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Vorbei mit der Übeltäterei / Done with evil-doing.
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Zilberman | Berlin is pleased to announce Done with evil-doing, the new solo exhibition by İz Öztat, opening on 19 February 2026 from 6 pm.
Taking its title from the final sentence of Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (1865), the exhibition revisits familiar German narrative traditions, from Kasperle puppet theatre to the Faust legend, and probes their moral ambiguity, violence, and repression. Öztat brings these historical motifs into the present, asking who is cast as evil-doer and who as victim, how punishment is legitimized, and how obedience, complicity, and resistance are shaped within collective memory.
Through sculpture, tile work, silkscreen, painting, video, and installation, the exhibition unfolds as a dense scenography within the bourgeois architecture of the gallery. Cracks, seams, devilish details, voyeuristic peep-holes, and missing figures point to what is concealed, suppressed, or returns as haunting. One video installation addresses the drawing of borders and lines of control, evoking processes of nation building, the enforcement of authority, and the regulation of movement, while also gesturing toward resistance and demands for justice.
Satire, erotic power play and theatrical devices become tools to question authority, agency, and accountability. Done with evil-doing runs from 20 February to 3 May 2026 and invites us to look closely at the stories we inherit, the norms they enforce, and the political spaces in which justice, refusal, and resistance can still be negotiated.