Magdalena Mitterhofer, Ana Gzirishvili , “ Central Market (2)”, performance
20 September 2025, 19:00
In “Central Market (2)” , artists Ana Gzirishvili and Magdalena Mitterhofer weave their site-specific practices into a performative installation, staging “Central Market (1)” —a text originally written by Gzirishvili. That initial text explores the sculptor’s creative process, tracing how the body moves and senses within a fragmented material world, navigating through memories, dreams, and language.
At the heart of the work lies “Vagzali”, Tbilisi’s central market—imagined as a fractured body at the center of the city’s economic and social exchanges. The market appears as a chaotic, ambiguous public space, where shifting realities—urban and immaterial alike—merge with themes of fragmentation, disappearance, memory loss, and discontinuity, as a common zeitgeist of Georgia's urban landscape in general.
The essence of the market—together with Ana Gzirishvili’s texts and collected film material—unfolds in a new context, re-situated and reinterpreted by Magdalena Mitterhofer in Berlin. Performance evokes questions that are relevant for both Tbilisi and Berlin, such as urban planning, privatization, and gentrification and pointing out loopholes, systemic ruptures, and the potential for other ways of inhabiting or interrupting the ever changing city landscape and its politics. At its core is a close observation of what remains — traces of use, wear, and transformation through labor and devotion. Beauty appears along the edges, but always in fractured forms.
Part of the SHE-WAILERS program, supported by Förderung durch die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin.
Free admition
Language: English
Duration: 40 mins
Language: English
Duration: 40 mins
Adress: TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY
Ana Gzirishvili is an artist based in Tbilisi (Georgia). Working across sculpture, installation, and video, her experimental practice spans lens-based media, CGI, poetry, spoken word, and performance. She often explores the transitional space—where objects, places, and narratives meet —through processes of disassembly and reassembly, both physical and contextual.
Magdalena Mitterhofer is a Berlin-based director and artist working across theater, film, and drawing. Often collaborative and site-specific, her practice uses speculative narratives to explore issues like gentrification, mass tourism, and demographic change. Her works move through dreamlike logics, embodying an in-between space, embracing humor, chaos, and transgression. Since 2021, she has co-created lament.tv with choreographer Shade Théret. Her short film Corte (2024) won “Best Film” and the Critics Choice Award at the Beijing Short Film Festival and was nominated for the Moving Image Art Prize at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.