The room installation Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64 (Absurd Berlin Diary ’64) by Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) was created in 1964 as part of a scholarship from the American Ford Foundation. It enabled the artist to live and work in West Berlin for a year. The work was executed in the former studio of the National Socialist sculptor Arno Breker, which today houses the Kunsthaus Dahlem. In the same year, the work was shown at documenta III in Kassel.
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Emilio Vedova, Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64, 1964, Berlinische Galerie (Schenkung des Künstlers 2008)
The eight-meter-high installation, which is one of Vedova's major works, is unique in its complexity and monumentality within his oeuvre. In 2002, the artist decided to donate the work to the Berlinische Galerie for its new building on Alte Jakobstraße.
