UPCOMING EVENTS
Together with MaHalla’s UNRUHE – a group exhibition in the Mycelionaire’s Mushroom Lab
–Curated by Sharlene Durfey François
When people ask what I do, I often say “I’m a mushroom artist”. The look on their faces gets me every time – laughter, disbelief or confusion follow. Well, turns out I’m not alone. Mushrooms, fungi, and nature inspired artists are everywhere. Whether we come together through the love of fungi or some form of symbiosis, Mycelium Rising is a show that celebrates our connection to nature.
What better setting to display these artists than a mushroom lab? The Mycelionaires’ Mushroom Lab has welcomed mushroom lovers and artists for the last three years during Art Week at MaHalla under the name Primordia 1, 2, & 3. This year, Julian Roth (founder of Mycelionaires) asked me to curate the show that runs together with MaHalla’s UNRUHE. Not officially part of Berlin Art Week, we are crashing it with our own addition to the week’s spectacle.
Fungi keep pushing into medicine, architectural, agricultural, and beyond, but they have always inspired beautiful art. The connective nature of mycelium, the wonder and awe inspiring mushrooms that pop up from the strangest places in the oddest forms and the metaphors they offer – connection, symbiosis and the importance of taking care of our Mother Earth – are what brings us all together for Mycelium Rising.
The Artists
• Caroline Wimmer (experimental photography)
• Cédric Lebonnois (time-lapse video & live collaboration with slime mold)
• Fernanda Porto (sculpture with light play)
• Irene Antonez (psychedelic oil painter)
• Kermit Tesoro (fashion design & sculpture)
• Lacy Barry (textiles)
• Lauschic (Shhhroooms & Philip François’ light installation)
• The Mycelionaires Collective (living mushrooms and their byproducts)
• Zoe Lohmann aka Alexander Cameltoe (fashion & sculpture)
UNRUHE off-grid and uninvited – crashing Berlin Art Week
You can find MYCELIUM RISING in the underground of MaHalla before you ascend upstairs.
Tickets: 12€ (general public) / 7€ for (students, seniors, special needs) and can be purchased at the door or in advance.
Fanning the Fever
of Fungi Fascination
October 10 & 11, 2026, Holzmarkt
A festival of art, performance, science and mycelial thinking.
I’m excited to announce a co-creation with Holzmarkt to create Berlin’s first Fungi Fever Fest!
Holzmarkt will transform into a mushroom festival for 2 days! Together with Creature Kin, Fungai Art and other fungi enthusiasts, we’ll create a festival for fungi lovers and those who are curious to find out more about one of the most mysterious kingdoms/queendoms of the natural world.
Open to all. Entrance is 5€ / day.
Sat. Oct. 10 • 12 - 22 Uhr
Sun. Oct. 11 • 12 - 20 Uhr
What to Expect
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Expect experts in the field of fungi, from innovations to science, art, and education to share their insights with us all.
Get your mushroom stories ready to share with others during our story time tea party to help us all connect further.
Mycelial Mingling is one of our goals for this event, let mushroom lovers of Berlin all come together. -
Expect art, installations, mushroom drag from the Creature Kin Collective, performances, live music, and immersive spaces.
Artists to be announced.
Plus, we will have a mushroom fashion show / catwalk throughout Holzmarkt of anyone who dresses like a mushroom or inspired by a mushroom. Let’s show the world how Berlin celebrates fungi. -
We’re shaping up the workshop offerings.
We are looking forward to a fungi fact pub quiz hosted by Glamanita Muscaria.
There will be a mushroom hunt guided by Fox of Creature Kin. -
Not only will mushrooms be added to all the menus of the Holzmarkt restaurants, but we’ll also have stalls from local makers, mushroom growers, artists and wellness providers.
If you’ve got something to sell, let us know. -
Seven courses, twelve seats, one long evening. Foraged mushrooms, chana garum XO, sweetened pine cone, ramson oil, wild herbs, cacao-reishi close. Sliding scale.
Created by Robin Floræsta of Fungai Art. Tickets sold separately.
Wanna be a part of the Fungi Fever Fest?
PAST EVENTS
The Dream Sanctuary of Hyphae
The Dream Sanctuary of Hyphae was an overnight connection experience where art, ritual, and mycelial networks converge to awaken your connection to the hidden intelligence of nature and the inter-connectedness of life.
I contributed to the costumes, the connections, the graphic design for the archetypal fungi rituals and created videos from my collages with the help of AI.
‘PRIMORIDA 2’
at Mahalla’s Open Together
Berlin Art Week 2024
I was honored to represent the artists curated by Mycelionaire on the poster for Art Week. If you are overwhelmed by Berlin Art Week.. just go to Mahalla’s event. It hosts over 100 artists and multiple curators throughout the entire massive old industrial factory.
The first Primordial was curated by Julian of Mycelionaire and was displayed in the mushroom lab which normally grows reishi and lionsmane and hosts many mushroom workshops and events. The Mycelium Cave was installed in the basement next to the lab and remains there today. I also displayed some of my collage prints, masks and a new wood sculpture. 
Underworld Mycelium
Brooklyn meets Berlin… this event was produced by two legends, Tiresias and Alexander Cameltoe. Tiresias – whose Underworld events are known for having experimental and queer sci-fi performances and cabaret. Alexander Cameltoe (the alter-ego of artist Zoe Lohmann) is Berlin’s most versatile drag king, genderfluid and species fluid performers. The show Included a full cast of incredible artists/performers such as: Hungry, Jon Darc, Reverso, 13, and Godxxx Noirphiles.
A Shhhroooms mask photobooth accompanied a full immersive mycelium light cave in the entrance of the historical Berlin Ballhaus. I even took the team on a mushroom walk after the show had ended. It was a real bonding moment. 
Shhhroooms @ The Rad
I held my first solo art show under the Shhhroooms moniker at the end of 2022 at The Rad. A beloved natural wine bar that still to this day showcases two of my prints in the front window along with two custom lamp shades commissioned by the owner and my friend Arran, in the early days of the bar. It was was a successful show –I sold all of the prints!
I also released the first series of postcards that night, which have since been sold out. You can see the second series in the shop.
Shhhroooms @ Pilzfestspiele
It was a real honor to exhibit my work at the Pilzfestspiele in Vienna along side some of my all time favorite mushroom artists. I also got to meet Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak aka Planet Fungi, whom many of my mushroom images are photographed by. Their work is so inspiring. Getting to meet them and to experience what sweet humans they are was one of the highlights of my time at the festival.
The Museum of Mushrooms
This was a special opportunity. It was my first time presenting the concept of the Museum of Mushrooms publicly, in front of a very savvy crowd at the Venture Café Berlin. I am the curator and experience designer for the MoM and I have been working with a small team for almost a year to create something so incredibly special. We are currently in the fundraising phase. The MoM is a non-profit project planning to launching in 2028.
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