PITY ARTY EXHIBITIONS
L’origine du monde
a multi-media exhibition
Where: Backhaus Projects Space
When: May 15th-16th 2026
who: 4 berlin-based artists and the pity arty curatorial team
In 1866, a work of art began a long and secretive journey from Paris around the world, finally becoming available for public viewing for the first time in Brooklyn, New York in 1988, more than a decade after it was painted. Gustav Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde, a cropped painting of a woman’s vulva and bust, was the source of controversy and excitement, concealed behind fake fronts, hidden doors and secret rooms. Today, Pity Party Collective’s curating branch, Pity Arty, revisit the work’s title and subject matter, bringing creation and femininity into full view in a
multimedia, comprehensive exhibition of the same name.
Femininity is a force. It is non-specific and non-gendered in essence. It moves through matter, memory, and nature in a system of dualities: it nurtures and liberates; is determined and accommodating; commanding and kind; strong and delicate. Femininity lives in the physical as cyclical intelligence and a rhythm of expansion, contraction, and renewal - and extends beyond into the intuitive and unseen. Femininity is the source of life: L’Origine du Monde.
In a moment that for many feels scary and semi-apocalyptic, we seek a return to essence and creation - to the “origin of the world” - looking at the positive vigour of femininity in stark contrast to the toxic landscape of aggression, war and ‘manospheres’.
This exhibition brings together artists who engage with feminine energy: not to define it, but to liberate it and allow its free expression. Through the works of 5 local, multi-media artists, Pity
Arty looks at 4 themes of femininity: creation, nurturing, growth and strength through a variety of powerful works in dialogue with each other and the world at large.
curated by Juliette Wallace and LAra Bruno
Exhibiting artists: Paz Bonfil, Roberta Aita, Stephanie Hamer, Daniela Lucato
PROJECTING IS AN ACT THAT LEAVES A TRACE. IT CAN BE BOTH ACTIVE AND SUBCONSCIOUS; PHYSICAL AS WELL AS EMOTIONAL; RECEIVED AND PERPETRATED. IT IS A DEEPLY HUMAN ACTION, ASSIGNED ALSO TO MACHINES.
in november 2025 THE PITY ARTY TEAM waS BACK TO EMBRACE THE CHANGE IN SEASONS THROUGH A TEMPORAL 3-WAY INSTALLATION THAT INVESTIGATES FEELING THROUGH SOUND, PROJECTION AND SCULPTURE. 3 ARTISTS OF 3 NATIONALITIES COME TOGETHER IN THE BACKHAUS PROJECTS SPACE TO LAYER-UP FOR A 14 MINUTE SONIC/VISUAL LOOP THAT EXPLORES AND EMBRACES EMOTIONS AND OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM.
FROM NOVEMBER 15TH TO 16TH JOIN US IN OUR INTIMATE BLACK-BOX EXPERIMENT AS WE EXPLORE PROJECTING AND THE ART OF FEELING.
PROJECTING: THE ART OF FEELING
@ BACKHAUS PROJECT SPACE
15TH-16TH NOVEMBER 2025
Artists: Lea Brugnoli, Andreas Miranda, Sara Jot Jaskiewicz
Curators: Juliette wallace and lara bruno
keyhole @ backhauS
sponsored by fuerst wiacek
MARCH 22ND - 23RD 2025
KEYHOLE was a multimedia exhibition around artistic dialogues and the possibility of alternative communications. The show turns directly to the works themselves, removing the concept of ‘artist as protagonist’ and instead presenting each piece’s own independent personality and history. In this way we seek to subvert the zeitgeist idea of “us as product”, letting the works speak for themselves. Curated by Juliette Wallace and Lindsey Marie-White, the Backhaus Projects space will become an alternative realm - a keyhole - into which the viewer is invited to peer and witness the conversations between artworks. In a time when society is polarised and we find ourselves in opposition, KEYHOLE seeks to provide a sanctuary of togetherness through an invitation into an alternate world of connections where ego is displaced and something new is proposed in its place.
Exhibiting Artists:
Verita Vee
Nehemias Colndres
Robyn Claire anderson
Nicolas blanchadell
sonny and the dog/pity party collective
PERFORMANCES BY ANNITA SLEEP AND SONNY AND THE DOG
