Pierre Huyghe is a French artist, born in Paris in 1962, whose work is considered highly influential in contemporary art. He creates immersive installations that blur the line between reality and imagination, often combining living creatures, technology, performances, and storytelling. Instead of focusing on individual objects, Huyghe treats the whole exhibition as an experience, where people, objects, and events interact and change over time.

In the vast, industrial expanse of Berghain, Huyghe has created an experience that feels like stepping into an alternate dimension. Liminals, Huyghe’s first solo institutional presentation in Berlin, transforms the space into a sensory landscape where film, sound, light, and vibration converge to explore the fluidity of perception and the instability of reality. The show follows the incredible presentation in Venice two years ago at Punta della Dogana.

At the center of the work in the iconic Berlin club is a faceless, human-like figure moving through ever-shifting states of being. Neither fully alive nor entirely inert, it inhabits a space where beginnings and endings dissolve into a constant oscillation. Huyghe invites visitors to dwell in this threshold, where inner and outer worlds, self and environment, continually blur. The installation doesn’t explain, it immerses.

Sound and vibration are integral to the experience. Dense sonic textures ripple through the hall, resonating with the shifting forms of the central figure, creating a sense of dislocation and wonder. Light and shadow play across walls and floors, choreographing a subtle dialogue with the movement on screen, amplifying the sensation that the rules of space and time have been suspended.

Berghain’s industrial architecture adds a striking layer to the work. Long associated with avant-garde nightlife and the limits of sensory experience, the venue becomes a perfect frame for Huyghe’s exploration of liminality. In this context, the exhibition becomes not just an encounter with art, but a confrontation with the fragile, uncertain spaces between perception and reality.

Liminals is more than a display; it is a proposition, a place to inhabit, a place to question, a space where the boundaries of knowing are loosened and every moment feels alive with possibility.

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Images: Pierre Huyghe, Liminals, 2026. Installation view at Halle am Berghain, Berlin; (Image credit: Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and co-commissioned by Hartwig Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist. © 2026 Pierre Huyghe. Photo: Andrea Rossetti © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026)