SOMA Art Space Berlin

SOMA is an independent non-profit contemporary art exhibition space that has been fostering collaboration between cultural practitioners and artists, scholars, and activists from around the world to promote sustainable dialogue since its founding in 2014. 

Art practices and thematic complexes that receive little attention in the overall societal context – the realities of Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Trans and Agender (FLINTA) individuals, people of the global south, and lesser-told stories – are the main interest of SOMA. SOMA's curatorial concept explicitly involves not prescribing established readings and ideologies to artists and collaborators, but rather bringing together a spectrum of different personal and theoretical perspectives within the thematic focus of individual projects.

They work strongly with Berlin-based artists who come from non-EU countries, people who are discriminated against because of their origin, gender, religion, disabilities, or age, and who therefore have fewer opportunities for representation in the cultural sector. 

SOMA defines itself as a platform that maintains an honest and mindful dialogue with the presentation of artworks. They also pay attention to a diversity of media – from painting, photography, video to installations and performances. The exhibitions at SOMA are regularly complemented by workshop programmes, readings, symposia, and educational programmes.