Exhibitions 2024

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.

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.

Andrea Geyer’s Manifest (Banners / Gropius Bau / Berlin) places the voices of the visitors at the centre – and invites us to consider what we want from cultural institutions. The appliquéd texts on the banners at the Gropius Bau’s entrance and in its atrium reflect both her own thoughts and research as well as discussions she has had. 

Playing, laughing, making noise, letting off steam, doing nothing – all in an exhibition venue! With BAUBAU, the artist Kerstin Brätsch designed an admission-free play space for kids, where more is allowed than forbidden. On the Gropius Bau’s ground floor, colourful wallpapers, structures, objects and open-ended material called “loose parts” configure flexible spaces that are shaped by children’s activities. They set the tone and decide what happens in this place. BAUBAU opened as a pilot project in early September 2024 and continues to evolve.

Starting 12 September 2024, DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG (Happiness is not always fun) presents more than 80 of the Rirkrit Tiravanija’s works created between 1987 and 2024. For more than three decades, the artist has been expanding the possibilities of what can happen in an exhibition space. As part of his practice, the artist creates situations that offer space to eat and drink, play and rest. They encourage chance encounters, relationships and their failure – in other words: life.