with Lisa Klein, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling

Tactile tour and discussion in the exhibition “Unveiled – Berlin and Its Monuments”
For blind and visually impaired people aged 16 and above. Registration required via anmeldung@ngbk.de

Meeting point: Zitadelle Spandau (Torhaus)
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Target group:
Designed for blind and visually impaired participants aged 16 and over.
Companions and/or assistance dogs are welcome (please mention this when registering).

Workshop format:
This is a three-hour workshop (not a classic tour) with a slow pace and time for individual exploration.
We move together through the exhibition, adapting the tempo to all participants.

Seating and breaks:
Seated moments are integrated throughout; no one is standing for the entire time.
Fixed seating is available in the rooms, and additional mobile chairs are provided as needed.

Venue accessibility:
Meeting point: Gatehouse of the Spandau Citadel, approx. 550 m from U-Bahn station “Zitadelle”.
Accessible parking: On Zitadellenweg (behind the car dealership).
Accessible toilets: Near the exhibition space (approx. 2 min walk).

As part of the program Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method by nGbK, Lisa Klein, Marlene Oeken and Martha Schwindling invite participants to a tactile tour through the exhibition “Unveiled – Berlin and Its Monuments.”

Together, we explore former monuments that once shaped Berlin’s urban landscape and now bear witness in the museum to the transformation of collective memory. Once symbols of power, they can now be questioned under new premises. Through touch and conversation, we approach the monuments as material witnesses, as carriers of ideology, and as entities shaped by social and political upheaval.

Maximum of 13 participants. When registering, please indicate whether you will be accompanied by an assistant or guide dog.

Lisa Klein is a museologist and freelance cultural mediator based in Berlin. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Museology from HTW Berlin (2020–2023) and works as an art mediator in institutions including the Zitadelle Spandau, the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, and the Museum für Kommunikation. Her practice centers on inclusive mediation, with a particular focus on blind and visually impaired audiences. She is also an active volunteer with the ABSV (General Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired).

Marlene Oeken and Martha Schwindling are designers, researchers and curators. They met during their design studies at HfG Karlsruhe and have been collaborating since 2022, working with clients such as the Goethe-Institut, HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) Berlin, Kunstverein München, and Kunsthalle Wien. Their interior and exhibition design projects translate ideas, concepts, and structures into physical objects and spaces. In their curatorial work, they explore the relationship between the conditions and perception of design and architecture, drawing on their shared backgrounds as designers, makers, and researchers. They are particularly interested in transdisciplinary collaborations with institutions, artists, scientists, and everyday experts, resulting in publications, mediation formats, and exhibitions. Oeken and Schwindling live and work in Berlin.

Part of PATH 4: DECELERATE (on alternative temporalities)
August / October 2025
With contributions from Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Jane Hwang, Lisa Klein, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Gabriel Francisco Lemos

To decelerate is not to withdraw, but to attune differently. To call for a slower and more sensorially engaged way of being in the world. This Path explores how we might tune into other temporalities—beyond acceleration or slowness—to sense and shape the city differently. By disrupting ingrained patterns of speed, extractive systems, and social disconnection, alternative ways of moving with and through the city are imagined.

The contributions trace migrant space-making through the language of scent (Pitchaya Ngamcharoen); let children set the tempo of encounter (Kaspar Schmidt Mumm); reimagine a funeral parade with co-created objects to reflect on mortality and gender (Jane Hwang); offer tactile experiences of monuments for blind and visually impaired communities (Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling); and listen to forest ecologies through their underground fungal networks (Gabriel Francisco Lemos). Together, they invite us to attune to other rhythms and relations, and to imagine new ways of being in the world.