In the midst of ecological, social and political crises, the question of care and responsibility is becoming a central social challenge. The exhibition “Politics of Care. Care as Resistance” at the Berlinische Galerie from 5 November 2025 brings together three moving video works that explore contemporary practices of care and open up new perspectives beyond normative role models. The works focus on how care and solidarity can be conceived and lived as a form of resistance against individual isolation and neoliberal self-responsibility.
Susann Maria Hempel’s short film “Hope Road” reflects the artist’s existential crisis in a broken world and finds solace in the empathic perspective of a child and in the world views of indigenous communities. Rob Crosses’ “Wood for the Trees” shows how communal living and intergenerational exchange in a queer housing project in Berlin and scientific collaboration open up new models of coexistence. In “Extra Life (and Decay)”, Stephanie Lagarde combines personal, collective and ecological voices and celebrates practices of solidarity as a survival strategy. The exhibition makes it clear that there is no fairer future without a radical rethink of care work — care becomes a political stance and resistant practice.
