“All is leaf.” 
With this sentence, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduces his search for the Urpflanze while simultaneously pursuing the idea that there must exist an underlying, perfect and ideal primal form of nature. This way of thinking carries within it an almost ideological hope for wholeness, yet ultimately remains unresolved and collapses in the face of the diversity of actual appearances. “The Bloom” marks the moment in which Goethe writes to his beloved Christiane that he had deceived himself, and that the Urpflanze could only ever exist as a theoretical abstraction.
Apparition of Bloom takes this idea as its point of departure and shifts it from botany into psychological, material and symbolic contexts. The exhibition is less concerned with nature as a harmonious system than with those moments in which such human constructions of order begin to fracture. It situates itself precisely where the claim to a closed and coherent form begins to fail, giving way instead to tensions and ruptures. The works of Jonas Brinker, Juliane Tübke, Nancy Görlach and Patricia Detmering present visual states in which form refuses to stabilize. Bodily, vegetal and abstract elements shift into one another without ever becoming fully fixed. Nature becomes less a motif than a kind of carrier for affective states and associations that deliberately remain only partially articulated. Against this background, the exhibition can also be read as a commentary on the present. At a time in which many social debates demand clarity and certainty, the pressure to reduce ambiguity continues to grow. At the same time, the desire for meaning and coherence persists. Apparition of Bloom does not attempt to resolve this contradiction. Ambiguity is not understood here as a problem, but as an inherent part of experience. Change thus appears not as a linear development, but as a fragile process: forms emerge, decay and reappear. What remains is not a resolved image, but a movement between the desire for wholeness and the experience that things remain open and incomplete.

SAP Space

SAP Space is a project space that approaches the garden as an expanded and generative concept. It considers the garden not just as a physical site, but also as a conceptual space — a place where questions about nature, culture, and their entanglements can be explored.

Located in the Hinterhof of a classic Neukölln Altbau, SAP Space consists of a small, single-story building and the surrounding garden that envelops it. Together, they form a porous site where inside and outside, built and grown environments, are continuously in dialogue.

The seed for SAP Space was planted sometime around 2019 or 2020, but was officially founded in 2022 by Ilyn Wong and Johannes Knall. Up until 2026, the programming has been directed by Ilyn Wong.

Founded: 2022