With SPREEUQ, Rasa Weber has created a sculpture that is anchored in the River Spree and can also be viewed in the exhibition space. Created in collaboration with local artisans and marine biologists, the reefs slowly become a new ecological habitat for various life forms. The exhibition features the twin of the reef that was placed in the Spree River in May 2025 and the reef installed in Corsica in August 2025 alongside a film work documenting the transition of these installations into a queer habitat for aquatic life. Images from an underwater camera (Jakob Kukula, Symbiotoc Lab) show how living creatures react to the sculpture. In the exhibition space, visitors are invited to continue building SPREEUQ and to help shape the vision of a city in flux. The work is part of the thesis project SYMBIOCEAN, which is funded by the Interfacing the Ocean research group (SNSF), and hosted by Zurich University of the Arts, University of Art and Design Linz as well as the MOA-MFF research group.

The work is part of the «On Water Exhibition» at Humboldt Forum Berlin.

Water is ubiquitous – We drink it, bathe in it, experience it as rain, ice, or a river. And yet it remains contradictory, as it is both familiar and at the same time unpredictable. Sometimes there is too much of it, sometimes too little. Sometimes it flows, sometimes it’s lacking, sometimes it floods entire stretches of land.

As a result of climate change, urban growth, and global inequality, water has become a significant challenge. It cannot be controlled easily and raises questions about established practices. Water is not a passive object, but instead a dynamic element that demands new scientific perspectives and social negotiation. The «On Water: WasserWissen in Berlin» exhibition showcases Berlin University Alliance (BUA) research projects that explore water from diverse perspectives. They all aim to learn from its properties – such as its cycles, its adaptability, and its binding force – to find solutions for the future. The audio track provides deeper insights into the interplay between humans and water. In it, scientists explain why it makes sense to listen to water, as it knows more than we think.