MAMAN SOUS CELLOPHANE
Marko Kolomytskyi

Opening Friday 22.05 from 5pm 

Motto Paris

Motto invites you to MAMAN SOUS CELLOPHANE, a solo exhibition by Marko Kolomytskyi. Drawing on personal family photographs rescued from occupied Alchevsk and smuggled to Paris in a Russian artist’s suitcase, the work pairs each image with a major political event between Russia and Ukraine occurring on the same day or month — turning the caption into an act of intervention that shatters the innocence of the family archive. 

“I worked from my personal family archives – photographs and documents kept in my flat in Alchevsk. This project transforms private memory into a political perspective. My artistic gesture lies precisely in the act of captioning: I have selected dated images to systematically juxtapose them with major political events that occurred between Russia and Ukraine on the same day or in the same month as a family event.”

Marko Kolomytskyi was born in 1999 in Alchevsk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine. After spending seven years in Asia, including four in Japan, he lived in Canada before settling in Paris. Building on his previous artistic experience and driven by the need to develop his practice in a new context, he is currently studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Since 2021, he has been collaborating with Varvara Kornieieva as part of the duo SU Group, which explores memory and identity through hybrid media. Since 2022, he has also been working with Alisa Berger on projects combining film, performance and sound experimentation. In 2025, they presented RAPTURE at the Berlinale.

In 2023, he studied lithography at Tokyo University of the Arts, furthering his research into materiality and gesture. In 2025, he continued his training at IRCAM, developing his work around sound and experimental composition. That same year, he held his first solo exhibition in Japan and his works were showcased at the Polish Pavilion at WorldExpo Osaka 2025.

His artistic practice revolves around language, which he regards as his primary medium, and is expressed through installation, printmaking (lithography and linocut), performance, theatre and film. Inspired by conceptual art, his work combines reflection with poetic sensibility.He is the founder of MAYAK, a club for poets and writers in Paris, where he continues his research into the limits of language and collective expression.

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This Saturday at @mottobooks
FROM 7pm

BRIDE (Berlin)
Jonathan Bergen (Berlin)
Dead Door Unit (Philadelphia, PA)
Max Julian Eastman (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dead Door Unit (Philadelphia, PA)
@k.p.g

Dead Door Unit is the primary alias of K. Geiger, who also operates the limited-run imprint, French Market Press. Wider scale releases have been previously released by Tribe Tapes, RRRecords, American Tapes & more. It’s anyone’s guess as to what will happen in the live setting for this project.
Noise with no entertainment value, since 2022.

Max Julian Eastman (Philadelphia, PA) @m.j.eastman

Founder of US-based Tribe Tapes label, solo work embraces broken tape sounds and abject psychedelia — harsh and strange music

BRIDE @abrideabride

Esme Rebora is a Berlin-based experimental noise musician, composer, sound and visual artist, mainly operating the moniker Bride.
Rebora’s work has been highlighted by labels Psychic Liberation, Post Hoc, Industrial Coast and Longform Editions. They also run the label Alloy Choir.

Jonathan Bergen @
Jonahtan is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist working across sound, visual art, and performance art. His practice spans ambient and noise, alongside graphic design and collage works. He has released work with Vaagner, Pressor Tapes, and Instruments of Discipline.

At this event, he will perform a cut-up noise set.

Collaboration with Body Stress: https://instrumentsofdiscipline.bandcamp.com/album/autoerotic-id-face-scan

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10-15 eur sliding scale – no one turned away by lack of funds
Flyer design by @s_ragon

VEILED_EYES: THE BOOK by Maryna Russo Exhibition opening on Thursday 19th March at 6 pm, with live programme and drinks

Maryna Russo is a Berlin based visual artist, musician and poet, primarily working in analog formats. Sometimes known as Sweetmeana or Lesley Shadow, is skilled in songwriting, concept art, book making, painting, drawing & collage, production, video directing, curating & facilitating.

“Veiled Eyes was founded in 2015, originally as an art project against Instagram and its hashtag culture. Having to adapt to the fast-growing social media and marketing platform, Veiled Eyes was born. The concept was to hide (or veil) the subject’s eyes and show no locations. At the time the project began, users were unable to have more than one account per registered email. Over time, after updates and several iPhones later, I was blocked and locked out of the Veiled Eyes account. After many attempts to regain access, I simply gave up. In collaboration with dtan Studio, I transformed the original concept into the analog form you currently hold in your hand.” – MR

SCREENING OF “WE DON’T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY” (2009)

15TH MARCH – 8 PM

Motto Wedding (at Institut Für Alles Mögliche)

From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness. While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway…” offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction.

“We don’t care about music anyway”… In other words, “we make it and that’s

all”. Beyond the music and beyond its performance, the future and mode of existence of a city, and society as a whole, are in motion.

“Rather than a film about music, we like to think We Don’t Care… as a film about sound and its perception. An eulogy to raw and spontaneous creation, below codes and industry, creation as an animal way to express a rage that can not be put into words.” – Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz

Starring: Sakamoto Hiromichi, Otomo Yoshihide, Yamakawa Fuyuki, L?K?O, Numb, Saidrum, Takehisa Ken, Shimazaki Tomoko.

Screen play ; Cédric Dupire, Noa Garcia-Kisanuki & Gaspard Kuentz

Editing : Charlotte Tourrès

Sound design and sound edition  : Jacob Stambach

Camera : Cedric Dupire

Musical coordination  : Noa Garcia-Kisanuki

Director Assistant : Charles Lamoureux

Design : Arnaud Dufour

Special effects: Gregg Langlois

Sound Mix: Julien Cloquet

Production Director  : Jérôme Aglibert

Music : Sakamoto Hiromichi / Otomo Yoshihide / Yamakawa Fuyuki / L?K?O / Numb / Saidrum

/ Umi No Yeah !! / Kirihito / Gothtrad / Hiko

Produced by: Studio Shaiprod in 2009

Motto Wedding (at Institut Für Alles Mögliche)

Schererstr. 9

13347 Berlin Wedding

Drescher
Radio Set / Drinks
10.01.2026

5-8pm in store and online
@ Motto Xberg headquarters

Stream at:

Time of Waste
Ewa Kubiak
Opening, Thursday Sept. 18th from 6pm

Passing: Re II
Martina Jurak + Stefanie Loveday

Performance at Motto Berlin
20.09.2025, 8pm

Re II is the next part of an audio-dance performative cycle titled Passing, created by Martina Jurak, that discloses urban developments through exploration of enormous construction sites which expand across Berlin.
The piece will present a sound collaboration with Stefanie Loveday that focuses on newly built parts of the controversial A100 highway. Both artists find the newly opened 16th and the planned 17th construction phase problematic from an ecological, political, and economic perspective, and have used it to gather their multi-formed creative material.
Urban research will be shown as performative installation with found objects, butoh inspired movement, and electro-acoustic sound, to question the processes of the ongoing spatial changes.

Come join our re-constructed space on Saturday, 20.09.2025 at 20:00 at Motto Berlin
Donations welcome