Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff are an artist duo who have worked together for over a decade, developing a practice that is embedded in the founding and running of venues as sites of social and collaborative artistic work. They currently operate New Theater Hollywood, a black box theatre in Los Angeles. Previously, in Berlin, they ran TV Bar, a bar and performance space, as well as New Theater, a storefront where they wrote and produced plays with artists, writers and musicians. Their expanded documentation of these spaces takes form through filmmaking, photography, sculpture and writing, and traces the economic, political, and personal rules or conditions under which shared space can exist.

New Theater Hollywood, founded in 2024 in a black box theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard, produces experimental theatrical productions with artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers and performers. Since opening, they have produced and hosted shows by, among others, Diamond Stingily, Asher Hartman, Stephanie LaCava, Casey Jane Ellison, Klein, Colin Self, Ian Svenonious, Jasmine Johnson, Marie Karlberg, Karl Holmqvist/Arto Lindsay/Klara Liden, Ruby McCollister, and Lily McMenamy.

Henkel and Pitegoff's film THEATER, made at New Theater Hollywood, is currently being shown in Made in L.A. at The Hammer. Their work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Fluentum, Berlin; Reena Spaulings, New York; O-Town House, Los Angeles; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; MAMCO, Geneva; Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; Cabinet, London; Kunstverein Hamburg, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; and The Whitney Museum, New York, among others.