Pierre Huyghe: Liminals (LAS Art Foundation)

Liminals is a new commission by artist Pierre Huyghe presented by LAS Art Foundation at Halle am Berghain, which delves into uncertainty using quantum experiments. It marks the artist’s first solo presentation at a Berlin institution.

The large-scale environment at Halle am Berghain encompasses film, sound, vibration and light. Described by the artist as a “modern myth,” the film at its core follows the emergence of a faceless, human-like figure, which moves through shifting states. As the artist describes, it is “set in a realm outside time and space, where there is no beginning or end, no inside or outside, only an incessant dance of matter, in which every moment is a maybe. We witness the figure’s attempts to exist, communicate and escape a single state of reality or consciousness. We see a dissolution of boundaries between inner and outer realms, and between living and non-living matter.”

Vibration and sound play an important role in the work. Huyghe and his team used many experimental methods to create a dense sonic experience. Among these, they worked with Calarco and researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich research centre) in Germany to simulate the oscillation of matter depicted in the film on a 100-qubit Pasqal quantum computer, translating the results into moments in the sound design.

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23 January — 8 March 2026

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