From January 23 to March 8, Halle am Berghain—the world’s most iconic club—opens exceptionally to the public with Liminals, an immersive installation by Pierre Huyghe that blends film, sound, and quantum physics.
Berghain is not just a nightclub; it is a mythic landmark of Berlin’s nightlife. Entering has always been a rite of passage, defined by a legendary door policy and the unmistakable presence of Sven Marquardt, the club’s gatekeeper. For this reason, seeing Berghain transformed into an art exhibition space is a rare event. For a limited time, its monumental Halle opens to visitors, hosting Huyghe’s latest project.
Pierre Huyghe, Liminals, 2025. Film still. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist. © Pierre Huyghe / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026.
Presented by LAS Art Foundation, this commission marks a significant milestone: it is Huyghe’s first solo exhibition at a Berlin institution and one of the most radical transformations of Berghain into a contemporary art venue. The club’s industrial architecture becomes a sensory landscape, where space itself participates in the immersive experience.
Liminals unfolds as a large-scale installation combining film, light, vibration, and sound in what Huyghe calls a “modern myth.” At its center is a film depicting a faceless humanoid figure that emerges and mutates, moving through a world without before or after, inside or outside. Everything remains suspended; each moment is a possibility. The boundaries between inner and outer, living and non-living matter, become porous, unstable, almost liquid.
Uncertainty is central to the project. Huyghe stages it as a liminal space, echoing quantum systems before measurement, when multiple realities coexist simultaneously. To build this world, he collaborated with quantum physicist Tommaso Calarco and philosopher Tobias Rees, translating quantum logic into both visual and sonic landscapes.
Pierre Huyghe, Liminals, 2025. Film still. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist. © Pierre Huyghe / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026.
Sound, in particular, is treated as architectural material. In collaboration with researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Huyghe simulated the oscillation of matter on a 100-qubit Pasqal quantum computer, transforming the data into vibrations and frequencies that fill the space. Calarco describes the process as “plucking the computer’s atomic array to hear its reverberations.” With Rees, Huyghe also used a quantum-noise AI model to generate certain scenes in the film.
The result is an environment that is not simply seen but experienced. Liminals guides visitors through a zone where body, space, and consciousness become unstable. It exists in the moment before perception stabilizes, when multiple possibilities coexist. By placing a humanoid figure in this fluid territory, Huyghe asks whether it is possible to relate to a reality of multiplicity and indeterminacy.
Pierre Huyghe, Liminals, 2025. Film still. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist. © Pierre Huyghe / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026.
The project is commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation, and is the second major installation in LAS’s Sensing Quantum programme, which won the S+T+ARTS – Grand Prize: Innovation Collaboration by the European Commission after Laure Prouvost’s WE FELT A STAR DYING in 2025.
“The figure is a hybrid creature, an infinite membrane carved by void,” says Huyghe—an entity that traverses states of indeterminacy and transforms uncertainty into a cosmos.
About Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe is an artist based in Santiago. For Huyghe, the exhibition is
an entity whose time and space are constituents of its manifestation. His works are conceived as speculative fiction, and often present themselves as a form of continuity between a wide range of intelligent life forms—biological, technological and tangible inert matter that learn, modify and evolve. They are permeable, contingent and often indifferent to witnesses.
Huyghe’s recent exhibitions include Liminal, Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection, Venice (2024) and Leeum, Seoul (2025); Chimera, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art (2023); Variants, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker (2022); After UUmwelt, LUMA Arles (2021); UUmwelt, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018); After ALife Ahead, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); and The Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015). In 2012, his work Untilled was one of the most critically acclaimed contributions to dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.
In 2013, a retrospective of Pierre Huyghe’s work at Centre Pompidou in Paris travelled to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and LACMA in Los Angeles. In 2019, Huyghe was appointed Artistic Director of the Okayama Art Summit: IF THE SNAKE.
Pierre Huyghe. Photo © Ola Rindal
About LAS Art Foundation
LAS Art Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded to support new artistic practices in a technological age. LAS works with artists, thinkers and institutions around the globe to catalyse ideas and develop innovative proj- ects and experiences. We explore topics ranging from quantum computing and outer space to artificial intelligence, ecology and biotechnology—illumi- nating the intersections between art, science and the latest technology. Our programme comprises installations and performances, as well as educational programming, publications and research projects. Based in Berlin, LAS has staged projects at locations around the city and internationally since its launch in 2019.
To date, LAS has commissioned and presented work by artists including Refik Anadol, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ian Cheng, Libby Heaney, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Robert Irwin, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Lawrence Lek, Josèfa Ntjam, Laure Prouvost and Marianna Simnett. In 2025 LAS Art Foundation won the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS prize for its Sensing Quantum programme.
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Cover image: Halle am Berghain © Stefan Lucks. Courtesy the photographer and Berghain Ostgut GmbH.