house is a body, body is a home opens May 22, 2026, at Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Berlin. The exhibition brings together artists Helen Hines and Natascha Schoenaich in collaboration with Maria Ferrer, Vicente Yáñez, and Damián Noguera. Through film, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance, the exhibition explores memory, decay, and more-than-human relations as shared ecological processes. The nine-day program includes live performances, and an artist talk.

The collaboration between Hines and Schoenaich began with shared visits to the mountains of Kumano, Japan, where encounters with abandoned houses (akiya), neighbors, and the landscape sparked an artistic inquiry into home, loss, and material transformation. Their joint publication Listening to Houses accompanies the exhibition, weaving film stills with texts that situate the work within new materialist and eco-somatic thought.

Visitors encounter sculptural assemblages made from ash, dust, clay, paper, textiles, and everyday objects — materials that ferment, decay, and become otherwise. Hines presents a series of films, alongside sculptural reliquaries. Schoenaich contributes photographs and textile works. A sound installation by Yáñez and Hines transmits live wind data from Japan, collapsing distance into shared elemental exchange. Ferrer, Noguera, and Yáñez activate the space through performances at the opening and closing events.