> ## 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. # The Rumor Was Never the Weak Version of the Truth - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/charm-powerful-trouble-acud-berlin/ - Published: 2026-09-25T15:23:02.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-10T10:43:08.000Z - Description: Nine artistic positions cast gossip as feminist resistance and collective knowledge at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, in an exhibition curated by Colette Patterson that ran through September 20, 2026. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig ## ACUD Galerie Presented *A Charm of Powerful Trouble* in Berlin **ACUD Galerie** presented *A Charm of Powerful Trouble*, curated by **Colette Patterson**, through September 20, 2026. ![Exhibition review of A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Gallery corner with a decorative wall clock, a white door, and a seated rope-legged sculpture on purple fabric in the foreground.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-installation-02.webp) A Charm of Powerful Trouble, installation view, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artists and ACUD Galerie. **A Charm of Powerful Trouble** **Artists:** Anastasia Sosunova, Jingyi Li, Josefin Arnell, Raphaël Delannoy, Roger Muñoz, Florian ∞ Emden, Katie Shannon, TLC23, Lic. Sniffany **Exhibition:** A Charm of Powerful Trouble **Venue:** [ ACUD Galerie ](https://acudmachtneu.de/spaces/galerie/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Berlin, Germany **Dates:** 24 July 2026 – 20 September 2026 **Hours:** Thursday–Sunday, 3–7pm **Address:** Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin, Germany **Curator:** Colette Patterson **Photography:** Luka Naujoks **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the artists and ACUD Galerie The exhibition brought together work by **Anastasia Sosunova, Jingyi Li, Josefin Arnell, Raphaël Delannoy, Roger Muñoz, Florian ∞ Emden, Katie Shannon, TLC23 and Lic. Sniffany.** **Anastasia Sosunova** wired a working security camera into a torn nest of foil and loose cable in a ceiling corner. ![Exhibition review of Anastasia Sosunova: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. A grid of twelve small photozincography prints under glass on a white wall beside a white door.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/anastasia-sosunova-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/anastasia-sosunova-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Anastasia Sosunova,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Apple of My Eye II & III, detail, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![Exhibition review of Anastasia Sosunova: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. A blue video screen leaning against a window frame showing white text reading When I quit smoking.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/anastasia-sosunova-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-02.webp) ****Anastasia Sosunova,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Forever!, video still, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. **Roger Muñoz Rivas** mounted an epoxy-putty head with synthetic hair and a glass meth pipe onto an empty champagne bottle for a work titled *Head*. **Josefin Arnell** filled an adjoining room with hay and fairy lights for the 25-minute video *Beast and Feast*, and **Jingyi Li** worked two embracing figures into filet lace in cotton thread for *New Heaven 04*. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/raphael-delannoy-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/raphael-delannoy-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Raphaël Delannoy,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble, installation view, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. **Raphaël Delannoy** combined ceramic, carved wood, carved wax and cable in *The Anxiety Calls, the Corpse Hangs Up*. **TLC23**presented *SHITBRICKHOUSE* through etched metal bars and shoes fitted with metal caps, while **Florian ∞ Emden**showed the laser-printed *We Can Build This Thing Together: A Call and Answer Poem*. **Lic. Sniffany** contributed the video *Hens*, and **Katie Shannon** was represented by *Star Dancer and Creepy Speed Guys* and *DEVOCORPOSTO (Neven Gallery)*. ![Exhibition review of Josefin Arnell: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Video still of mounted riot police and horses in a blurred outdoor scene](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/josefin-arnell-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-still-01.jpg) ****Josefin Arnell,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Beast and Feast, video still, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![Exhibition review of Josefin Arnell: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Split-frame video still of a horse's head beside an infant lying in hay.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/josefin-arnell-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-still-02.jpg) ****Josefin Arnell,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Beast and Feast, video still, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie ![Exhibition review of Josefin Arnell: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Darkened room lined with hay and warm fairy lights, video projected across the far wall showing two women outdoors.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/josefin-arnell-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-installation-01.webp) ****Josefin Arnell,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Beast and Feast, installation view, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ### Exhibition Text by Emma Schunack Hey sweetie..! You won't believe what I'm about to tell you… Let me guide you through broken narratives, unstable images and intimate gestures. As you enter the realm of soft murmurs, powerful trouble begins to unfold. Here, where illicit knowledge travels between lips. Morphed by each tongue, it becomes something that holds us together. A fragile chain, passed on and created by hidden and collective effort. Shhh… This gossip can save you. ![Jingyi Li, catapult contemporary review](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/jingyi-li-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) ****Jingyi Li,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; The Hidden Drawer, installation view, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![Exhibition review of Jingyi Li: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Close view of two embracing figures worked in white filet lace against an open net ground.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/jingyi-li-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Jingyi Li,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; New Heaven 04, detail, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie Powerful Trouble. Brushed aside, written off as trivial, feminine, and unprofessional, gossip has always been a vital mode of transmitting knowledge, signalling danger and building solidarity. Sharing what cannot be spoken aloud, forming female\* alliances, finding resources to counteract male dominance. Our whispers may relentlessly disrupt reputation and supremacy. I'm not allowed to tell you this but… (come closer as I whisper into your ear). We drift on the borderline of what is embraced and what is denied. Spreading myths around this city. Watch precious rumours circulate. ![Exhibition review ofRaphaël Delannoy A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. A seated papier-mâché figure with a grotesque painted mask, black fan-like collar, and lo](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/roger-munoz-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) ****Raphaël Delannoy,** Installation view, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![Roger Muñoz, catapult exhibition review, sculpture work ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/roger-munoz-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-02.webp) ****Roger Muñoz,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Head, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![Exhibition review of TLC23: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Close view of an etched metal bar mounted on a white wall reading DO-UP DOOR](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/tlc23-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-01.webp) ****TLC23,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; SHITBRICKHOUSE, detail, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artists and ACUD Galerie. ![Exhibition review of TLC23: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. A pair of black leather high-heeled shoes wrapped with raw metal cuffs, placed directly on the concrete floor.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/tlc23-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-detail-02.webp) ****TLC23**, A Charm of Powerful Trouble; SHITBRICKHOUSE, detail, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artists and ACUD Galerie. As a source of social bonding and empowerment, gossip has long been a vital resource for groups that have limited or no access to the public sphere. Hidden talk can maintain community cohesion in the face of oppression through the network of gossip¹, creating alternative cultures. Tools of resistance. Don't be scared. Sleeping with your windows open and your doors unlocked. You embody the missing piece. As my name passes through you. I know it does. I breathe secrets into your ear. Creeping in warmly. ![Exhibition review of Lic. Sniffany: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Close-up video still of a face in exaggerated drag makeup with blonde wig and red lipstick.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/lic-sniffany-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-still-01.webp) ****Lic. Sniffany**, A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Hens, video still, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/lic-sniffany-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-still-02.webp) ****Lic. Sniffany,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; Hens, video still, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Courtesy the artist and ACUD Galerie. The experience is both physical sensation and social intercourse. I keep your name in my mouth. I chew on it, I spit it out, now suck it back in. This gossip can save you. So I keep whispering… Text by Emma Schunack *¹ Mladen Dolar, Gossip, 2024*. ![Exhibition review of Florian ∞ Emden: A Charm of Powerful Trouble at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026. Laser-printed poem pages mounted in a street-facing window between brick pilasters.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/09/florian-emden-charm-powerful-trouble-acud-galerie-berlin-2026-work-01.webp) ****Florian ∞ Emden,** A Charm of Powerful Trouble; We Can Build This Thing Together: A Call and Answer Poem, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2026\. Photo: Luka Naujoks. Courtesy the artists and ACUD Galerie. --- **About the Artists** **Anastasia Sosunova** Visual artist based in Vilnius working across video, installation, sculpture, and printmaking, probing faith, ritual, and systems of belief in a secular age. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/anastasia.sosunova?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Jingyi Li** London based interdisciplinary artist (b. 1999, Beijing) working across textiles, fibre, and sculptural forms, exploring feminist narratives through domestic materials. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/1999jingyili?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Josefin Arnell** Artist and filmmaker (b. 1984, Sweden) based in Amsterdam, staging fragile, absurd situations with dark humor to explore violence and social hierarchy. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/josefinarnell?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Raphaël Delannoy** Artist born 2001 in the Marne region working in sculpture, installation, and video, drawing on unclear figures from folklore, pop culture, and mythology. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/raphael2lannoy?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Roger Muñoz Rivas** Artist (b. 1990, Costa Rica) based in Mexico City working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, drawing, and performance, contaminating the domestic and institutional with the grotesque. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/medussa%5Fhotbitch%5Fwithlove666?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Florian ∞ Emden** Artist duo (Sophie Florian and Hanako Emden) sharing a collaborative writing practice based around moments of joy and collaboration, living and working in Berlin and Leipzig. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/florian%5F%5Femden?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Katie Shannon** Scottish artist based in London working across visual art, performance, writing, and event-making, with research interests in feminist re-readings of time and space. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/katieshannon23?ref=catapult-platform.art) **TLC23** Collaborative platform initiated by artists Katie Shannon and Keira Fox, exploring collective trauma, mania, and unravelling personas through experimental music and performance. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/tlc.23.tlc?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Location** **ACUD Galerie, Berlin** The non-commercial exhibition space of ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin-Mitte, programming exhibitions alongside performative and discursive events around feminism, queerness, and alternative social forms. [Website](https://acudmachtneu.de/spaces/galerie/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/acudgalerie?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission** This is an exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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