Take a tour of the PLATO building and learn about its history from those who remember it. The project was conceived by German theatre director and educator Anja Scheffer.

Before it was a gallery, PLATO's building was a slaughterhouse, and the streets around it carried the traffic, the smells and the names of that trade. Sausage Street and Other Old Bricks Stories returns to that previous life and the honest craftsmanship through the people who remember it. Together with them, the project digs through the memory of the site: the sounds and routines of the work, the stories that settled into the walls, and how the life around the building looked like.

Initiated by German artist Anja Scheffer, the work takes the form of a performative guided tour, where those with memories become the authors. Part elegy, part collective investigation, it lets the building tell its own story, giving a voice to a place built for many endings. The project was created during Anja Scheffer's residency at PLATO.

Anja Scheffer is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersection of theatre, video, visual art and artistic mediation, most often within museums, developing participatory projects with communities in which authorship is handed to the participants. She is the founder and artistic director of the Berlin collective sideviews, and has worked with institutions including House of the World Cultures (HKW), German History Museum, Berlinische Galerie and KW-Institute for Contemporary Art. At PLATO she is developing project Sausage Street and Other Old Bricks Stories (2025–26).