CCA Berlin invites you to the record release of Jenna Sutela’s Pond Brain on 7 April at 7 pm in the Chapel of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

The evening will feature an extended listening session of the unique resin record—with malleable grooves so that each play sounds different—followed by a conversation between the artist and Bill Kouligas, founder of the record label PAN, moderated by Vittoria de Franchis, curator at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation.

Pond Brain is presented in the context of Sutela’s solo exhibition With each cycle, a brain, currently on view at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London.

Jenna Sutela's Pond Brain (2026) presents sounds from her instrument-fountain of the same name. The water-filled bronze bowl can be played, or activated by touch and friction. Forged as the artist’s neuroplastic portrait, it resembles a spouting bowl orchestrating feedback loops of sonic vibrations and dancing droplets. The work draws on 'alt' cybernetic ideas of ponds as self-regulating, living systems, and the notion that the human brain, like a musical instrument, produces oscillatory, resonant patterns. In the installation, the bowl's frequencies interact with otherworldly resonances from oceanic and interplanetary audio libraries (star pulses, dolphin vocalizations, and beyond), shaping one another in an ongoing exchange. With each incoming cycle, a new brain is born and reflected back into its mirror image. 

The edition of 70 unique resin records with pond flora inside is released as part of PAN’s Entopia series. Since the grooves are malleable, each play sounds different.

Thank you Victor Shepardson for software and sound engineering, Enyang Urbiks for recording, and Ville Haimala for mixing. Mastered, cast, and cut by Disc Archive in Berlin. Text by Jovana Maksić, graphic design by PWR. 

Produced with the support of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation on the occasion of Sutela's solo exhibition at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London, curated by Vittoria de Franchis, 2026. Further support provided by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.