{"id":458709,"date":"2026-04-29T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/458709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:02:16","slug":"lina-lapelyte-fills-hamburger-bahnhof-with-400000-wood-blocks-for-communal-building-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/458709\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Lapelyt\u0117 Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400,000 Wood Blocks for Communal Building \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the cavernous former train station that now houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smb.museum\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hamburger Bahnhof<\/a>, 400,000 wooden cubes stack and topple into piles. Conceived by Lithuanian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linalapelyte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lina Lapelyt\u0117<\/a> and commissioned by Chanel, \u201cWe Make Years Out of Hours\u201d is a large-scale installation that invites the public to remake structures from these 10-centimeter blocks made of pine and spruce.<\/p>\n<p>Lapelyt\u0117 often combines sound and performance and collaborates with both professionals and novices. This participatory work continues the artist\u2019s interest in collective making and caretaking, particularly as it relates to shared authorship and how we might amend and reshape what currently exists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-8.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-8.jpg\" alt=\"people work on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473462\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trio of weekly performances on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays will feature a libretto with the words of 15 writers, including Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, Lebanese-American painter Etel Adnan, Iranian filmmaker <br \/>Forugh Farrokhzad, and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Centered around community, love, and loss, these songs create another dimension in the space to consider agency and hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Make Years Out of Hours\u201d opens on May 1 and is on view through January 10, 2027, in Berlin. Explore more of Lapelyt\u0117\u2019s multi-disciplinary works on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linalapelyte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">her website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/linalapelyte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-7.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-7.jpg\" alt=\"a man works on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473461\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-9.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-9.jpg\" alt=\"a woman works on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473463\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-10.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-10.jpg\" alt=\"an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473464\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-11.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-11.jpg\" alt=\"people work on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473465\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-12.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-12.jpg\" alt=\"people work on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473466\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-13.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-13.jpg\" alt=\"a woman sits on an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473467\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-14.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-473459\" title=\"Portrait of Lina Lapelyt\u0117\" data-rl_title=\"Portrait of Lina Lapelyt\u0117\" data-rl_caption=\"Portrait of Lina Lapelyt\u0117\" data-rl_><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lina-14.jpg\" alt=\"the artist poses with an installation of wooden blocks by Lina Lapelyt\u0117 in a cavernous building\" class=\"wp-image-473468\"  \/><\/a>Portrait of Lina Lapelyt\u0117<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul 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