»PARK«

PARK is a theme park, a zoo, a playground, the idea of an island, a concept store, holiday park and also, a kind of kindergarten.
Spreepark is a PARK, Tropical Islands is a PARK, Tate Turbine Hall is a PARK, Holzmarkt 25 wants to be a PARK, too.
Other PARKS are: Neverland, Tinder, Disneyland and Dismaland.
The airport Tempelhof became a PARK, then a temporary home for people on the move, and will soon be a curated space for dance.
We are continously designing new spaces of experience for our leisure time — real and digital — opening and closing them.
PARK is controlled fantasy, a guided gaze and isolated play. Hyperreality and simulacrum, to be experienced three-dimensionally.
Happiness, sublimation, the scent of popcorn and a souvenir shop. Cliché, collective ecstasy, world experience and Gesamtkunstwerk.
Peter Pan, Peak Time and lunar rocks — all simulated.

Every PARK is an assertion (see above). In times of radical convergence of work and play, the exhibition at Galerie im Turm looks at spaces designed for leisure — in spatial strategies of sound, scent and sculpture as well as photography and film.

“Shine On, You Pretty Pyramid”
A site-specific wall installation by Lola Göller.
Satellite project of the PARK exhibition.
Opening: August 19, 7 pm
at SPREERAUM, May-Ayim-Ufer 9, 10997 Berlin (at the Oberbaum Bridge).

For her installation at Spreeraum, Lola Göller researched historical and contemporary pyramids as architectural forms: from English follies as elements of garden design, to mausoleums, monuments, office buildings, churches, and swimming pools, to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.

With a view of the construction cranes on the other bank of the Spree, this visual collection gives rise to a site-specific wall installation that opens up and expands the (mental) space of the PARK exhibition.

Curated by Celina Basra

PIXIE DUST – Interview with Peter Pan, from Lea Dlugosch.

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