Museum of the 20th Century Berlin

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View of the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Matthäuskirche and in the foreground the open space on which the Museum of the 20th Century is to be built

The Museum of the 20th Century , also known as the Museum der Moderne or Nationalgalerie20 , is a museum building under construction by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum in the Tiergarten district of Berlin , whose opening is currently planned for 2026 Template: future / in 5 years. Among other things, it will house the 20th century collection of the Berlin National Gallery and will be connected underground to the New National Gallery .

history

Open space to be built on with a view of Potsdamer Strasse and the State Library

Since the collection of 20th century art has only been shown in part for decades, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation promoted the idea of ​​a new museum building at the Kulturforum. The open space on Potsdamer Strasse , between the Philharmonie , the New National Gallery and the Matthäuskirche , is planned as the construction site . Hans Scharoun planned a Senate guest house here in the 1960s, but this was not implemented. Instead, the adjacent Potsdamer Straße was expanded to include multiple lanes and the building site remained empty.

In September 2015, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation launched an ideas competition for the construction project, in which 460 architectural offices took part. Ten winners qualified to take part in the subsequent implementation competition, which began in April 2016. After a preselection, 42 international office communities made up of architects and landscape planners took part, including David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid Architects . The year 2021 was originally planned as the opening date.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new museum building took place on December 3, 2019.

building

The design by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron won first place in the building tender .

While the interior appearance and the traffic areas are praised as particularly successful, experts disagree on whether the design will do justice to the extremely difficult urban situation between the New National Gallery, Philharmonic Hall and St. Matthew's Church. The building is to have a usable area of ​​16,000 m 2 .

costs

The project is to be financed in a public-private partnership. Initially, ten million euros were approved by the federal government in 2012 as part of a supplementary budget under Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann . The budget committee of the Bundestag approved another 200 million euros in November 2014. The state of Berlin itself pays nothing, but is supposed to make the property available.

Originally 130 million euros in construction costs were estimated for the construction. State Minister for Culture Monika Grütters announced on September 16, 2019 that the construction would now cost 450 million euros. The Ministry of Culture justified the higher costs with the fact that a new basement would be required due to the smaller floor plan. Some of those involved in the planning process told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the construction could cost more than 600 million euros.

At the end of October 2019, the SZ researched the cost increases that the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had concealed the real dimensions of the building from parliament: While the public assumed the original 10,000 m² of usable space, those responsible with the architects Herzog and de Meuron already had plans for 16,000 m² agreed.

In the run-up to the approval of the financing of the project by the German Bundestag, prominent advocates and opponents once again pointed out its advantages and disadvantages in various newspapers. Among others, the Hamburg Senator Carsten Brosda , the art dealer Rudolf Zwirner and the head of the feature pages of the Tagesspiegel Rüdiger Schaper spoke out in favor of the building, while the architecture critics Niklas Maak , Nikolaus Bernau , and Hanno Rauterberg argued against it.

The financing of 364 million euros was approved on November 14, 2019 by the budget committee of the Bundestag with the votes of the CDU, SPD and the Greens.

collection

From the collection of 20th century art from the holdings of the Berlin Nationalgalerie, works primarily from German Expressionism , Cubism , Surrealism and color field painting , but also from GDR art and video and film art are to be shown in the future.

This exhibition is complemented by a donation from Egidio Marzona in 2002 , which includes works from Conceptual Art , Minimal Art and Land Art . Other parts of the exhibition are to be reserved for the Marx Collection , with works by Joseph Beuys , Anselm Kiefer and Andy Warhol , and for the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection . The latter mainly contains works of European surrealism and American abstract expressionism . The Pietzsch couple donated their collection to the State of Berlin in 2010 on the condition that the State leaves the collection to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a permanent loan and the Foundation presents parts of the collection on a permanent basis. With the decision to build the Museum of the 20th Century, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch saw their demands met and finally made the donation in November 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b JHL: Museum der Moderne costs 450 million . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH (Ed.): Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 215 . Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, September 17, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 9 .
  2. ↑ BauNetz Media GmbH: Humility instead of crown - ideas competition at the Kulturforum decided . In: BauNetz . February 15, 2016 ( baunetz.de [accessed July 7, 2017]).
  3. ^ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: The timetable: www.nationalgalerie20.de. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: The Realization Competition: www.nationalgalerie20.de. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Herzog & de Meuron build the Museum der Moderne in Berlin . ( Memento from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: shz.de , October 27, 2016
  6. ^ First groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum of the 20th Century - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ A corrugated iron hut that shines inside . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , October 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ The largest Aldi in Berlin . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , October 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: Museum der Moderne should cost 364 million euros. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Federal government finances Museum der Moderne with 200 million. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 13, 2014
  11. ↑ Federal government funds Museum der Moderne with 200 million euros. At: rp-online , November 13, 2014
  12. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: "Museum der Moderne will be considerably larger than planned" SZ October 29, 2019
  13. ↑ Carsten Brosda: "Hamburg's Senator for Culture believes in the Museum of Modern Art" Tagesspiegel of November 8, 2019
  14. ↑ "MoMA is no longer coming to Berlin" Tagesspiegel.de of November 12, 2019
  15. ↑ Rüdiger Schaper: "Construction sites of modernity" Tagesspiegel.de of November 13, 2019
  16. ↑ Niklas Maak: "How Berlin builds up everything" FAZ of November 14, 2019
  17. ^ "Verstellter Blick", deutschlandfunkkultur.de, November 7, 2019
  18. ↑ Hanno Rauterberg: "Stop the Museum of Modernism!" Zeit.de from November 6, 2019
  19. ↑ "Federal government approves increased construction costs for Museum der Moderne" rbb24.de of November 14, 2019
  20. ^ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: The collections in the Neue Nationalgalerie - Museum of the 20th Century: www.nationalgalerie20.de. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  21. ^ Pietzsch Collection - Friends of the National Gallery. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 6.6 ″  E