Berlin's Spreepark Transforms into Art Space with Exhibition Exploring Change

The Berlin Spreepark, a former East German amusement park that later became a legendary abandoned site, is undergoing a profound transformation into an open space for art, culture, and nature in the Treptow-Köpenick district. In March 2024, the extensively renovated, heritage-protected Eierhäuschen building opened, marking a first accent of the new Spreepark. Here, the exhibition "Wandel Landschaften" (Changing Landscapes) launched, dedicated to the park's comprehensive transformation. Four international artist groups, selected through a public call, present works across four thematically designed rooms, approaching the site from different perspectives to make both its history and its redesign tangible. In 2025, these groups lived temporarily in the attic of the Eierhäuschen, developing their projects in direct engagement with the former leisure park's past, present, and possible future. The group Flower Foundry, consisting of Tarit Gautham, Nishant Seth, Avin Sethi, and Avani Tanya, works with "scores"—precise movement instructions delivered via audio or text that turn the body into an instrument of perception. Their installation "Imagining a Park: Choreographic Scores" combines documented performances, animations, and original sounds from the park into a multilayered video and sound work, inviting visitors to try the scores themselves. Another group, Memoria, with artists Daphne Bakker, Fay Darmawi, Andrew Darmanin, and Ella Fleri Soler, presents the room installation "Secret Exhibition of the Unfinished," staging the Spreepark as a place of transition. Their work uses collage-like found objects, such as bricks from the Eierhäuschen renovation and relics from earlier uses, overlapping construction elements and artistic interventions to question the boundary between function and art. A notable element is the glowing neon sign "Beaver Buffet," referencing a real project in the park: a feeding station for beavers set up to prevent them from gnawing on protected trees, some of which are part of artistic works. The exhibition highlights how ecological, functional, and artistic interventions are closely interwoven in the Spreepark, making change not just represented but physically experienceable.