Liam Cagney

As immersive art goes, nothing can compete with Berghain

An art exhibition currently occupies the world's most famous techno club in Berlin but it's no match for the venue’s charismatic immensity

Berlin’s Berghain club has reopened as a temporary art gallery. Credit: Maja Hitij / Getty Images 
issue 26 September 2020

In Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, the protagonist, at the Venice Biennale, muses on installations. ‘Ideally, the perfect art installation would be a nightclub, full of people, pumping music, lights, smoke machine and maybe drugs thrown in. You could call it Nightclub, and if you kept it going 24 hours a day it would be the big hit of the Biennale.’

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