Lina Lapelytė Builds Time With 400,000 Cubes in ‘We Make Years Out of Hours’

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Summary

  • Lina Lapelytė’s We Make Years Out of Hours at Hamburger Bahnhof explored time, labor, and collective experience
  • It features 400,000 wooden cubes with weekly performances based on poetry
  • Ran until January 10, 2027, commissioned by the CHANEL Next Prize

Lina Lapelytė’s exhibition, We Make Years Out of Hours, at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, created a captivating and all-encompassing experience. The project, supported by the CHANEL Next Prize, combined sculpture, performance, and installation to turn the museum’s historic hall into a peaceful space focused on repetition and the passage of time. This reflects Lapelytė’s continued exploration of themes like time, work, and shared experiences.

The exhibition’s centerpiece was a massive installation made of 400,000 wooden cubes that visitors and performers constantly moved and rebuilt into different shapes. Each week, performances brought the space to life with music inspired by poems from writers like Etel Adnan, Mahmoud Darwish, Ocean Vuong, and Forugh Farrokhzad. This combination of art, music, and audience involvement highlighted the artist’s fascination with how things last and change over time, showing how small actions can build up over years.

The exhibition showcased Lapelytė’s unique ability to combine music, performance, and insightful social observations, establishing her as a leading contemporary artist in Europe. Titled We Make Years Out of Hours and running until January 10, 2027, the show demonstrated Hamburger Bahnhof’s dedication to showcasing groundbreaking, multi-faceted art and also celebrated the museum’s status as a space open to new ideas.

Hamburger Banhof
Invalidenstraße 50, 10557 Berlin, Germany

 

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2026-05-10 06:26