Where can you find purple dachshunds, huge shopping bags and green faces? The answer is Potsdamer Platz, which is currently home to an exhibition of works by Berlin artist and illustrator Jill Senft. On show at The Playce shopping center, Varian-Fry-Straße and Potsdamer Platz itself, Senft’s series is aptly named The Place To Be and is inspired by what in the 1920s was Europe’s busiest transport hub. Her creations take everyday life and look at it from a colorful, absurdist perspective, resulting in surreal scenarios. Besides showing in Berlin, Senft’s works have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue and other international publications. Each sculpture in the current exhibition is supposed to be touched, functioning as a kind of adventure playground or place of relaxation. Children can climb on the colorful Wiener Dogs while tired shoppers can sit back on the big red pumps of Ms. Big. In addition to the artist’s sculptures, you can also discover large-scale murals, painted planter boxes and an LED animation at the entrance to the S-Bahn. So if you’re in the mood to step into a colorful world, pop by The Place – the works are on display until the end of 2023.
Text: Natascha Hamel / Photos: Ricki Nalu
The Playce, Alte Potsdamer Str.7, 10785 Berlin–Tiergarten; map
Mon–Sun 10–22h
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