The Monuments | Chapter 14 | The Sunset of Now

Kühlhaus Berlin

20.09.2025

Site-specific Installation and durational performance

The Sunset of Now, Chapter 14 was presented as a 4-hour, site-specific performance on Kühlhaus's 7th floor. This work was conceived as an uncontainable reaction to the then-current socio-political situation, born of urgency and necessity. It provided a powerful voice for voiceless thoughts, establishing a fleeting yet tangible space where meaning was shaped by presence, resistance, and the immediacy of the moment.

The chapter unfolded as an individual recollection, refracted through a prism of fears, breakdowns, and personal flaws. It traced how these intense internal states resonated with, and were shaped by, the external socio-political reality. The relationship was reciprocal: isolation and longing, need and social anxieties formed a portrait of perpetual balancing.

Sculptural installations emerged as habitats—poetic structures that blurred the line between refuge and exposure, between protection and projection. It remained intentionally ambiguous where the menace stood: did the structures shield the one inside, or those outside?

The work used sculptural language in direct relation to sound, light, and duration—elements that did not simply accompany the piece, but carried its weight. The act of enduring became the work itself: an attempt to sculpt memories of fear into physical form, to hold and share fragile moments with the public. The installations were in constant negotiation, shifting between material and ephemeral, suspense and intensity, intimacy and the sublime. On the 7th floor, the present was not only a space to reflect, but to withstand—to remain with, and inside of.

Project by JAŠA

Production: WE.ARE Institute

Performance with: Mattias Gimigliano

Sound and music with: Andres Marino

Lighting with: Luka Gyoha

Technical support with: Denis Metting

Design and Communications with Rosa Lux

Curation with: Laura Rositani

Production assistance by: Tinka Legvart

Special thanks to Andrea Wenzler, Dieter Siegel, & Franci Zavrl

Enabled by The Monuments Patrons Club

Supported by Triglav Group