Museum of Silence
The Museum of Silence in Linienstraße 154a in Berlin-Mitte was founded in 1994 by the Russian painter Nikolai Georgijewitsch Makarow with the aim of giving people peace and contemplation in the middle of the big city . This intention was implemented through a special interior design and the exhibition of two works by the artist and seven utopian architectural models by well-known architects for other buildings of silence.
collection
The museum originally contained only two wall-filling paintings by Makarov in grisaille technique, which make the depicted landscape and the clouds appear transparent and foggy.
“The picture represents an implied landscape where a kind of dark path leads to a mountain. In a sense, this is the path we all go as humans. Behind the mountain there is a lot of energy and the light - that is what we may experience afterwards. This has this effect: shortly after entering, you notice that you are in a completely different mood. You are in the here and now. "
In 2014 well-known architects were invited to design buildings of silence, in which only a single work of art was to be placed. Seven utopian architectural models are now also being presented in the Museum of Silence . They come from Stephan Braunfels , Max Dudler , Staab Architects , Franco Stella , Gewers & Pudewill, Michael Marshall and Sergei Tchoban.
intention
The museum “conveys an experience of mental and physical relaxation in a non-denominational way” and makes silence “physically and mentally tangible”.
“I just wanted to do something completely different. It is a pure staging with light and art, without any lettering [...]. It is also not explained what all this is about. [...] In such rooms of silence , of course, you feel yourself first and that's what it's all about. [...] Everyone deals with silence differently. Some find it very uncomfortable to be alone with one's own thoughts; if you have fears, for example. Others, however, enjoy this meeting with the subconscious. "
Lawyer Peter Raue , one of the museum's sponsors, spoke of a “secularized prayer room”.
Entry to the museum was free from the start.
history
In the 1990s, when the whole of Berlin was being built, according to Makarow, art was “particularly colorful and controversial”. He "wanted to contribute something quiet". On his initiative, a large apartment was converted into the Museum of Silence . In 1999 it was closed for extensive renovation and refurbishment and reopened in 2001. From 2009 on, it was closed for five years because neighbors complained about the noise from the nightclub , which was also in the house. In mid-September 2014, for the twentieth anniversary, it was reopened.
Cooperation with museums at home and abroad and public institutions is planned for the future. For a limited time, some of the original-size models are to be set up at the respective locations.
architecture
The museum is located on the ground floor of the gray Wilhelminian style house on Linienstraße 154a. A memorial plaque for the resistance fighter Margarete Kaufmann is attached to the facade . Inside, the windows facing the street are curtained in red, the walls are kept entirely in a deep red and the gray-black carpeting muffles noises. Seating in front of the paintings allows visitors to relax.
The founder named the Mark Rothko Chapel on the campus of St. Thomas University in Houston , Texas, as a model for the minimalist design of the rooms . In a sparse, octagonal room there are fourteen large-format, mostly black paintings by Rothko.
carrier
The museum is run by the non-profit Sergej Mawrizki Foundation and the Friends of the Silent Museum, founded in Charlottenburg in 2014 . V. worn.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Irena Nalepa in conversation with Nicolai Makarow: Turbulence and Silence . The Berlin painter Nicolai Markarov is Russian, museum director and a man of loud as well as soft tones. , www.derhauptstadtbrief.de, October 30, 2014, accessed on November 28, 2015.
- ↑ Wowereit at the reopening of the silent museum. , www.berlin.de, September 17, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2015.
- ↑ Nikolai Makarow in an interview with Deana Mrkaja , www.freundevonfreunden.com, August 19, 2010, accessed on December 10, 2015.
- ^ Gabriela Walde: Art Places. "Berlin Art Week" offers a unique art marathon. , Berliner Morgenpost , September 16, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015.
- ^ Origin of the Museum of Silence , www.nikolai-makarov.de, accessed on November 30, 2015.
- ^ Gabriela Walde: Makarov exhibition. How the Silent Museum allows Russian-style meditation. , Berliner Morgenpost , August 29, 2014, accessed on November 28, 2015.
- ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: Museum of Silence. A secular prayer room in Mitte. , Berliner Zeitung , September 17, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2015.
- ↑ Rita Scholz: Museum of Silence - Reopening in Berlin-Mitte Nikolai Makarov's Museum in Linienstraße is a space of calm, reflection and concentration. The visitor should only come into contact with the art there. ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.berlin1.de, September 29, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '39.1 " N , 13 ° 23' 37.32" O