Relations in Place
6pm
Bärenzwinger
im Köllnischen Park
10179 Berlin,
Mitte
Opening Hours:
Sunday–Saturday
11am–7pm
Opoku und Weinberger, Bricks and Cement Don't Make a House, 2024. (c) Roxana Rios.
Opoku und Weinberger, Bricks and Cement Don't Make a House, 2024. (c) Roxana Rios.
Opoku und Weinberger, Bricks and Cement Don't Make a House, 2024. (c) Roxana Rios.
Opoku und Weinberger, Bricks and Cement Don't Make a House, 2024. (c) Roxana Rios.
Relations in Place explores care as a spatial practice rooted in everyday environments: homes, streets, institutions and cities. The exhibition highlights how spaces of care can foster community, memory and safety, yet also enforce exclusion, control and constraint. Three levels frame this exploration: the transnational space of diaspora, the urban landscape of Berlin and the institutional site of the Bärenzwinger. Works by Vanessa Amoah Opoku & Joy Weinberger, Özcan Ertek, and Zhenru Liang investigate care through lived diasporic practices, sonic urban cartographies and fragile counter-monuments. As a former bear enclosure with a charged history, the Bärenzwinger itself becomes a stage to question how spaces shape belonging, power and responsibility.