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Tiphanie Kim Mall 

19 July - 31 August 2025 

Opening: 5-9pm, Saturday 19 July

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Partial Versions is delighted to present the first UK solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist ​Tiphanie Kim Mall. Working with photography and video, Mall’s practice reflects on the process of observation itself.  Concerned with the impact of documentation on the subject and often inserting herself directly into the cinematic narrative, Mall’s artistic inquiry unfolds from the social dynamics of her own life. Previous works blend and collapse the boundaries between public and private, whether capturing her own repeated visits to a psychoanalyst or recording her brother and his friends during a night out in Basel, where Mall grew up. 

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For Partial Versions’ inaugural exhibition, Mall has reimagined a private disagreement that took place at Cittipunkt, a project space in Berlin she co-founded with a group of other artists in 2022, through a new film “All on the Same Page”, 2025.  Created in the space of a week within the domestic setting of Partial Versions, footage from a discussion about how to speak to ‘the public’ has been metabolised into a script and a cast of local artists from Cambridge recruited to re-enact it. Over three evenings in the room where the work is now shown, the cast convened to rehearse, refine and film the script.  Shot by members of the group who pulled the camera back and forth across the table, the perspective and composition of each shot shifts with whoever is holding it. Nearly forgotten lines, never-utilised second cameras and glimpses of the film’s producer are all captured in a single take.  Inconsistent, like the wandering attention of someone in a long meeting, the focus occasionally drifts away from the action and on to a pleasing reflection or a discarded piece of orange peel. The film, as well as its process of making, reflects on the tensions between individual authorship and collective labour. 

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Mall’s framed photograph Hinter dem Spiegel (Through the looking glass), 2024, is displayed opposite the entrance to the space.  At first glance, it appears to document a partially obscured door, perhaps observed through the peep hole of an apartment somewhere. Mirroring the unreality and shifting gaze of Mall’s new film, the work's title and the oval form that traces the edges of the photograph suggest a more elaborate play of perception; all is not quite as it seems.

 

Commissioned and produced by Partial Versions.  

 

Tiphanie Kim Mall lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: (dis)organizing otherwise: counter-public spheres, Fire Station, Monopol Berlin;  Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Braunschweig (both 2025); Tiphanie Kim Mall, Fächer, Berlin; Hauskatze, Schaufenster, Kunstverein München; SCRIPT-MEMORY, Kunsthalle Winterthur (all 2024);); 14 Miaus for the Future, curated by Quinn Latimer and Chus Martinez, Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Figur/Grund, Kunsthaus Kunsthalle Potsdam; Etats des lieux, Maison Gaudard, Lausanne; DOCK20, Lustenau (all 2022); and Schwester, Milieu, Bern (2021).

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Mall was the 2024 recipient of the Swiss Art Award and won the Helvetia Art Prize in 2020. In 2024, she was in residence at Swiss Institute, New York. She is a co-founder of Cittipunkt, an artist-led project space in Berlin, and a co-organiser of Berlin-based 'Filmclub der polnischen Versager*innen' with Flora Klein and Elisa R. Linn. 

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Artist Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to the cast/crew - Bettina, Celia, Josh, Penny and Reef; Amy Jones and Joshua Lowe; everyone who is or was involved with Cittpunkt e.V; Andreas Kalbermatter, Pitt Wenninger, Max Stocklosa, Leonie Nagel, Flora Klein, Samuel Jeffrey, Lottie Poulet and Wysing Arts Centre.

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List of works (Clockwise from entrance.)

 

Hinter dem Spiegel (Through the Looking Glass), 2024

Analogue C-print

40 x 27 x 3 cm

 

“All on the Same Page”, 2025

Single channel video

19 minutes

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