ma__n–if——est
ma__n–if——est
Kate Albrecht Fulton & Noé Sendas
curated by Sergio Fazenda Rodrigues and Stephan Klee
Werktalk
Wed 18 Mar 7 – 9 pm
with Kate Albrecht Fulton
by by Christl Mudrak & Monika Jarecka
See further information on: werktalks.blogspot.com
"Visibility is not simply a matter of scale, illumination, or central placement. It is a negotiation between context, attention, and intention.
In the exhibition 'ma__n-if–––est' Kate Albrecht Fulton's works variously confront, subvert, and embrace visibility as a condition of their existence. Some demand to be seen: they are bold, urgent, and unignorable. Others recede, or hide in plain sight — relying on curiosity, or slowness for their discovery. Together, they explore how visibility intersects with power, access, dispossession, and vulnerability.
In her artistic practice that encompasses sculptural objects, spatial installations and architectural interventions, Kate examines the politics and tensions between the visible and the unseen to construct a psychological terrain that resides between abstraction and representation. She uses plasterboard like a skin to embed, conceal, reorient and graft entire objects into the architecture of galleries, creating presences whose belonging and origins are buried deep beneath the surface of visibility.
Working with the ambivalent states of concealment and withdrawal, Kate's practice re-presents the remnants of existences that have been discarded, are in the process of disappearing or have long been erased from our awareness. She uses found and repurposed materials from the cast out elements of the urban environment to build subtle discrepancies and disturbances into existing infrastructures. Resulting in shifts in perception and meaning and the introduction of minimal disruptions into the system of the familiar."
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Exhibition Duration
Sat 14 Mar – Sat 11 Apr 2026
Vernissage
Sat 14 Mar 6 – 9 pm
Werktalk
Wed 18 Mar 7 – 9 pm
with Kate Albrecht Fulton
See further information on: werktalks.blogspot.com
Finissage
Sat 11 Apr 5 – 8 pm
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Opening hours
18 Mar – 11 Apr 2026
Wed – Sat 2 – 6 pm
and by personal appointment
! due to public holiday closed on Friday 3rd of April !
Location
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin
Social Media
@frontviews_
@haunt_berlin
@kindredspiritprojects
Web
frontviews
Kindred Spirit
Public Transport
Bus Linie M48 or M85 from Potsdamer Platz/Bus Stop
Lützowstr./Potsdamer Str. and a 4 minute walk // U-Bahn
Kurfürstenstraße Line U1 and U3 and a 6-minute walk // M29 Bus Stop Gedenkstätte Dt. Widerstand and a 2-minute walk.
This project is profoundly supported by Senate Departement for Culture and Social Cohesion. It's also made possible with the generous support of the Deutsch-Tschechische Zukunftsfonds, as well as the initiative of the whole collective.
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ma__n–if——est is part of a program of shows developed around Italo Calvino’s book Six Memos for the Next Millennium. The show challenges the notion of Visibility, which the author identifies as a fundamental concept to understand the 21st-century.
This program of shows — In The Present Now — stems from an original idea by Kindred Spirit (a non-profit, curator-run space based in Lisbon) to be developed in partnership with other institutions of international focus.
ma__n–if——est brings together works by Kate Albrecht Fulton (Warrnambool, Australia, 1974) and Noé Sendas (Brussels, 1972), curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues and Stephan Klee as a collaboration between Kindred Spirit and Frontviews / Haunt Berlin. This show unfolds in two parts: the first presented in Berlin from March to April 2026, and the second in Lisbon from May to July 2026.
Without confining perception to the boundaries of the visible, the show seeks out situations anchored in memory and supported by a broad sensory engagement. Rather than illustrating Calvino’s ideas, ma__n–if——est questions his concerns by ways of something that emerges or appears by its own will, in a subtle yet expansive way, in which the subjectivity of memory softens the rigour and certainty of reality — being this what connects the works of both artists.
Noé Sendas draws on the idea of déjà vu to duplicate the presence of his works, creating connections between the two floors of the exhibition space. Adopting similar positions while allowing subtle variations to be perceived, the pieces engage the viewer’s attention and memory, evoking imagery from a bygone era, somewhere between classical antiquity and the mid-20th century. The works assume a nostalgic, contemplative character, exploring the relationship between body, place and disappearance by inducing an uncertain gaze.
Kate Albrecht Fulton presents a body of work around the idea of physical absence. This is conveyed both through the absence of elements we feel should be present, and through the altered or lost functions those elements might once have held. The artist creates objects that hover between the enigmatic and the obsolete, arising from personal experiences and found objects, both in Lisbon and Berlin — Albrecht Fulton explores ideas of wear, echo and absence to shape a poetic approach to impermanence.
Both artists operate between attention and intuition, establishing a dialogue between the works, the space and the viewer around themes of disappearance, concealment and erasure — subtly evoking what has become illegible.