The exhibition brings together works depicting places whose purpose remains uncertain: enigmatic, designed, and yet strangely shapeless. Where are we? Somewhere in a city? Somewhere at a border?

Photographer Nooshin Shafiee, sound artist Siavash Amini (both from Iran), and Berlin-based installation artist Heike Gallmeier are united by their ongoing exploration and documentation of a particular terrain through which they move with camera, notebook, or microphone. Shafiee and Amini have been crisscrossing Tehran for years, capturing the essence of this chaotic metropolis in images and sound. Gallmeier, on the other hand, follows the predetermined route of Germany’s border, seeking to grasp the character of this symbolically charged void without being guided by predefined concepts or clichés.

The exhibition brings what initially appears as an unfamiliar world to the station urbaner kulturen in Hellersdorf. Here, on the border between the city and the surrounding area, where new and old meet, we reflect with the artists on concepts like “nonplace,” “order,” and “disorder”—thinking about stability in change, about open and closed spaces, and about freedom and boundaries. How do places shape us? And how do we shape them in return?

Artists: Nooshin Shafiee, Heike Gallmeier, Siavash Amini

nGbK work group station urbaner kulturen: Juan Camilo Alfonso, Jochen Becker, Eva Hertzsch, Margarete Kiss, Constanze Musterer, Adam Page, Katharina Ziemke