Temporary art gallery Berlin

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The Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin was a unique project on the Schloßplatz on the northwest corner of Kupfergraben and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße , in the center of the German capital, and was built according to the plans of the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz in 2008. It was a privately financed institution and during its Biennial from September 2008 to August 2010 Production location and showcase for the important international contemporary art scene in Berlin.

concept

The program showed the diversity and complexity of this art production location from different perspectives.

With the exhibitions in the first year, formally different and very independent artistic positions were presented, which enabled the viewer to deal intensively with the work of an artist. The selection of artistic positions presented international, globally recognized artists who are associated with Berlin and whose works address socially relevant and political issues. In the second year, the series of exhibitions curated by artists examined the complex relationships between artwork, institution and viewer in direct engagement with the artists, their ideas and networks.

Complemented by lively communication formats, the exhibitions were made accessible to a large, international audience. A varied program of events consisting of talks, panel discussions, video screenings and the Monday Bar made Adolf Krischanitz's building the new cultural meeting point on the banks of the Spree. Krischanitz Architektur put art in the foreground. The 600 m² interior exhibition space was expanded by the 1,680 m² facade area. It served a total of three projects as exhibition space.

history

On the Spreeinsel in Berlin-Mitte, the Palace of the Republic , which served as the People's Chamber and the open-minded cultural center of the GDR , was demolished by the end of 2008 . According to the plans of the Italian architect Francesco Stella, a new building is to be built on Schlossplatz , which takes into account the requirements of the Bundestag to reconstruct the baroque facade of the Berlin City Palace on three sides. The start of construction on the city ​​palace in the form of the Humboldt Forum was scheduled for autumn 2010 / spring 2011, but was delayed until 2014.

During the demolition of the Palast der Republik up to the start of construction on the Humboldt Forum, the Kunsthalle represented an interim use of the Schlossplatz. This was preceded by a competition for the interim use of the Berlin Schlossplatz, in which the White Cube Berlin project team presented a design by the Viennese architect Adolf Krischanitz and the financing commitment of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin was able to prevail over other competitors.

The idea of ​​a "temporary art gallery Berlin" was initiated by Constanze Kleiner and Coco Kühn and originated in the eleven-day exhibition 36 × 27 × 10, which took place in December 2005 shortly before the demolition in the former Palace of the Republic. For this purpose, through the commitment of Thomas Scheibitz and under the artistic direction of Heike-Karin Föll, 36 international artists living in Berlin spontaneously came together in the White Cube - an installation of the FRAKTALE artists' initiative. The exhibition in the gutted Palace of the Republic counted around 10,000 visitors and referred to the lack of an art gallery for contemporary art and the great potential for which Berlin is known as an international location for art production.

The Stiftung Zukunft Berlin , which already made the construction of the Temporary Art Hall Berlin possible with donations of 950,000 euros, also supported the operation of the hall in a similar amount in the second year. The foundation has supported the project since March 2007. As a purely privately financed project, the Berlin Senate awarded the project in October 2007.

The building was closed on August 31, 2010 and dismantled and stored in early 2011.

The Vienna-based art foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TB A21) announced in summer 2011 that it would use the building for five years from 2012. The hall should be built by autumn 2011 in the Schweizergarten , between the Arsenal and 20er Haus. When the latter was reopened as 21er Haus , Adolf Krischanitz declared in September 2011 that the installation could probably be made in spring 2012. In November 2011, Francesca von Habsburg announced again that the plan had been postponed until further notice.

The building was finally brought to Warsaw, where it was built in the autumn of 2016 on the Vistula River in the vicinity of the Copernicus Science Center as the “Muzeum nad Wisłą”. Now painted completely white on the outside, the first exhibition opened at this location on March 25, 2017. For the next few years, the hall will serve as alternative quarters for the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Contemporary Art Warsaw) for the former furniture store “Dom Meblowy Emilia” in Ulica Emilii Plater, which was demolished in the winter of 2016/2017.

architecture

Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin before its dismantling in January 2011

The temporal limitation of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin was reflected in the functional, clear architecture of Adolf Krischanitz , who built a temporary building for the Kunsthalle Wien as early as 1993.

“The temporary art gallery on Schlossplatz in Berlin is a pavilion with a short construction period. The sustained impact presence with radiance in the public space is achieved through the playability with art also to the outside. This turns the building into an art object. The mighty hall construction hides the actual exhibition space of 30 × 20 × 10.5 m. ”- Adolf Krischanitz

The external dimensions of the hall extended over a floor area of ​​20 × 56.25 m with a height of 11 m. The entrance area led into a foyer with the Walther König bookstore and the flanking ancillary rooms. From there, the exhibition space opened up as a classic white cube with a 600 m² exhibition space. The FRIEDRICH café was located in the southern section of the building .

The hall was designed as a wooden construction with trusses. The surrounding strip foundations formed a stable basis for the emerging wooden elements. Both the surfaces of the outer skin and those of the inner walls in the three main rooms consisted of fiber cement panels .

The special thing about the design was its basic attitude to prioritize art and not architecture. This was achieved both through the simple shape and the idea of ​​a playable outer skin. This transformation could take place either by directly painting or posting the fiber cement panels or by covering banners. This resulted in a total area of ​​1680 m².

Exhibition program

On an exhibition area of ​​almost 600 m² inside and the convertible, 1680 m² facade, a total of twelve projects were implemented within two years:

Gerwald Rockenschaub , Bettina Pousttchi and Carsten Nicolai transformed the appearance of the hall in public space with their facade design.

In the interior, in the first year of the exhibition, the members of the Artistic Advisory Board (Gerald Matt, Julian Heynen, Katja Blomberg and Dirk Luckow) each presented a monographic exhibition of internationally recognized individual positions ( Candice Breitz , Simon Starling , Katharina Grosse and Allora & Calzadilla ).

Furthermore, four artists ( Christine Würmell , Regine Müller-Waldeck , Marieta Chirulescu , Michael Haikimi ) were invited in quick succession to use the project space in the foyer of the Temporary Art Gallery.

In the second year, five group exhibitions reflected the diversity and complexity of the Berlin art scene. For this, internationally renowned artists living in Berlin were invited as curators ( Kirstine Roepstorff , Karin Sander , Phil Collins , Tilo Schulz , John Bock ). With a subjective point of view, they presented artistic positions in independently conceived exhibitions that enable a specific view of the facets of art emerging in Berlin. Angela Rosenberg (Curatorial Management) is developing the exhibition program in consultation with the artistic advisors (Dieter Rosenkranz and Coco Kühn) of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin.

Events

The program of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin ranged from discussions and lectures to film screenings to readings, performances and concerts. Current issues of the international art scene, art production in Berlin and their forms of presentation were discussed here. In the Monday bar in Café FRIEDRICH , which takes place regularly , changing artists presented themselves as DJs at the turntables for an evening.

In addition, events from their partners took place in the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin . For example, the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin invited in the series “StreitOrt” to discussions around the topics of the planned Humboldt Forum and the seminars of the master’s course a42.org, the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg dealt with “Space Production in the Berlin Republic”.

Web links

Commons : Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Planning status Humboldtforum autumn 2009 ( Memento from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Christian Hunziker: Humboldt Forum: Berlin Palace should open its doors in 2019 . handelsblatt.com, July 2, 2011; Retrieved August 24, 2011
  3. ^ Art in the middle of the city ( Memento from May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Temporary art gallery in Berlin disappears in September . ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Free Press, July 1, 2011; Retrieved August 24, 2011
  5. ↑ Schloßplatz - Temporary Art Hall is being dismantled . Morgenpost.de, January 21, 2011; Retrieved September 5, 2011
  6. ↑ Thyssen's Pavilion is now singing in Vienna . DiePresse.com, June 7, 2011; Retrieved September 5, 2011
  7. ↑ The Berlin Kunsthalle is coming to Vienna in 2011 . Die Presse December 20, 2010, accessed September 5, 2011
  8. ↑ New 21 House for Younger Art History . wien.orf.at, September 20, 2011; Retrieved January 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Michaela Nolte: Vienna Art Week & opening of the 21er Haus . artnet.de, November 23, 2011; Retrieved January 1, 2012
  10. ↑ openpr.de
  11. ^ Temporary art gallery on Berlin's Schlossplatz . expansion + facade, October 29, 2008.
  12. ↑ kunsthalle-berlin.com

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