Katja Aßmann, artistic director of Spreepark Art Space, will introduce the programme of Spreepark Art Space and give insights into the process of combining art and planning. On the tour you will learn more about the RE.USE.UM by artist Stefan Shankland – an open-air studio at Spreepark.
The RE.USE.UM is a production site and space for discourse and community at the same time. How do we manage to use fewer new resources, preserve the value of existing materials and create cycles - material as well as social? These questions are discussed and practically tested at RE.USE.UM.
For the future Spreepark, Stefan Shankland will realise with STRATAPARK two landscape sculptures and forty smaller artificial erratic blocks, which consist of mineral waste materials, won from demolition material of the park. As seating and orientation points, the waste materials are given new functions and in this way flow back into a recycling cycle. In addition to the recycling aspect, the focus is on the transformation of the material: a process in which nothing is lost, but rather each element can be charged with new meaning in a different form or put to new use. This process is central to Shankland's work and serves as a starting point for participation and educational formats on topics such as the history of the site, its geological features, or the recycling possibilities of minerals.
The RE.USE.UM as installation is a cooperation between Stefan Shankland and raumlaborberlin. Since 2023, visitors can observe the process of (re)use of mineral waste and the transformation of the material into art on site. Together with archaeologists, geologists and artists, workshops, artistic interventions and discourse formats are offered. Shankland and raumlaborberlin invite visitors to participate in the creation of STRATAPARK and to engage with the associated questions.
Instructions:The entrance is free but participants on this field-trip will need to pay for public transit.
This session may finish early, as the tour itself only takes 1.5 hours.
Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/y5ZgeVTpFchhtUc36Spreepark Art Space
Kiehnwerderallee 2, 12437 Berlin, Germany
