HI5 #1 — Hotel Continental · Art Space in Exile

Five days of the show
from artists in exile

HI5 is a regular exhibition format at Gallery Lab of the Hotel Continental — Art Space in Exile. Each exhibition project compresses a full exhibition cycle — opening, public viewing, artist talk, and finissage — into five intense days.

The format favours risk and immediacy. Artists currently living in exile in Berlin are invited to occupy the space briefly but completely, with full curatorial freedom. The result is closer to a studio visit than a museum show: raw, present, finite.

Edition #1 opens the series with a two-position group exhibition assembled by Sofiia Holubeva and Viktoriia Rozentsveih.

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.

The two positions of HI5 #1.

Work · Holubeva

Sofiia
Holubeva

b. 1997 · Odesa / Berlin

Sofiia Holubeva works between painting, drawing, installation and mosaic. After a Master's in Monumental Arts from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv (2021), she has been studying Fine Arts at Universität der Künste Berlin since 2024.

Her practice circles around memory, the impact of war on bodies and landscapes, and the question of what painting can still do in a digitalised present. Her series 40×20×30 (2022) condenses everything she could carry out of Ukraine into a suitcase-sized format.

Painting Installation Mosaic Memory · War

@sofiia_holubeva Website ↗

Work · Rozentsveih

Viktoriia
Rozentsveih

Kyiv / Berlin

Viktoriia Rozentsveih is a multidisciplinary artist working across graphics, installation, video, textile and photography. She holds a Master's in Graphics from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2023) and has been studying Fine Arts at Universität der Künste Berlin since 2025.

Her work circles memory, home, loss and the state of being in-between — where presence and absence coexist. She works with personal photo archives and the landscape of the Kherson Oblast as raw material for self-reflection. Recent shows include Archipelago of History at PinchukArtCentre (2025) and the solo Beyond the Horizon Line in Kassel (2024).

Graphics Installation Textile Memory · Home

@rozentsveih Website ↗

Five days, start to finish.

Thu · 28.05

Opening Night Doors open at 19:00. Artist talk, drinks, public reveal.

Opening

Fri · 29.05

Public viewing Gallery Lab open to the public. Artists in attendance.

Open

Sat · 30.05

Public viewing Free entry · drop-in welcome.

Open

Sun · 31.05

Public viewing Final weekend day on view.

Open

Mon · 01.06

Finissage Last day on view before de-installation.

Closing

Drop in. It's a five-day window.

Hotel Continental — Art Space in Exile is a cultural venue in Berlin offering spaces for the creation and presentation of art, educational events, community projects, and corporate events. We are located at Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin. You can reach us from S-Treptow or by bus M43 or M194.

Group Exhibition · Hotel Continental — Art Space in Exile · Berlin

Five days of the show
from artists in exile

The two positions of HI5 #1.

Sofiia
Holubeva

Viktoriia
Rozentsveih

Five days, start to finish.

Drop in. It's a five-day window.

Five days of the showfrom artists in exile

The two positions of HI5 #1.

SofiiaHolubeva

ViktoriiaRozentsveih

Five days, start to finish.

Drop in. It's a five-day window.

Five days of the show
from artists in exile

Sofiia
Holubeva

Viktoriia
Rozentsveih