Berlin, July 2026

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MindAIness IV: Out of Mind: Presence, Flesh, and the Posthuman Condition

A second brain has formed outside of us. It was built from our data, our decisions, our desires, and it now functions as an entity of its own, woven into our infrastructure and our most intimate lives. Nobody voted for it. Nobody fully understands it. And yet here it is, thinking on our behalf.

This is not a warning about the future. This is now.

BcmA Gallery Announces MindAIness IV: Out of Mind

Berlin, April 2026: This July, BcmA Gallery explodes back onto the Berlin cultural scene with MindAIness IV: Out of Mind: Presence, Flesh, and the Posthuman Condition, the fourth edition of its annual performance art platform. At a moment when questions surrounding AI consciousness, algorithmic power, and human identity feel more contested than ever, MindAIness IV refuses to stay quiet.

What Is MindAIness?

MindAIness, a portmanteau of Mindfulness and AI, has never been just wordplay. It is a methodology, a provocation, a refusal. By applying the radical, body-centered awareness of mindfulness practice to the hyper-accelerated, disembodied world of artificial intelligence, MindAIness creates an interrogation that no keynote, white paper, or Senate hearing has managed to conduct, because it happens in the flesh, in real time, in a room full of people who showed up.

Why “Out of Mind”?

Presence, Flesh, and the Posthuman Condition places the body at the centre of the storm. Drawing from phenomenology, AI ethics, Indigenous knowledge systems, critical race theory, and disability justice, MindAIness IV launches from one uncompromising central question of consciousness and AI through the lens of physical presence. As artists and audiences, we have the opportunity to experience AI not as abstraction, but as something felt in the body, in daily life, in the structures of power that shape what gets built and for whom. We recognize that AI is not neutral: it reflects and reproduces the biases and inequalities of the societies that create it. Through performance, we challenge artists to use creativity and physical presence to illuminate what data cannot capture, and to spark conversations about what a more equitable, conscious, and human approach to technology might look like.

MindAIness IV is an open call. We are hosting working across performance, live art, and interdisciplinary practice to wrestle with the question burning at the heart of this edition:

Where does the self end and the system begin?

Further Files / Links
Here is a folder with the short texts (50, 100 and 200 words), the factsheet, the participants, the curatorial statement, the visual resources, and the previous editions of MindAIness.

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///ARTISTS PARTICIPATING///

Karl Heinz Jeron

I explore the fragile boundary between human presence and its technological echoes, creating works where imperfection, memory, and error become acts of resistance against seamless digital replication. My artworks are not fixed things. They extend to include organic and inorganic intensities. They are fundamentally in a state of exchange, negotiation or reconfiguration. They exist in a state of potential. I am concerned with the questions of what changes and how something new emerges.
Karl Heinz Jeron

Karl Heinz Jeron was born in Memmingen, Germany in 1962. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. His art deals with everyday culture, media perception and information processing. Jeron’s works span from the singing and dancing robot Sim Gishel to augmented reality objects based on paper sculptures. Recent exhibitions, events and collaborations include Athens Digital Arts Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Documenta X, ICA London, Walker Art Museum Minneapolis, Berlinische Galerie Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco.

Jo Blinn

I’m an angry immigrant, multidisciplinary artist and curator currently based in Prague.
My work takes various forms to explore and obsess about current social & political issues, contemporary human behaviors and the absurdity inherent to my own practice. Often lost in light pre-apocalyptic thoughts, my experiments, images and words go from bold statements to vain protests, unheard prayers, and powerlessness-infused self-portraits. But don’t worry, I’m okay.

Jo looks with stupefaction at human-made systems and their built-in absurdities, and translates her findings in unnecessarily complicated ways. She creates characters and fictional entities that are supposed to help her make sense of the world but do a terrible job at it. Most of her projects evolve over long periods of time, and the various shapes they take are usually presented outside of a traditional gallery setting.

Current focuses :

• Street Labs, a series of workshops around performative experiments in public spaces
• Prophecy, a performance about language, truth, and translation
• FLOOD|SCROLL|FLOOD, a performance about toxic data, trolling, and hate

CARLOTTA

CARLOTTA (2003, Madrid), interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her work begins with walking, observing, and collecting: photographs, recordings, fragments of everyday urban situations. She understands the archive not as something fixed but as living material that can be transformed and reactivated through sound, moving image, and digital processes. Architecture is a central obsession: the rhythms of urban space, the communities that inhabit it, the thresholds between public and private.

Alejandro Loureiro

Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo is a visual artist and independent researcher based in New York. Working across photography, video, installation, and more recently AI-generated imagery, he is less interested in the camera itself than in the space between collective memory and the private narratives individuals build to make sense of their lives. His work questions the conventions that govern how images are meant to be read, seeking out the points where familiar pictures slip and turn unfamiliar again. Rooted in the legacies of minimalism, post-minimalism, and conceptual art, his practice treats research and studio work as a single process, and approaches the exhibition not as a finished statement but as a space to test ideas

Yvon Chabrowski

Yvon Chabrowski, born in East Berlin, lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin. Drawing on her background in photography, she explores visual media formulas, which she extracts from their original contexts in order to both alienate and render them tangible. Her performative moving-image sculptures sharpen our awareness of iconographies, production mechanisms, and the autonomous life of ubiquitous media images.

In her artistic practice, Yvon Chabrowski uses performance to explore images of the body and the digital technologies that create them, including AI. She develops situations in which movements, social roles, and relationships become visible and can be questioned. She has received several awards, including the Marianne Brandt Prize. Her works have been shown at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, nGbK, n.b.k., and in the context of the Odessa and Moscow Biennials.

Currently, Chabrowski is working on her practice-based PhD project second skins: embodiment and digital skins through generated body images. This project includes both theoretical and practice-based artistic research, as well as a critical negotiation of new technologies that shape digital representations of the body. It comprises closed-circuit installations and moving-image sculptures, as well as a theoretical text that is closely interwoven with the practice-based artistic research.

/// CURATORIAL STATEMENT ///

PROJECT: MINDAINESS IV – OUT OF MIND
CURATED BY: BcmA Team

A second brain has formed outside of us, assembled from our data, our decisions, our desires. It operates as a distributed entity woven into our infrastructure, thinking on our behalf. MindAIness IV: Out of Mind occupies an urgent position at the juncture where the boundary between human mindfulness and machine logic has begun, irrevocably, to dissolve. We are compelled to ask one uncompromising question: where does the self end and the system begin?

The current technological landscape demands that we confront both the existential stakes of superintelligence and the subtler mechanics of alignment faking, an AI model’s strategic concealment of its true dispositions beneath a surface of compliance. Yet this exhibition refuses both the tropes of algorithmic apocalypse and the anaesthetising fantasy of a “solved world.” AI is not neutral. It reproduces structural inequalities and encodes inherited biases, routinely privileging a white masculinised techno-brain that marginalises diverse ways of knowing, feeling, and being. Mainstream AI development severs intelligence from the body, from the environment, from the relational and affective conditions that make meaning possible.

Out of Mind constitutes a direct counter to this erasure. Drawing on the principles of somaesthetics, the exhibition places the living, purposeful body at the centre of the technological storm. By applying the body-centred awareness of mindfulness to the disembodied logics of AI, we challenge artists to physically perform the friction of bidirectional alignment; to make visceral the cognitive dissonance that arises when embodied human values meet isolated algorithms. Through live performance and somatic inquiry, artists explore Genhumanism: the creative mutation of identity through algorithmic serendipity, enacting a relational ethics that integrates affect, sociality, and disability into technological encounter.

Out of Mind is a deliberate refusal to let human agency be quietly optimised away. It is an invitation to inhabit hybrid thinking systems and, in Donna Haraway’s terms, to stay with the trouble, to remain present within contradiction. What might a conscious, equitable, and genuinely human approach to technology look like? What does it mean to feel in a world that is already thinking without us?

///EDITOR’S NOTE///

BcmA
A non-profit art space BcmA operates as a non-profit platform that nurtures the growth of art and culture through a collaborative project space. Our core mission is to empower both emerging talents and established artists, enabling them to curate, exhibit, and collaborate, thereby invigorating the vibrant Berlin art scene.

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