12.-22.06.2025

On Orientation / Installation

The project “On Orientation” is a temporary installation in the sculpture garden for the period of the “10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! Kunsthaus Dahlem Anniversary Festival”. The installation will allow visitors to explore through a sculpture that points to historical urban spots related to the former Atelier of Arno Breker in the 1930s and 1940s, matters of orientation.

14.06. / 21.30 Uhr

Atmospheric Algorithms / Performance

In the electronic age of AI, ChatGPT and IoT, information forms a new kind of environment and something like a digital atmosphere around us. The performance explores how internal and external characteristics create a mood for humans, and how humans both shape this atmosphere themselves and are shaped by it. In this context, the means of artistic research are used to orientate in the algorithmic structure of existing or newly emerging atmospheres and to understand how individual atmospheres are constructed and encoded. Which parameters shape the atmospheres and which systems can simulate the senses or alter perception? And can this lead to political consciousness?

WITH: Black Pearl, Carolin Hartman, Giulia Bencina (Dance); Philipp Johann Thimm / Apparat (Music)

14.06. / 11 - 23 Uhr

Scale problems - Maßstabsprobleme / Installation

Scale plays an enormous role in the creation process, but no less so in the reception process of the visual and applied arts. A small sketch, scaled up and executed in hard material in the studio for monumental art, becomes a colossal work of art that confronts the viewer as an aesthetic, social and political statement.

In the installation, a small, scaled-down model gets in the way of visitors and asks: Where do we stand?

14.06. / 11 – 23 Uhr

Nina Rhode: GONG bedeutet Arbeit (GONG means work) / Installation

Movement is an essential factor in Nina Rhodes' work. She is interested in what can be experienced, which is why she sees her objects as tools that playfully involve the viewer and invite them to become part of the work. In this way, she creates space for situations that are not unambiguous, but can be read and experienced in many different ways. For the Kunsthaus Dahlem, she builds a gong from two saw blades in the space in such a way that the space becomes an instrument: Everyone is allowed to work.