HOW CAN LANGUAGE BE FOUND IN THE BODY?, rosalux, Berlin / DRAWN FROM QUIET WATERS, Kagairyokuen, Japan / CONNECTIVITIES - Handbook for Embodied Communication / COLLECTION NOTHELFER

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HOW CAN LANGUAGE BE FOUND IN THE BODY?

Francisco Diego & Stella Geppert

rosalux – The Berlin-based art space
Wriezener Straße 12, 13359 Berlin

Preview: Friday, August 21, 7–9 pm / Tours: Friday, August 28, 7 pm & 9 pm / Artist Talk: Friday, August 28, 8 pm / Opening: Sunday, September 6, 3–7 pm / Finissage: Saturday, September 12, 3–6 pm / Exhibition: August 22 – September 12, 2026 / Opening Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 3–7 pm

What happens when the body learns a new language?

In their new collaborative project, Francisco Diego (Mexico) and Stella Geppert (Germany) explore language as an embodied experience. Through bronze sculpture, performance, and digital translation, they open a dialogue about identity, belonging, and vulnerability. Digital forms are translated into physical matter, while fragments of language become texture—a continuous negotiation with language, boundaries, and belonging.

The collaboration between Francisco Diego and Stella Geppert grew out of a shared exploration of identity, vulnerability, and the body as a site of transformation. Both artists investigate the experience of losing—and searching for—a sense of belonging. Drawing on interpersonal relationships, they ask: What happens when the body learns a new language? Can this process expand our sense of identity?

Rather than understanding language as a purely intellectual system, they approach it as something experienced through the body—shaped by rhythm, sound, touch, and movement. As fragments of language and cultural references are absorbed, subtle physical shifts and new forms of connection begin to emerge. Beginning with an exploration of language through texture and textiles, their physical interaction opens a space in which identities are continuously redefined and reformulated.

Although Diego and Geppert work in very different ways, they share a collective vision rooted in personal experience and shaped through dialogue with others. Diego’s practice is grounded in technical craftsmanship, drawing on the visual vocabulary of sculpture, printmaking, and figurative traditions. Geppert approaches her work through the body and performance, developing sculptural situations that emerge through physical action. Despite these different methodologies, both artists are deeply engaged with questions of connection, belonging, and vulnerability.

These concerns are reflected in their treatment of the body as something that can be stretched, extended, and transformed. Diego’s bronze sculptures bear the marks of tension as they adapt to the body, while Geppert’s performances invite participants to wear sculptural body constructions that embody specific physical states.

Together, Geppert and Diego are exploring new ways of communicating and collaborating. Their practice unfolds as an open-ended process in which roles shift, identities are renegotiated, and meaning emerges through action rather than through a fixed plan. The framework remains flexible, dissolving and reforming whenever necessary.

Their collaboration is a form of wrestling with language—with different languages, cultural barriers, personal boundaries, and inherited fears shaped by family histories, experiences of war, displacement, exclusion, and uprooting. Humor and questioning become tools for opening unexpected paths of artistic collaboration.

Working across distance, the artists exchange digital sculptural forms. Sculptures and molds are converted into three-dimensional files before being materialized again in another place. The emphasis lies not on the creation of form itself, but on its translation, transmission, and transformation. The visible layers left by the printing process remain as traces of this journey, revealing the passage of each form between physical and digital states.

Francisco Diego is a Mexican artist working across sculpture, installation, printmaking, and writing. His practice investigates shifts in meaning, exploring how language, translation, and everyday objects reshape the way we relate to memory, identity, and one another. His work has been presented at Museo Franz Mayer, Galería Libertad, Museo de los Conspiradores, and WhiteLab Madrid, among other institutions.

Stella Geppert is a Berlin-based artist, sculptor, and performer whose practice spans sculpture, choreography, drawing, and sound. Her work explores embodied communication, the global impact of simple actions, energetic bodily states, and transgenerational behavioral transmission. She has exhibited internationally at venues including DANSEHALLERNE (Copenhagen), the Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai), KAI 10 (Düsseldorf), and Drawing Now Art Fair (Paris).

With the kind support of Instituto Cultural de México en Alemania, the Embassy of Mexico in Germany, Degewo, and VIARCO – São João da Madeira, Portugal.

UPCOMING IN OCTOBER:
DRAWN FROM QUIET WATERS
curated by Nicola E. Petek
Kagairyokuen, 87-1 Ro, Minami-machi, Yamanaka Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa 922-0129, Japan
Opening: October 10, 2026 / Duration: October 10 – October 18, 2026
With: Andreas Schmid, Dennis Scholl, Stella Geppert, Willem Besselink, Runa Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Kawasaki, Shinichi Moriguchi, Daigo Ohmura / Performance: Frida Eun Ae Yngvesson, Shinichiro Ikeda, Runa Ikeda (iYi) / Sound performance: Shinichiro Ikeda, Yuuki Asamura (mii89)

TRANSHUMAN N°5
 – Dysis
curated by Stephan Klee
Kunstverein Göttingen, Altes Rathaus Göttingen, Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
Opening: Okt 17, 2026, 5 – 8 pm / Duration: Okt 18 – Dez 13, 2026
With: Astali Peirce, Birte Bosse, Simon Faithful, Stella Geppert, Bastian Hoffmann, Yngve Holen, Virginie Ittah, Delia Jürgens, Felix Kiessling, Frederik Marks, Geerten Verheus, Aline Schwörer, Geng Xue

Plan 9 From Outer Space 3.1 (Twin Turbo)
curated by Sergio Fazenda Rodrigues
frontviews at HAUNT, Kluckstraße 23 A Yard, 10785 Berlin
Opening: Oct 23, 2026, 6 – 9 pm / Duration: Oct 23 – Nov 20, 2026 (Wed–Sat 2–6 pm) / Finissage: Nov 20, 2026, 5 – 8 pm
With: Carla Cabanas, Alice Dittmar, Stella Geppert, Pedro Gomes, Raquel Melgue, João Onofre, Jonathan Sullam, Jorge Queiroz

Plan 9 From Outer Space 3.1 (Twin Turbo) draws on the iconography of science fiction to poetically foreground the unknown. The exhibition embraces experimental approaches and simulation, bringing together works by eight artists who blur the boundary between reality and fiction. By negotiating the interplay between knowledge and artifice, the exhibition moves between personal introspection and the collective imaginary.

PUBLICATION:
Stella Geppert CONNECTIVITIES – Handbook for Embodied Communication
Concept: Stella Geppert, Design: Christoph Steinegger, Texts: Gabriele Brandstetter, Daniela von Damaros,
Stella Geppert/Michael Meyer-Hermann, Joana P.R. Neves, Published by Distanz-Verlag, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-95476-729-8 // Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin
Distanz-Verlag

CURRENT:
COLLECTION NOTHELFER – Selection of works by the artists of the gallery
Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Corneliusstraße 3, 10787 Berlin-Tiergarten
With: Mahdad Alizadeh, Peter Brüning, Michael Buthe, Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Damien Daufresne, Madeleine Dietz, Christoph M. Gais, Galli, Stella Geppert, K.O. Götz, Manfred Hamm, Thomas Hartmann, Gerhard Hoehme, Elmira Iravanizad, Delia Jürgens, László Lakner, Britta Lumer, Toni Mauersberg, Walter Menne, Jürgen Messensee, Henri Michaux, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Pegasus Product, Robert Schad, Emil Schumacher, Richard Serra, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Walter Stöhrer, Oliver Thie, Fred Thieler, Geerten Verheus, Jan Voss
COLLECTION NOTHELFER

PAST:
SHIFTING SIGNS at Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Adochi, Stella Geppert, Elmira Iravanizad, László Lakner, Jenny Michel
Opening: Friday, April 24, 6 – 9 pm / Artist Talk: Saturday, May 2, 2 pm / Duration: April 25 – June 6, 2026
Special Opening hours during Berlin Gallery Weekend: Friday, May 1, 12 – 9 pm / Saturday, May 2, 11 am – 6 pm / Sunday, May 3, 11 am – 6 pm
The exhibition Shifting Signs presents five artistic approaches from different generations, whose works each engage in distinct ways with systems of signs and the dynamic processes of their transformation. In their exploratory nature, the works on display trace the movements of signs across time, media, cultures, and practices, documenting and reflecting upon them whilst making them productive in the creation of new sign structures.
Artist Talk as part of the exhibition “SHIFTING SIGNS”
May 2, 2026, 2 pm, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Guiding Tours: May 30, 2026, 3 pm / June 6, 2026, 3 pm

“CONNECTIVITIES – Formen verkörperter Kommunikation”
raumklasse unter der Leitung von Prof. Gabi Schillig
June 1, 3 pm, Raum 105106, Medienhaus, University of Art, Berlin

“AUF DEN SPUREN VERKÖRPERTER KOMMUNIKATION UND IHREN VERNETZUNGEN”
June 2, 2026, 6 pm, Raum 103/104, Villa, Campus Design
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle an der Saale
Vortrag

MORNING MOON at Sofia Underground Festival
April 25 from 6.00 pm at Oki Krasno Selo, Sofia, Bulgaria
Concept: Stella Geppert / Performance: with Lyllie Rouvière
The Sofia Underground Festival returns for its 21st edition – “with a broken heart”. This year, the theme of heartbreak brings together dozens of artists from different continents, featuring over 50 solo and collaborative projects, three group exhibitions, and a series of performances and musical events at various venues across Sofia.
The Goethe-Institut is a partner of the event and is supporting the presentation of the performance Morning Moon by Stella Geppert (Germany) and Lillie Rouviere
(France), which can be seen on 25 April from 6.00 pm at Oki Krasno Selo. Other main partners of the festival are the City of Sofia – Cultural Calendar, the Ministry of Culture, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and Culture Ireland.

HAUNT Saison / frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard, 10785 Berlin
Organised by the collective
With: Johannes Albers, Martin Albrecht-Fulton, Carsten Becker, Peter Böhnisch, Monika Brandmeier, Barbara Breitenfellner, Nelli David, Alice Dittmar, Marta Djourina, Marta Dyachenko, Daniela Elorza, Vanessa Enríquez, Nadine Fecht, Despina Flessa, Stella Geppert, Rayk Goetze, Theemetra Harizani, Olaf Hajek, Timo Herbst, Marianna Ignataki, Runa Ikeda, Thorsten Alexander Kasper, … among others.