Anspiel, IGA Berlin 2017. Foto: Seraphina Lenz

Anspiel, IGA Berlin 2017. Foto: Seraphina Lenz

Exhibition

Opening: Ecosystems of Care | Seraphina Lenz

07.05.2025
07:00 PM

Pförtnerhäuschen (Gatekeeper’s House)
Danziger Straße 101/103/105
10405 Berlin

With a live performance by the band MarMics.

The gatekeeper’s house will be turned into a ‘walk-in wardrobe’ for the neighbourhood. For her work Anprobe, artist Seraphina Lenz has compiled a collection of costumes that visitors can wear during joint performative walks through Ernst Thälmann Park. This creates the possibility of meetings and interactions between walkers and their environment. In different constellations, various scenarios will be investigated amid high-rises, biotopes, playgrounds and garden-like retreats. This temporary change to the park surroundings and the role of its visitors encourages a change of perspective. Seraphina Lenz invites participants to rethink their perception of their surroundings and interpersonal relationships.

Fittings and performative walks with the artist will take place on May 16 and May 22 at 5 pm.

Opening hours:
Wed–Sat: 4–9 pm

Admission to the exhibitions and events is free.

Seraphina Lenz

Seraphina Lenz’s artistic work engages with a range of urban spaces and is often created in collaboration with local residents. A central aspect of her projects is the idea that empathy and solidarity are created through meeting others and sharing experiences. Between 2003 and 2014, for example, she created the Werkstatt für Veränderung (Workshop for Change) for Carl Weder Park in the Neukölln district of Berlin. In 2013, Seraphina Lenz developed the performance ANSPIEL, which she enacted with sixteen Marzahn residents for the IGA (International Garden Exhibition) Berlin in 2017.