Pierre Huyghe: Liminals (LAS Art Foundation) - PUBLIC OPENING

Come to the opening of Pierre Huyghe: Liminals.

This event is free of charge and does not require registration. Please note that the artwork will be on display until 10 p.m. and will be turned off during the opening party.

Schedule:

7 p.m. – 9:55 p.m. Opening

10 p.m. – midnight DJ sets (the artwork will not be on display during this time)

Liminals is a new commission by artist Pierre Huyghe presented by LAS Art Foundation at Halle am Berghain, which delves into uncertainty using quantum experiments. It marks the artist’s first solo presentation at a Berlin institution.

The large-scale environment at Halle am Berghain encompasses film, sound, vibration and light. Described by the artist as a “modern myth,” the film at its core follows the emergence of a faceless, human-like figure, which moves through shifting states. As the artist describes, it is “set in a realm outside time and space, where there is no beginning or end, no inside or outside, only an incessant dance of matter, in which every moment is a maybe. We witness the figure’s attempts to exist, communicate and escape a single state of reality or consciousness. We see a dissolution of boundaries between inner and outer realms, and between living and non-living matter.”

Vibration and sound play an important role in the work. Huyghe and his team used many experimental methods to create a dense sonic experience. Among these, they worked with Calarco and researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich research centre) in Germany to simulate the oscillation of matter depicted in the film on a 100-qubit Pasqal quantum computer, translating the results into moments in the sound design.

Opening hours

23 January — 8 March 2026

Friday – Monday: 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday: 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

School hours: Monday and Friday 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Low-stimulus hours: Tuesdays 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.