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Art Parcours

Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration

Ein Kunstparcours am Gropius Bau

Curated by Joanna Warsza and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Architecture: raumlaborberlin

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

Wed–Sun 11:00–20:00
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Parking lot in front of the Gropius Bau

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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.

With works by

Edgar Calel, Alice Chauchat, Céline Condorelli, Massimo Furlan, Florentina Holzinger, Ingela Ihrman, Martin Kaltwasser, Agnieszka Kurant, Joar Nango, Vitjitua Ndjiharine, The Playground Project, Tomás Saraceno, Mariana Telleria, The School of Mutants, Irad Verkron, Raul Walch

Performance

Events as part of “Radical Playgrounds”

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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”

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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. 

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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

  • Creating Fantastic Beings, Clay Building Workshop for kids by Kerstin Brätsch & Jana Dohmann

    © Berliner Festspiele, Foto: Ranav Adhikari

  • Strings. How To Build Acoustic Environments Out Of Washing Lines & Piano Strings, Building Workshop by Camille O & Simon Bauer

    © Berliner Festspiele, Foto: Ranav Adhikari

“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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