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.
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Past Until 31 July 2026
What Time Is [Your] Color?
Bosphorus: A Field of Becoming
- Interactive: your own image
- 5 rooms · 2 floors
- ~10,000 photographs
Inside the exhibition
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."
Introduction to the exhibition
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.
Your route: four stations
Your Encounter — you create your image
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.
The Transition — nothing stands still
One image passes into the next in continuous flux — the work never rests in a fixed state.
The Stream of Futures — the new archive
From all visitor interactions, a new archive continuously emerges: a synthetic future resting on its own past.
Artists
Faruk Bil, PhD
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.
Calin Segal
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).
Music: O.Bee
The sound world of the exhibition.
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What our guests say
„Es holt einen aus dem Alltagsstress raus und lässt Körper und Geist entspannen. Besonders die koreanische Ausstellung bietet viel Interpretationsfreiraum."
„Immer wieder ein Erlebnis! Jedes Mal ein kleiner Ausflug in eine andere Welt — egal ob einfach so oder mit Live-DJ. Digital Art vom Feinsten."
„One of the most captivating experiences I’ve had in Berlin. It felt like stepping into a living piece of audiovisual art where every beat had a visual counterpart."
Digital art
What is digital art — and why now?
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.
New possibilities for artists
- No physical limits: works can be room-filling, interactive and alive.
- Generated in real time — every sequence is unique and never repeats exactly.
- A young, global medium: a stage for emerging artists.
- AI and technology as a tool — creative control stays with the human.
New possibilities for visitors
- Art becomes an immersive experience you step into, rather than just look at.
- Emotional, surprising and shareable — an exhibition visit you remember.
- Accessible to everyone: no prior knowledge, eight worlds in 90 minutes.
- A museum for digital art you don’t walk through, but experience.
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
A museum for digital art — in the heart of Berlin
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.