We love music so much that we’re hosting a new series of listening sessions called «I LOVE MUSIC» that continues at our beloved Hansabibliothek with artists, neighbours, musicians, writers and friends of GROTTO sharing their favourite perfect pop songs, secret track IDs and a maverick of Indian Classical Music.
+ 1 special concert at Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche during Berlin Art Week
The music sounds better with you!! C u soon xx
7 August, 18-20:00 – Kkoki (special thanks to Killing A Friend)
9 September, 18-20:00 – Nora Kapfer
13 September, 18-20:00 – concert Kaiser–Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche
18 September, 18-20:00 – Eleni Poulou
9 Oktober, 18-20:00 – Elisa R. Linn
23 Oktober, 18-20:00 – Heike-Karin Föll
13 November, 18-20:00 – Museum of No Art
20 November, 18-20:00 – Mania Godarzani–Bakhtiari
25 November, 18-20:00 – siddhartha lokanandi (Hopscotch Reading Room)
Kkoki is 1 artist. She makes pop music for people who hate pop & pop music for people who love pop.
Nora Kapfer (*1984) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Diploma, 2015) and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Magister Artium, 2010), and completed the WIELS Studio Program in Brussels in 2016. Solo exhibitions have been presented at Édouard Montassut, Paris (2021, 2024), Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022), Cento, Glasgow (2023), and Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2018, 2020), among others. Recent group exhibitions include Image as Trace II at Brunette Coleman, London (2026), The Double at PAGE / Dracula’s Revenge, New York (2026), Cricket Music at Matthew Brown, New York (2026), Flowers in a Box at MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo (2026), Through Their Eyes at Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (2026), and Durée at Dawid Radziszewski, Vienna (2025), as well as exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. Her work is held in the collections of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn), and the Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney.
Eleni Poulou makes music, composes, DJs, hosts radio shows and makes sound installations, writes poetry, lyrics and makes zines. Most of all she likes to connect people. She has been friends with Dave Huismans for a decade. As a solo artist and with various bands – including The Fall, Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Organza Ray, and NOHE NOSHE – she has performed internationally. She curates an experimental baroque music series at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. In 2022, Poulou co-founded the band Organza Ray with Hilary Jeffery; together, they initiated the ensemble E.T.U.D.E., dedicated to exploring the Fluxus works of Philip Corner and performing his new compositions alongside Theresa Patzschke and Martin. She regularly hosts her own radio shows, including “Elope” on Cashmere Radio and “Kastra” on Stegi Radio, and has appeared as a host on Montezpress Radio, Rinse France, RTM FM, Noods Radio, and NTS. Her most recent solo album, Karta (2022), fuses Pontic music from Greece with electronic club sounds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Upcoming releases in 2026 include an album by Hilary Jeffery with Julie Tippett on Discus Music, a new Organza Ray album.
Elisa R. Linn (Elisa Linn Roguszczak) is a curator, writer, and scholar. She teaches the program Spaces of Appearances: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres at Bard College Berlin and was co-director of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg from 2022 to 2025, where she curated exhibitions including retrospectives of Jürgen Baldiga, Terre Thaemlitz, and Sophie Reinhold. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Linn is currently completing her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Marina Gržinić with a dissertation on the Berlin Wall as a “condom” in the context of counter-public practices and migratory aesthetics in the GDR. Her writing has appeared in publications including Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, BOMB, Mousse Magazine, ArtAsiaPacific, and Jacobin. She has curated exhibitions and projects for institutions such as Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, The Kitchen, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery in Prague, and Museo Nivola, and co-curated KP Brehmer’s first comprehensive U.S. solo exhibition at Maxwell Graham / Petzel Gallery in New York in 2023. Since 2012, she has co-directed the curatorial collective km temporaer, and since 2021 has co-organised the Filmclub der polnischen Versager:innen in Berlin.
Heike-Karin Föll works with the materiality and mechanics of painting and language, treating textuality as equally a vehicle of content, a visual motif and a material form Heike-Karin Föll‘s work includes paintings, books, prints and texts. Her work is represented by Oskar Weiss Gallery, Zürich and Emanuela Campoli, Paris/Milano.
Mona Steinwidder (*1985 in Munich) is a musician and artist based in Hamburg. She studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and has worked since 2004 at the intersection of music, performance, research, and sound art. She collaborates on music theatre productions, multimedia works, and dance performances, and regularly leads sound walks and listening workshops. Since 2020, she has been developing the interdisciplinary music project Museum of No Art under her alter ego of the same name.Her focus lies on experimental music formats and immersive concerts, for example, in 2022 she realized a concert for a sleeping audience at the Minimal Music Festival Amsterdam, accompanied by a light installation by artist Boris Acket. Her practice is deeply collaborative, and she has worked with visual artist Mitko Mitkov, writer and performer Mira Mann, as well as music curator and DJ Phuong Dan, among others.
Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari (b. 1988, Berlin) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. Her practice examines contemporary conditions of the (re-)production of art and life. In 2023, she completed her studies as a Meisterschülerin under Josephine Pryde at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Stockholm, Düsseldorf, and Lüneburg.
siddhartha lokanandi is a bookseller in Berlin at the Hopscotch Reading Room. siddhartha will speak about Kumar Gandharva, a maverick of Indian Classical Music.
Design: Paul Jürgens
Supported by Hansabibliothek
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