On the occasion of extended frustrations and confusing world events, 32 artists converge at a usually sweaty, brutalist location in Berlin to exhibit their individual creative output related to the world and times we are living in. A deliberately open topic, the show is intended to be a hot mess of creativity, exhibiting diverse art mediums, narratives, opinions, points of view, explorations, argumentations, feelings, insights and questions.

For the second edition of HOT MESS and on the occasion of extended frustrations and confusing world events, 60+ Berlin-based artists converge in ex-Deutsche Bahn carriage repair halls, now Nåpoleon Komplex in Berlin, to exhibit their individual creative output related to the world and the current times we are living in. A deliberately open topic, the show is intended to be a HOT MESS of creativity, presenting diverse art mediums, narratives, opinions, points of view, explorations, argumentations, feelings, insights and questions.

It is an honour to introduce the third edition of HOT MESS – a group exhibition with Berlin-based artists curated by Yolandé Gouws and Vanja Žanko, with ceramics curated by Tegan Emerson. The title is a reference to Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble, wherein Haraway defines the times we live in as sticky, hot compost piles that we humans have created — proposing that to solve this self-made mess, we need to delve deeper into it, to join in and make-kin, not only with human beings but with all creatures of this Earth.