The Quiet Room: Berlin Visit

We are excited to share photos from ‘The Quiet Room: Berlin’ - our international collaboration and event with partners Berlinklusion. The event took place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in November 2025.

Rooted in the spirit of disability justice, ‘The Quiet Room: Berlin’ was a gathering place for connection, joy, and thoughtful exchange between artists and curators from the UK and Berlin.

Together, we reflected on what sustains us: creative crip leadership, disabled and neurodivergent aesthetics, intersectionality, rest as resistance, and the art itself—what we are working on, making, and imagining.

The gathering was inspired by quiet rooms found in UK galleries and cultural venues—spaces of sanctuary and pause, designed especially with disabled and neurodivergent communities in mind. Such rooms invite us to be wholly ourselves, to step away from the noise, and to be together in community while also embracing stillness. This is how we held space for one another.

Berlinklusion is a network for accessibility in art and culture. Led by Kate Brehme, Dirk Sorge, Jovana Komnenic and Kirstin Broussard, a mix of Disabled and non-Disabled artists and arts mediators, it seeks to positively change Berlin’s cultural landscape by promoting inclusion and improving accessibility for artists, cultural workers, participants and audiences with and without disabilities.

This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.

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'The Quiet Room Berlin’ Posterzine
Alongside the photographs taken in Berlin, designer and publisher Sophie Paul has created a posterzine which brings together some of the conversations, care, and creativity that helped shape ‘The Quiet Room Berlin’, a meal and social sculpture with access intimacy at its centre.

You can download a full colour digital PDF of The Quiet Room: Berlin posterzine or a black and white print-at-home copy of The Quiet Room:Berlin posterzine via the links at the bottom of the page.

About Sophie:Sophie Paul is a designer, writer, and access support worker based in London. She is interested in feminist support structures, and is one half of the intra-dependent press Sticky Fingers Publishing. You can find out more about her work here: https://sophiepaul.cargo.site/