22 NOV 2025 until 24 JAN 2026

The “Estrel Berlin” is Europe’s largest hotel, entertainment and convention complex, and thus a significant example of the event architecture and consumption-oriented urbanity of the aughts. The geometry of the construction (as well as a video fragment of the original version) simultaneously references “Die Pyramide” in Berlin-Marzahn (a district that, during the GDR era, was regarded as an archetype of socialist urban planning). Financed through early postunification investment funds, this nineties office building, with its distinctly illuminated facade, was once celebrated as Europe’s largest digital clock. Through this interplay of industrial and postmodern references, Pernice reflects on the carefully orchestrated systems that shape our patterns of consumption.

Since the early 1990s, Pernice has developed a distinctive artistic language oriented towards architecture, civil engineering, packaging and transport systems. His structures made of particleboard, metal, concrete or cardboard combine references to urban infrastructure with a special interest on how objects can be presented, organised and stored within spaces – operating for instance as modular components of broader infrastructure.