Duty Free @ TXL

The Last Night Inside Berlin's Most Iconic Terminal 

What we did:

The Last Night Inside Berlin's Most Iconic TerminaL

Before the wrecking ball, LÅ BOOM opened Tegel Airport one last time for an art exhibition, an airplane dinner, and 200+ of Berlin's cultural core to say goodbye together. It wasn't an event. It was a time capsule. And for one night, a space weeks from demolition became the most alive room in the city. 

What we delivered:

A Cultural Farewell Inside Berlin's Terminal That No Longer Exist

  •  Experiential Strategy & Cultural Positioning 

  • Creative Direction & Concept Worldbuilding 

  • Spatial Design, Set Design & Fabrication 

  • Exhibition and Installation Development 

  • Technical Production & Lighting Direction 

  • Program Development & Guest Journey 

  • Talent, Artist & Community Hosting 

  • On-Site Operations & Event Management 

Deep Dive

The Challenge

HOW DO YOU SAY GOODBYE TO AN AIRPORT?

Tegel Airport closed in 2020. By the time LÅ BOOM got access, demolition was weeks away. The space already existed in past tense: a terminal full of the physical residue of a city that had moved on. Our community of editors, curators, artists, and brand leaders understood exactly what TXL had meant to Berlin. The question wasn't how to make it interesting. It was how to make a farewell worthy of all the memories.

The Concept

How it Came To Life

A TIME CAPSULE. ONE NIGHT TO ARCHIVE SOMETHING BERLIN WOULD NEVER ENTER AGAIN. Archive pieces placed next to the new designer-led LEVELS collection

  • We built the evening as a cultural time capsule with a simple, exact frame: an exhibition by Joachim Bosse,

  • The evening moved guests through TXL like memory not a venue walk, but a guided final impression of a place the city had shared for decades.

  • A visual narrative that felt nostalgic and freshly relevant

  • Joachim Bosse exhibition installed throughout the terminal, artworks drawing from airport iconography: arrivals boards, gate structures, in-flight aesthetics.

  • Cracky Dining's airplane dinner as immersive experience: in-flight rituals reinterpreted as fine dining, aircraft nostalgia made tactile and consumable.

  • Storytelling sequences and a private airport bus shuttle guided guests through the terminal, an exclusive spatial narrative.

  • Communal farewell ritual a shared moment inside a terminal the city had passed through millions of times and would never enter again.

  • Guest list: 200+ editors, curators, tastemakers, and brand leaders. People who understood the cultural weight of TXL and came to participate in the archive, not just witness it.

The Result

200+ of Berlin's cultural core showed up. It became part of the city's cultural memory, referenced not as "that LÅ BOOM event" but as the night TXL closed properly.

For LÅ BOOM, it confirmed something the agency doesn't need to say out loud: we don't just access the spaces this city guards. We make them mean something before they're gone.