With Daniela Brahm, Daniela Kinateder and Christian Hiller, Lukas Matthaei and Sebastian Quack, raumlaborberlin, Nadin Reschke and Hans Hs Winkler

Before Spreepark reopens in 2027, IN BETWEEN reflects on a pivotal moment in the park’s recent history, between its years as a forgotten urban relic and its ongoing transformation into a public destination for art, culture, and nature.

Behind its closed gates, the park was never truly dormant. Plants and wildlife gradually reclaimed the site, while visitors continued to be drawn to it for many different reasons: through guided tours, unofficial explorations, cultural events, film productions, and artistic interventions.

Since 2018, artists have been invited to accompany and critically engage with the park’s transformation. Their projects have explored the site as a living archive, a social landscape, and a space of imagination. Through performances, installations, research initiatives, and participatory formats, they have invited audiences to experience and investigate the park from new perspectives. What can this place tell us about its own past and present? What does it reveal about the relationship between urban society and urban nature, and about the needs and aspirations of both human and non-human inhabitants? What histories are embedded in the site, and how can they remain active and meaningful today?

IN BETWEEN brings together artists whose practices engage with these questions, both broadly and in direct relation to Spreepark. The exhibition offers insights into a selection of artistic projects and research processes developed during the park’s later “Lost Place” years, a period in which its future was being imagined, debated, and shaped.

As Spreepark approaches a new chapter, it is far from a finished project. Rather, it remains a space of possibility, experimentation, and collective imagination. IN BETWEEN therefore looks not only to the past and present of the site, but also toward its future, inviting visitors to reimagine what this place can become.