HOUSE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Photo: ©2020 Dario Srbic
House for the End of the World ("HEW") is a nomadic contemporary art space founded by artist and curator Elana Katz in Berlin in 2020, in cooperation with Galerie KWADRAT. In its founding context of the pandemic, HEW functioned as a dystopian sanctuary created by artists in surreal and uncertain times. Regularly changing locations, HEW presents a program based on site-specificity, focusing on spaces in transition—with complex pasts and often unknown futures.
At its two Berlin-Kreuzberg locations, HEW hosted an extensive program of group exhibitions, solo shows, performances, and artist talks, including a solo exhibition by renowned German artist Hans Peter Kuhn (2020). In 2023, HEW opened its third location in a historic building—currently the Katholische Hochschule of Berlin, formerly a detention and interrogation centre used by the Soviet Secret Service (KGB) for political prisoners in the wake of World War II. In this exhibition, titled EXIT IS NO OBJECT, HEW partnered with the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and presented work by an international selection of artists from Germany, Taiwan, UK, USA, and Portugal.
In October 2025, HEW presented its first edition overseas - in Boston, USA. In this exhibition, titled THE OTHER ONE, HEW worked in partnership with Boston University College of Fine Arts (Schools of Visual Arts and Music), Boston Public Art Triennial, Goethe-Institut Boston, and Galerie KWADRAT Berlin. The project was made possible through the generous financial support of Boston University Shipley Center for Digital Learning and Innovation, Boston University Arts Initiative, and the International Koproduktionsfonds Goethe-Institut.
The HEW Boston exhibition featuring performances by Elana Katz and Dario Srbić alongside an immersive visual-sonic installation by Joshua Fineberg. The project explores the core concepts of dependency, displacement, and distortion through live performance, AI-driven sculpture, and sound composition.
In March 2026, HEW returns to Berlin with THE OTHER ONE - Berlin Edition; presenting adaptations of the artworks developed in Boston in response to this new context.
Opening Saturday March 14th, 2026
KWADRAT, Reichenbergerstr. 125, 10999 Berlin
Contact: housefortheendoftheworld@gmail.com
HOUSE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
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