Tomas Saraceno's "Cloud Cities"

The first thing that the viewer currently sees upon entering the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, is a space with cell-like transparent balls - some larger than others - filled with strange plants that seem to grow inside their free-floated cocoons. Each one of these biospheres is stretched across the large space of the museum and visitors are welcome to touch, smell or even climb inside them. Saraceno's installations do not simply aim to be a space for visitors' participation and immediate engagement, but they also allow them to travel to a place that is imaginative: an almost mythic and unreal plane where things are different. Through this work, concepts such as space, time and possibility can be re-visited.

The Jewish Museum, Berlin

A fascinating museum designed to initiate a multi-sensory experience. The display, however, of a plethora of objects on the last floor of the museum seems rather disconnected from Libeskind's initial aim to create a museum of multiple interpretations. While Libeskind's designed 'voids' in the museum's architecture, and the interplay between the dark spaces and the openings on the museum's wall, are quite effective in their affect and potential impact, the piles of objects and degree of textual interpretation with which the viewer is bombarded in the end, raise questions about curatorial decisions as much as the role of a Jewish Museum in Berlin.