White
Light · purification · truth
The exhibition hall: the lucid gaze that unmasks artificial happiness.
[ Eric Oder ]
SOMA
Happiness as anaesthesia
- Held
- 23 July – 2 August 2026
- Venue
- Kunstfabrik HB55, Halle A & B
Herzbergstraße 55, Berlin-Lichtenberg - Format
- Exhibition and festival · entry by donation
- Concept & artistic direction
- Eric Oder
SOMA gives form to the creatures that artificial happiness leaves behind, and lets sound and rite attempt their awakening.
Named after the drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a State-issued euphoriant that erases suffering in exchange for stability, SOMA is Eric Oder’s new phase after Memory Hole. Where that album looked to Orwell and the rewriting of truth, SOMA looks at its mirror: not censorship but pleasure, not fear but induced contentment as a means of control.
For eleven days two halls of a former margarine factory in Lichtenberg became a passage: by day an exhibition to look at, by night a festival to take part in. Three keywords, Dystopia, Mysticism, Creatures, and three colours set the rules.
Red
Passion · action · vital force
The body that acts and pulses: performance, the life that resists anaesthesia.
Black
Power · protection · absorption
The unconscious and the industrial ruin: the shadow that guards and transforms.
02 · Halle A · White pole
Exhibition
The luminous hall: SOMA’s gallery of creatures, in graphics, photography, sculpture and garments.
- Durdgraphic plates on Japanese canvas
- Liliana Lietzlong-exposure portraits
- Luca Arcamonemasks, sculpture
- Claudia Virginia Vitariscreen-printed glass, metal
- Leon Emanuel Blanckwearable sculpture
- Fade Out Labelgarment installation
- Valentina Berthelonwoven cartographies
03 · Halle B · Red / black pole
Live & rite
The raw industrial hall: live electronics, performance and ritual, from the machinic to the human voice.
- Eric Oder
- Coquinati
- MATTAM
- Pareal × Marco Bruno
- Bam Bam’s Boogie
- Corazón de Robota
- Thu 23 JulOpening ritePareal
- Sun 26 JulDIY electronics workshopCorazón de Robota
- Thu 30 JulSound Ritualism, shamanic workshopAUM Garden Project
- Sat 1 AugClosing nightEric Oder