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Doom Snoozers

July 13 - November 2, 2025

Böhler & Orendt

In "DOOM SNOOZERS", Böhler & Orendt develop a dark comic science fiction speculation for Spreepark Art Space. The expansive installation interweaves existing and new works to create an audio-visual scenario of accessible dream worlds where time and space, real and fictional events merge.

The exhibition focuses on the visitors themselves. As "dreamers," they follow a course through various dystopian visions. The fictional technology DreamKeep activates the artworks assembled in the Eierhäuschen and adds a suggestive audio track to each one. As the voice and face of DreamKeep, the virtual dormouse Jill guides visitors through the exhibition via headset, picking up on the visual theme of each work and speculating on it as a DreamGuide.

The drawings, prints and sculptures selected for DOOM SNOOZERS, some of which are new, come from different contexts and are united by a sometimes affectionate and humorous, sometimes ironically distanced exaggeration of the political, economic and ecological effects of the havoc we humans are wreaking on our planet.

The starting point for this exhibition is the installation TOWARDS HUMANITY! by Böhler & Orendt, which will be permanently accessible when the Spreepark opens in spring 2027. The model for the work is the occasion for one of the dream scenes in the exhibition.

Curated by Ellen Blumenstein 

Lenders
Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Sammlung Birner & Birner, Nürnberg, KORNFELD Galerie, Berlin

Team Böhler & Orendt
Voice Jill (DreamKeep System): Soetkin Elbers · Voice Recording & Mastering: Felix-Florian Tödtloff · Artistic Collaboration: Theresa Hartmann, Constanza Mendoza ·Interns: Emily Brockington, Jenna Brown, Idill Karaca, Anna Rumpel

Team Spreepark Art Space
Artistic Director: Katja Aßmann · Production: Nina Sperling, Nicolle Banús, Rahel Justina Retta · Programme and Art Education: Jenny Sréter, Nicolle Banús · Communication: Anja Klaus · Press: Corinna Wolfien · Texts: Ellen Blumenstein · Editing: Anja Klaus, Nina Sperling, Nicolle Banús · Translation: Nicolle Banús, Anja Klaus, Heidi Kirk · Welcome Team (Art Education): Heidi Kirk, Carolin Meyer, Sonja Schmidt · Art Handling: EMArt

Opening hours & adress

SPREEPARK ART SPACE · Eierhäuschen at Spreepark · Kiehnwerder Allee 2 · 12437 Berlin

Wed – Sun 11:00 - 19:00
Free entry

Doom Snoozers, Photo: Frank Sperling
DER GUTE WILLE 2 (The Good Will, excerpt), Photo Frank Sperling
Christian Orendt at the exhibition, Photo: Frank Sperling
REPOSE (Pangolin / Exxon), 2025, Photo: Frank Sperling
A glimpse into the exhibition, Photo Frank Sperling
DOOM SNOOZERS, Als die Bäume in die Stadt kamen (As the trees came into the city), 2025, Photo: Frank Sperling
DREAMKEEP, 2025, Installation view, Photo: Frank Sperling
TOWARDS HUMANITY!, 2020, Installation view, Photo: Frank Sperling