HI5 is a recurring exhibition format at Hotel Continental's Gallery Lab. Every edition compresses a full exhibition cycle — install, opening, public viewing, de-install — into five intense days. Below: the editions to date, and the open call for what comes next.
High Five is a recurring exhibition format at Hotel Continental's Gallery Lab. Each edition takes one room for five intense days — from install to finissage — and hands it over to artists currently living in exile in Berlin.
The format favours risk and immediacy over the slow rhythm of a museum show. The result is closer to a studio visit than a polished retrospective: raw, present, finite. Each edition stands on its own, with its own subdomain, its own poster, its own constellation of voices.
Hotel Continental is an Art Space in Exile dedicated to Ukrainian and exiled artists in Berlin. We work toward peace, freedom, democracy and human rights with the means of culture — through exhibitions, residencies, and the simple insistence on showing up.
The Gallery Lab on the ground floor at Elsenstraße 87 is the experimental wing of the house: a room for first attempts, collaborations, and exhibitions that don't yet fit any other format. HI5 is its drumbeat.
HI5 is open to artists currently living in exile in Berlin — emerging or established, working in any medium. Each edition picks two to three positions for five days at the Gallery Lab. We coordinate, you take the room.
Hotel Continental is part of an artist-run building in Berlin Treptow, a short walk from S+U Sonnenallee. The Gallery Lab sits on the ground floor with a street-facing window — pass by, knock, walk in.
