Bunker (Berlin)
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The Bunker (also Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstraße) in
History and description
Originally based on plans of the architect
In May 1945, the Red Army took the building and turned it into a prisoner-of-war camp. From 1949, it was used to store textiles and from 1957, as storage for dry and tropical fruit, which is why the building was known as the Banana Bunker among East Berliners.[2]
In the summer of 1992, it was turned into a
In 2001, real estate investor Nippon Development Corporation GmbH bought the building from the government. In 2002, it was the venue of the Berlin art festival "Insideout".[4]
Boros Collection
Christian Boros purchased the bunker for his private collection of contemporary art in 2003.[3] He subsequently had architects Jens Casper and Petra Petersson convert the building into a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) exhibition space and build a 4,800-square-foot (450 m2) glass-walled penthouse on the roof.[5] The renovation work was finished in 2007. The interior design of the penthouse was featured in a 2017 Financial Times article.[2]
The first exhibition of the permanent collection opened in 2008, featuring selected sculptures, installations, and light and performance works by, among others,
Opened in 2012, "Sammlung Boros #2," features 130 works by 23 artists, including
This was replaced in 2018 by "Boros Collection / Bunker #3", which includes works from the artists Martin Boyce, Andreas Eriksson, Guan Xiao, He Xiangyu, Uwe Henneken, Yngve Holen, Sergej Jensen, Daniel Josefsohn, Friedrich Kunath, Michel Majerus, Fabian Marti, Kris Martin, Justin Matherly, Paulo Nazareth, Peter Piller, Katja Novitskova, Pamela Rosenkranz, Avery Singer, Johannes Wohnseifer.[7]
See also
- List of electronic dance music venues
References
- ^ Tzortzis, Andreas (12 June 2007). "In a Berlin war bunker, Christian Boros creates a showcase for art". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ a b Wagstyl, Stefan (6 July 2017). "Christian Boros, the art collector who lives in a Nazi-era bunker". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ a b "I collect art that I don't understand": A conversation with Christian Boros Archived 8 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Sculpture magazine, November 2009.
- ^ The New Past: The Boros Collection in Berlin Goethe Institut.
- ^ Basciano, Oliver (27 August 2008). "A Bunker Reborn". Artinfo. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012.
- ^ Melissa Eddy (27 September 2012), Contemporary Art Finds a Shelter in Berlin The New York Times.
- ^ "Boros Collection – Bunker #3 | Independent Collectors".
External links
Media related to Bunker (Berlin) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website of the Boros collection
- Photographs of the bunker before renovation (in German)
- Photographs of the bunker(in German)
- Boros Penthouse