The collaborative duo, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, have been creating works that prod ideas of nationalism, history and democracy (and their role in an ever-globalized world) since 1995.

Their newly commissioned work, Compass, takes full advantage of the echoing hall—dividing the room into a split-level space, placing a dancer on the new upper level while visitors below hear only the gentle tapping of feet coming from above.

The work is accompanied by a screening of the pair’s film, How to Appear Invisible, which documents the final destruction of the neighboring Palast der Republik as a German shepherd adorned with a Kentucky Fried Chicken-cone wanders around the rubble.