Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. From March 2024, the Gropius Bau presents Circles of Light, the artist’s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date. It includes film, video, photography, sound works, concrete poetry, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentation from over 25 years. In her artistic practice, Nancy Holt reimagined site-specific installations and ways of working with natural and artificial light. She began focusing on ecological aspects at an early stage and incorporated the earth’s rotation, astronomy, time and space into her sculptures, constantly challenging us to look beyond what we think we know. Holt’s working process will have a particularly tangible presence in the exhibition at the Gropius Bau through texts and recordings by the artist.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 60 min, 90 €
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 60 min, 75 €
Workshop for school classes in English & German 120 min, 140 €
Public Guided Tour in English 4pm Saturdays 30.03., 27.04. & 25.05 Sundays 14.04, 12.05, 09.06., 23.06. & 07.07. 60 min, free Limited number of participants
»Streifzug« through current exhibitions in English 4pm & in German 3pm Saturdays 13.04., 11.05. & 08.06 Sundays 28.04., 26.05., 22.06. & 06.07. 60 min, free
With How Love Moves, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice spanning film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and writing, she negotiates the documentary not only conjured as film or image – but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances and systems. In the exhibition, the artist’s unique cinematic practice is in dialogue with spatial installations especially conceived for the Gropius Bau. Premiering newly produced films that braid together the contemporary health-care crises to the historical echoes of Tuberculosis in early 20th-century Germany alongside earlier works, How Love Moves explores illness not as a metaphor but as an ethical and architectural phenomenon in Berlin and beyond.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 60 min, 90 €
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 60 min, 75 €
Workshop for school classes in English & German 120 min, 140 €
