> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov Look for Phantoms in the Ordinary Details of a Cemetery - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/aubrey-theobald-and-kristina-popov-look-for-phantoms-in-the-ordinary-details-of-a-cemetery/ - Published: 2026-10-11T07:26:38.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-11T07:26:38.000Z - Description: Exhibition feature on Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov at Phantom Pförtnerhaus, Berlin. A cemetery as a garden against time. September 5–26, 2026. - Author: Catapult Submissions Team - Tags: Exhibition ## Phantom Pförtnerhaus Presents Chapter 3 in Berlin **Aubrey Theobald** and **Kristina Popov** showed **Phantom Pförtnerhaus** | Chapter 3 in Berlin, curated by **Iana Pitenko**, on view through September 26, 2026. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Small blue and grey photographic prints on a window pane overlooking a cemetery path.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-hero.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. **Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3** **Artists:** Aubrey Theobald, Kristina Popov **Exhibition:** Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3 **Venue:** [ Phantom Pförtnerhaus ](https://www.instagram.com/phantom%5Fpfortnerhaus/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Berlin, Germany **Dates:** September 5, 2026 – September 26, 2026 **Address:** Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II, Friedenstraße 80, 10249 Berlin **Curator:** Iana Pitenko **Photography:** Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald, Iana Pitenko The starting point is the cemetery as a garden against time, after Olivia Laing's book, where barely visible World War II bullet holes and dried bouquets record the same passage of time. Working with found objects, field recordings, experimental photographic processes and sensory installation, the two artists respond to the details of the site at Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II. Below, curator Iana Pitenko explains how the chapter reads the cemetery as an affective archive. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Doorway between yellow and crimson exhibition rooms with a dried plant hanging beside it.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-installation-01.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Yellow and crimson room with a dark artwork lying on the tiled floor.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-installation-02.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ### The Cemetery as an Affective Archive This chapter approaches the cemetery as "a garden against time," echoing the title of Olivia Laing's book, and as an affective archive: a place where ritual, nature, memory, and everyday gestures accumulate. As Laing writes, a garden can serve as "a time capsule as well as a portal out of time", where different temporalities coexist through cycles of growth, decay, preservation, and renewal. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Open doorway onto cemetery path, dried bulb on yellow wall, small relief print on crimson wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-installation-03.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Dark photographic print of a winged cemetery stone figure mounted on a yellow wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-work-02.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, work view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. Rather than a passive repository of history, the cemetery becomes a record of visceral, intimate lived experience. Floral tributes placed on graves and later discarded carry the passage of time: photographs of loved ones fade, inscriptions weather, and plants grow through untended gravestones. Each grave marks a private garden plot within a larger landscape, where intimate stories and collective histories remain in conversation. Barely visible bullet holes endure as a quiet reminder of WWII, inscribed into the surroundings alongside dried bouquets that once marked acts of commemoration and now carry grief, tension, and remembrance. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Red-toned print of a bearded face in an oval cemetery medallion mounted on a crimson wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-work-03.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, work view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Blue and grey photographic prints mounted on a window with trees and a cemetery path behind.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-detail-03.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, detail view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Dried garlic bulb pinned to an ochre wall and casting a sharp shadow.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-detail-02.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, detail view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. Kathleen Stewart describes ordinary affects as "things that happen in impulses, sensations, expectations, daydreams, encounters, and habits of relating." The chapter turns toward these scattered and seemingly insignificant moments that often escape attention. Within them, phantoms emerge as lingering forms through which what has passed continues to resonate in the present. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Translucent floral-patterned material hanging from a nail on a yellow wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-work-05.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, work view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Dark rectangular artwork with blue, gold and green markings lying on a beige tiled floor.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, work view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. Here, Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov explore the cemetery environment through their own artistic practices, attuning themselves to its subtle resonances and ordinary affects. Working with found objects, field recordings, experimental photographic processes, and sensory installation, they attend to the site's affective details and fragments, giving form to ephemeral presences. Bringing these into dialogue with the Pförtnerhaus, itself layered with histories of use, destruction, reconstruction, and change, the exhibition considers the cemetery as a living environment where history persists in the ordinary: in matter, nature, atmosphere, memory, and affect. Curatorial text by Iana Pitenko (@according\_to\_iana) ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus. Yellow and crimson room with tiled wall section, yellow hose, leaning wooden panels and dark floor mat.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-installation-04.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. White tiled wall with a tap, yellow hose and small translucent sheets bearing dark ink impressions.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-work-04.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, work view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026. Exposed fuse box in a yellow wall with dried flowers, a dark print above and diagonal sunlight.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-installation-05.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, installation view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Dried flower bunch hanging in front of  electrical box within damaged yellow plaster.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-detail-01.webp) Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov, Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, detail view, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. ![Phantom Pförtnerhaus Chapter 3, Berlin, 2026, exhibition featuring Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov. ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/aubrey-theobald-kristina-popov-cemetery-phantom-pfoertnerhaus-berlin-2026-closing.webp) Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3, exterior view, Berlin, 2026\. Exhibition with Aubrey Theobald and Kristina Popov. Photo: Chroma Studio Berlin, Aubrey Theobald. **About the Artists** **Aubrey Theobald** Artist, who showed in Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3 alongside Kristina Popov. [Website](https://www.aubreytheobald.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/aubstheebs/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Kristina Popov** Artist, who showed in Phantom Pförtnerhaus | Chapter 3 alongside Aubrey Theobald. [Website](https://kristinapopov.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kristina%5Fpopov/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Curator** **Iana Pitenko** Berlin-based curator and researcher specializing in transcultural and transdisciplinary projects in contemporary art. [Website](https://ianapitenko.wordpress.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/according%5Fto%5Fiana/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Location** **Phantom Pförtnerhaus, Berlin** A Pförtnerhaus (gatehouse) at Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II, Friedenstraße 80, run as a project space. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/phantom%5Fpfortnerhaus/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary** This is an exhibition feature published by Catapult Contemporary, an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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