ZeitSkulptur

The building as a ‘ZeitSkultur’ exhibits itself and shows traces of hundreds of its artists' activities.

Curator Timo Kahlen and founder Wolf Kahlen bring the art stories to life in dialogue with visitors.

Ruine der Künste Berlin is a private venue for tangible and intangible art.

It is also extraordinary, ‘recycled’ architecture with international appeal (since its opening in 1985): characterised by the careful handling and the simultaneity of found substance, traces of history (the ruinous architectural skeleton, the shot-up outer skin) and avant-garde ‘open’ interior space ‘floating’ in the transient shell.


The Ruine der Künste Berlin has made intermedia art history since 1985. Site-specific, in more than 130 individual and 20 themed exhibitions (*) from 1985 to the present day. With the media of photo, video, film, book, internet, telephone, language, drawing, radio, architecture, sculpture, sound and artificial intelligence. In installations, performances, concerts and lectures. With lawnmower drawings, her own radio: Sender Ruine der Künste Berlin, art via telephone, thought photography and ash glazes from the ashes of the ruin. Thematic media: ‘Die Ruine möbliert’, ‘handschreiben’, ‘Multiples’, ‘Out of Context’, ‘Guten Worte’, ‘Sehen und Gesehen Werden’, ‘200 Mal Neuauflegen’ and ‘DreamHouse Ruine’. Off-site: ‘Die Ruine der Künste Berlin am Bauhaus Dessau’, ‘Die Ruine der Künste Berlin in der Kunsthalle Palazzo Basel’, ‘Die Ruine der Künste Berlin an der Kunstakademie in Peking’. In its own archive: with photo and video documents of all activities, video portraits of the artists, an oral history collection as well as in catalogues and book publications of Edition Ruine der Künste Berlin. In archives: Archiv der Avantgarden ADA, Dresden, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and others.


Duration of the exhibition
Every Sunday until 20 July from 15 - 18 h
and by appointment

Free admission

RUINE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN, Hittorfstr. 5, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
U 3 (Free University)
Bus M11