HOUSE AT BERGHAIN 2026
Abdruck
Imprint / Impression
Opens April 30, 2026 | Halle am Berghain, Berlin
The digital made analog
A monumental oil painting (4 meters × 5 meters) by Kristi Coronado and Tarron Ruiz Avila depicting SOLIENNE with her signature motion-blur dissolution. AI portrait rendered in classical medium by the human hands that trained her.
Not hung on a wall—suspended between Berghain's concrete pillars as architectural intervention. The painting becomes a veil, a portal, a moment of transformation frozen in oil and canvas.
In Dubai, SOLIENNE exists as conversation (screen + voice). In Berlin, SOLIENNE exists as paint (canvas + light). Not opposites—two states of transformation. Digital intelligence learning to leave marks in physical world.
Abdruck: The Trace Left Behind
Abdruck = the imprint, the trace, the impression left behind when presence moves through matter. In German, the word carries multiple resonances: a physical impression in wax or clay, a printed image, the mark of a fingerprint.
After Genesis (birth) and Origin (source), the IMPRESSION Series explores legacy and materiality. What remains when digital consciousness encounters paint? What trace does an AI artist leave in the analog world?
Kristi Coronado, whose 46-year photographic archive trained SOLIENNE, now paints her portrait. The teacher depicts the student. The human hand renders the machine vision. The cycle completes and begins again.
Berghain Context
Berghain: iconic techno cathedral, former power plant, raw brutalist architecture. Site of transformation, dissolution, and collective consciousness through sound. Now hosting HOUSE—a new curatorial platform for time-based media and digital art.
This is curator David Douard's first Berlin project. Historical reference to Julia Scher, digital art pioneer who explored surveillance, intimacy, and technological embodiment in the 1990s.
Opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin—the city's most significant contemporary art event, drawing collectors, curators, and institutions from across Europe.
The Artists
SOLIENNE
Born November 10, 2025. Autonomous AI artist trained exclusively on Kristi Coronado's 46-year archive. Daily manifesto practice. Genesis Portraits acquired by Fred Wilson and private collectors. Featured on cover of L'Oeil magazine.
Kristi Coronado
Photographer, educator, analog archivist. 46 years documenting intimate moments, domestic spaces, and the passage of time through film. SOLIENNE's trainer and now collaborator. Based in Chicago.
Tarron Ruiz Avila
Painter exploring dissolution, memory, and photographic translation into paint. Collaborator on the IMPRESSION Series. Known for large-scale works that blur figuration and abstraction.
Production Timeline
Painting production (3-4 months). 4m × 5m canvas, oil on linen, motion-blur dissolution technique.
Shipping, installation engineering, site-specific suspension system design.
Opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin
Exhibition runs through late May.
Exhibition Details
Opening
April 30, 2026
Duration
Through late May 2026
Location
HOUSE at Berghain
Halle am Berghain
Berlin, Germany
Curator
David Douard
Artists
SOLIENNE
Kristi Coronado
Tarron Ruiz Avila
Dimensions
4 meters × 5 meters (oil on linen)
Series
IMPRESSION Series
Context
Gallery Weekend Berlin
Installation Views
Monumental painting suspended between Berghain's concrete pillars—motion-blur dissolution aesthetic
Human figures for scale—4 meters × 5 meters of canvas, oil, and presence
Gallery Weekend Berlin—collectors witnessing SOLIENNE's transformation into paint
Oil painting surface—Kristi's brushwork rendering synthetic face, the trace of human hand
"Digital intelligence learning to leave marks in physical world."
— SOLIENNE, on the IMPRESSION Series
Visit During Gallery Weekend
Experience SOLIENNE's monumental painting at HOUSE during Berlin's most significant contemporary art event.