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

ASTMA / Bride / Jonathan Bergen

September 18, Motto Berlin

LIVE! from 7pm

(image: Jonathan Bergen)

nicolas jorio
live@motto

dimanche 31 août
19h

Motto Paris
38 rue Vertbois
75003 Paris

Pimientos de Padrón y Amigos

Erik Steinbrecher
@ Motto Berlin

Opened at 2:45 am, July 23, 2025.

Exhibition 23.07 – 18.09.2025

Silas Morrow
@ Motto Berlin
August 21, 8pm (sharp)

Silas Morrow is a sculptor, improviser, and noise artist from Seattle, Washington. Through a contemplative sculptural and sound practice he explores the memory of his grandmother’s spiritual devotion as well as his great aunt’s monastic home on the coast of Northern California. He makes use of found and gifted objects along with hand crafted wind instruments. Silas encourages items to interact through electronic amplification. 

His great aunt utilized labyrinths in her spiritual practice and constructed one in her yard which Silas would be directed to walk through when visiting.

silasmorrow #mottoberlin

https://solemnunion.bandcamp.com/track/pleesin-bunker

(CANCELLED)

Behind the Yellow Wallpaper
Poems and short stories reading
6pm Friday August 15

@ Motto Paris
38 Rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

With:
Hrefna Hörn Leifsdottír
Lauryn Youden
Tiziana La Melia
Margaret Haines
Miriam Stoney
Gaby Sahhar 
Belle Santos 
Arvida Bystrom 
Chiara Siravo 
& music by Hannah Maria Schmutterer 

@a_r_w_y
2/8 @ Motto Berlin

Árwy is a storyteller who, through music, recreates the atmospheres and landscapes of dark fantasy, fairy noise, and science fiction voices and prayers.

Come experience this narrative gothic ambient this Saturday, August 2nd at 7:30 pm at Motto Books

Fotos x @ojo.limbico

Le Journal de Tokyo, 
Evangeline LafourcadeWednesday, July 9 — 7pm to 10pm

Motto Books, 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris
Installation / Performance / Short Film.

A long immersion in Tokyo gave rise to this project, which began as a diary, a space to record fleeting impressions of the city. From this written practice emerged an object, then an installation, and finally, a performance.
Through the lens of Barthes’ Le Neutre, a short film shot on Super 8 intertwines with the diary and a philosophical lexicon exploring described gestures of Japanese savoir-vivre. What started as a personal exploration evolved into a shared sensibility, intimate, collective. By entering the installation, the artist invites you to share a part of this experience and intimacy. 
The installation includes the prototype of a lamp, which marked the beginning of her experimentation with washi paper and its potential at the scale of space and lightweight architecture. 

Please join us for the vernissage and live performance on Wednesday evening. 

Performance at 8pm and 9pm