Klosterruine Berlin invites visitors to a public tour of the historic monument every third Thursday of the month from May to September. Together with Alin Daghestani, Program Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant at Klosterruine, visitors will gain insights into the history of the former Franciscan monastery as well as the current site-specific artistic works presented on site. The tour is followed by an opportunity for conversation and exchange.

At the center of this edition is Nazanin Noori’s site-specific installation BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME, developed especially for Klosterruine Berlin. The work relates the historical space of the former sacred building to questions of religious belonging, structures of social power, public perception, and differing concepts of the divine.

The installation consists of four illuminated taxiway signs arranged in front of the preserved funerary monuments to form a twelve-meter-long light sculpture. Across the signal-orange surfaces appears the phrase “BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME.” Borrowed from aviation technology, the signs are removed from their functional context and transferred into a new spatial and conceptual setting. Between sacred architecture and technical light structure, the work opens up a field of tension between religious order, collective identity, and contemporary forms of social orientation.

At the same time, the installation refers to pantheistic models of thought in which the divine is understood as an immanent presence within all things. The addition “IN HIS NAME” remains deliberately ambivalent, drawing attention to historical and contemporary mechanisms through which religious language has been used to legitimize exclusion, hierarchy, and violence. The installation thus moves between spirituality, political history, and the fragility of systems of social order.

On July 16, artist Nazanin Noori will be present at Klosterruine Berlin in connection with her site-specific installation BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME.

Further dates: June 18, July 16, and August 27.
Free admission, no registration required.

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Nazanin Noori

Nazanin Noori lives and works in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice spans installation, sound art, composition, live and lecture performance, directing, and writing. Her work explores the intersection of sound, space, sculpture, and postdramatic poetry, engaging with both religious and media-based structures of power. Central to her practice is the question of how experiences of spirituality, protest, and collective truth are appropriated or distorted. Her hypno-acoustic compositions shape a distinctive sonic aesthetic for which she coined the term Ambient Hardcore.

Her artistic practice began in 2016 with compositions for theatre and art films. Her debut album FARCE was released on the label enmossed. The 54-minute sound work HAAL was first presented in 2021 as part of the exhibition The Sun Machine Is Coming Down by Berliner Festspiele at the ICC Berlin and was later broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Noori’s works have been shown at numerous galleries and institutions, including EIGEN + ART Lab, Auto Italia, Akademie der Künste Berlin, CCA Berlin, M Leuven, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Eye Filmmuseum, and as part of Transmediale. Her performances have been presented at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Villa Massimo, Berghain, Schirn Kunsthalle, Schauspielhaus Zürich, La Gaîté Lyrique, CTM Festival, and ICA London, among others.

Nazanin Noori has been an artist-in-residence at Junge Akademie der Künste, Rupert, and Callie’s. Her theatre works have been staged at Maxim Gorki Theater, Deutsches Theater, and Berliner Ensemble. Her sound scenarios have been featured on various international radio platforms, including Mutant Radio, Deep House Tehran, and Refuge Worldwide, where she has held a residency since 2021. In 2026, Nazanin Noori was awarded the ars viva Prize for Visual Arts..