26.+27.6., 2.–4.7., 15:00–19:00 / low capacity
Throughout the public appearances of “Spielraum”, the M40 space remains open as a continuous “Vorraum” (prelude space). As a temporary zone of access, gathering, and lingering, it holds traces of the collective research processes, transformed into a soundscape where documentation, fiction, and urban residues overlap. Taking the form of a smaller, compressed room inside the existing architecture, the installation draws from forms of inhabitation found around Mehringplatz – pigeons nesting within housing cavities and urban gaps. Through sound, material fragments, and spatial proximity, the “Vorraum” shifts attention toward multiple perspectives, exploring the city as a shared habitat where different bodies, species, and stories coexist within increasingly constrained conditions.
Part of “Berlin bleibt #5”, a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
This project is realized in the framework of the SoSe 2026 seminars “Carrying the City Otherwise” by Prof. Pauline Doutreluingne and “Elsewhere in Berlin: Architecture as Storyteller” by Tonderai Koschke within the MA Raumstrategien, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
