The installation Verflechtung (Intertwining) is a permanent work created for the Berlin Global exhibition at the Humboldt Forum Berlin. It focuses on the international entanglements of migrants living in Berlin and explores how individual life stories are shaped by movement, displacement, and connection.

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The artistic challenge was to visualize the biographies of 15 Berlin residents, their international backgrounds, and their personal connections to the city. Each story was interpreted as a tape artwork—created by different members of the collective, each working in their own visual language. The next narrative was then taped onto the reverse side of the previous artwork, layering the stories physically and conceptually.

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These layered works were cut into fragments and reassembled into an intertwined mobile, suspended from the ceiling. Visitors encounter the installation as a floating constellation of pieces while listening to the individual stories through the exhibition’s audio guide.

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To encourage shifts in perspective, specific listening points were marked throughout the space, inviting visitors to move around the installation. Movement—often a central element within the stories themselves—becomes part of the experience, fostering empathy through physical engagement.

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The overall composition resembles a cloud of puzzle fragments: abstract at first glance, yet capable of forming coherent narratives when viewed from the right angle. Complementing the installation, the rear wall of the space presents original personal objects contributed by the storytellers, grounding the abstract structure in lived reality.

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Verflechtung (Intertwining) translates 15 migrant life stories into a spatial tapestry of layered tape artworks, inviting visitors to move, listen, and experience Berlin as a network of interconnected narratives.