Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno return to Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, where they had their studios in the early 2000s. The former studio spaces were housed in the adjacent warehouses, relics of Berlin’s industrial and railway history, that were integrated into the museum. Twenty years later, on the occasion of the museum’s 30th anniversary, the five artists meet again with new and large-scale works. Their reunion brings together artistic trajectories that have evolved far beyond the walls where they once worked side by side.

For Next Door at Hamburger Bahnhof Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman collaborate on a newly commissioned film referencing Nauman's permanent on-site installation Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care at the end of the Rieckhallen. Thomas Demand floats pavilions across the space, carrying some of his large-scale photographs. Olafur Eliasson translates audio waves into visual phenomena by projecting circles of light that fade in and out in reaction to a composition of sounds. Henrik Håkansson presents a video installation exploring ecological systems focusing on a choreography related to the flap of a butterfly wing, and Tomás Saraceno presents for the first time in over fifteen
years the installation 14 Billions (Working Title) and ongoing research into spider/webs and how to move from arachnophobia to Arachnophilia.