Berlin 2027
Exhibition Programme
In 2027 Adler & Moriarty will develop its Berlin programme through a sequence of tightly curated exhibitions and evolving curatorial investigations.
Rather than approaching exhibitions as isolated events, the programme develops recurring questions across artists, materials and contexts. Some investigations begin through research or online presentations and return in new physical forms; others originate in the gallery and continue through future exhibitions, collaborations and projects.
Each chapter is designed to adapt in scale and configuration while retaining its central curatorial question, allowing investigations to develop across different spaces, artists and contexts.
22 February – 4 April 2027
Within the Field: Berlin
How does the way a work is encountered change what we see within it?
A physical chapter of Adler & Moriarty’s ongoing relational investigation, bringing contemporary works into dialogue with historical, artistic and institutional contexts beyond the gallery.
Rather than proposing direct equivalence, Within the Field considers the affinities, tensions and visual structures that emerge between works across different artists, periods and conditions of display.
With works by Seán Cotter, Simon James and Brian Martin Brooks, alongside invited positions including Charlotte Meisel and Mary Blindflowers.
12 April – 23 May 2027
Material Time II
Colour, Medium and Time
What happens when colour is considered not only as appearance, but as material?
Developing the second chapter of Material Time, the exhibition considers colour through pigment, medium, surface and process: where colour comes from, how it is carried and transformed, and what happens to it through time.
The works move between the possibilities inherent in materials, the changes they undergo and what survives those processes.
Planned with works by Paul Hallahan, Simon James and Tilke Elkins, alongside selected invited artists.
31 May – 11 July 2027
Dolmen: Endurance
What allows something to endure?
A Berlin chapter of Adler & Moriarty’s ongoing Dolmen: Structures of Time investigation, bringing together works concerned with persistence, material memory, human trace and the structures through which things continue across changing conditions.
Endurance is considered not as permanence, but as a process in which matter, images and meaning may survive precisely by changing.
Planned with selected works by Seán Cotter, Simon James, Peter Schäublin and Ines Hildur, alongside invited positions developing through the wider Dolmen investigation.
19 July – 29 August 2027
Material Witness
What does progress leave behind?
Beginning with material-led investigations by Dana Westerhoff, Material Witness considers the physical evidence generated by systems of construction, production, technological development and supposed progress.
Residue, discarded material and transformed matter become witnesses to the processes that created them, and to the contradictions those processes may contain.
Dana Westerhoff with invited positions.
6 September – 17 October 2027
Between States
When does one thing become another?
Between States considers works in which material, image, identity or perception cannot be securely located within a single condition.
Rather than treating transformation simply as movement from one defined state to another, the exhibition focuses on the interval itself: moments in which several possibilities remain simultaneously present and apparently stable categories begin to break down.
Provisional participating artists include Mari Amman, Anis Tabaraee, Gabriele Kurzbauer, Gala Caki and Abu Jafar.
25 October – 5 December 2027
The Judgement of Paris
Who decides what has value in art?
Beginning with the destruction of plaster casts and the questions raised by what is preserved, copied, valued or discarded, The Judgement of Paris is the first physical chapter of a developing Adler & Moriarty investigation into artistic judgement.
Through contemporary works and contextual material, the exhibition considers quality, taste, originality, reputation and authority: how judgements about art are formed, who is authorised to make them, and what happens when the information surrounding an artwork changes.
The Berlin exhibition is conceived as the starting point for a wider investigation capable of developing through collections, institutional contexts and future chapters.
Participating artists to be announced.
An evolving programme
Adler & Moriarty’s curatorial investigations are designed to develop across different artists, places and forms of presentation.
The Berlin exhibitions form part of a wider programme encompassing gallery presentations, online investigations, international projects, art fairs, research, publishing and professional engagement.
Dates, participating artists and individual exhibition configurations may be refined as projects develop.
Beyond the Gallery
Alongside its Berlin exhibition programme, Adler & Moriarty is developing selected curatorial investigations for future institutional, scientific and international contexts.
The Judgement of Paris
An evolving investigation into how judgements of artistic quality and value are formed. Beginning with the destruction, survival and changing status of plaster-cast collections, the project expands into questions of copy and original, skill and concept, preservation and destruction, institutional authority and the construction of artistic value.
Current research and proposed dialogues include the Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik, Berlin, and the Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, whose histories of casting, preservation, replication and lost originals provide important contexts for the investigation.
A related Irish strand is also being considered with Limerick City Gallery of Art, building on Seán Cotter’s Boulder Miltexhibition there in 2025 and his existing relationship with the collection.
PAX / Material Transformation
A further institutional strand is developing around Seán Cotter’s PAX works, in which lead sculptures undergo real chemical transformation within controlled microclimates. The project opens potential dialogue between contemporary art, material science, conservation, environmental change and processes of preservation.
Potential research and institutional contexts include the Schering Stiftung in Berlin, whose programme specifically supports dialogue between contemporary art, science and society, alongside other scientific, conservation and material-research institutions.
These projects remain in development and are subject to discussion and agreement with the relevant institutions.
The Space
Adler & Moriarty is developing a permanent exhibition space in Berlin (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf), opening in 2027.
The space is conceived to support concept-led exhibitions across physical and screen-based formats, extending the gallery’s curatorial approach into a dedicated environment.
Further details will be shared in due course.
