORKED ⋔ Group exhibition at Trust

FORKED
13–21 September 2025
Trust, Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin
Berlin Art Week opening hours:
Saturday 13 Sept - Sunday 14 Sept , 12:00 - 20:00

Curated by Ilja Karilampi & Anton Reyes
The group exhibition activates the space through a series of artistic interventions, manifesting the avant/hybrid practices spawned at Trust through its members and collaborators. It invites visitors to experience the intersection of digital and physical worlds while reflecting on the IRL representation of online culture.

FORKED employs its titular correlative pun—referencing a blockchain diverging into two potential paths—to frame its curatorial approach. The exhibition avoids a totalizing survey, positioning itself instead as a glimpse into the specific cultural matter generated from within the community and physical space of Trust. It presents a constellation of artists and art-adjacent practices whose work orbits this central nexus.

Trust is a network of utopian conspirators—a sandbox for creative, technical, and critical projects, as well as a site for collaborative experimentation. Founded in 2018 and based in Berlin-Tiergarten, it brings together artists, designers, and researchers to explore interdisciplinary art and digital theory through emerging technologies and cultural tendencies. Operating from its physical space on Kluckstrasse 25, Trust hosts member lectures, events, and reading groups that cycle through its core research channels on Discord.

Trust, Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin

We have two works in the show, one new and one old. Come by to see them, or check the exhibition documentation :) Here are some details and connected texts from our archives.

1) By the Rewes of Babylon (2025) is based on the 2023 text By the Rewes of Babylon (published by 0xSalon)
Errorinnerungskultur
The Leak of Nations
Heimat collapse
Saubernetics, Germaneutics, Glitzkrieg
Levantagonism
Za'atar and feathers
Neither Damascene, Nor Daemoscene,
But A Socratic Third Thing.

Uhrzeit Macht Frei
Neun Inch Hegels
Hardcore Adornography
Thieleologies, Spree and prey
Friendly Fyre Festival, Habermas graves
Livestreamed on Instagramsci
More Husserl than it's worth?
If Nietzsche is unjust, change Nietzsche.

Lebensraumdenkmal
The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
The excess of evil
For The Germany, Not The Few
Documental illness
Bloodthirst trap, Djinn and Teutonic, Canaan fodder
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Masochism
Curb Your Malthusianism.

Zwei Fehler ergeben noch kein Reich
A fictive altruism
Molochular gastronomy
Journocide, Cloisterbombs, Walden Pfand
When all is Crusade and done
Keep calm and carrion
Not Remembrance, Not Forgiveness,
But A Psychotic Third Thing.

2) Prophet Motives (2023) is based on the 2023 text Prophet Motives (published by NOIA Magazine):

"On a long enough timechain,undefined the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (edited)

Epochryphal tales. We always wondered what it was, that made them act this way. Time after time, the styles might change, the words might differ, the technologies would invariably evolve, but at the heart of it was the same kernel. Rotten to the lore.

Pyramid schemers. A certain kind of person sought the slimelight, and was willing to scale the walls to get to the top. Type III eros all the way down. Getting rich on dice trying. Architecting the upstart imagination-states with themselves at the top. Every time, it went peer-shaped. But would the next one learn from the mistakes of the a priories? Dante’s Entfernung would suggest otherwise.

I’m sorry for your gloss. Since time immaterial, FOMO Sapiens set themselves out to be more than mere leaders. Their words, ordained with the sanctity of more than mere letters. Their maps, anointing more than mere territories. Their desires, willing power over more than mere profits. Value flows, channelled like a new Magma Carta. Just as the lava ebbs and cools, and an oxbow pool might form, so too the libidinal gradients of capital might also bend back upon themselves and ossify. A black hole of money, a strange attractor, a petrified architecture, a portent of the endtimes.