What If Berlin

As we travel through the city’s built reality, we are constantly surrounded by unrealised construction plans, lost artistic concepts and visions of a different way of living together. For the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, Japanese artist Akira Takayama invites you to six guided tours on the Berlin Ringbahn, offering encounters with these ghosts of alternative futures. The unrealised projects stem from the archives of the Berliner Festspiele and other Berlin cultural institutions, as well as from architects and artists. Takayama transposes them into the present and asks us which visions we want to realise in the future.