What does it feel like to become immersed in someone else’s dream? Artist duo Böhler & Orendt takes this question for their new exhibition Böhler & Orendt – Doom Snoozers at Spreepark Art Space, opening Sunday (13.07.2025). At the invitation of curator Ellen Blumenstein, they’ve created an installation where visitors become sleepwalkers. Jill – a virtual dormouse – takes us by the paw and leads us through surreal dreamscapes, much like Alice’s White Rabbit. Jill’s voice functions as an audio guide, accompanying us through a course that shifts between dark sci-fi moods and wonderland-like fantasies. Space and time dissolve, categories blur. What interests Böhler & Orendt is what emerges from the longing that lies between human and nature, culture and imagination.
The immersive experience begins with a series of drawings, prints, and sculptures – some created specifically for the Spreepark Art Space. The exhibition floats between dream and reality, and also between analog and digital. With this project, the duo shows a first glimpse of their upcoming video installation Towards Humanity!, which will become a permanent feature at the grand reopening of Spreepark in 2027. Here too, Böhler & Orendt will follow dream logic, bringing the park’s trees to life and letting nature speak through screens. But before that, let’s follow Jill’s voice and walk with her through floating castles and endless possibilities.
Text: Laura Storfner / Credit: Spreepark Art Space; Böhler & Orendt
Spreepark Art Space, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin–Treptow; map
Böhler & Orendt – Doom Snoozers 13.07.–02.11.2025
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