a site-specific sound intervention at Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin hosted by POV Gallery

with works and contributions by
Torben Laib
Anne Posselt
Lukas Harris
Felix Mayer
Franziska Pester
Janis Binder
Constantin Carstens

 Location:  
POV GALLERY @ Tempelhofer Feld/ Berlin
(at the southernmost red tower)

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Geodata : 52.466528, 13.400088 or FC82+J2 Berlin

RADIO SCAPES
The Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin is not only a place of vast open space, but also an acoustic environment of possibility. Open and permeable like few other places in the city, it brings voices, sounds and movements into new constellations. Sounds lose their direction here, overlap, disappear and reemerge. The open terrain acts like a giant amplifier, making the environment audible and forming an urban echo field that interweaves nature and city as well as history and the present.

At the same time, the Tempelhofer Feld is a politically charged space. It stands for collective use and urban participation but is also threatened by control, exclusion and displacement. Its openness is the result of years of civil society debates and is once again under threat. The Berlin Senate is pursuing development plans that would fundamentally change the character and social structure of this unique location.

The history of the site is equally complex. As a former airport, Tempelhof was a place of military activity, forced labor but also Western symbolic politics. During the division of Germany it was one of the few points of access to West Berlin. Visible and invisible borders such as district lines, fences and transit paths still traverse the field today. It remains a space of transitions and ongoing overwriting.

Against this backdrop, RADIO SCAPES understands the Tempelhofer Feld as a transmission space, where acoustic, historical and political impulses intersect and merge. The spatial basis for this is formed by the red tower at the southern end of the field, which is the base of POV Gallery, a new project and exhibition space with a focus on Eastern European art and culture. With its cylindrical architecture and open rooftop platform, the tower resembles an abandoned transmitter mast. For RADIO SCAPES, it becomes the starting point for sonic explorations and a temporary broadcasting station in public space.

RADIO SCAPES is conceived as an imaginary radio program without a set frequency — not linear, not moderated, but as an open, space-related choreography of sound, performance, and intervention. A collective and porous program emerges, responsive to resonance, interference, gaps and randomness. At its core stands the idea of transmission, the principle behind radio technology itself: the inaudible is made audible and visible. Movements, oscillations, thoughts and stories are translated into sound.

The exhibition features works by seven artists from the collective of the association WRG Studios e.V. from Braunschweig, Torben Laib, Felix Mayer, Janis Binder, Constantin Carstens, Franziska Pester, Anne Posselt, and Lukas Harris. Their practices engage with sound, acoustic perception and the potentials of transmission.

The intervention will be accompanied audio-culinray by Mobile Menu #24.

RADIO SCAPES is part of 48 Stunden Neukölln and will take place on Saturday, 28.06.2025, 2-10 pm.

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RADIO SCAPES is a project by stay hungry in collaboration with POV Gallery, Berlin, and is part of the WRG KOMPLIZ exhibition exchange format. KOMPLIZ invites operators of independent project spaces to exhibit in WRG SENSOR in Braunschweig, In return, the invited project space invites artists from the collective from Braunschweig to realize an exhibition in their project space in another city. After stay hungry's visit to Braunschweig in December 2024, the Braunschweig collective now returns the visit in Berlin.