Kulturpark Plänterwal an abandoned amusement park in east Berlin constructed by the GDR in 1969 is been explored as a site for a public art installation by the Kulturpark art group. The collaborative project sets out to re-ignite an interest in the park taking into consideration its aesthetics and historical context.

What is interesting in this project is how abandonment due to financial collapse has returned the theme park to a playground within a more defined natural environment. The overrunning of plants and tree's suggests a derelict space, but the artists aim to use this to form an interesting dialogue between the visitors who left the park 10 years ago, the ecology that has emerged due to this and then their meeting together when it is presented as a public art space.

' Pet Rocks '

Friz Hoffmann series of photographs depicting giant rocks deposited by retreating glaciers forms a national survey which is introspective of these boulders existence in city and suburbia. These erratic's found all over the USA have been imbued with the narrative of 'pet rocks' by Hoffmann. The position the artist presents the rocks in is a documentation of their passive interaction with the ever changing urban and natural landscapes as well as the 'modern social' human interaction and perhaps therefore their inevitable domestication into society.