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Performative Game and Artist Talk
The Tides of Far Spheres: A Lore-Making Performative Game by Aslı Dinç (in English and Turkish)
Saturday, 26 April 2025, 4–5 pm (changed starting time)
Free participation
Registration required at info@baerenzwinger.berlin
What happens when a former dungeon becomes a stage? When rusted metal begins to speak as an oracle?
In this site-specific roleplaying experience, collective storytelling merges with physical performance. Guided by a Dungeon Master, participants draw handcrafted cards—each one a portal into quests, unfolding in dialogue with Xenoshift, the sculptural installation by Ece Cangüden.
Rooted in the Cthulhu Mythos, players navigate speculative histories and bodily memories: whispering, crouching, mirroring—blurring the lines between animal and human, refuge and prison, past and future.
Every gesture is a spell. And the only rule that remains? All boundaries are fictions. Especially the ones we’ve been taught to call home.
Artist Talk with Ece Cangüden
Saturday, 26 April 2025, 5:30 pm
Free admission
No registration required
Ece Cangüden (*1989) is a Berlin-based visual artist originally from Istanbul. Her work delves into themes of memory, transformation, and belonging, where fragmented identities and changing boundaries take center stage.
She studied interior architecture and environmental design. Her almost ten years of professional experience in this field is also apparent in the site-specific installation Xenoshift at Bärenzwinger.
Cangüden transforms the architectural intensity of the bars once enclosing bears into fluid symbols of connection and support. The organic forms, suspended between dissolution and reconfiguration, invite us to shift our perspective.
In her artist talk Cangüden will share more insights into how her artistic practice began and developed. And she will also explain how the topics of the exhibition – care, neighbourliness but also alienation – are aesthetically represented in her work.
Exhibition Program
Since September 2017 the former bear pit of the heraldic animals of the city of Berlin has re-opened as a cultural venue for site-specific contemporary art in Berlin-Mitte.
A refurbishment is soon to expand its potential uses.