On The Clock

A Performative Exhibition During Berlin Art Week September 9-13, 2026 Manifesto Market, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Free Entry/Donation-Based On the Clock transforms Manifesto Market into a live working studio. Across five days during Berlin Art Week, artists occupy former food stand structures, dressed in blue overalls and working in continuous shifts across painting, music, fashion design, choreography, performance, and installation. There is no final artwork. There is no curatorial control. What matters is the labour itself: the visibility of the creative process and the rhythm of a factory floor applied to artistic practice. The studio operates on a shift schedule. Each artist enters their station, works visibly under fluorescent light, and leaves at the end of their time. Rehearsal, experimentation, repetition, failure, construction, and transformation all happen in public. There is no attempt to separate process from presentation. The blue overall becomes the project’s only visual anchor, collapsing the distinction between artist and worker. What would usually happen behind closed doors is placed directly in front of the public: urgent, unfiltered, and unresolved. Rather than asking audiences to encounter artistic practice only through its finished product, On the Clock proposes that the labour itself is worth witnessing. On the Clock is realised by Kinder der Welt, Placebo Collective, and Leonis Works as a gesture toward horizontality, transparency, and the unfinished