WEEKLY PORTRAIT: TROPEZ
@tropez_tropez is a platform for contemporary art located in Sommerbad Humboldthain, a public outdoor pool in Berlin-Wedding. Founded in 2017 by Nele Heinevetter, TROPEZ invites international artists each summer to create new works specifically for this unique setting. The result is a playful and thought-provoking programme of installations, performances, talks, concerts, and (children’s) workshops – right alongside swimmers, families, and sunbathers.
Since 2021, TROPEZ has been led by artistic director Sophie Boysen. The project showcases young international artistic positions – often shown in Germany for the first time – and brings contemporary art into direct, uncomplicated contact with a wide audience. Here, contemporary art becomes accessible in an immediate way. Visitors stumble upon artworks between wet towels and lifegued whistles, meeting urgent questions, experimental formats and multi-voiced perspectives in spontaneous, tactile ways: Unlike in conventional exhibition spaces, art here is meant to be used, played with, entered.
This summer’s programme PARASITE embraces disruption as a generative force. Inspired by Michel Serres’ theory of the parasite, it invites artworks to interfere with the pool’s rhythm – from printed inflatables spilling over the lifeguard tower to mysterious transparent lockers or a whole mini golf parcours.
PARASITE features installations, sculptures, performances, events and workshops by Haseeb Ahmed, Jade Barget, Arthur Chruszcz, Maurin Dietrich, Elena Francalanci, Amine Habki, Melike Kara, Tilhenn Klapper, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Maya Man, Nóra Ó Murchú, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Susanne Sachsse, SUNDAYS, T Vinoja.
TROPEZ
Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
Opening hours: daily, pool opening times
On view until September 7, 2025: PARASITE
Events:
🟢 August 2 & August 3: Nóra Ó Murchú and Jade Barget – Parasite School
🟢 August 8: Arthur Chruszcz – Spleen
🟢 August 30: Tilhenn Klapper with Lucie Vaugeois, Stefanos Floras, Dimitrii Vlasik
– Lament
🟢 September 7: Finissage PARASITE – Mini golf tournament by SUNDAYS
Photos: Rosa Merk
