Finissage of the special exhibition "Duet of Modernism - Visions for Reconstruction in a Divided City"

PROGRAMME

11 am: Guided tour

Exhibition tour with the artist Bettina Cohnen and the curators Hendrik Bohle & Jan Dimog (THE LINK GbR)


2 pm: Book premiere

Media artist Caroline Böttcher presents "Mont Klamott. Berliner Trümmerberge", a 10-year work on the mountains of rubble in Berlin, which she carried out by photographing, researching and sketching.

Caroline Böttcher is presenting the book together with the authors Luise Meier and Annika Wienert as part of the finissage of the exhibition "Duet of Modernism - Visions for Reconstruction in a Divided City" (2025). The publication consists of two parts: A hardcover volume juxtaposes Caroline Böttcher's photographs of the rubble mountains and objects found there with archive images of the sites and historical photographs from the time the mountains were built; a softcover volume brings together texts and sketches that Caroline Böttcher produced as part of her research and site exploration. In their essays, art historian Annika Wienert and author Luise Meier look at the mountains of rubble from surprising perspectives and with illuminating depth of focus.


4 p.m.: Panel discussion

Sabine Ambrosius (Landesdenkmalamt Berlin), Dr. Sabine Heiser (architecture and art historian) and Carsten Bauer (Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V.) talk about the residential districts Karl-Marx-Allee and Hansaviertel / Interbau 57 and the ongoing preparations for an application for the European Heritage Label for both districts.

In 2022 and 2024, photo artist Bettina Cohnen photographed people in Karl-Marx-Allee and Hansaviertel in their homes. In eight series of over 80 images, she shows the apartments in their diversity, complexity and intimacy: a photographic commentary on everyday life in a much-discussed environment today. At the same time, the photographer traces the ideas of the respective architects. Her images are juxtaposed with photographs of the Berlin administration from 1947 to 1954 from the collection of the Mitte Museum, which show the later residential areas in the state of destruction in the early 1950s. The exhibition was opened in March 2025 as part of the European Month of Photography and will close on Open Monument Day 2025.


Location: Mitte Museum, Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin

Admission: free

Registration: not required


(IN GERMAN)