Kuratorinnenführung mit Melina Gentner

In the organizer's words:

With SWIM*-the search for paradises the Galerie im Turm presents

presents a duo exhibition from 23.01.-27.04.25 by Kristin Wenzel & Helena

Doppelbauer and curated by Melina Gentner. As part of the series *swim, sweat, fight - the search for

paradises - spaces, bodies and politics of leisure at the Sport- und

recreation center (SEZ) in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Surrounded by construction fences on the edge of the Volkspark Friedrichshain

the Sports and Recreation Center (SEZ). It was one of the

most important projects of the GDR and had millions of

visitors. Now its demolition is planned. Along with the SEZ, a place

place that is associated with many memories, longings and passions

and passions. An artificial paradise made by people for people

man-made paradise, described by visitors as a spectacle and a pearl.

pearl. The swimming and bathing area is particularly impressive

and bathing area is particularly impressive: large, organically shaped pools connected by cascades

and imitate faraway places in the South Seas.

SWIM* immerses you in this world of swimming, movement and water.

and water. In their structural forms, but also in the associated

associated emotional and metaphorical references: being in the water, weightlessness and

Being in water, weightlessness and fluidity and their connection to the

the most diverse practices and feelings of people as well as

blurring and forgetting.

The multi-part exhibition series 'swim, sweat, fight - the search for paradises

paradises' explores traces of the past and present along three

three central places of longing of the former SEZ: the water and swimming

(swim), the sauna (sweat) and the martial arts studio (fight).

martial arts studio (fight). Metaphorically, references are made to planned,

self-created and contested artificial paradises are metaphorically

paradises, which have developed into a search for social infrastructures and

open places of collective leisure in the city.

Price information:

free