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Art Parcours

Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration

Ein Kunstparcours am Gropius Bau

27 April to 14 July 2024

Four photographs of a desert landscape are leaning on an old, broken wall.

Themed Days

Reflexes & Reflections

7 October, the War in Gaza and the Debate in Germany

13 to 16 June 2024

Berliner Festspiele

Key Visual Theatertreffen 2024

10 Remarkable Productions, Discussions, Lecture Performances, Conference

Upcoming

Gropius Bau

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light

22 March to 21 July 2024

Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. From March 2024, the Gropius Bau presents Circles of Light, the artist’s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date. It includes film, video, photography, sound works, concrete poetry, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentation from over 25 years.

To the exhibition

Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luis Kürschner

Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

22 March to 21 July 2024

With How Love Moves, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice spanning film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and writing, she negotiates the documentary not only conjured as film or image – but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances and systems.

To the exhibition

Pallavi Paul, How Love Moves, film still, 2023

© Pallavi Paul

Radical Playgrounds

Impressions

  • A group of people standing at an excavation site

    The School of Mutants, The Dig, Walk-Through with Joanna Warsza and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People are standing outside in a square surrounded by trees and a wooden house

    Alice Chauchat, Dance Gathering

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A walk-in plastic tube made of orange and yellow modules

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project, Lozziwurm

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Skating woman on a halfpipe surrounded by a crowd of people

    Florentina Holzinger, Halfpipe. Bent Metal on 2 Cars

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People dressed as daisies sit on a bench

    Ingela Ihrmann, Love Me, Love Me Not

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A man, sitting on a mountain of straw bales, has a brush and paint in his hand

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A group of people sitting on bales of straw

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People sitting on a mountain of straw bales

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children play on swings between trees

    Joar Nango, A Birch Tree Burr Swing

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A child, carried on shoulders, paints a wooden wall with chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Wooden wall painted with colored chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People view a photo exhibition

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children stand in front of a table covered with sand and dig

    The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A board game board with various game pieces on it

    Agnieszka Kurant, Quasi Objects

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Joanna Warsza

  • a carousel surrounded by trees

    Mariana Telleria, We Are the Limit of all Things

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Two water fountains in a colorful water basin

    Raul Walch, A Fountain of Knowledge

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A colorfully painted wooden building

    Irad Verkron, Ventre de Leao a Historia de uma Amizade

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A group of people standing at an excavation site

    The School of Mutants, The Dig, Walk-Through with Joanna Warsza and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People are standing outside in a square surrounded by trees and a wooden house

    Alice Chauchat, Dance Gathering

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A walk-in plastic tube made of orange and yellow modules

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project, Lozziwurm

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Skating woman on a halfpipe surrounded by a crowd of people

    Florentina Holzinger, Halfpipe. Bent Metal on 2 Cars

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People dressed as daisies sit on a bench

    Ingela Ihrmann, Love Me, Love Me Not

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A man, sitting on a mountain of straw bales, has a brush and paint in his hand

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A group of people sitting on bales of straw

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People sitting on a mountain of straw bales

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children play on swings between trees

    Joar Nango, A Birch Tree Burr Swing

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A child, carried on shoulders, paints a wooden wall with chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Wooden wall painted with colored chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People view a photo exhibition

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children stand in front of a table covered with sand and dig

    The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A board game board with various game pieces on it

    Agnieszka Kurant, Quasi Objects

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Joanna Warsza

  • a carousel surrounded by trees

    Mariana Telleria, We Are the Limit of all Things

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Two water fountains in a colorful water basin

    Raul Walch, A Fountain of Knowledge

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A colorfully painted wooden building

    Irad Verkron, Ventre de Leao a Historia de uma Amizade

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A group of people standing at an excavation site

    The School of Mutants, The Dig, Walk-Through with Joanna Warsza and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People are standing outside in a square surrounded by trees and a wooden house

    Alice Chauchat, Dance Gathering

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A walk-in plastic tube made of orange and yellow modules

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project, Lozziwurm

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Skating woman on a halfpipe surrounded by a crowd of people

    Florentina Holzinger, Halfpipe. Bent Metal on 2 Cars

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People dressed as daisies sit on a bench

    Ingela Ihrmann, Love Me, Love Me Not

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A man, sitting on a mountain of straw bales, has a brush and paint in his hand

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A group of people sitting on bales of straw

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People sitting on a mountain of straw bales

    Edgar Calel - Jun Juyu Juxuj, A Mountain of Drawings

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children play on swings between trees

    Joar Nango, A Birch Tree Burr Swing

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A child, carried on shoulders, paints a wooden wall with chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Wooden wall painted with colored chalk

    Secret Garden

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • People view a photo exhibition

    Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Children stand in front of a table covered with sand and dig

    The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A board game board with various game pieces on it

    Agnieszka Kurant, Quasi Objects

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • The School of Mutants, The Dig

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Joanna Warsza

  • a carousel surrounded by trees

    Mariana Telleria, We Are the Limit of all Things

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • Two water fountains in a colorful water basin

    Raul Walch, A Fountain of Knowledge

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

  • A colorfully painted wooden building

    Irad Verkron, Ventre de Leao a Historia de uma Amizade

    © Berliner Festspiele, Photo: Camille Blake

“Radical Playgrounds”, an art parcours at the Gropius Bau, is spending eleven weeks exploring the differences between the concepts of play as competition and free play. Visitors are invited to walk and climb on the various installations and sculptures, to activate them and to shape the project collectively.

To Radical Playgrounds

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