with Dora Budor, Clara Hausmann, Samuel Jeffery, Tam Ochiai, Oliver Tirré, Melvin Way, Constantina Zavitsanos
After decades of deterioration and wear, it was not until its restoration in accordance with historic preservation standards between 2000 and 2002 that the Lemke House became the testament to Mies van der Rohe’s architecture that we know today.
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Ausstellungsansicht, What's going on?, Mies van der Rohe Haus
In the course of the work, all traces of previous uses and residents were removed. In its current form, the Lemke House is also a fiction, painstakingly reconstructed from archival sources and restored as faithfully as possible using contemporary methods. The building, soon to be 100 years old, now leads a supposedly timeless existence, perpetually seeking the ideal state.
The exhibition What’s going on? aims to initiate a reflective engagement with the logic of the monument. By working with found objects, dissolving the boundaries between intention and chance as carriers of time, and opening up to branching narratives through personal stories, the works on display ask how memory can function.
- Curated by Dennis Brzek
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