Scope BLN

presents

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ARTISTS TALKS 

Tomo Avalean

Paweł Reczek

Aubrey Theobald

Nabuurs&VanDoorn

 

Friday, November 28 at 06:00 PM

Scope BLN Cinema Room 

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Scope BLN invites you to an evening of dialogue, reflection and connective exchange: ARTISTS TALKS will feature four of its current Artists-in-Residency - Tomo Avalean, Paweł Reczek, Aubrey Theobald and the duo Nabuurs&VanDoorn - each presenting their practice, research and the evolving work they are developing within the Scope BLN residency program.

 

About the Artists:

 

Tomo Avalean is a painter coming from Providence, Rhode Island, whose work engages the queer body and affective relations - exploring what it feels like to have a body, to hold hands, to hurt, to be. 

Their project during the residency at Scope BLN is to expand the field of painting, experimenting with new techniques and studio practices, while continuing to interrogate intimacy, vulnerability and the dialectics of “me” and “us”. 

 

Paweł Reczek is a Polish artist working across performance, drawing and painting. His background in theatre and performance feeds into a studio-practice in which the body is material, the act is trace, and drawing emerges from protocols of breath, stretch and improvisation. 

Through his work he reconstructs alter-egos, fragments of unmapped lives and the performative dimensions of identity and queerness.

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Aubrey Theobald is an interdisciplinary installation artist and writer born in Cleveland, OH, and presently practicing in Berlin. She engages everyday materials and objects in sensorial installations that map emotional life through ritual, process and the overlooked. 

At Scope BLN she will offer insight into her ongoing investigations of intimacy, banality and the architecture of feeling in the form of a large-scale sculptural installation which will be presented in January, 2026.

 

Nabuurs&VanDoorn (Inge Nabuurs & Erwin van Doorn) are a Dutch artist duo whose research-driven practice spans performance, cartographic fiction, site-based installation and socially charged mapping of the city. 

In their current project Undecoded Berlin at Scope BLN, they turn their focus to Berlin, composing a performative architecture of looking and remembering. The exhibition becomes a choreography of attention, a mapping of the unseen infrastructures of memory and movement.

 

The event offers an opportunity to engage with artists at a pivotal moment in their residencies - to hear their reflections, methods and the questions fueling their work. 

A Q&A and reception will follow each short presentation.