Artist Talk and Finissage
18. October 2025 | 17 – 19h
Gallery Gudmundsdóttir
Joachimstr. 17 | 10119 Berlin
Join us for an artist talk with Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson in conversation with Florian Wüst, Berlin-based film curator and cultural producer, whose work explores urban transformation, social history, and the politics of images.
18. October 2025 | 17 – 19h
Gallery Gudmundsdóttir
Joachimstr. 17 | 10119 Berlin
Join us for an artist talk with Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson in conversation with Florian Wüst, Berlin-based film curator and cultural producer, whose work explores urban transformation, social history, and the politics of images.
Castro & Ólafsson’s collaborative practice spans video, performance, sound and community scale projects, often engaging with issues of politics, migration, gender, and the economy. Working together since 1997, they are known for projects that merge activism, research, and artistic experimentation, questioning power structures and reimagining possibilities for collective agency. They have a.o. exhibited at Van Abbemuseum, KW, De Appel, 19th Sydney Biennial and the 54th Venice Biennale and were awarded the Icelandic Art Prize in 2021 for their polyphonic performance and video work “In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland”. Their work has been widely recognized for its critical engagement with social realities and its ongoing exploration of art as a space for collective reflection and transformation..
The talk takes place in the context of the exhibition The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter 1, created in collaboration with the self-managed social and cultural center La Casa Invisible in Málaga. Through the film The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter 1 – which combines scripted performative interventions of dance, music, public manifestation, interviews and archive material – drawing, photography and a textile banner, the exhibition delves into the long-term battle for the preservation of this autonomous space, situating it within broader questions of collective action and the right to the city.
Wüst, who has curated for institutions such as transmediale, Werkleitz, Tabakalera (San Sebastián), and most recently Stadtmuseum Berlin, brings a perspective shaped by his ongoing research into urban histories and cinematic representations of political change.
Oct 9, 2025