Conflicting Tales also takes place at two outdoor locations; two projects specially realized for Berlin and produced by the Burger Collection are situated close to the exhibition site:

Vittorio Santoro
Monologism as Poetry (2009)

Vittorio Santoro, Monologism as Poetry (2009)
The neon installation Monologism as Poetry by Vittorio Santoro (born 1963) consists of thirteen rows of texts, parts of phrases, displaying terms such as power, anaesthesia, and ignorance. The large-scale work is placed on the firewall of Zimmerstraße 88-89 facing the open area in front of it, the city and sky which extend beyond it. Each line is concluded with the term "AS POETRY” slightly distanced from the first part of the sentence suggesting a certain distanciation, maybe irony. Across the thirteen lines, it suggests comparison, analogy, insistence, and playfulness. The meaning of the various lines sometimes relate to the other ones without being unified to one utterance and signification. A light cycle slowly fades the neon phrases in and out at a pre-determined interval, causing the work to immerse itself subtly into the urban landscape while at the same time developing a subdued and intense presence.
In 2005, Vittorio Santoro realized a neon installation for ARTFORUM Berlin and in the same year, installed a permanent neon on the facade of the CAPC Musée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux.

Vittorio Santoro
Monologism as Poetry (2009)
Installation
Glass letters, neon, transformers, programmed light cycle, electronic devices, dimension ca. 8 x 13 m

Installation on the fire-wall of Zimmerstraße 88-89
Photo by Bernd Borchardt

Fiete Stolte’s (born 1979) Night between 7th and 8th Day / 27th Week / 2009 is a bronze embedded into the ground at the entrance to the exhibition site at Zimmerstraße 90-91. The bronze with similar measurements of a bed – or a tomb – is embossed with a cavity-like formation. This relief is a remnant of a nocturnal experiment whereby the artist slept on a mattress that registers imprints of bodily pressures, normally used for medical purposes. Stolte chose the night between the 7th and 8th day, as the title suggests, for this exercise.
The expanded week with its eight days originates from a fundamental idea whereby the artist slightly altered the number of days of a week – the usual seven days of a week (with their 24 hours per day) were regrouped into an eight-day week (with 21 hours per day). Since, this logic determines all decisions of the artist´s daily routine and artistic works alike. At the same time, it obviously does not alter the overall structure of the usual week and its durational quantity. Nevertheless the new weekly arithmetic leads to displacements and transformations regarding biographical time, duration, community and society.
Fiete Stolte´s work was presented in Art Basel’s Art Statements section in 2008 and in 2007 was awarded with the Mart Stam grant.

Fiete Stolte
Night between 7th and 8th Day / 27th Week / 2009, (2009)
Bronze, 200×90 x 4 cm
Installation embedded into the ground

Installation in the courtyard entrance, Zimmerstraße 90-91
Photo by Bernd Borchardt