- Public Art
- Performance Art
- Workshop
OUT/SIDE/IN the Sandbox
Cosima Winter und Marie Hahne
4 July 2026 11:00–11:40
4 July 2026 15:00–15:40
4 July 2026 20:00–20:40
Borders are not fixed facts. They are provisional markings, learned patterns of thought – fluid, negotiable, and shaped by power, history, and perspective. OUT/SIDE/IN the Sandbox moves between interactive performance and workshop, understanding the border not as an end, but as the beginning of a conversation.
At the Inca playground on Thomasstraße, the sandbox, slide, and seesaw become a performative space. Through shared play sandcastles, lines, and territories emerge – small models of worlds that can be built, shifted, or dissolved just as quickly. From young to old – everyone is welcome.
Within the seemingly harmless sandbox game, patterns of ownership, belonging, and exclusion become visible, linking aesthetic experience with political reality. Cosima Winter and Marie Hahne accompany this open process, offering impulses, posing questions, and inviting collective reflection. Here, art becomes a form of border work. The aim is not to simply tear down boundaries, but to consciously cross, shift, and renegotiate them – without defending the own or appropriating the other.
The traces of these negotiations remain visible only briefly – just long enough to sense the shifted borders within one’s own thinking and body before the game begins again.
At the Inca playground on Thomasstraße, the sandbox, slide, and seesaw become a performative space. Through shared play sandcastles, lines, and territories emerge – small models of worlds that can be built, shifted, or dissolved just as quickly. From young to old – everyone is welcome.
Within the seemingly harmless sandbox game, patterns of ownership, belonging, and exclusion become visible, linking aesthetic experience with political reality. Cosima Winter and Marie Hahne accompany this open process, offering impulses, posing questions, and inviting collective reflection. Here, art becomes a form of border work. The aim is not to simply tear down boundaries, but to consciously cross, shift, and renegotiate them – without defending the own or appropriating the other.
The traces of these negotiations remain visible only briefly – just long enough to sense the shifted borders within one’s own thinking and body before the game begins again.
Biography
Cosima Winter und Marie Hahne
Cosima Winter (stage and costume design) and Marie Hahne (acting and performance art) studied stage and costume design together at the Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art. Even though they often find themselves on different sides of the globe these days, they still get together for performative playdates.
In 2023, they used sand, buckets and shovels to create spaces for playful exploration of the theme of boundaries at the international art event ‘The Sarau’ in Amsterdam. Through play and physical exploration, they enable a sensory approach to social realities and shake up entrenched perspectives. Their aim is to make art accessible and tangible beyond purely intellectual discourse.
In 2023, they used sand, buckets and shovels to create spaces for playful exploration of the theme of boundaries at the international art event ‘The Sarau’ in Amsterdam. Through play and physical exploration, they enable a sensory approach to social realities and shake up entrenched perspectives. Their aim is to make art accessible and tangible beyond purely intellectual discourse.
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