Art Parcours

Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration

Ein Kunstparcours am Gropius Bau

A pattern of coloured lines and circles on asphalt

Céline Condorelli, Play for Today, installation view, École de la Porte d’Eau, 2022. Photograph by Caroline Douau © FRAC Grand Large

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The architect Lina Bo Bardi famously said that every museum deserves a playground. Echoing that thought and anticipating the upcoming topic of play at the Gropius Bau, Radical Playgrounds arrives at Gropius Hain for eleven weeks. Conceived as a cross between a sculpture park, a Spielplatz (playground), a museum extension and a temporary funfair, many of its installations and pavilions use playground vocabulary, be it a swing, a water fountain, a carousel or a labyrinth, to reveal what is left unspoken: histories of inclusion and exclusion, engaging activism through the medium of play, a dark past buried underground and a necessity to rethink the notion of interdependence on this planet.

Performance

Events as part of “Radical Playgrounds”

A goalkeeper in a goal in front of an empty stadium

Massimo Furlan, A Reenactment of the 1974 East Germany West – Germany World Cup Match

© Sandra Singh

Programme

Events as part of “Radical Playgrounds”

People with shovels stand in a row and dig.

Aktives Museum Berlin e.V., Archiv

© Jürgen Henschel

Map

The map with the artworks as a download

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A drawn plan of a site with buildings on a yellow background.

Programme Brochure

74 pages
As of April 2024

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Playworker

The playworkers are hosts, dialogue partners, supporters, playmates and experts and design artistic-educational scenarios for Radical Playgrounds. Over a period of 11 weeks, they continuously developed the art trail through a wide variety of activities. 

Impressions

“Radical Playgrounds” is a project commissioned by Berliner Festspiele, funded by the EURO 2024 Football & Culture Foundation, and the German Federal Government on the basis of a resolution passed by the German Bundestag with funding from the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). The outreach programme is funded by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb).

 

 

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