The Lumen exhibition brings together 30 multifaceted artistic voices from the Netherlands and Germany. At the exhibition’s centre is the theme of light in all its manifestations: as sunlight or artificial light, technological innovation or atmospheric moment. Light creates presence, casts shadows, defines emphasis. It is both a material and a bearer of meaning—sensual, poetic, experimental.

The Lumen exhibition brings together 30 multifaceted artistic voices from the Netherlands and Germany. At the exhibition’s centre is the theme of light in all its manifestations: as sunlight or artificial light, technological innovation or atmospheric moment. Light creates presence, casts shadows, defines emphasis. It is both a material and a bearer of meaning—sensual, poetic, experimental.

How does a place become a place – or rather, how does it gain value? Of course, there is the history of a building. But perhaps it is only through the energy of the people who live there, through their creative work and the time they spend together, that it becomes a meaningful place. The exhibition explores this question and presents works by 22 artists from Treptow-Ateliers e.V.