Update / Acoustic Horizon at Bärenzwinger, Berlin

Turn the horn, tune your ear.

Acoustic Horizon is currently on view at @baerenzwinger.berlin , directed toward East Berlin, amplifying the surrounding environment while mixing in historical sounds according to its orientation. Echoes of Engelbecken, Tempelhofer Feld — Berlin’s landscape of collective urban autonomy — Kreuzberg’s archival recordings, the former border gate at Heinrich-Heine-Straße, and the industrial–club district around Kraftwerk appear alongside faint traces of broadcast signals that once circulated between East and West.

Every rotation reveals another fragment of Berlin’s acoustic memory — care and captivity, nature and the city, distance and proximity, observation and being observed.

Bärenzwinger itself carries a deep sonic history: once home to Berlin’s city bears, an architectural symbol of the city’s emblem, a site of caretaking, controversy, war, enclosure, and urban mythology. Today it hosts artistic practices that rethink how places remember.

In memory of Maxi, Schnute, and all bears who lived in there, may every direction of the horn gesture toward the landscapes they could not reach.

Photos by Cleo Wächter @cleo_nora

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