On the 19th of October we went on a trip with Photorgaphy, Art and Design, and German students. During our stay we visited seven museums and one galleries, two memorials and several historical monuments were we had the chance to photograph them and take notes.
1st Day
On our first day of the trip we visited the "Topography des Terrors" museum in central Berlin. The museum is located on Niederkirchenstrasse, where the headquarters of Gestapo and the SS(the main instruments of repression during the Nazi Era) used to be during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). The buildings were totally destroyed by Allied bombing in early 1945 and the ruins demolished after the World War. Also a great part of the remained Wall of Berlin has been preserved and exhibited outside the museum.
2nd Day
On the second day we vistited the Kathe Kollwitz Museum dedicated on the artist Kethe Kollwitz(1867-1945) one of the greatest German artists who lived and worked in Berliner's Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years.
Later on the same day we had a guided tour around the historical sites of the city by and American guide who had lived in Germany for many years.
3d Day
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
Guided tour of the Jewish Museum
In the evening we visited the TV-Tower in central Berlin, the tallest building in Germany. The view from up there was spectacular!
4th Day
On the fourth day we visited the Bauhaus Archive in the morning. Although I was not allowed to take pictures I managed to collect images around internet of the furniture and paintings of Bauhaus I saw in the archive.
Later on the evening we paid a visit to the Galerie Thomas Schultze, where we attended to different exhibitions: the "3DEP3" by Fabian Marcaccio which combined various dynamic and organic shapes made out of coloured plastic and pigmented silicone using a 3d printer. On a closer inspection we discover and recognise among the more abstract shapes and objects and symbols, ranging from human organs, automatic weapon, and knives to paintbrushes, power plugs, start and cross, hammer and sickle. These object, we could say appear as fragments of stories of war, terror and of religion. As the man himself describes, Fabian Marcaccio, his work does not describe a specific historical event, but a certain US-American state of mind ranging from celebrity and pop culture to politics and economics.
The second exhibition in the Galerie was named "Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich", and included work by Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, and Francesca Woodman.
Source: Exhibition Leaflet, All Copyrights to It.
The second exhibition in the Galerie was named "Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich", and included work by Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, and Francesca Woodman.
Source: Exhibition Leaflet, All Copyrights to It.
"3DEP3"
"Die Zu Sein Scheint, Die Bin Ich"
5th and Last Day
On the last day we went to the Photography Museum and Helmut Newton Foundation where I was unfortunately not allowed to take pictures, and the Berlinische Galerie of Modern Art with exhibitions icluding: "Dada Africa", "The Art Show" etc.
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