TROPEZ, platform for young international art in the Humboldthain summer pool, opens its new summer exhibition on 7 June 2025 and Whitsun weekend on the outdoor pool grounds in Berlin Wedding. Titled PARASITE, TROPEZ presents its ninth summer of art and culture, showcasing young international artists.
Fig. above: TROPEZ, Humboldthain summer pool, photo Ink Agop
Eight outdoor sculptures and installations by Haseeb Ahmed, Amine Habki, Melike Kara, Tilhenn Klapper, Maya Man, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Sundays Collective (Dorothee Brübach, Maximilian Flachsenberg, Ramona Kortyka, Anders Prey, and David Wassermann), and T Vinoja add a special touch of surprise to the swimming pool experience.
They all produce new artworks for the exhibition – young artists debuting in Berlin, alongside established artists like Melike Kara, who had a solo exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Maya Man, whose work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, translates her digital practice into an analogue monumental air mattress sculpture. On the terrace of the summer pool, visitors can enjoy the mini-golf course by the SUNDAYS Collective – each of the five lanes is a unique artwork, including a lounge chair and a garden bed lane. Mysterious, pink duplicates by Amine Habki disrupt order among the pool lockers; the locker acts as a vitrine, elevating everyday items to artefacts.
In this year’s performance series, performing artists Arthur Chruszcz, Elena Francalanci, Tilhenn Klapper, and Susanne Sachsse explore how movement and action patterns can be interrupted and reconfigured. Arthur Chruszcz’s mime piece is a parasitic intervention nesting between sunbathing and walking paths, directing attention to collective movement and non-verbal communication. A universal theatrical language emerges without the need for words, readable by all. Tilhenn Klapper brings chaos to the swimming pool: Lament plays with the expectations of pool visitors – dancers move unpredictably to loud sound.
With the event programme, curators Jade Barget & Dr Nóra Ó Murchú, Maurin Dietrich, KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s Pogo Bar, and Playbabe form a symbiosis with the swimming pool: from an Ikebana workshop using plants from the pool, led by Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, to a martial arts self-defence course as part of a workshop and discourse weekend, and an evening lecture-performance, the summer pool becomes an open experimental field for new forms of learning, movement, and community.
Under the title mini-TROPEZ, there is a new educational programme for children this year: children’s art tours, art scavenger hunts, and mini-golf tournaments. Additionally, practical workshops with and by artists allow children to create art themselves.
The unforeseen is a quality of the parasitic – it disrupts, shifts, and opens new possibilities.
WHEN?
Opening: Saturday, 7th June 2025, 2 – 6 pm (admission until 05:00 pm)
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 7th June – Sunday, 7th September 2025
WHERE?
TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstrasse 1
13357 Berlin-Wedding
