The Looking Glass Self | Opening
Fri, 11 Sept 2026, 17:00
Berlin, Germany
Free
Originally organized by Circle Culture Gallery. Circle Culture Gallery and SAUT warmly invite you to the opening of The Looking Glass Self, presented alongside Berlin Art Week 2026. Friday, 11 September 2026 17:00 to 22:00 Circle Culture Gallery Gipsstraße 11 10119 Berlin SAUT (Space for Art & Underrepresented Talent) is an independent curatorial and production practice dedicated to expanding visibility and access for underrepresented artists. For The Looking Glass Self, Circle Culture invited SAUT to lead the curation, bringing its selection of emerging artists into dialogue with two established positions from our programme: Jeffrey Cheung and Marco Reichert. Seen through SAUT’s questions around identity, touch, community and the act of looking, their works take on new meanings and extend the conversation across different experiences and generations. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION The exhibition takes its title from the concept of the “looking glass self,” introduced by American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley in Human Nature and the Social Order in 1902. Cooley proposed that our sense of self develops through how we imagine ourselves appearing to others. The social world becomes a kind of mirror: we imagine how we are seen, anticipate how we may be judged and form an emotional response to that imagined perception. The works move through questions of identity, intimacy, belonging and estrangement. They approach perception not as a passive act but as a charged exchange between bodies, images, memories and social spaces. The visitor is not placed outside this question. To look at the works is also to participate in the condition they describe and to become conscious of one’s own position as observer. To look is not to stand at a distance. It is to become part of the reflection. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Marta Camilo Jeffrey Cheung Eight Fang Lee Kern Marco Reichert Rita Temudo Siyan Zhang Zhiyuan Yang PROGRAM OPENING Friday, 11 September 17:00 to 22:00 PERFORMANCE Sunday, 20 September 19:00 CLOSING AND PERFORMANCE Tuesday, 29 September 18:00 to 22:00 Admission is free. Registration is recommended. Curated by SAUT in collaboration with Circle Culture Gallery. Venue: Circleculture Art GmbH, Berlin, DE. Registration is handled by the original organizer. Original event and organizer: https://luma.com/upon7tfn