The Archive — 10,000 views of the water
Roughly 10,000 surface photographs of the Bosphorus, all from the same location (41.0708°N, 29.0564°E) — the artist’s lifelong home by the water.
Bosphorus: A Field of Becoming
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You don’t just look here — you create: choose a photograph of the Bosphorus and a colour that never existed. Within seconds, your own unique image appears, encoded with the date and time of your visit. No moment repeats. The foundation: nearly 10,000 photographs of the Bosphorus surface by Faruk Bil, set in motion by computational artist Calin Segal (music: O.Bee) — four stations across five rooms on two floors.
„Authorship lies not with the artist. It is distributed, communal and continuous."
The archive had a limit: one gaze, one life. To move beyond it, the work opened — together with Calin Segal — into a generative phase: visitors choose a photograph and colours that never existed before, and within seconds the system generates a new image of the Bosphorus. No moment is static. No colour repeats. Every encounter is encoded by the exact date and time of presence.
The experience marks a detachment from prescribed narratives and from the digital loop that reduces viewing to limited data cycles. Its living architecture rejects uniformity and values diversity, divergence and emergence. As long as a presence remains in the room, the work does not end.
Why P61, why now: a museum-grade digital environment — 100+ displays and HD LED architecture across eight rooms — meets a conceptually grounded, experimental art practice. On Potsdamer Straße, once a dividing line between two systems, the encounter with art itself becomes a living field of becoming.
Roughly 10,000 surface photographs of the Bosphorus, all from the same location (41.0708°N, 29.0564°E) — the artist’s lifelong home by the water.
Choose an archive image and a previously nonexistent colour; within seconds your new image appears, coded with the exact timestamp of your visit. No moment repeats.
One image passes into the next in continuous flux — the work never rests in a fixed state.
From all visitor interactions, a new archive continuously emerges: a synthetic future resting on its own past.
His artistic inquiry centres on temporality and freedom. Galatasaray High School; economics degrees (BA, MA 1983); twenty-five years in advertising before turning to art as an autodidact. PhD in Fine Arts in 2020 while teaching semiotics at Yeditepe University.
Studied architecture in Paris and began with humanitarian projects before moving to computational media. He builds installations from computational models in which systemic dynamics become perceptible. Works shown at Nuit Blanche Paris (2018) and Ars Electronica (2025).
The sound world of the exhibition.
Dates currently bookable only until — after that, which exhibitions remain is open.
Thu & Sun 12–7 pm · Fri & Sat 12–9 pm · Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Potsdamer Str. 61, Berlin-Schöneberg — 5 min from Potsdamer Platz
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Your experience
Not another evening on the sofa — but 90 minutes you won’t forget in a hurry.
90 minutes across eight audiovisual worlds — the everyday stays outside, body and mind switch off.
Room-height LED walls and artworks you have to experience. Goosebumps included — and the best photos of your month.
The unusual date idea and the outing everyone talks about afterwards. With a live DJ on request.
Ticket on your phone, in the heart of Berlin-Schöneberg, no prior knowledge needed. One ticket, valid all day.
Digital art
Digital art is created with the computer as its medium: from particle simulations and generative art through 3D and motion design to AI-assisted works. In place of canvas and frame come light, movement, sound and real time — art that never looks exactly the same twice and constantly reinvents itself.
This is exactly where P61 Gallery comes in: a museum for digital art in Berlin that makes this new art form visible, tangible and open to everyone.
About P61 Gallery
P61 Gallery is a museum for digital art and, at the same time, a next-generation event venue — in the heart of Berlin-Schöneberg, inside a striking concrete landmark on Potsdamer Straße. With over 500 exhibits, arranged across eight rooms and set to sound, digital art here is not hung on a wall but turned into an immersive experience you can step into.
As an art gallery with a clear mission, P61 discovers and champions young, emerging artists and brings them together with established names from around the world. Every exhibition is curated as an immersive journey — from video art and generative art through motion design to AI-assisted works.
The result is a place where creativity, innovation and technology meet: a space for the future of art — open to everyone who wants not just to look at art, but to experience it.
One ticket for all exhibitions · valid all day
Dates currently bookable only until — after that, which exhibitions remain is open.
Strictly limited per day · 100% cancellable until the day of your visit.
Thu & Sun 12–7 pm · Fri & Sat 12–9 pm
Potsdamer Str. 61, Berlin-Schöneberg — 5 min from Potsdamer Platz