Jota Mombaça: "has the fire read the stories it burnt," 2025

Opening Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | 12:00–20:00Introduction with @vittoria.totale and @LLinh_nh at 18:00

Offsite inaugurates its Deep Listening Series at Artist House with Jota Mombaça’s 33-minute sound installation has the fire read the stories it burnt (2025). Commissioned by the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation for Ellipse and Ellipsis curated by Vittoria de Franchis, the piece expands on chapter 0 of Mombaça’s opera infinita (2020), weaving fragments of their short story Can you sound like two thousand? with new sonic experiments by Anti Ribeiro.

Jota Mombaça is an interdisciplinary artist working across sound, text, and performance, whose practice engages anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. Their work has been shown at the São Paulo, Berlin, and Sydney Biennales, among others. Mombaça lives and works between Lisbon, PT and Natal, BR.

Deep Listening - a collaboration between @offsite_arts & @analoguefoundation

Curated by Lan Linh Merli-Nguyen
Artist House by Offsite
Brunnenstraße 23, Berlin-Mitte

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminism, and Translation

@annabmueller@theserendipist

We invite you to a conversation with conceptual artist and sculptor Anna Maja Spiess about the American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her utopian novel Moving the Mountain (1911).

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the earliest 20th century, Imagines a radical new world where women and men live as equals, where ecological and Social reforms have been realized.

Anna Maja Spiess has translated the novel into German for the first time as an extension of her artistic practice. The sculptor as a translator, the book as a sculpture. She will share insights into the translation process and talk about what we can learn from Gilman's vision for today's feminist debates?

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The talk will be moderated by Anna Muller and followed by an open Q&A session."

Location: Artist House, Brunnenstraße 23, Berlin-Mitte

Photo credits: Leonie Felle

A room splinters into 
fragments — an Art 
Girl’s empire of mirrors,
 clipped pages, and 
celestial doubles. Here, 
the star is a burnable 
body; beauty is both, 
currency and revolt. 

A live literary performance 
by Anna Gien 
with Songs by Angel Chair. 

With performers 
Sophie Stein, Labreylien, 
Magdalena Mitterhofer 
and contributions by 
Lea van Acken and Santa Valentina, 
amongst others.

Offsite embodies a nomadic approach to contemporary art. By transforming vacant urban spaces into temporary, artist-centered and community-driven venues for exhibitions, discourses, and ateliers.

At Brunnenstraße 23 in Berlin-Mitte, the Artists' House serves as Wehrmuehle's creative incubator - international and local artists' ateliers, a La Marzocco café, and the Agora: a flexible space for activations and intimate gatherings.

It is a place for artistic production, mentorship, and exchange. Artists working in the atelier benefit from ongoing curatorial dialogue and guidance, while our broader community - including curators, collectors, and cultural practitioners - is regularly invited for atelier visits, salon events, and encounters with art in progress.