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Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff

The Berlin-based artist duo Calla Henkel (b. 1988, US) and Max Pitegoff (b. 1987, US) have been working together for over a decade. Together, they found and run venues as catalysts for collaborative artistic work. Their expanded documentation of these spaces traces the economic, structural and often personal systems that build shared spaces, taking form through photographs, texts and narratives. From 2013 to 2015 they ran New Theater, a storefront in Berlin-Kreuzberg where they wrote and produced plays with artists, writers and musicians. In 2017/18, they led the artistic direction of the Grüner Salon at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin, staging their own original plays and commissioning performances by artists. Since 2019, they have been running TV – a bar, performance space and film studio in Berlin-Schöneberg. Recent solo exhibitions include Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2020), Kunstverein Hamburg (2018), and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016).
The Berlin-based artist duo Calla Henkel (b. 1988, US) and Max Pitegoff (b. 1987, US) have been working together for over a decade. Together, they found and run venues as catalysts for collaborative artistic work. Their expanded documentation of these spaces traces the economic, structural and often personal systems that build shared spaces, taking form through photographs, texts and narratives. From 2013 to 2015 they ran New Theater, a storefront in Berlin-Kreuzberg where they wrote and produced plays with artists, writers and musicians. In 2017/18, they led the artistic direction of the Grüner Salon at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin, staging their own original plays and commissioning performances by artists. Since 2019, they have been running TV – a bar, performance space and film studio in Berlin-Schöneberg. Recent solo exhibitions include Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2020), Kunstverein Hamburg (2018), and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016).