Diadeo Safe — Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Laura Fiorio, 2024

Diadéo trésor by Kandis Friesen

Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz
Leipziger Straße 49
10117 Berlin

A small architectural artefact, salvaged from the ruins of the former Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz, forms the starting point for Diadéo trésor. A space is created in which the historical ruptures of Leipziger Straße echo and fade away. Sound works by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Cantoni & Nicole Angela Pearson, as well as workshops by Talya Lubinsky and the art initiative DE NE DE, bring the site to life at specific moments. Here, history is understood as a process of encounter and exchange, standing in contrast to monumental forms of remembrance.

art_in_urban_spaces_hi-res-27 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_space_hi-res-32 — Listening session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_spaces_hi-res-20 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_spaces_hi-res-36 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_space_hi-res-10 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_spaces_hi-res-12 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

art_in_urban_spaces_hi-res-13 — Listening Session by Nour Sokhon and Saverio Canton & Nicole Angela Pearson, Diadéo Trésor by Kandis Friesen, KISR Leipziger Straße Photo: Piotr Pietrus, 14 September 2024

Diadéo trésor in construction_credits. Cleo Wächter, September 2024 — Photo: Cleo Wächter, 2024

Diadéo trésor_In progress_credits. Kandis Friesen, 2024

An integral part of Diadéo Trésor is the selective activation of the installation through works commissioned by Kandis Friesen for this purpose:

‘What’s in the Bushes?’ by the art initiative DE NE DE, a workshop/walk along Leipziger Straße exploring the socialist and Soviet legacy and its traces in the landscape design. The walk-shop Catalogue of Laments (The Scroll of How) by Talya Lubinsky, as well as two sound installations that respond to the sculptural installation and the associated stories, places and surfaces: Diadéo Speaks by Nour Sokhon and The Witness’ Scars. Assembling Tales of Leipziger Straße by Saverio Cantoni and Nicole Angela Pearson. Both works can be listened to free of charge via the Echoes app throughout the duration of Diadéo trésor.

Kandis Friesen is an artist based in Berlin. Her practice is embedded in structures of monumental memory and navigates between the rigidity of official narratives and the proliferation of intimate, unofficial forms. Her recent works in the fields of video, sculpture and sound are based on methods of transmission and republication (‘making public again’) and expand the site-specific narratives and the structures in which they are recorded and transmitted.