The new video installation by Alicja Rogalska builds on her ongoing collaboration with Berlin-based bike couriers: migrant workers predominantly from India and Pakistan and third-country nationals. Bike couriers operate in the cracks of existing systems, experiencing precarity and hustle, and are on the frontier of algorithm-controlled, AI-managed platform economies.
The video foregrounds speculative economies and repositions the couriers not simply as migrant workers, but as critical thinkers and agents of radical imagination. The couriers are invited to co-create speculative visions of an alternative economy based on their lived experiences — one that is cooperative, sustainable, and human-scale, and where urban logistics become the lifeblood of a radically different society.
The artwork commissioned by Centrala responds to the research led by the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz in collaboration with the Catholic Forum “Living in Illegality”, addressing platform labour, migration governance, and the everyday realities of workers navigating precarious employment regimes.
This event is co-organized with Daadgallerie and funded by European Union and the Foundation for Polish-German collaboration. The exhibition will take place at DAAD-Galerie, Oranienstraße 161, Berlin, on 14–15 March 2026 (12:00–19:00). An opening and discussion will be held on 14th March at 16:00 with Alicja Rogalska, Alicja Kaczmarek, and Krisztina Hunya. A second discussion on 14 March at 16:00 will bring together researcher and migrant activists Nick Houde, Savio Fernandes, Dheeraj Tyagi, and Beatrice Bianca Salamena.