Overthinking and Overwhelming are two of the themes around which the exhibition Stadtbad Reloaded: Beyond(11.10.2025–31.01.2026) is organized. These are feelings which, due to human nature, many people experience at least some of the time. Luckily for us, the exhibition – held at the crumbling, disused swimming baths of Stadtbad Lichtenberg – invites us to bathe in altogether calmer emotional currents: “Releasing, Dreaming and Awakening”, brought together in a 200-square-meter ceiling projection called “Beyond”. Forming a kind of canopy of hypnotic shapes, it shifts between kaleidoscopic swirls, cosmic landscapes and blooms of color that echo mandalas. Elsewhere, there’s an audio-visual installation with 63,000 LEDs that beam neon forms into the dry basin of an old swimming pool. In addition to the large-scale works, video art plays on 150 mini screens spread throughout the Stadtbad’s abandoned rooms, from shower blocks and flaking hallways to old changing areas. It all amounts to a visually rich experience – and a chance to take in one of the city’s lesser-known lost landmarks.
Text: Benji Haughton / Credit: Alycia Rainaud; Arthur Galdin; FutureMaster7
Stadtbad Lichtenberg, Hubertusstr.47, 10365 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map
Stadtbad Reloaded: Beyond from 11.10.2025 (open on weekends). Tickets are available here.
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