On Friday, February 27 at 7:00 PM, there will be a presentation of the book “Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline” (published by adocs, 2026).
This event marks the presentation of the book Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline (ed. Philipp Goll, adocs, Hamburg, 2026). Editor Philipp Goll and contributors Hito Steyerl and Svitlana Matviyenko invite audiences to examine a frequently overlooked infrastructure – the pipelines stretching from Siberia to Western Europe. The publication builds on the research project ‘Leak. The End of the Pipeline’ by Philipp Goll, Oleksiy Radynski, and Hito Steyerl. Together with a wider network of artists, researchers and activists, the project interrogates the colonial and ecological implications of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, as well as the inter-imperial gas pipeline deals between (West) Germany and (Soviet) Russia since the 1970s.
PHILIPP GOLL trained in media studies, Slavic studies and European ethnology in Siegen, Wrocław, Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder). He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and works as a freelance author and cultural researcher whose practice is informed by artistic methods of knowledge production across literature, film and dance. Since Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has increasingly focused on the history of the German-Russian gas trade, petro-aggression, and activism against extractivism through the organisation of public events, lectures, articles and translations.
HITO STEYERL was born in 1966 in Munich and lives in Berlin. A filmmaker and writer, her prolific practice operates between art, philosophy, and politics, addressing global capitalism and cultural imaginaries. She has held solo exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum (2024), Portland Art Museum (2023), Kunsthaus Graz (2022), MMCA Seoul (2022), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2022), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2019), Kunstmuseum Basel (2018), ICA Boston (2017), and MOCA Los Angeles (2016). Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale (2007, 2015, 2019, 2024), documenta 12 (2007), and Manifesta 5 (2004). Her writings are collected in The Wretched of the Screen (2012) and Duty Free Art (2017).
SVITLANA MATVIYENKO is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching, informed by science and technology studies and the history of science, focus on information and cyberwar, media and the environment, critical infrastructure studies, and postcolonial theory. Matviyenko’s current work on nuclear cultures and heritage investigates practices of nuclear terror, the weaponisation of pollution, and technogenic catastrophes during Russia’s war in Ukraine. She is co-editor of The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
The exhibition is part of the project ‘Aspects of Presence’, co-organised by the Contemporary Art Centre, the Goethe-Institut in Lithuania, and the Akademie der Künste
Photography and/or filming may take place during the event. Photographs and/or video recordings may be used to promote the event on social media, websites, in the media, and elsewhere.