Mies van der Rohe Haus

May to July 2026

sixseven is a five-part educational format by artist Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari, developed in the context of the exhibition What’s going on? at the Mies van der Rohe Haus together with young participants from the DSA (Deine Stärken Aktivieren / Activating Your Strengths) program at SIBUZ Lichtenberg. Drawing on the works shown in the exhibition, participants engage with questions of time, memory, space, belonging, and transformation. Across a series of interconnected sessions, observations, conversations, drawings, sound recordings, photographs, and other forms of collecting and documenting emerge.

The exhibition is not understood as something that needs to be explained, but rather as a point of departure for individual and collective processes of searching and exploration. At the center are shared acts of observing, questioning, touching, and describing; of allowing and letting go; as well as the possibility of approaching things that do not immediately reveal themselves and resist fixed interpretation.

Over the course of the project, an open archive takes shape. It is not conceived as documentation of completed results, but as a collection of searches, observations, detours, and intermediate states that can continuously be reordered, commented on, and related to one another.

The title sixseven refers to a linguistic internet phenomenon. As a code, it simultaneously signals belonging and exclusion. Meaning emerges here less through explanation than through use. In this sense, sixseven stands for a transitional state: between understanding and not understanding, beginning and continuation, inside and outside.