Year of Last Year's Transformation

Horse & Pony & Xanadu are partner spaces in a non-commercial, artist-run project space located near Körnerpark in Neukölln. After several years of renovation and use as a studio space, carrick bell and Rocco Ruglio-Misurell began programming the space in the fall of 2013. The mission of the space is to provide artists and curators with a space for experimentation and development, as well as to facilitate creative exchanges with other project spaces. We encourage people to work outside their typical modes, leading to artist-curated projects, and exhibitions and events that wouldn't otherwise find a fitting exhibition venue.

After eight years operating as a single project space, Horse & Pony, in 2022 we launched Xanadu, a space for artists’ moving image work, as a second programming track sharing the same location. Drawing on the history of microcinemas as spaces for idiosyncratic, artist-led, and community-oriented presentations of moving image work, Xanadu is one of the only artist-run spaces in Berlin dedicated to artists’ moving image work.