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Next Door

Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, Tomás Saraceno

The group exhibition underscores the ongoing creative relevance of this unique site.

  • Olafur Eliasson, Seeing a surprise before it’s reduced, split, and then further reduced, 2025, Installationsansicht The lure of looking through a polarised window of opportunities, or seeing a surprise before it’s reduced, split, and then further reduced, neugerriemschneider, Berlin

    Olafur Eliasson, Seeing a surprise before it’s reduced, split, and then further reduced, 2025, Installationsansicht The lure of looking through a polarised window of opportunities, or seeing a surprise before it’s reduced, split, and then further reduced, neugerriemschneider, Berlin

    © Olafur Eliasson, neugerriemschneider / Jens Ziehe

  • Tacita Dean, The Wreck of Hope, 2022

    Tacita Dean, The Wreck of Hope, 2022

    © Tacita Dean, Pinault Collection, Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier / Aurélien Mole

  • Thomas Demand, Ballroom, Detail, 2025

    Thomas Demand, Ballroom, Detail, 2025

    © Thomas Demand / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

  • Henrik Håkansson, Fallen Forest, 2006, Installationsansicht „A travers bois pour trouver la forêt“, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006

    Henrik Håkansson, Fallen Forest, 2006, Installationsansicht „A travers bois pour trouver la forêt“, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006

    © Henrik Håkansson, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris

  • Tomás Saraceno, FREE FROM BLACK CARBON, Detail, 2019

    Tomás Saraceno, FREE FROM BLACK CARBON, Detail, 2019

    © Tomás Saraceno

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Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno are returning to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart: in the early 2000s, they had studios in adjacent warehouses. These relics of Berlin’s industrial history were partially integrated into the museum building in 2003–04. Twenty years later, the five artists are reuniting to mark the 30th anniversary of the Hamburger Bahnhof and are presenting new, large-scale works in the group exhibition “Next Door.” This reunion brings together diverse artistic careers that all began at this shared workspace.

For the group exhibition “Next Door” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman are working on a new film that references Nauman’s site-specific installation “Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care” (1984/2010) at the end of the Rieckhallen. Thomas Demand has pavilions with large-format photographs floating through the space. Olafur Eliasson translates sound waves into visual phenomena by having overlapping circles of light react to a sound composition. Henrik Håkansson’s video installation explores ecological systems through a choreography of a butterfly’s wingbeat. Tomás Saraceno is presenting the installation “14 Billions (Working Title)” for the first time in over 15 years, along with ongoing research on spider webs and how a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) can turn into a love of spiders (arachnophilia).

Runtime: from October 2026

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