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Image credits: Film still from Nas asas do desejo, Ruy Otero 2026

Exhibition duration
28 February to 27 March 2026

Artists: Bruno Cecílio, Bruce Paulino, Diogo Dias João, Lea Menangil, Luís Elgris, Fernando Fadigas, Guilherme Silva, Joana Pinto Oliveira, João Timóteo, Robert Barta, Roger Paulino, Ruy Otero, Tiny Domingos

The Welt am Draht exhibition, at ROSALUX art space in Berlin, is part of the Half-Life project, which is part of the annual programme of POGO, a collective that has been active since the 1990s in Lisbon and which collaborates with dozens of authors, performers and those interested in the intersection of the most diverse contemporary artistic practices and the exploration of new media.

This exhibition, the collective’s first international one, proposes a dialogue between different internal worlds, origins and artistic intentions, as well as the spaces thems000elves. It suggests a design or identification of a network. The network as a sine qua non condition of contemporary life (cities, countries, communities, the internet, social networks). This networked world is not a new concept in the context of contemporary artistic production, nor even for POGO, but it is introduced here as the culmination and synthesis of both a multifaceted programme carried out by POGO over the last year and POGO’s way of working in recent years.

Beyond its initial motto, Welt am Draht is the result of an unprecedented artistic residency that promotes the idea of a work that encompasses the space; staging as a gesture that brings together objects/performances, where the viewer is invited to become part of the network.

With the support of the Portuguese Republic — Culture, Youth and Sport / DGARTES