As part of ReRouting’s curations-in-motion, we develop curated walk actions that treat walking as a site of encounter, speculation, and exchange. These actions invite publics to join temporary constellations of movement, opening space for unexpected dialogues and shared presence. At times, they are independently initiated, bringing bodies into relation with a place and with one another through the act of moving together. At other times, they unfold as extensions of existing exhibitions or emerge through collaborations with cultural spaces and initiatives, reframing the walk as both a curatorial gesture and an embodied method of collective meaning-making.
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with ssssSssssssss
(Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)
13.09.2025 @ 10:30 - 12:00
Meeting Point: corner of Herrfurthstraße & Lichtenrader Straße, Neukölln, Berlin
we (is it a new “we”? or just a temporary “us”?) begin to walk together. is it a parade or a funeral march? some of us are hungry and stop for something greasy-salty-yum. some of us need ice tea. we buy a fresh pack of Parisiennes, of course. “let’s go to the park!” someone announces. this time there. next time here. another time elsewhere. “don’t forget the bubbles,” she giggles, hoarding little-red-riding-hoods into her tote. “is it a park or a graveyard?” “are we making a monument?” “everyone’s mad!” “is this celebration?” “or mourning?”
to this temporary us, to forever friends.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Sarnt Utamachote
11.09.2025 @ 19:00 - 20:00
Meeting Point: Neue Wache, Mitte, Berlin
Behind Berlin’s Neue Wache Memorial (originally built as a guardhouse between 1816 and 1818) lies a chestnut grove, which is historically known as a cruising spot where men meet for sex. Accounts of cruising here date back to the First World War (likely even earlier) where soldiers sought sexual encounters, and it has continued to be a cruising area on and off since then. The Neue Wache Memorial, dedicated to the victims of war and dictatorship, is a site of somber reflection. It houses Käthe Kollwitz’s sculpture of a mother holding her deceased son, a powerful image representing the senselessness of patriarchal war. In a one-hour performative encounter combining text and song, Rosenfeld draws attention to the layered historicities of this site, and asks what it means to gather at a public memorial to reflect on the brutality of facism during a time of global war, genocide, political censorship, systemic brutality, and the ongoing drive toward queer erasure.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
A Hard Rain
with Liz Rosenfeld
What Does History Feel Like?
with Lisa Klein, Marlene Oeken &
Martha Schwindling
16.08.2025 @ 14:00 - 17:00
Meeting Point: Zitadelle Museum Spandau, Berlin
A tactile tour through the exhibition “Unveiled – Berlin and Its Monuments”, designed for blind and visually impaired participants. The walk will explore former monuments that once shaped Berlin’s urban landscape and now bear witness in the museum to the transformation of collective memory. Once symbols of power, they can now be questioned under new premises. Through touch and conversation, we approach the monuments as material witnesses, as carriers of ideology, and as entities shaped by social and political upheaval.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
15.08.2025 @ 19:00 - 21:00
Meeting Point: Glinkastraße 5–7, Mitte, Berlin
A processional performance inspired by Korean funeral rites, reimagined as a public ritual for collective mourning. Through a slow, embodied walk along migratory borderlines, the project mourns personal loss and the shared grief of displaced lives, silenced histories, and distant tragedies. Mourning becomes a form of resistance – a way to make loss visible and grievable in a society that deprives us of time and space to mourn. Purgatory Society proposes grief as a starting point for solidarity and political re-engagement.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Purgatory Society: A Liminal Walk
with Jane Hwang
Whirling Worlds
with Kaspar Schmidt Mumm
13.08.2025 @ 14:00 - 18:00
Meeting Point: station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf Auerbacher Ring 41, Berlin
A participatory workshop and street performance for youth and their families in Berlin-Hellersdorf where participants will parade a papier-mâché sculpture from station urbaner kulturen. Together we will walk to playgrounds and other locations around Hellersdorf while decorating and performing the mobile sculpture. Each stop, stories are told, interventions unfold, and spontaneous play emerges, generated by local youth. The project culminates in the joyful destruction of the sculpture releasing symbolic offerings and reclaiming collective space. Through collective making and storytelling the project explores playful protest as a form of public dialogue and intergenerational exchange, reimagining youth’s space as both a site of resistance and communal joy.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Who Moves and Who Doesn’t
with Pitchaya Ngamcharoen
10.08.2025 @ 18:00 - 20:00
Meeting Point: Thaipark/Preußenpark, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin
’There’s a familiar look I’ve come to recognize—disdain, discomfort, or even disgust—whenever I open a jar of shrimp paste or let the scent of traditional Thai scented water linger on my clothes. These reactions have made me wonder: why are certain smells automatically deemed offensive, while others are accepted without question? Who decided that one scent is sophisticated and another is vulgar? Whose nose, exactly, holds the power to judge what is acceptable?
This project traces the path of Thai immigrant activities from the distant past through the present, and into a speculative future. By asking what smells existed along this route—then, now, and in the time to come—I invite you to actively use your nose to gather as much olfactory information about the area. We will start the walk by gathering at a spot next to a public toilet in Preußenpark, a former Thai Park, and head towards Barstraße. These sensory impressions will be documented, recomposed and shown alongside each other.’
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
A Line Back Home, Ancestral Echoes in Seven Turns
with Suelen Calonga
26.07.2025
Walk @ 16:00 - 18:30
Followed by installation and dinner @ 18:30 - 21:00
Meeting Point: BARAZANI.berlin, Spreeufer 6, Berlin
This proposal unfolds in three-parts. The first is a walk that traces a line back home, moving in seven turns around the Humboldt Forum, a site of colonial amnesia and violent displacement. Inspired by the forced ritual of the Tree of Forgetting, in Ouidah, Benin, where the enslaved people were made to circle a tree to erase their past, this walk reclaims the motion in defiance.
The second part, the installation Fetish, activates a sonic, visual, and symbolic counter-device that departs from the historical materiality of colonial collecting to open cracks in the European construction of authority over the sound of the Other.
The final part is a dinner table made together with the matriarch of the African-Brazilian community in Berlin, Sandra Bello, starting from 19:00 serving Brazilian Food.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK / in cooperation with BARAZANI.berlin - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Feminist Steps
with Elena Biserna
23.07.2025 @ 20:30 - 23:00
Meeting point: GlogauAir Garden, Kreuzberg, Berlin
This collective walk aims to be a platform to reflect together on gendered (listening) experiences in public space and to unlearn some of the behaviors that are assumed as appropriate, safe or expected when we walk. Some first steps to question asymmetrical power relations and to imagine together practices of care, solidarity, re-appropriation or overturning that might feed other spatial configurations and practices. We will collectively perform scores by Pauline Oliveros, the Blank Noise collective and Elena Biserna herself to experiment with the limitations and potentialities of our silence, voice, noise and collective movement. This iteration of the walk will take place at Görlitzer Park, a public site currently embroiled in conflict in relation to its potential closure at night.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Printing for Abolition
with Rüzgâr Buşki
19 + 20.07.2025 from 14:00-17:00
Meeting Point: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum Garden, Berlin
This screen printing ritual is a collective prayer — a shared act of dreaming toward a world without police or prisons. It is also an offering in honor of all those who have shown up in their own ways: marching in the streets, educating their communities, raising funds for the people of Gaza, or simply sharing solidarity online — for Palestine, the most dissident path in contemporary Germany.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Walking the Walls: A Protest
in Motion Against Berlin’s
Housing Crisis
with Carolin Genz
18.07.2025 @ 18:00 - 20:00
Meeting point: Schillingbrücke, Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg, Berlin
This performance takes the form of a guided walk along the Mediaspree area, a site that has undergone drastic transformation over the past decades. Once a contested urban space, it now stands as a concrete symbol of neoliberal urban development, despite persistent and long-standing protests, including a citizen referendum. Performers turn the walk into a living echo of Berlin’s lost promise of affordable housing. Walking the Walls serves as a moving act of remembrance and resistance, revisiting past efforts and highlighting the ongoing struggle for housing justice in Berlin.
The walk was live-mapped by Diana Lucas-Drogan
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Image credit: M. Genz
Asphalt: Walkway of refusal
with Mahshid Mahboubifar
12.07.2025 @ 20:00-22:00
Meeting Point: Kottbuser Tor, Kreuzberg, Berlin
A bridge emerges where the road appears to end—reshaping limits into links. It holds the in-between: between streets, between directions, between movements. Unfolding across the span, we begin at the conjunction point—where we walk, pause, observe, and make our presence visible. This walk invites participants to step into a space of tension and transformation, where every step reflects the larger systems that govern us: systems of state-sanctioned police violence, racialized violence, and the right to demonstrate.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Walking towards the decolonial
urgencies of today
with Project In/Visibility
(Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute)
09.07.2025 @ 18:00 - 20:00
Meeting point: Manga-Bell Platz, Wedding, Berlin
This walk opens up a fugitive learning space: one that resists the prescriptive and embraces the messy, liminal terrains where transformation takes shape. Moving through Volkspark Rehberge and Wedding, we navigate a district shaped by diasporic presence, leftist working-class struggles and Germany’s colonial history.
Through sharing personal narratives, readings, and collective dialogue, the walk engages with themes of migration, remembrance culture, and resistance.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Manaf Azzam
Mit Liebe und Beispiel
with Min Duc Pham
05.07.2025 @ 14:00-16:00
Meeting Point: P&R Schichauweg, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
An interactive walk along parts of the trail of the Berlin Wall. This performative event combines walking as a collective practice with the memory of refugees from the GDR and the resistance against the authoritarian regime. Flowers will be collected along the way, which will later be laid down in front of the Marienfelde reception center. This center was set up in 1953 as an initial reception for GDR refugees and was the first safe haven and transition for many, before they were sent to West Germany. This walk looks to create a space for remembering the history of flight within Germany.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Harbouring Voices
with Nour Sokhon
28.06.2025 @ 11:00 - 14:00
Meeting point: Westhafen S-Bahn + ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik), Berlin
Harbouring Voices is a sound workshop exploring Westhafen as a site of movement, memory, and containment. Containers, designed to enable transit, also obscure and confine – mirroring broader tensions around migration, borders, and urban belonging.
The workshop will begin with a two-hour walk around the harbour site, sharing stories, collectively discussing, exploring the surroundings, and gathering sounds along the way. Afterwards, we’ll head to the rooftop of ZK/U, overlooking the harbour, to continue the conversation through a collective sonic orchestral moment.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Walking Through Allesandersplatz
with Alternative Monument
11.06.2025 @ 18:00-20:00
Meeting Point: nGbK Roof Terrace, Mitte, Berlin
Alternative Monument seeks forms that connect migration experiences and public memory culture. As a result of the current toxic discourse on migration in Germany, they feel an urgent need to connect and counteract. The purpose of their efforts is to establish a positive frame for migration discourse and counter current xenophobic movements.
Their augmented reality monument was showcased on the rooftop terrace of the nGbK near Alexanderplatz, offering an immersive exploration of migration’s traces via the Monuments AR app and a series of performative actions.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
What is out there?
Traces, Borders, Spaces
with House’ it Going?
18.05.2025 @ 16:00 - 18:00
Meeting point: Tempelhofer Feld, Neukölln
Thresholds, frontiers and borders are everywhere. In our cities, on our maps, and yes, right at the edge of our picnic blankets. So why do we so rarely pull them onto the table and properly question them? What is out there? – Traces, Borders Spaces is not your average Sunday stroll. It’s a collaborative walking as learning from practice, grounded in place. Settled on a picnic blanket in the layered landscape of Tempelhofer Feld – probably Berlin’s most fiercely defended common ground – we ask: Who sets the table? Who gets a seat? And who decides what’s being served?
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Flowing Streams
with Harun Morrison
17.05.2025 @ 11:00-13:00
Meeting Point: Rummelsburger Ufer, Lichtenberg
You begin as a raindrop in a cloud. Flowing Streams is a water-themed board game in progress. You are invited to co-develop the rule system and game play, using a board and set of icons as prompts. Participants are encouraged to informally create and test new rules and objectives as a way of thinking about the cultural, industrial and meteorological roles of waters.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Puddle Watching
with Mirja Busch
14.05.2025 @ 16:00 - 17:30
Meeting point: Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg - Aufbau Haus
Puddles emerge wherever humans leave their traces; they are part of the city. Mirja Busch has conceived Puddle Watching as an artistic walk that frames puddles anew and makes selected puddles around Berlin’s Moritzplatz visible, visitable and tangible-even in their dry state. The walk offers a new perspective on this weather phenomenon in interplay with the city.
As part of Dissident Paths at nGbK - See more here
Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Crossing Thresholds,
Holding Connections
with hand breast heart collective
04.05.2025 @ 12:00-15:00
Meeting Point: Topography of Terror
This walk invites you to a cross and connect together through threshold spaces of Mitte. Stacked with memory culture and vibrant erasure at the same time this passage in the political, historical and touristic center of the city will be approached with affection, patience and grief. Centuries of violence condensed in Disneyfication of historical anecdotes and cherry-picked victories. We will walk, pause, read, rethink, recognize and emerge transformed.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Stroll a Debilitated World
with Iz Paehr & Lo Moran
& Noah Gokul & Saverio Cantoni
3.05.2025 @ 11:00 - 13:00
Meeting point: Memorial for the Victims of National Socialist »Euthanasia« Killings, Tiergarten
Four crip comrades gather around the Aktion T4 memorial, to share annotations in disabled life, and mourn those who have been murdered. Calling on crip knowledges from the past, we learn how disabled people have shifted our mourning practices for the violences of National Socialism euthanasia into public memory, and draw on the wisdom of our crip ancestors to question the politics of disposability of disabled bodyminds in their current local and global entanglements. On our way through Tiergarten, we walk along the question of how to foster a transnational axis of solidarity and we lie down together to dream up futures that we actually want.
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Image credit: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
FOOTNOTE: Allotment Gardens Through Comparison
with Arba Bekteshi
30.03.2025 @ 14:00-16:00
Meeting Point: Priesterweg S-Bahn
What narratives can be subverted by focusing on the role of gardens as catalysts for urban development rather than on establishment buildings?
Departing from a comparison to Tirana, gardens in Berlin are separated from the house and placed elsewhere, making for different ways of inhabiting the space. Allotment and community gardens in Berlin constitute fragmentary instances of what being in the garden can be. Join us in an embodied walk as we explore the urban ecologies of Berlin’s allotment gardens as we walk around the Roseneck, Einigkeit, Alte Ziegenweide and Canova colonies, and reflect on themes of affect, care and sensorial commons.
This event is supported by Culture Moves Europe.
Image credit: Arba Bekteshi
AMAZONEN im Altes Museum
with Amazonen in Berlin
25.01.2025 @ 16:00 - 18:00
Meeting point: Altes Museum, Bodestr. 1-3, 10178, Berlin
“We need stories that are just big enough to gather up the complexities and keep the edges open and greedy for surprising new and old connections.” Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway
The Amazons welcome you in the space they have long inhabited in the city: the Altes Musuem. Through an ecofeminist and decolonial lens, you will be invited to engage with the ancient warrior women, the legendary tales about them, and their home in Berlin—probably not their dream home, though.
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RIPPLES along the Spree
with ReRouting team
29.09.2024 @ 16:00
From Bärenzwinger to Flussbad Garten, Berlin
The walk invites participants to move together to the rhythms of the water and share stories of waterways from both near and far. The Spree becomes a catalyst to weave connections with sources of water that have shaped culture, art, music, history, and more, reflecting on how they influence memory and imagination. The walk is led by Viviane Tabach and Clementine Butler-Gallie as part of ‘Day on and along the River’ an extension of Bärenzwinger’s exhibition ‘By Way of Water’.
Image credit: Cleo Wächter, Bärenzwinger
FOOTNOTE: Angelus Novus
with Mozh Dinani
05.07.2024 @ 16:00
Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
as part of the Ko-Markt
Angelus Novus addressed the socio-political issues that can be seen on the face of the city. A collective walking backward performance was realized, based on having the past in front and the future behind. It opened with Walter Benjamin's text on Angel of History and Paul Klee's painting 'Angelus Novus'.
‘The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.’
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FOOTNOTE: Walking on Eggshells
with Jasmin Al-Qaisi
28.02.2024 @ 17:00
Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
On conclusion of Al-Qaisi’s walking residency, where she invited people to join her in conversation over a fried egg, we will gather in the container’s courtyard to walk on eggshells together.
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Happy Tourists Get Lost
with Soazic Guezennec
14.10.2023 @ 13:00
Dragoner Areal, Berlin - Stadtmacher Akademie Symposium
Stadtmacher Akademie Symposium brings together initiatives from across Germany who are looking to rethink cities for the common good. ReRouting’s mission will be presented in this context. On the occasion, ReRouting has invited artist Soazic Guezennec’s project Happy Tourists Get Lost, which in turn invites you on an extraordinary exploration of nowhere!
Image credit: Happy Tourists Get Lost
On Volatile Grounds
with Nour Sokhon
23.07.2023 @ 18:30
Meeting point: FKA SIX, Ring Center Shopping Mall
Frankfurter Allee 111, 10247, Berlin
Volatile Grounds is a sound piece by Nour Sokhon that uses recordings from Lebanon to explore issues of waste management and land reclamation in the region. This sound walk invites the audience to leave the exhibition space and enter its direct surroundings, a Berlin shopping mall, to further consider along with the artist the larger topic of consumption.
Image credit: Nour Sokhon
Benches and Books in Tiergarten
by ReRouting team
24.06.2022 @ 18:00
Meeting point: Tiergarten S-Bahn
A literary walk that invites participants to read together from textual scenes set in the Tiergarten by authors including Kirsty Bell, Hans Fallada, Günter Grass, Rosa Luxemburg, and Christa Wolf. The selected writings span 100 years to reveal the social fabric of a People’s Park.
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Sharing Sounds at Documenta 15
by ReRouting team
20.06.2022 @ 14:00
Meeting point: Dokumenta 15 location ‘Compost Heap’ in Karlsaue park, Kassel
An invitation for visitors of Dokumenta 15’s opening week to meet and listen to one another’s experiences of the project. Prior to the walk, participants are invited to record a sound from something experienced whilst exploring. A collective listening is proposed as an attempt to find nodes of experience in such a vast exhibition, followed by in-motion conversation through the park.