24/05/2025, 9:00 pm,

DJ-Set by Phuong-Dan + Keta Gavasheli

, Atelier 4.1

Having a background in cultural anthropology, documentary photography and film, Nguyen Phuong-Dan is active on a project-specific basis in various fields and formats, works as a curator, cultural operator and dj. The latter led him to noted clubs like Salon des Amateurs, De School, Robert Johnson or Berghain Säule, to festivals like Dekmantel, Positive Education or Berlin Atonal and to institutions like Haus der Kunst, Gropius Bau or Kunsthalle Vienna, while running his own club series Gatto Musculoso at Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg since 2006. In 2021 he initiated dispari – a label and platform for all kinds of auditory publications, collaborations and performances at various places such as Kunsthalle Münster, Kunstverein München, Meakusma Festival or Recyclart in Brussels.

Keta Gavasheli (born 1990) is an artist based in Düsseldorf. She studied architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts before pursuing Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she completed her Meisterschülerin under Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in 2024. At the core of her work is an inquiry into seemingly impermeable boundaries. Through photography and film, she explores the dynamic relationship between vision and consciousness. As a resident of the Salon des Amateurs, Gavasheli has been performing regularly and curating events for the past two years, fostering collaborations with artists in the space. Her current explorations in sonic storytelling incorporate sound, voice, and both spoken and sung word. Through sound, language, and performance, Gavasheli looks at how bodies engage with their surroundings, considering presence—whether through voice, speech, or song—as an act of resistance and an embodied form of communication within sociopolitical contexts.