Installation & Textiles
SYMBIOSIS
Story
The Pina Bausch Zentrum (PBZ) is home to the Tanztheater Wuppertal and houses the legacy of famed dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. As part of the 2023 FRAGILE Festival, PBZ invited Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion winner (2021), art and architecture collective Raumlabor and textile artist Raul Walch (former assistant to Olafur Eliasson) to create a pavilion on the forecourt of PBZ.
Challenge
Some of the conceptual inquiries that the project sought to address were:
How do we extend the surroundings of the structure to transform the PBZ forecourt into an extension of the foyer?
How do we create a pavilion that attracts people to the space, fostering new symbiotic relationships between space, matter, and users?
Outcome
Inspired by the way nature integrates with the built environment, we constructed a pavilion that blurred the boundaries between the natural, artificial and discarded. We repurposed discarded materials such as furniture, demolition debris and timber waste, giving them new life. Participants from 30 countries came together, to build a community-driven pavilion that establishes a mutualistic symbiosis with PBZ.
Client
Category
Pina Bausch Zentrum
Installation & Textiles
My Role
Workshop Participant
Internal team
Andrea Bogner
Filip Daust
Franziska Hartmann
Jan Liesegan
Jonas Haala
Lea Thamm
Leena Beetz
Lennart Wolf
Marian Willing
Marie Schwimm
Meret Behnke
Marie Schwimm
Mortiz Pfister
Noah Dreyblatt
Paula Straube
Raul Walch
Simon Röwekamp
Torben Strate
Wiebe Warncke
Guido Hernández
Carolina Puppen
Diane Esnault
Dylan Pero
Efa Bez
Helena Escudero
Kiki Deligiannidou
Mikkel Harboe Wolff
Rae Jiang
Ronja Norrelgen
Selin Geerinckx
Ying Zhang
Materialis & Sustainability
Through processes such as cleaning, sorting, trimming, painting, stacking, weaving, and linking, old furniture, demolition waste, discarded wood, textiles, and garments were transformed and repurposed into a pavilion and textile artworks, giving them a new lease on life.
Global Community
The project was conceived as a community workshop with a global open-call. 30 participants that included artists, architects, textile designers, fashion designers, production designers and theorists from 16 countries came together to collaborate on the project.
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