Opening: 08 July 2026, 7:00 PM
Venue: the Pforte, Danziger Straße 101/103/105, 10405 Berlin
Opening Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 4:00 – 9:00 PM
The Pforte presents Spitzen Rauschen, a site-specific installation by Victoria Sarangova. The artist explores the sounds and visual phenomena of the past and present of the Ernst-Thälmann-Park.
The installation consists of lace curtains and a multi-channel sound installation, which correspond to one another through their artistic approach: visual and audio material was collected, cut up, and reassembled. The textile works are created by sampling and assembling pieces of reused lace fabric. They intertwine historical events with the function of the curtain: a piece of fabric that filters gazes and sounds, a threshold between private and public life. Light and sound pass through it, blurring the boundaries between outside and inside.
For the sound installation, Sarangova recorded voices and sounds: she spoke with residents and heard doors slamming, stairwells breathing, children playing, construction workers hammering. The artist combined these sounds with excerpts from historical radio broadcasts spanning several decades. Journalists at the time asked about the good life in the new neighborhood — about the sun, balconies, modern apartments. Historical and contemporary recordings overlap, respond to one another, or remain open-ended, fragmented like delicate lace.
Between the voices lies the time that separates them. Sarangova’s installation Spitzen Rauschen questions the political promises of the past and the anxieties of the present.
Curator: Zhijian Lyu
Domesticity is a three part exhibition series developed and curated by Lars Holdgate (Galerie Parterre), Zhijian Lyu (Prater Galerie) and Cara Michel (Galerie Pankow).