BREAD & ROSES is a special edition of the KIEZ-BROT-WERKSTATT at SATELLIT. KBW has been exploring the theme of ‘bread’ from various perspectives for the past four years. The title of this episode emerges from the struggles of the suffragettes, for work and material dignity (“bread”) and simultaneous demand for beauty, quality of life and self-determination (“roses”). The event combines nutrition, care and symbolic and political dimensions in a collective action, viewing work, the earth and public space as sites of emancipation and participation.

Roses are never just flowers. They carry histories of beauty, desire, care, mourning, labor, and resistance. They appear in rituals of devotion and in acts of political struggle; they are tender and ceremonial, but also coded, cultivated, and contested. Bread, like roses, is never only sustenance. It is shaped by hands, time, and heat; broken and distributed in rituals of care, faith, and solidarity. Bread marks both celebration and necessity, abundance and deprivation.

Marisa Benjamim’s project portrays roses of a fictional species. Not copies of nature, but speculative forms that invent their own taxonomy, existing between scientific language and imagination. Extending this speculative field, roses and bread are brought together on the table as an edible installation, where visitors are invited to taste. This edition is also dedicated to the vineyard next to SATELLIT, the last remaining trace of the historic Weinstrasse. Seçil Yersel explores the interwoven narrative of bread, roses, and a vineyard. Found objects, notes, photos, drawings, and audio recordings from the past and the future; Yersel’s collection of exchanges is laid out before us. Visitors’ memories are planted together to create a small monument in the vineyard and help preserve its history.

SATELLIT

SATELLIT is a space for art and cooking, community and sustainability, located at Weinstraße 11 in the Barnimkiez neighborhood of Friedrichshain-West. Here at Volkspark Friedrichshain, the neighborhood initiative uses local, self-organized, and artistic approaches to address the social and environmental challenges of our time.

The project space sees itself as a welcoming place where diverse people, ideas, and stories can come together. Together with the neighborhood, artists, creatives, and experts, the program address the social and ecological challenges of our time in our neighborhood—locally, self-organized, and through artistic means. How can we make individualized life in the big city better and more supportive? In the three years since the founding of the space, through volunteer work and individual project grants, it was possible to build this space into a creative, intergenerational, and cooperative meeting place, and to continue filling this gap in the social fabric.

Founded: 2022