Omnia Mea Mecum Porto — Kotti Shop, Berlin
Berlin, 2012
In 2012 I took part in Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Works on Paper at Kotti-Shop, a non-profit art and project space located within the New Kreuzberg Center (NKZ) at Kottbusser Tor, Berlin.
Curated by Michael Mulvihill and Christopher Rollen, the exhibition brought together a group of artists working across drawing, painting and installation. The title translates as “All that is mine, I carry with me” — a phrase that felt particularly resonant within the context of mobility, material, and place.
For the exhibition, I developed a site-specific “stealth installation” made in situ within Kotti-Shop. The work combined materials sourced locally in Berlin with fabrics and threads I had collected during my residency in Malaysia. Bringing these materials together created a quiet dialogue between locations — fragments of one place embedded within another.
Installed within the architecture of the space, the work was not immediately declarative. Instead, it occupied corners and thresholds, unfolding gradually as viewers moved through the room.
Kotti-Shop is known for its close relationship to the surrounding Kreuzberg neighbourhood and for its experimental, collaborative approach. Working within that context encouraged a lightness of touch — a responsiveness to environment rather than a fixed presentation.
Some of the materials developed during this exhibition later reappeared in a 2016 installation at White Conduit Projects, London, continuing the thread between places and projects.
